The FBI Director Kash Patel sparked alarm among critics on the internet after the recent U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee ...

It’s been a few years since the Supreme Court heard a major Fourth Amendment case. That will change next month when the justices hear oral arguments in Chatrie v. United States on the government’s use ...

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 ...

A crucial question of Fourth Amendment law has recently divided courts: When government agents conduct a digital scan through a massive database, how much of a "search" occurs? The issue pops up in ...

The Fourth Amendment protects Americans from unreasonable searches and seizures, including digital data. Government agencies like ICE and the Department of Homeland Security are reportedly using ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Earlier this month, the Supreme Court rendered obsolete the 4th Amendment’s prohibition on suspicionless seizures ...

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 circuit split might just persuade the U.S. Supreme Court to take up the matter, breaking its now six-year hiatus from hearing Fourth Amendment cases. In the span of two months, the Fourth and ...

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 his famous dissent in Olmstead v. United States, Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis in 1928 called the right to be left alone the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by ...