Now there is no real limit on police seizures. History teaches us that people of color will bear the brunt of this, including ...

A recent Supreme Court decisions strips away what little remained of the guardrails preventing police from seizing anyone under a flimsy pretext, law professors Daniel Harawa and Kate Weisburd ...

The Trump administration recently asked the U.S. Supreme Court to bless racial profiling by immigration agents, and a majority of the justices have now complied. While this regrettable action is not ...

The Fourth Amendment's guarantee against unreasonable searches and seizures has been regrettably whittled down over the years by the federal courts. Still, some meaningful protections contained in the ...

This week, the Supreme Court gave ICE the green light to racially profile people during immigration sweeps in Los Angeles, undermining the Fourth Amendment’s core protection against unreasonable ...

It was revealed this week a court in New York made a landmark ruling that sided against the warrantless state surveillance of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sig is a good boy, trained to obey. So, according to court documents in a federal case, he complied when his police handler ordered him to enter a home in Highlands Ranch, Colo., and bite anyone ...

In September, the Supreme Court rendered obsolete the Fourth Amendment’s prohibition on suspicionless seizures by the police.