The #FifthCircuit makes 2 important holdings. First, accessing any amount of #geofence records is a search under an expansive reading of Carpenter v. United States. That's the issue that creates the split w/the Fourth Circuit in United States v. Chatrie. …Chatrie held that accessing such records is not a search in the first place, at least if the records sought are relatively limited in scale. The Fifth Circuit expressly disagrees.

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