On Oct. 31, the day after her 91 st birthday, Ms. Dollree Mapp, of the 1961 landmark Supreme Court decision, Mapp v. Ohio, died. Her passing, which was not widely reported when it happened, bears ...

On May 23, 1957, police in Cleveland searched the home of Dollree Mapp, an act that infuriated Ms. Mapp and made legal history. After she balked at letting them in, they forced her door. They claimed, ...

Anyone who has ever watched a TV show about police and the courts knows the rule: Illegally obtained evidence is not admissible in a trial. We expect it. We consider it a constitutional right. But ...

This is the 10th part in an ongoing series on seminal cases in American law. Sometimes, law can be downright colorful. Perhaps never more so than in the seminal case of Mapp versus Ohio and the “fruit ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...