Some justices seemed to advocate for a relatively narrow ruling that would clarify what such warrants require, even if it ...

The Fourth Amendment protects Americans from unreasonable searches and seizures, including digital data. Government agencies like ICE and the Department of Homeland Security are reportedly using ...

WASHINGTON – Carrying a smartphone to a bank robbery wasn’t such a smart move for Okello Chatrie. Now the Supreme Court must decide whether the "groundbreaking" and "previously unimaginable" way ...

Suppose the police want to get illegal drugs off the streets of California. So they begin stopping pedestrians at gunpoint, shoving them against walls, frisking them, and searching their belongings.

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Tracey Maclin is a law professor at the University of Florida Levin College of Law. In 1760, the most powerful government on the globe initiated a crackdown on illegal imports by American colonists ...

And last week, we got official word that they don’t have much use for the Fourth Amendment, either. That’s the one that is supposed to protect everyone in the country from unreasonable search and ...

I'm very happy to post a draft of a new article, "Popular Conceptions of Fourth Amendment Curtilage," written together with my co-author Matthew Kugler, forthcoming in the Michigan Law Review. The ...

Some conservatives might want to excuse it, but across the country, most egregiously in Minneapolis, federal law enforcement officers are blatantly violating the Fourth Amendment. That amendment ...