The amended proposal says that officers may temporarily detain people for a stop and for "other legitimate purposes ...

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 ...

United States (2018), the U.S. Supreme Court held that warrantless government tracking of cellphone users via their cellphone ...

ScotusCrim is a recurring series by Rory Little focusing on intersections between the Supreme Court and criminal law. It’s ...

I have posted a revised version of my draft paper, Data Scanning and the Fourth Amendment. It adds a bunch of new cases, including the various opinions from the Fourth Circuit's en banc ruling in ...

The FBI has admitted to purchasing commercially available data to track Americans' movements and location histories, and ...

A crucial question of Fourth Amendment law has recently divided courts: When government agents conduct a digital scan through a massive database, how much of a "search" occurs? The issue pops up in ...