Carter, a Fourth Amendment seizure case. The petition arrives on the heels of the court’s summary reversal in District of ...

I recently posted about the open fields doctrine of Fourth Amendment law, the rule that it is not a "search" under the Fourth Amendment for the government to trespass on to your open field. In my post ...

This essay in the print edition of Reason argues that courts should overturn the "open fields" doctrine of the Fourth Amendment: In a decision issued at the dawn of Prohibition, the Supreme Court ...

The Supreme Court is being asked to hear a case that the justices could use to reform – fix actually – a practice through which the government can deny individuals their 4th Amendment rights. It is ...

The Fourth Amendment’s warrant requirement boasts plenty of exceptions, and the practitioners must routinely ask the U.S. Supreme Court to consider the parameters of these exceptions. Continuing the ...

The Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution protects citizens from unreasonable searches and seizures and provides that warrants may only be granted upon ...

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 ...