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.
"When you've done nothing wrong, you shouldn't be subjected to an investigation," says Paul Snitko, whose box was seized in a March 22 FBI raid of a Beverly Hills business.
In a lawsuit, attorneys for the box's owner allege that federal agents conducted an illegal search that may have resulted in the loss of some valuable gold coins.
The Supreme Court declines to hear arguments in Oliva v. Nivar.
The victim will now have no right to argue his case before a jury in civil court.
Cops laugh about “probable cause on four legs” but the damage to innocent lives is real.
George Wingate, who had pulled over on the side of the road to check an engine light, flatly refused to show his ID when a sheriff's deputy demanded it.
How pretextual traffic stops got the judicial stamp of approval.
Police were finally able to catch the serial killer using DNA genealogy databases—violating many innocent people's constitutional right to privacy.
SCOTUS will soon decide whether to hear José Oliva’s argument that he should be allowed to sue V.A. officers for violating his Fourth Amendment rights.
Victims of the FBI's constitutionally dubious raid say they've been told to come forward and identify themselves if they want their stuff back.
The federal charges against Chauvin and three other officers involved in George Floyd's death are more about making a statement than seeking justice.
Section 702 is supposed to be used to snoop on spies and terrorists, not Americans.
The feds say they can paw through your phone and laptop any time you enter or leave the country.
A Virginia lawyer successfully defended her stepson in court. Three days later, police raided her house using a flimsy search warrant.
Did the city's "policies, customs or practices," invite Fourth Amendment violations?
Bans on dangling objects are just one example of the myriad petty rules that give police the power to stop nearly any driver at will.
A 2018 Supreme Court decision was supposed to protect your location data from federal snooping. That’s not what happened.
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