Warrantless Border Searches Draw Call for Supreme Court Action
The feds say they can paw through your phone and laptop any time you enter or leave the country.
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.
"This wasn't policing," the prosecution says. "This was murder."
The defense rested without calling Chauvin to the stand, and closing arguments are expected on Monday.
That was one of several eyebrow-raising claims made by Barry Brodd, who said Derek Chauvin's actions were "objectively reasonable."
The defense will have to cast doubt on at least one of those claims.
Andrew Baker's account, like the testimony of other medical experts, implicates Derek Chauvin in Floyd's death.
The witnesses rejected the defense's suggestion that Floyd might have died from a drug overdose.
A use-of-force expert says the officers who pinned George Floyd to the ground should have recognized the risk of positional asphyxia.
Medaria Arradondo says Chauvin's treatment of George Floyd violated department policy in several important ways.
Richard Zimmerman's testimony contradicts the defense claim that Derek Chauvin "did exactly what he had been trained to do."
“An officer violates the Fourth Amendment if he shoots an unarmed, incapacitated suspect who is moving away from everyone present at the scene.”
The defense will have a hard time showing that Chauvin's conduct was justified by any threat Floyd posed.
An interesting Michigan appellate decision.
"The application of physical force to the body with the intent to restrain is a seizure, even if the person does not submit and is not subdued."
“There was no immediate danger,” Sotomayor said, yet the police “decided on their own to go in and seize the gun.”
After gratuitously terrifying a 6-year-old girl, the officers blamed her mother, who also had done nothing illegal.
Art Acevedo responded to a 2019 drug raid that killed a middle-aged couple with reflexive defensiveness and obstinate obfuscation.
But the agreement could complicate Derek Chauvin's murder trial, and it leaves unresolved the question of whether qualified immunity would have blocked the lawsuit.
Like the felony murder charge, it carries a presumptive sentence more than eight years longer than the manslaughter charge.
A phone in your pocket may as well be a GPS beacon strapped to your ankle.
The justices did not address one of James King's key arguments, which the 6th Circuit will now consider.
The justice weighs in during oral arguments in Lange v. California.
They need not wait for the Supreme Court or Congress to restrict or abolish qualified immunity.
An independent panel concludes there was no legal justification for stopping, frisking, arresting, or assaulting McClain.
What to expect from Joe Biden’s pick for attorney general.
A bill approved by the state House would let people sue government officials for violating rights protected by the state constitution.
The appeals court concluded that the officers' use of force was reasonable in the circumstances.
Does the Fourth Amendment right to be free from unreasonable seizures include the right to be free from an unreasonable attempted seizure?
The former attorney general reportedly nixed a plea deal that involved a sentence of more than 10 years but would have precluded a federal prosecution.
Fourth Amendment advocates prevail in Wingate v. Fulford.
A state law eliminated qualified immunity as a defense for abusive officers.
A new case tests the limits of the “community caretaking exception” to the Fourth Amendment.
The families of Dennis Tuttle and Rhogena Nicholas say the city's policies and practices invited Fourth Amendment violations.
After breaking into Tuttle's home with no legal justification, police killed his dog and his wife.
A federal court said it did not violate her Fourth Amendment rights.
So far a dozen narcotics officers have been charged as a result of the investigation triggered by the disastrous operation.
A Connecticut law that made it easier to sue abusive cops is not expected to have a noticeable effect on municipal insurance costs.
Justice Clint Bolick dissents in Arizona v. Mixton.
Louisville's police chief wants to fire an officer who shot Taylor and a detective who "lied" in the search warrant affidavit.
Don’t expand the “hot pursuit” exception to the Fourth Amendment.
Chicago went to court to try and block a local news station from airing the body camera footage.
This holiday season, police should give citizens the gift of just leaving them in peace.
Government bullies empowered by civil forfeiture laws often back down, but only when their victims can afford a fight.
The DEA dropped its attempt to keep the money roughly two months after the woman joined a class-action lawsuit challenging cash seizures at airports.
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