U.S. District Judge Joseph E. Goodwin ordered the immediate release of petitioner Anderson Jesus Urquilla-Ramos, who was “arrested abruptly and without warning by a group of masked men purporting to ...

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 ...

A recent New York court case upheld a murder conviction despite claims that DNA evidence used violated the defendant’s Fourth Amendment rights. The case highlights ongoing legal questions about ...

Is America now in the business of weaponizing our private data against Americans? It’s a question we should be asking.

Suppose the police want to get illegal drugs off the streets of California. So they begin stopping pedestrians at gunpoint, shoving them against walls, frisking them, and searching their belongings.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When I first watched White House “border czar” Tom Homan’s rant about how immigration agents can indiscriminately detain people ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Earlier this month, the Supreme Court rendered obsolete the 4th Amendment’s prohibition on suspicionless seizures ...

Some conservatives might want to excuse it, but across the country, most egregiously in Minneapolis, federal law enforcement officers are blatantly violating the Fourth Amendment. That amendment ...

The Supreme Court on Friday afternoon added four new cases, on topics ranging from the Fourth Amendment to federal preemption, to its Oral Argument Docket for the 2025-26 term. The announcement came ...

A North Carolina city has approved a measure declaring itself a "Fourth Amendment Workplace" and boosting protections for illegal immigrant workers targeted by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement ...