If current Fourth Amendment jurisprudence is extended to its logical conclusion, officers who arrest drivers for traffic infractions will be permitted to search the call histories, text messages, email, photos, movies, and internet browsing history on iPhones with no suspicion of wrongdoing whatsoever...
Before Katz, the Court did not use a specific formulation to identify what counted as a Fourth Amendment search. Supreme Court cases on the meaning of “searches” generally reasoned by analogy to the canonical example of home invasion. The Court began to focus on physical intrusion as...
THEDECISION HILLv.CALIFORNIA (1971) Thesearchwaslegal.Thepolicehadprobablecauseandhadacteduponthatprobability.The4thAmendmentdoesn’trequirecertainty–onlyprobability.Thepoliceactedingoodfaith. PolicegotawarranttoarrestTedChimelfortheburglaryofacoinshop.Theywenttohishome,arrestedhim,andthen,withoutasearchwarrant,...
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the physical contact associated with these other tests may be minimal or nonexistent, while the invasion of privacy associated with a psychological test may be more profound.Nevertheless, the court concluded that a psychological test is not a "search" that is subject to Fourth Amendment protections...
15 The Court stated that no cases it cited or that had been brought to its attention held the Fourth Amendment to be violated unless there was "an official search and seizure of his person or such a seizure of his papers or his tangible material effects or an actual physical invasion of ...
The border search exception to the Fourth Amendment allows broad discretion to United States customs officers to search the belongings of incoming and outgoing international passengers and their luggage. While courts typically weigh the national interest in the search against the privacy invasion caused ...
Fourth AmendmentRIley v. CaliforniaMaryland v. KingIn Maryland v. King, the Supreme Court narrowly upheld a Maryland statute that permits police to obtain a DNA sample from an arrestee without a search warrant. A year later, the Court drastically changed course and provided significantly more ...
While nothing directly precludes the Government's ability to track an individual's location through his cellular phone, the intent of the First and Fourth Amendments directly and indirectly prohibit an unjustified invasion of privacy. The First Amendment embraces an individual's right to speak freely...
The border search exception to the Fourth Amendment allows broad discretion for United States customs officers to search the belongings of incoming and outgoing international passengers and their luggage. Although courts typically weigh the national security interest in the search against the privacy ...