Carter, a Fourth Amendment seizure case. The petition arrives on the heels of the court’s summary reversal in District of ...

The Fourth Amendment’s protection against unreasonable searches places limits on how police can conduct checkpoints.

Earlier this month, the Supreme Court rendered obsolete the 4th Amendment’s prohibition on suspicionless seizures by the police. When the court stayed the district court’s decision in Noem vs. Vasquez ...

A convicted felon wants the Justices to bar ‘geofence’ warrants of the kind that let police catch him in Chatrie v. U.S.

I have posted a revised version of my draft paper, Data Scanning and the Fourth Amendment. It adds a bunch of new cases, including the various opinions from the Fourth Circuit's en banc ruling in ...

I'm very pleased to say that the Kindle version of my new book, The Digital Fourth Amendment: Privacy and Policing in Our Online World, is now available for sale. The ...

Earlier this year, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court held that users generally lack a reasonable expectation of privacy in unprotected Google ...

One year ago, black unmarked SUVs started pulling over landscaping trucks and white panel vans on main Island roads. Masked agents wearing padded camo-green vests detained 20 drivers and passengers ...

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 ...