U.S. District Judge Joseph E. Goodwin ordered the immediate release of petitioner Anderson Jesus Urquilla-Ramos, who was “arrested abruptly and without warning by a group of masked men purporting to ...

In the last year or two, the U.S. Department of Justice has been arguing in federal courts of appeals that Terms of Service can narrow or eliminate Fourth Amendment ...

A constitutional law expert called the new ICE policy authorizing agents to enter homes without a judge's warrant a "violation of fundamental rights.” ...

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 ...

I'm very pleased to say that the Kindle version of my new book, The Digital Fourth Amendment: Privacy and Policing in Our Online World, is now available for sale. The ...

Is America now in the business of weaponizing our private data against Americans? It’s a question we should be asking.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When I first watched White House “border czar” Tom Homan’s rant about how immigration agents can indiscriminately detain people ...

Earlier this month, the Supreme Court rendered obsolete the 4th Amendment’s prohibition on suspicionless seizures by the police. When the court stayed the district court’s decision in Noem vs. Vasquez ...

The Fourth Amendment provides a critical privacy right against intrusions by government officials. Indeed, it creates three layers of protection. First, it broadly prohibits unreasonable searches and ...

It has been seven years since Professors William Baude and James Y. Stern published “The Positive Law Model of the Fourth Amendment” in the Harvard Law Review. Early this year, Professors Danielle ...

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 ...