A recent New York court case upheld a murder conviction despite claims that DNA evidence used violated the defendant’s Fourth Amendment rights. The case highlights ongoing legal questions about ...
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 ...
On June 29, 2026, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Chatrie v. United States, held that law enforcement’s use of a “geofence warrant,” which instructed ...
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Every phone leaves a trail — Supreme Court holds location data is protected by the Fourth Amendment
Jason McCullough and Brandon Moss of Wiley Rein LLP examine the Supreme Court's decision in Chatrie v. United States, which ...
Kagan insists that the Fourth Amendment cannot be defeated by slicing invasions of privacy into pieces small enough to appear insignificant.
The justice argues that the "reasonable expectation of privacy" test and the third-party doctrine are indefensible in theory and unworkable in practice.
Police in Virginia located a suspect by demanding location-specific cell phone data from Google. Did that violate his constitutional rights? It’s been a few years since the Supreme Court heard a major ...
As regular readers may recall, I argued in a recent article that terms of service to an Internet account have little or no effect on Fourth Amendment rights in the ...
Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. Civil Rights and Wrongs is a recurring series by Daniel Harawa covering criminal justice and civil rights cases before the ...
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