When applying Fourth Amendment doctrine, to what extent can race and ethnicity be considered? The Supreme Court denied cert on Monday in United States v. Carter, a case on this question—specifically, ...

The Fourth Amendment doesn’t ask how you feel. It asks what a reasonable person would perceive. That’s not a technicality — ...

Whether you think spying is OK or not depends on your relationship to the information being collected. If you're on the gathering end, the invasion of someone else's privacy doesn't seem like a big ...

JURIST Guest Columnist William Banks of Syracuse University College of Law says that even if legal authority is found for the NSA domestic surveillance program, such spying still violates the Fourth ...

Suppose the police want to get illegal drugs off the streets. So they begin stopping pedestrians at gunpoint, shoving them against walls, frisking them, and searching their belongings. They also force ...

The warrant requirement is still in the Constitution, and Congress still has the authority to restore it.

Last week, the Trump administration announced the streamlining of access to illegally seized personal data from unsuspecting Americans, thereby making warrantless domestic spying easier for the spies.

In response to ICE raids and arrests nationwide, the Durham City Council took a step Tuesday night it said will help protect city workers and declared itself a Fourth Amendment Workplace. The Fourth ...

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 ...