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For example, Justice Green, dissenting in People v. Hicks, 116 A.D.2d 150 (4th Dep't 1986), opined that "a fair reading of this record reveals that the defendant was stopped solely because he is ...
Tucker (Or. 2000) (applying the Oregon Constitution's Fourth Amendment analogue) (police request to tow truck driver to search items in car being towed), followed by State v.
The Fourth Amendment permits a warrantless search of property on the person incident to his arrest, but it does not allow a search outside the person's area of immediate control.
Like the NDAA amendment, the bill provides protections for consumers’ location information, web browsing history, Internet search history, and Fourth Amendment protected information.
An example is the Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act, which would prohibit the U.S. government from buying digital information that would remain available to the likes of China and Russia.
My shock stemmed from Homan’s saying the quiet part out loud. The framers, who crafted the Fourth Amendment to shield us from ...
Before World War I, the First Amendment was weak in much the way that the Fourth Amendment is now. People were being thrown in prison for writing letters to the editor opposing U.S. entry into the war ...
Fourth Amendment protections must continue to evolve. This is truer now than ever, as new technologies make government intrusions into our privacy easier.
For example, if a data point spends 12 hours a day at an address and then spends eight hours a day at a place of business, it wouldn’t be difficult to deduce who that person is based on easily ...
A random sample of 40 police reports found 5 examples of officers keeping information on protesters without any criminal suspicion, a possible infringement on the 1st Amendment’s right to assembly.