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The police have long had authority to search a suspect incident to arrest. The question in this case is whether the police, acting without a warrant, may search the contents of a cell phone found on or near a person who has just been arrested. Noting that cell phones now contain many of the 鈥減apers鈥� and 鈥渆ffects鈥� that would previously have been stored in our homes, including details of constitutionally protected associations, the ACLU鈥檚 amicus brief urges the Court to adopt a per se rule prohibiting such searches without a warrant.