What is the remedy for an overbroad search warrant?
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The following excerpt is from United States v. Embry, No. 14-30110 (9th Cir. 2015):
3. The normal remedy for an overbroad warrant is to sever those portions that are overbroad, but our precedent does "not allow severance or partial suppression when the valid portion of the warrant is a relatively insignificant part of an otherwise invalid search." United States v. SDI Future Health, Inc., 568 F.3d 684, 707 (9th Cir. 2009) (internal quotation marks omitted). Given that the
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