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

A recent Supreme Court decisions strips away what little remained of the guardrails preventing police from seizing anyone under a flimsy pretext, law professors Daniel Harawa and Kate Weisburd ...

When can the police enter a person’s home without a warrant? The Fourth Amendment and the various judicial exceptions to it don’t provide a clear answer. But the Supreme Court may provide some clarity ...

A new FinCEN rule forced small money services businesses to collect personal data on nearly every customer transaction.

University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School Dean Sophia Lee recently published an article in The University of Chicago Law Review about the Fourth Amendment rights to privacy. Her 90-page article ...

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

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 ...

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

In September, the Supreme Court rendered obsolete the Fourth Amendment’s prohibition on suspicionless seizures by the police. When the court stayed the district court’s decision in Noem v. Vasquez ...