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The government’s Fourth Amendment double standard
The federal government recently petitioned for certiorari in United States v. Carter, a Fourth Amendment seizure case. The ...
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court handed down its long-awaited ruling in Commonwealth v. Kurtz today, on whether there are Fourth Amendment rights in Google search terms. Among the seven Justices, three ...
As regular readers may recall, I argued in a recent article that terms of service to an Internet account have little or no effect on Fourth Amendment rights in the ...
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 ...
In an opinion that seems carefully crafted to achieve unanimity rather than break new ground, the court yesterday unsurprisingly and unanimously rejected the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th ...
Tracey Maclin is a law professor at the University of Florida Levin College of Law. In 1760, the most powerful government on the globe initiated a crackdown on illegal imports by American colonists ...
How long can the government keep your property after lawfully seizing it? According to the D.C. Circuit in a recent decision, as long as the continued possession is still reasonable under the Fourth ...
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 ...
Police in Virginia located a suspect by demanding location-specific cell phone data from Google. Did that violate his constitutional rights? It’s been a few years since the Supreme Court heard a major ...
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