The Fourth Amendment protects all persons from warrantless government searches and seizures of their persons, houses, papers and effects. It requires that warrants be supported by ...
The U.S. Supreme Court is hearing a case dealing with geofence warrants, also called reverse warrants — and more aptly so ...
Seven years ago, police in Midlothian, Virginia, sought to identify a bank robber by asking Google to search the records of ...
Some justices seemed to advocate for a relatively narrow ruling that would clarify what such warrants require, even if it ...
In an opinion that seems carefully crafted to achieve unanimity rather than break new ground, the court yesterday unsurprisingly and unanimously rejected the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th ...
"Founding-era common law gave officers no authority to make an 'arrest without a warrant, for a mere misdemeanor not committed in [their] presence.'" On an early July morning, around 5 o'clock, two ...
A crucial question of Fourth Amendment law has recently divided courts: When government agents conduct a digital scan through a massive database, how much of a "search" occurs? The issue pops up in ...
Federal Judge M. Casey Rodgers ruled ex-ECSO deputy Augustus Fetterhoff broke the Fourth Amendment when he drove his car into David Holland's backyard without a warrant to search for drug evidence ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Attorneys for Fulton County, Georgia, argued in federal court Friday that an FBI agent who filed an affidavit in support of a ...
On Wednesday, a Richmond federal judge authored a harsh criticism of the Chesterfield Police Department’s practice of collecting broad amounts of cellphone location data from Google in the search for ...