Lower courts are divided on the Fourth Amendment implications of a drug detection dog that jumps into a car on its own and then alerts to illegal drugs. I thought I would offer some thoughts on the ...

In his Cyber Crime column, Peter Crusco reviews some recent case law that spotlights the ever developing area of the law surrounding search warrants targeting electronically stored information, or ...

"Under settled law, the exclusionary rule, which applies in criminal cases, does not apply in civil cases," Justice Stephen R. McCullough wrote in the unanimous opinion for the Virginia Supreme Court.

The Fourth Amendment generally requires police officers to obtain a warrant before they enter a home. But the Supreme Court ...

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Decades of precedent, from RICO to asset forfeiture to “good faith” exceptions, have normalized warrantless search and gutted the Fourth Amendment. Hasan Piker’s detainment is the latest proof that ...

The Fourth Amendment is the part of the Bill of Rights that prohibits "unreasonable searches and seizures." But — what's unreasonable? That... The 4th Amendment: Search and Seizure The Fourth ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you’ve ever worried about whether the U.S. Constitution protects you from a dog’s nose, there’s no need to fret: even a canine cop needs a warrant to sniff your front porch. The Supreme Court ruled ...