The Federalist Society produced a webinar recently that I found fascinating, not only because I was a panelist. There was a marked divergence of opinion on Fourth Amendment law. I believe I know where ...

I recently posted about the open fields doctrine of Fourth Amendment law, the rule that it is not a "search" under the Fourth Amendment for the government to trespass on to your open field. In my post ...

This essay in the print edition of Reason argues that courts should overturn the "open fields" doctrine of the Fourth Amendment: In a decision issued at the dawn of Prohibition, the Supreme Court ...

US Supreme Court Examines Emergency Entries Under the Fourth Amendment The court must determine whether the emergency aid exception to the Fourth Amendment’s warrant requirement necessitates a showing ...

WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives voted 219-199 to pass the Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act, which would ban the government from purchasing Americans’ data from data brokers that they ...

Fourth Amendment rights and religious freedom were the main arguments during a court hearing in the legal battle over migrant documents between the Texas Attorney General's Office and El Paso's ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Naomi Schalit: Okay, I’m going to read the Fourth Amendment – and then you’re going to explain it to us, please! Here goes: “The ...