With law school exam season finishing up, here's a new Fourth Amendment decision with facts that seem straight from a law school exam: United States v. Camou, authored by Judge Pregerson. In the new ...

Last year, after the Supreme Court ruled in U.S. v. Jones that tracking a suspect's car by attaching a GPS device to it constitutes a "search" under the Fourth Amendment, many people (including me) ...

MINNEAPOLIS — The Minnesota Supreme Court has affirmed that marijuana odor is not enough reason to search a vehicle under the automobile exception to the warrant requirement. The decision, filed ...

As a general rule, the Fourth Amendment requires police to have a warrant to conduct a search. But the courts have carved out a variety of exceptions to that general rule, including one known as the ...

In an 8-1 decision on Tuesday, the Supreme Court said police in Virginia couldn’t use a Facebook photo as cause to examine a motorcycle under a tarp parked next to a house, without a search warrant.

When two Virginia police officers searched for the motorcyclist who had eluded them by driving away at speeds of up to 140 miles per hour, they probably would not have imagined that the case would end ...

WASHINGTON—The Supreme Court said Tuesday that police need a warrant to search vehicles parked at private homes, the second time this month the justices rejected government arguments for expanding the ...

When a Tesla Cybertruck exploded outside of Trump International Hotel in Las Vegas earlier this month, police quickly discovered a trove of information about the perpetrator. We don’t know if police ...

[JURIST] The US Supreme Court [official website] ruled [opinion, PDF] Tuesday that the Fourth Amendment’s automobile exception does not permit a police officer to enter the area around a home to ...