The Fourth Amendment was introduced in Congress in 1789 by James Madison, along with the other amendments in the Bill of Rights, in response to Anti-Federalist objections to the new Constitution.

The Fourth Amendment is arguably one of the most important amendments in the U.S. Constitution. It protects citizens from unreasonable searches and seizures in areas that most would consider private, ...

The Fourth Amendment protects Americans from “unreasonable searches and seizures” by the government. But the Supreme Court's interpretation of “unreasonable” has varied over time.

William Rehnquist went from a lonely dissenter to an institutionalist chief—and his opinions are all the rage among the court ...

When Congress enacted the Stored Communications Act of 1986, it said the statute would guarantee the privacy of digital data ...

...no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. The first half ...

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She knows (or at least should know) that the Fourth Amendment protects people from unreasonable searches and seizures. As a general rule, the government can’t search a person (or his or her ...

An incident in Mississippi provides a window into a dystopian future where USPS workers and local cops can block people from ...

I'm pleased to say that you can now pre-order my book, The Digital Fourth Amendment: Privacy and Policing in Our Online World. I've been a professor for almost twenty ...

But some opponents say these laws violate the Fourth Amendment, and are taking their complaints to the high court. The… Court rules search of businessman’s laptop at border ‘unreasonable ...

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