People don't seem to like the way a private company, Flock Safety, has established a surveillance network of over 80,000 ...

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

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 ...

Kagan insists that the Fourth Amendment cannot be defeated by slicing invasions of privacy into pieces small enough to appear ...

Listen to “Flock or the Fourth Amendment? Huntington Chose Poorly” on Spreaker. Huntington City Council voted 6-4 early ...

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 ...

These libertarians with their prattling on about freedom and rights. They can be so tiresome. Please stop with the high dudgeon! Here’s an example of one such “freedom” person writing about open-ended ...

As we celebrate the 250th anniversary of the United States, let us renew our commitment to the Fourth Amendment. Our founders ...

Nearly 60 years after Katz v. United States, the Supreme Court is still debating what counts as a reasonable expectation of ...

Under what has come to be known as the Katz test, a defendant seeking to invoke Fourth Amendment protections against a warrantless government search must prove that he or she had a subjective ...

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.