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 ...

In an opinion that seems carefully crafted to achieve unanimity rather than break new ground, the court yesterday unsurprisingly and unanimously rejected the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th ...

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

As regular readers may recall, I argued in a recent article that terms of service to an Internet account have little or no effect on Fourth Amendment rights in the ...