Justice Elena Kagan has called the Fourth Amendment "a growth industry" for the the U.S. Supreme Court. Now the Oyez Project, long a purveyor of high court information, has taken a "deep dive" into ...

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 ...

I am pleased to post the final version of my new article Data Scanning and the Fourth Amendment, just out in the Boston College Law Review. Here's the abstract: An ...

The right to be free from unreasonable search and seizure had an up-and-down sort of year at the U.S. Supreme Court. Back in May, the Court delivered a 9–0 decision that left civil libertarians ...

Chatrie arose from a 2019 bank robbery that proved difficult to solve. Hoping to identify a suspect, law enforcement applied for a geofence warrant seeking location data for every device associated ...

Legal Examiner: Michael Benza, senior instructor of law, discussed the Fourth Amendment and how it applies to digital technology. As such, police need a warrant to search the contents of a smartphone, ...

The Supreme Court of the United States issued one decision today: Barnes v. Felix, No. 23-1239: This criminal procedure case concerns the proper scope of analysis for ...

Signal Cleveland: Ayesha Bell Hardaway, professor of law and the director of the Social Justice Institute, said a local hospital's blanket detention policy is “an unreasonable act in and of itself,” ...

After community members requested the Town declare itself a Fourth Amendment Workplace, the town council instead adopted a resolution affirming constitutional rights.