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Idaho Criminal Defense Blog
Supreme Court permits strip searches for even the most minor of crimes
What if you find yourself arrested for a “minor” crime such as failing to pay child support or some variety of traffic violation? You might imagine being taken to jail…
The Faculty Lounge
Strip-Searches, Jails, and the Pretrial Detention as Punishment
So yesterday the Supreme Court decided, in Florence v. Bd. of Freeholders, that every person arrested and held temporarily can be subjected to a routine strip search, so long as…
Ohio Appellate Insights
Merit Decision. The Court Approves the Community-Caretaking/Emergency-Aid Exception to the Fourth Amendment. State v. Dunn.
On March 15, 2012 the Supreme Court of Ohio decided State v. Dunn, 2012-Ohio-1008. In this 6-1 decision written by Justice Stratton, the Court approved a warrantless traffic stop when…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
Pink as Punishment: The Ninth Circuit of Jail (Un)Dress in Maricopa County
By ConLawProf initials at end of post
As the Supreme Court continues to contemplate Florence v. Board of Chosen Freeholders (Burlington), argued in October on the constitutionality of arrestee strip-searches on admission to jail without reasonable suspicion,…
Minnesota Employer
What Employers Should Know about the Supreme Court’s Decision Concerning GPS Privacy Rights
In United States v. Jones, the United States Supreme Court addressed the question of whether the government violated the Fourth Amendment’s prohibition against unreasonable searches and seizures when it attached…
Inside Privacy
Supreme Court: Attaching GPS Tracker to Suspect’s Car Constitutes Search For Purposes of Fourth Amendment
The federal government conducted a search for purposes of the Fourth Amendment when it attached a GPS tracking device to a suspect’s car and used the device to track the…
HL Chronicle of Data Protection
Supreme Court Decision in Warrantless GPS Tracking Case Offers Little Guidance in Consumer Privacy Context
Sometimes Fourth Amendment cases (which by definition arise in a governmental context) have implications for consumer privacy law since the "reasonable expectation of privacy" analysis can be employed in both…
New Media and Technology Law Blog
U. S. Supreme Court Unanimously Rule that GPS Installation and Tracking of a Vehicle Constitutes a Search, But The Justices Disagree on Rationale – Are Lines Being Drawn on Privacy Rights and New Technology?
In a narrowly-drawn majority opinion, the United States Supreme Court ruled in United States v. Antoine Jones that the Government’s attachment of a GPS-tracking device to a vehicle, and the…
PrawfsBlawg
What happened in Jones?
Main Monday, January 23, 2012What happened in Jones?SCOTUS decided United States v. Jones today, on the surface deciding 9-0 that placing a GPS device on a car and monitoring the…
Privacy & Information Security Law Blog
Supreme Court Finds Warrantless GPS Tracking Unconstitutional
On January 23, 2012, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its ruling in United States v. Jones, holding 9-0 that the attachment of a GPS device to a suspect’s car to…