In the Supreme Court’s 2020 ruling, Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye said it was ironic that Apple argued that employees could simply leave their phones at home if they didn’t want them checked as part of the unpaid searches.

“The irony and inconsistency of Apple’s argument must be noted,” she wrote in the court’s unanimous opinion on the case. “Its characterization of the iPhone as unnecessary for its own employees is directly at odds with its description of the iPhone as an ‘integrated and integral’ part of the lives of everyone else.”