An officer was not entitled to qualified immunity because the Fourth Amendment right at issue was clearly established at the time the constitutional violation occurred, the 4th Circuit ruled.

Those questions do not have clean answers. But the instinct underlying the Fourth Amendment remains surprisingly stable ...

A crucial question of Fourth Amendment law has recently divided courts: When government agents conduct a digital scan through a massive database, how much of a "search" occurs? The issue pops up in ...

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 ...

The Maryland Supreme Court overturned a Montgomery County man’s firearm conviction, ruling that police did not have ...

Some of the recent legal challenges to the use of surveillance by the Department of Homeland Security upon Americans have ...

Some justices seemed to advocate for a relatively narrow ruling that would clarify what such warrants require, even if it ...

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.