Suppose the police want to get illegal drugs off the streets. So they begin stopping pedestrians at gunpoint, shoving them ...

When can the police enter a person’s home without a warrant? The Fourth Amendment and the various judicial exceptions to it don’t provide a clear answer. But the Supreme Court may provide some clarity ...

In September, the Supreme Court rendered obsolete the Fourth Amendment’s prohibition on suspicionless seizures by the police. When the court stayed the district court’s decision in Noem v. Vasquez ...

The Fourth Amendment protects people’s privacy. This constitutional protection is intended to shield people’s private lives against government intrusion. Generally, the government cannot enter someone ...

A new FinCEN rule forced small money services businesses to collect personal data on nearly every customer transaction. Lawsuits claim this violates the Fourth Amendment.

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 ...

DURHAM, N.C. (WTVD) -- This week, Durham became the second city in the Triangle after Carrboro to pass a Fourth Amendment workplace resolution. The 4th Amendment deals with protections against ...

Federal Judge M. Casey Rodgers ruled ex-ECSO deputy Augustus Fetterhoff broke the Fourth Amendment when he drove his car into David Holland's backyard without a warrant to search for drug evidence ...

A recent Supreme Court decisions strips away what little remained of the guardrails preventing police from seizing anyone under a flimsy pretext, law professors Daniel Harawa and Kate Weisburd ...