On Aug. 5, 2026, U.S. District Judge Carlton W. Reeves ruled that tower dump warrants are per se unconstitutional under the Fourth Amendment, according to Reclaim The Net. The ruling came in a Mississippi case involving Justice Department requests for cell tower data in a gang investigation. Judge Reeves denied the government’s motion to overturn Magistrate Judge Andrew Harris’s denial of warrants, according to the order. “To uphold core constitutional principles, this Court finds that tower dumps are per se unconstitutional,” Reeves wrote [1].
The ruling goes beyond the three warrant applications before the court and addresses the technique itself, according to Reclaim The Net. A magistrate judge had ruled the warrants are general warrants and therefore impermissible, and District Judge Reeves agreed, according to Just the News [3]. The Fourth Amendment’s limits trace to the Bill of Rights, which the founding generation framed in part against British abuses such as the Quartering Act [6]. The amendment states that “the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated” [4].
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