It’s been a few years since the Supreme Court heard a major Fourth Amendment case. That will change next month when the justices hear oral arguments in Chatrie v. United States on the government’s use ...

Earlier this month, the Supreme Court rendered obsolete the 4th Amendment’s prohibition on suspicionless seizures by the police. When the court stayed the district court’s decision in Noem vs. Vasquez ...

The Trump administration recently asked the U.S. Supreme Court to bless racial profiling by immigration agents, and a majority of the justices have now complied. While this regrettable action is not ...

Immigration agents have intensified raids on construction sites across the country as the Trump administration pursues mass deportations. The raids often involve federal agents entering worksites ...

The right to be free from unreasonable search and seizure had an up-and-down sort of year at the U.S. Supreme Court. Back in May, the Court delivered a 9–0 decision that left civil libertarians ...

In September, the Supreme Court rendered obsolete the Fourth Amendment’s prohibition on suspicionless seizures by the police. When the court stayed the district court’s decision in Noem v. Vasquez ...

Durham City Council passed a resolution establishing Fourth Amendment workplaces. The resolution directs city departments to follow constitutional search protections. Immigration enforcement actions ...

Last year, we wrote about a constitutional challenge bubbling up in the Fourth Circuit relating to "geofence warrants," which require production of location data showing whether a cell phone was near ...

When can law enforcement officers enter a home without a warrant to address an emergency situation? This question has divided courts of years. In Case v. Montana, 607 U.S. ___ (2026), the Supreme ...

I am pleased to post the final version of my new article Data Scanning and the Fourth Amendment, just out in the Boston College Law Review. Here's the abstract: An ...

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