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In a unanimous decision, the Ohio Supreme Court said location information voluntarily given to cell phone applications is not ...
The 4th Amendment is one of the amendments, or modifications, to the U.S. Constitution. The Fourth Amendment reads as follows: “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses ...
It turns out that, in the 1930s, the Supreme Court used to care a lot about the subjective intent of officers when they executed searches and seizures. One such subjective rule was announced by the ...
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers have permission to check phones and other electronic devices, without needing ...
Recent immigration raids carried out by the Trump administration across Southern California have routinely violated detainees ...
See Alex Kozinski & Eric S. Nguyen, Has Technology Killed the Fourth Amendment?, 2010–2011 Cato Sup. Ct. Rev. 15, 29–30 (2012) (“The courts—and specifically the Supreme Court—must ...
The 4th Amendment to the United States Constitution provides that ”the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures ...
ICE agents arrest undocumented father in Bartlett, sparking debate over due process and Fourth Amendment rights.
Recognizing that the Fourth Amendment protects people and not simply areas, Katz, 389 U.S. at 353, we conclude that people have a reasonable expectation of privacy in real-time cell phone location ...
The Fourth Amendment is in a sorry state. The constitutional provision intended to protect us and our property from unreasonable searches and seizures has been weakened over decades—a fact that ...
The Fourth Amendment is now a sword and not just a shield. It provides a cause of action and not just the basis for an affirmative defense. That means we now need to answer something that didn't ...