Supreme Court precedent on the Fourth Amendment rights of probationers and parolees consists of three main cases. In Griffin v. Wisconsin, 17 the Supreme Court upheld warrantless searches of …

Courts might prefer waiver of these arguments because it errs on the side of protecting defendants’ privacy and Fourth Amendment rights. However, as Justice Rehnquist once noted, “ [e]ach time the …

Annually, agents collect the forensic digital data of over 40,000 international travelers. This Comment addresses the splintering doctrine between the First, Fourth, Ninth, and Eleventh Circuits regarding …

Jun 9, 2002 · However, over the years, courts have disagreed over the degree of protection that the Fourth Amendment affords. Currently, the federal circuit courts are split as to whether a tenant who …

The most recent expansion of Terry ’s doctrine was actually not about the parameters of suspicion, but addressed the Fourth Amendment regulation of those boundaries, and whether a violation of …

A “knock and talk” is a common police practice involving an officer approaching a home and knocking on the front door to speak with a resident. The knock and talk is a long-recognized exception to the …

It is unacceptable to use the Fourth Amendment border exception to not only search, but also copy, retain, query, and share traveler data, with little evidence to support the action. Use of data gathered …

The Fourth Amendment provides the logical starting point for an analysis of the constitutionality of an enforcement-related police practice, as this area of the Constitution deals most directly with law …

Aug 17, 2010 · Probable cause is a concept derived from the protections of the Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution. 7 As such, probable cause should have a nationally uniform …

There is a binary system of Fourth Amendment rights of non-citizens, depending on where an individual is in relation to the nation’s borders. With a focus on combatting unlawful immigration and …