On Jan. 28, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit denied a petition for rehearing en banc of an Oct. 31, 2019, panel opinion that has the potential to cause dramatic changes to one of the government's more frequently used investigative tools: filter teams.

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