“After accepting a ‘friend’ request from the officer, the defendant published a video recording to his social media account that featured an individual seen from the chest down holding what appeared to be a firearm. The undercover officer made his own recording of the posting, which later was used in criminal proceedings against the defendant.” No Fourth Amendment violation, says Massachusetts high court.
A federal judge declined to issue a temporary restraining order, saying the evidence of legal violations is insufficient at this point.
"Active bystandership" training encourages officers to stop their colleagues from violating people's rights.
The city was not "required to permit the 'organized lawlessness' conducted by the protestors."
Breyer’s deference to law enforcement often led him to sell the Fourth Amendment short.
Thomas Lane, J. Alexander Kueng, and Tou Thao are charged with federal crimes for failing to stop Derek Chavin from killing Floyd.
The Institute for Justice argues that the seizures violated state law, federal law, and the U.S. Constitution.
"[T]he Fourth Amendment applies equally whether the government official is a police officer conducting a criminal investigation or a caseworker conducting a civil child welfare investigation."
Politicians and cops found creative ways to dodge responsibility in 2021.
The Institute for Justice wants the Supreme Court to review the case—and to clarify the proper scope of "investigatory stops."
The victim denied police permission to search his home. Cop shouted, "I don't need your permission!"
There are better ways to build trust in the community than by violating the Fourth Amendment.
This stop was a Fourth Amendment violation, holds a federal court.
A new case asks whether a Border Patrol agent may be sued for alleged First and Fourth Amendment violations.
Keddins Etienne's experience shows that bullies who seize innocent people's property tend to back down when their victims put up a fight.
Privacy advocates applaud the move.
The Supreme Court's notion of "fair notice," which it says requires blocking many civil rights lawsuits, is based on a demonstrably false assumption.
Cops thought Hoang Vinh Pham, who received a 15-year prison sentence, was suspicious because he stared at a police van full of marijuana.
In two opinions issued Monday, the Court gave qualified immunity to several police officers accused of violating the Constitution.
"We are not eager—more the reverse—to print a new permission slip for entering the home without a warrant," declared Justice Kagan in Lange v. California.
Residents say their cars were improperly ticketed, then impounded and scrapped after they couldn't pay off their debts soon enough.
Protecting citizens from intrusive government surveillance is a virtue well worth signaling.
The report from the attorney general's office also found that Aurora paramedics used ketamine illegally to treat "excited delirium."
An encryption back door will lead to abusive authoritarian surveillance—even if you present it as a way to stop child porn.
The 32 charges include manslaughter, criminally negligent homicide, and second-degree assault.
A little-known agreement allows police officers to seize packages at FedEx sorting centers.
"Any contrary holding 'would eviscerate Fourth Amendment protections for lawfully armed individuals' by presuming a license expressly permitting possession of a firearm was invalid."
The sheriff's predictive policing program has caused more problems than it's solved.
The warrant affidavit made generalized accusations against U.S. Private Vaults' customers but provided no evidence of criminal wrongdoing by individuals whose assets have been seized.
The latest in a long string of allegations that Chicago police terrorized families during botched raids
After getting called out for a "manifestly inadequate" attempt at establishing probable cause for the seizure, the feds now say they will return Joseph Ruiz' money.
Regulating privacy protections would put the public at greater risk than criminals.
Reason has joined a new legal effort seeking to force the government to unseal warrants justifying the FBI's seizure of more than 600 safe deposit boxes.
A jury convicted the former Minneapolis police officer of murder and manslaughter in April, nearly a year after Floyd's death set off nationwide protests.
Baltimore kept tabs on citizens' movement across 90 percent of the city, without a warrant, to investigate crimes.
Law enforcers have plenty of tools; they just want to paw through our data without effort or expense.
The FBI provided "no factual basis for the seizure," Judge R. Gary Klausner wrote.
Fourth Amendment advocates win big in Lange v. California.
But the appeals court wasn't having it.
And it's not a moment too soon.
Two states have passed laws requiring court approval before the cops can use genetic genealogy services to track down a suspect.
If this doubly punitive anti-press maneuver sounds familiar, that's because it keeps happening, including to Reason.
"It makes me feel like the government is preying on the vulnerable and the weak to line their own pockets."
Can a cop enter a suspect's home without a warrant if they're in pursuit and have probable cause to believe the suspect has committed a misdemeanor?
Polling shows a sharp partisan divide on the issue, but it also suggests that compromise might be possible.
