The Constitution contains an important safeguard that has been ignored for far too long. Mendenhall v. City of Denver is ...

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 ...

Tracey Maclin is a law professor at the University of Florida Levin College of Law. In 1760, the most powerful government on the globe initiated a crackdown on illegal imports by American colonists ...

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 ...

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 ...