The Fourth Amendment guarantees that every person shall be "secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures." This means government agents cannot enter ...

Yesterday, the Supreme Court of Colorado handed down the first state supreme court case on the law of reverse keyword searches for Google terms: People v. Seymour. Here's the issue: If the government ...

POLK COUNTY, Fla. — Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd is often an outspoken supporter of the Second Amendment. But this week, the sheriff is wading into debate over a different constitutional right — the ...

This article explains how new surveillance and biometric tech, like drones and facial recognition, challenge privacy rights. Courts are increasingly scrutinizing when warrants are needed, balancing ...

University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School Dean Sophia Lee recently published an article in The University of Chicago Law Review about the Fourth Amendment rights to privacy. Her 90-page article ...

It has been seven years since Professors William Baude and James Y. Stern published “The Positive Law Model of the Fourth Amendment” in the Harvard Law Review. Early this year, Professors Danielle ...

United States lawmakers are moving with uncommon speed to close a loophole in federal law that police and intelligence agencies use to collect sensitive information on US citizens—up to and including ...

The Biden administration has announced its opposition to the Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act ahead of Wednesday’s vote on the bill. The House is scheduled to have a stand-alone vote on Wednesday ...

The Federalist Society produced a webinar recently that I found fascinating, not only because I was a panelist. There was a marked divergence of opinion on Fourth Amendment law. I believe I know where ...

In April 2018, a remarkable event occurred that forever impacted criminal investigations. The Golden State Killer was finally arrested. And, more interestingly, was the method law enforcement used to ...

Fourth Amendment rights and religious freedom were the main arguments during a court hearing in the legal battle over migrant documents between the Texas Attorney General's Office and El Paso's ...