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My shock stemmed from Homan’s saying the quiet part out loud. The framers, who crafted the Fourth Amendment to shield us from ...
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.
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.
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 ...
The Fourth Amendment of our Constitution addressed that unalienable right of privacy. In 1791 this Amendment became effective. When warrantless arrests or searches are allowed ...
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.
Opinion: How the Third Amendment's privacy rights put government in its place In that case, law enforcement officials suspected that one Fremont Weeks was using the United States mails to ...
Like the NDAA amendment, the bill provides protections for consumers’ location information, web browsing history, Internet search history, and Fourth Amendment protected information.
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, 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 ...
CLE Center offers The Curious Lawyer: Bill of Rights - The Fourth Amendment course for continuing legal education credits individually or part of a compliance bundle. Learn more about this course ...