The New Jersey Supreme Court held that the initial opening of the purse and the more extended search violated the 4th Amendment. The U.S. Supreme Court disagreed. The court explained that ”the ...

The Fourth Amendment Gets Its Own House Caucus to Demand Its Respect Coalition of 25 bipartisan lawmakers organizes against unwarranted surveillance and data collection. Scott Shackford ...

The protections provided by the Fourth Amendment, he explained, parallel the protections available under the common law at the time of the founding. And at that time, the common law allowed government ...

A story in the Sacramento Bee flags a novel Fourth Amendment issue pending in federal ... t think those cases are persuasive for reasons explained in my earlier posts, I would still say that ...

The Kansas Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court ruling that a sheriff's deputy did violate a man's Fourth Amendment rights by attempting a public safety stop that turned into an arrest ...