Another conceivable conclusion is that Kavanaugh now hopes to apologize for butchering the Fourth Amendment without doing any actual apologizing. Call it a mea culpa minus the mea. Needless to say, ...

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 right to be free from unreasonable search and seizure had an up-and-down sort of year at the U.S. Supreme Court. Back in May, the Court delivered a 9–0 decision that left civil libertarians ...

In September, the Supreme Court rendered obsolete the Fourth Amendment’s prohibition on suspicionless seizures by the police. When the court stayed the district court’s decision in Noem v. Vasquez ...

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 ...

A pre-trial motion hearing took place regarding Buster Robbins, accused of the 1989 murder of Beverly Wivell. The defense sought to suppress digital evidence from Robbins' cell phone, arguing that the ...

As American jobs at customer service centers and the like increasingly move overseas, American privacy rights are leaving with them, says attorney Joseph A. Hennessey. You can no longer assume the ...

A new state law banning anonymous reports of child abuse has been hailed by family law attorneys and child welfare advocates ...