Fourth Amendment
United States v. Moore-Bush
First Circuit Divides on Constitutionality of Warrantless Pole-Camera Surveillance of Home's Curtilage.
First Circuit Divides on Constitutionality of Warrantless Pole-Camera Surveillance of Home's Curtilage.
Fifth Circuit Holds that Sexual Assault Perpetrated by Police Is Fourteenth Amendment Violation, Not Fourth Amendment Seizure.
Fifth Circuit Delivers a New Law Enforcement Functions Test for Identifying Government Actors.
Fifty-one years ago, in Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics, the Supreme Court announced a cause of action for money damages against…
Fifth Circuit Declines to Extend Fourth Amendment to Bar Corporal Punishment in Public Schools
The full text of this Article may be found by clicking on the PDF link to the left. Fourth Amendment law is in flux. The Supreme Court recently established, in…
In Presumed Guilty: How the Supreme Court Empowered the Police and Subverted Civil Rights, Dean Erwin Chemerinsky issues an indictment of the Supreme Court, charging that institution with facilitating undue…
Ninth Circuit Holds That Officer's Warrantless Review of Images Flagged by Google as Apparent Child Sexual Abuse Material Violated Fourth Amendment
First Circuit Upholds Warrantless, Suspicionless Searches of Electronic Devices at the Border
Seventh Circuit Holds Long-Term, Warrantless Video Surveillance is Not an Illegal Search