U.S. Citizens Sue Border Patrol Agent Who Detained Them for Speaking Spanish
The ACLU argues that the 40-minute detention violated the Fourth and 14th amendments.
The ACLU argues that the 40-minute detention violated the Fourth and 14th amendments.
The search warrant inventory does not include any evidence of drug dealing.
The questions reportedly relate to a search warrant affidavit that described drugs and a gun police never found.
Neither gun control nor uncritical support of the police can stop the violence required by the war on drugs.
In light of armed robberies by criminals posing as cops, that might not have been enough.
Police Chief Art Acevedo seems to think cops cannot be shot in self-defense.
Houston narcotics officers thought bursting into the house without warning was the cautious approach.
Warrantless "implied consent" laws are under review over Fourth Amendment concerns.
Online room-sharing services had no avenue to legally challenge demands for private info.
Cops supposedly smelled 25 grams of pot inside a plastic container inside a safe inside a closet 30 feet from a guy's doorstep.
It's never too early for kids to learn that harebrained security theater is an unavoidable fact of life.
Both New York billionaires overestimate the program's effectiveness and overlook its constitutional defects.
The former New York mayor defends his stop-and-frisk policy while suggesting the famous TV host did not get a fair hearing.
Tameika Lovell says the search violated her Fourth and Fifth Amendment rights.
The Saturday incident immediately prompted an investigation because it was captured on bystander video.
The Supreme Court nominee's skepticism fades when cops and spies look for evidence without a warrant.
Police say there's evidence. His lawyer says it's a fishing expedition.
Despite the best efforts of a nurse who "loosened their bras" and "checked around the waistband of their panties," no money was found.
Contrary to what his critics say, this "narrow-minded elitist" stands up for the little guy.
In a case involving cellphone location data, Gorsuch says entrusting information to someone does not mean surrendering your Fourth Amendment rights.
The company has no legal obligation to let alien hunters harass its customers unless they have a warrant or probable cause.
Stopping drivers without a legal justification is unconstitutional, even in the name of young love.
The cop's boss says he did nothing wrong; the local D.A. disagrees.
The Department of Justice's loophole lets officials seize property without having to get a conviction.
More Republican skepticism of law enforcement agencies is a welcome development.
The FBI needed probable cause to believe he was an agent of a foreign power, a standard that is not hard to meet.
If you hear "papers, please" on a Greyhound, thank the Supreme Court.
The NSA's surveillance of international communications is not limited to "foreign bad guys on foreign land."
Justices hear challenge to Virginia court's expansion of warrantless vehicle searches.
Recreational pot use becomes legal in the Golden State in 2018. The feds don't care.
The jurors seem to have concluded that the bumbling drug warriors of Johnson County, Kansas, were incompetent rather than dishonest.
A detective who was later charged with molesting children performed the humiliating search while investigating consensual sexting.
The quick resolution of Phil Parhamovich's case shows once again that standing up to money-grabbing bullies can pay off.
Wyoming's roadside waivers are a thin disguise for highway robbery.
A cellphone tracking case gives SCOTUS a chance to reconsider a doctrine that threatens everyone's privacy.
Judges in Florida and Michigan exclude evidence collected by overeager drug warriors.
Oblivious to the big, bright flowers, the cops who raided Edward and Audrey Cramer's home insisted they were growing pot.
The Krispy Kreme Caper illustrates the limits of drug field tests and the cops who perform them.
Incentives for neighbors to turn on each other. Incentives for police to find reasons to seize people's stuff and keep it.
A lawsuit by three sober drivers who were busted for DUI questions the pot-detecting abilities of DREs.
Fred Watson, who was mentioned in a DOJ report on abuses by Ferguson police, says he was arrested and prosecuted for no good reason.
The facts and the law are on Alex Wubbels' side.
The president admires strong men who break the law to enforce it.
The court says a marijuana odor did not justify reaching into a woman's underwear during a routine traffic stop.
Federal prosecutors say they did not realize how broad their warrant was.
One judge notes that police raided a family's home "based on nothing more than junk science, an incompetent investigation, and a publicity stunt."
A Colorado appeals court concludes that a canine sniff-over is a search and by itself cannot supply probable cause.