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Ogden Glazer + Schaefer Blog
Risk: Traveling Internationally With Your Cell Phone & Laptop
Spoiler alert everyone – I’m in Europe right now. Special thanks to my awesome business partners, Erin Ogden and Jeff Glazer, for making this trip possible. As all business owners…
Sentencing Law and Policy
SCOTUS grants cert on a couple more criminal justice matters to round out 2019
As reported here at SCOTUSblog, late last week the Supreme Court "added five new cases, for a total of four hours of argument, to their docket for this term ....…
The Faculty Lounge
TF Mafia & the Automobile Exception
Last week’s post considered how just a slice of the investigation into Steven Avery—widely known from the true-crime documentary series, Making a Murderer—makes a compelling tool for teaching students the…
Technology Law Dispatch
Courts continue to consider intersection of Fourth Amendment and technology: without a warrant, retrieval of car’s electronic data unconstitutional, but surveillance on hunting property permissible
The Fourth Amendment has received significant attention in recent court rulings involving surveillance, electronic data retrieval, and other types of technology. Two rulings issued on October 21, 2019 demonstrate how…
Subscript Law Blog
Kansas v. Glover
Argument: November 4, 2019Petitioner Brief: KansasRespondent Briefs: Charles Glover Supreme Court of Kansas Did the patrol officer make a fair assumption in pulling Glover over?The Fourth Amendment prohibits patrol officers…
New Media and Technology Law Blog
Warrantless Retrieval of Electronic Automobile Data Held to Be Unreasonable Search – Ruling Points to Private Nature of Digital Data Collected in Today’s World
The Georgia Supreme Court ruled that the retrieval of electronic automobile data from an electronic data recording device (e.g., airbag control modules) without a warrant at the scene of a…
The Faculty Lounge
John Wayne Gacy & Probable Cause
In last week’s post, we explored how the 1994 investigation into OJ Simpson offered an excellent real-world example of how the exigent circumstances doctrine worked in the first moments of…
Casepoint Blog
The Privacy Paradox: Is the stuff on my cell phone really mine?
By Minoo Razavi
Most of us own a smartphone. And, if you’re like me, you keep a lot of important stuff on your phone. In this constantly evolving world of everything digital, the…
The Faculty Lounge
O.J. Simpson & Exigent Circumstances
In last week’s post, we explored how the case of Adnan Syed serves as a powerful vehicle to teach Strickland v. Washington in the investigative criminal procedure classroom. This week,…
SCOV Law
Search Upheld
Corned beef hash value State v. LizotteThis is interesting. Well, to law-nerds like me who like Fourth Amendment issues it’s interesting. If that’s not you, you may not find it…