The petition filed by MyPillow founder Mike Lindell challenging the legality of the FBI’s seizure of his cellphone at a restaurant drive-thru has been denied by the U.S. Supreme Court.
Without comment on Monday, the high court opted not to revisit three lower court decisions that ruled against Lindell.
In 2022, FBI agents confiscated Lindell’s cellphone from him at a Hardee’s fast-food restaurant in Mankato, a southern Minnesota city, as part of an investigation into an alleged scheme to breach voting system technology in Mesa County, Colorado. Lindell claimed that the seizure violated his constitutional rights against unlawful search and seizure and was an effort by the government to suppress his freedom of speech.
The 8th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against him, disagreeing with his assertions.
When Lindell appealed to the Supreme Court in February, his legal team indicated that Lindell had not yet received his phone back.
