Every phone leaves a trail — Supreme Court holds location data is protected by the Fourth Amendment

Jason McCullough and Brandon Moss of Wiley Rein LLP examine the Supreme Court's decision in Chatrie v. United States, which ...
Opinion

Elena Kagan Just Bolstered the Fourth Amendment in a Badly Needed Way

Kagan insists that the Fourth Amendment cannot be defeated by slicing invasions of privacy into pieces small enough to appear insignificant.
Reason

A Debate Over the Open Fields Doctrine and Fourth Amendment Law

I recently posted about the open fields doctrine of Fourth Amendment law, the rule that it is not a "search" under the Fourth Amendment for the government to trespass on to your open field. In my post ...
Law

Police Dragnet Surveillance and the Fourth Amendment

A recent New York court case upheld a murder conviction despite claims that DNA evidence used violated the defendant’s Fourth Amendment rights. The case highlights ongoing legal questions about ...