Suppose the police want to get illegal drugs off the streets. So they begin stopping pedestrians at gunpoint, shoving them ...

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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 ...

"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.

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WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - The Supreme Court heard oral arguments in “Case v. Montana” Wednesday, a case tied to the Fourth ...

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 ...

Once a constitutional principle is treated as negotiable for one group — Latino communities in this case — it becomes weaker for all of us.

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 ...

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 ...

A recent Hillsboro-Deering High School graduate is suing administrators for searching his truck for a gun without probable cause, in violation of his Fourth Amendment rights.

Regular readers may recall my prior coverage of United States v. Chatrie, a case on the Fourth Amendment implications of collecting Google location history records—location records stored by Google ...