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Philadelphia Criminal Defense Blog
U.S. Supreme Court: Obtaining a Person’s Google Location History Is a Fourth Amendment Search
Criminal Defense Lawyer Zak T. Goldstein, Esquire The United States Supreme Court has decided Chatrie v. United States, No. 25-112, 609 U.S. ___ (2026), holding that police conduct a Fourth…
Federal Defenders of New York Blog
18th Century norms define 21st Century privacy: Technological advances in surveillance can’t outrun analog-era expectations of privacy
Chatrie v. United States, No. 25–112 (U.S. June 29, 2026) (Opinion by Kagan, joined by Roberts, Sotomayor, Kavanaugh, and Jackson; Gorsuch concurs in the judgment) Introduction The facts in Chatrie look…
The Southern District of Florida Blog
The 4th Amendment is dead. God save the 4th Amendment.
By davidoscarmarkussdfla-blogspot-com
It's very rare for the Supreme Court to take a 4th Amendment case because the law has been so gutted over the past 30 years. So folks were a little…
Legal History Blog
Del Bianco on Prohibition and the Fourth Amendment
By Dan Ernst
Mitchell A. Del Bianco, a recent graduate of the University of Virginia's J.D. and M.A. program in legal history has posted How Prohibition Rewrote the Fourth Amendment, which is forthcoming in…
On Brief: Iowa's Appellate Blog
Search of visitor’s backpack not in physical possession falls within premises warrant, Iowa Supreme Court holds
In a divided 5–2 decision issued on March 27, 2026, the Iowa Supreme Court held that the search of a visitor’s backpack found on the premises during the execution of a…
Kirakosian Law Blog
Compensation for False Arrest: What Victims May Be Entitled To
Being arrested is something most people never expect to experience, especially when they’ve done nothing wrong. A false arrest can disrupt every part of a person’s life in a matter…
Justice Building
SURPREME COURT AND MARKET WATCH
By rumpolejusticebuilding-blogspot-com
We trimmed our nails, emptied the dishwasher, put out the recycling, answered some emails from aggrieved prosecutors, so with not much else to do we are watching the Supreme Court…
Westendorf & Khalaf Criminal Defense Blog
Defense Against the Dark Arts: A Field Guide to Fourth Amendment Sorcery
By Westendorf And Khalaf, PLLC
Westendorf & Khalaf is proud to present, for the first time in print, excerpts from the most closely guarded text in American law enforcement: Hocus Probablus Caucus. For centuries this…
Jotwell
Do Landlord Privacy Rights Trump Voucher Inspections?
By Ezra Rosser
Heather R. Abraham, Sheltering Discrimination: Fourth Amendment Challenges to Voucher Inspections, __ U.C. Davis L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2027), available at SSRN (Feb. 06, 2026).Professor Heather Abraham’s new Article, Sheltering…
Kirakosian Law Blog
What Is a Fourth Waiver? Understanding Your Constitutional Rights
Most people know the Fourth Amendment protects them from unreasonable searches and seizures. What many people don’t realize is that those protections can sometimes be limited (or partially waived) under…