Supreme Court considers lawfulness of broad police requests for cell phone location data

Government

WASHINGTON —At 4:50 p.m. on May 20, 2019, an armed man holding a cell phone walked into the Midlothian, Virginia, branch of the Call Federal Credit Union and handed a note to a teller demanding cash. At one point brandishing the gun, the man ordered the manager to open the safe. He walked out with $195,000. Police officers were initially stumped when trying to figure out the identity of the robber, setting off a chain of events that led to a Supreme Court hearing on Monday, the latest in a