A.B.M. Webinar Series

On June 29, 2026, the Supreme Court held in Chatrie v. United States that compelling a provider to produce location data for everyone near a given place and time is a Fourth Amendment “search” — while leaving open exactly what makes such a search reasonable. That unanswered question now hangs over every tower dump, geofence, and area-based records request in the country.

This session breaks down what Chatrie actually decided (and what it didn’t), how the ruling extends Carpenter to area searches, and what it means in practice for tower dumps going forward.