Lower courts are divided on the Fourth Amendment implications of a drug detection dog that jumps into a car on its own and then alerts to illegal drugs. I thought I would offer some thoughts on the ...
In Carpenter v. United States (2018), the U.S. Supreme Court held that warrantless government tracking of cellphone users via their cellphone location records violated the constitutional right to be ...
The Durham City Council has passed a resolution to make the city a "Fourth Amendment Workplace," increasing protections for city workers against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids and ...
A North Carolina city has approved a measure declaring itself a "Fourth Amendment Workplace" and boosting protections for illegal immigrant workers targeted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement ...
A recent New York court case upheld a murder conviction despite claims that DNA evidence used violated the defendant’s Fourth Amendment rights. The case highlights ongoing legal questions about ...
AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom. Read our AI Policy. On the dangerous trip from Venezuela to give her daughter a better life in the United States, she twice feared they would drown in ...
A North Carolina city has declared itself a “4th Amendment Workplace” amid what it described as “unconstitutional” U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids and arrests. The Durham City Council ...
Durham City Council passed a resolution establishing Fourth Amendment workplaces. The resolution directs city departments to follow constitutional search protections. Immigration enforcement actions ...
The Fourth Amendment protects all persons from warrantless government searches and seizures of their persons, houses, papers and effects. It requires that warrants be supported by ...
Police in Virginia located a suspect by demanding location-specific cell phone data from Google. Did that violate his constitutional rights? It’s been a few years since the Supreme Court heard a major ...
A North Carolina city declared itself a "Fourth Amendment Workplace" amid what it described as "unconstitutional" U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids and arrests. The Durham City ...