A crucial question of Fourth Amendment law has recently divided courts: When government agents conduct a digital scan through a massive database, how much of a "search" occurs? The issue pops up in ...

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court handed down its long-awaited ruling in Commonwealth v. Kurtz today, on whether there are Fourth Amendment rights in Google search terms. Among the seven Justices, three ...

Under what has come to be known as the Katz test, a defendant seeking to invoke Fourth Amendment protections against a warrantless government search must prove that he or she had a subjective ...

On June 29, 2026, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Chatrie v. United States, held that law enforcement’s use of a “geofence warrant,” which instructed ...

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 ...

University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School Dean Sophia Lee recently published an article in The University of Chicago Law Review about the Fourth Amendment rights to privacy. Her 90-page article ...

The justice argues that the "reasonable expectation of privacy" test and the third-party doctrine are indefensible in theory and unworkable in practice.

Police in Virginia located a suspect by demanding location-specific cell phone data from Google. Did that violate his constitutional rights? It’s been a few years since the Supreme Court heard a major ...

Type to search articles, cases, and authors. Press ↵ to view all results. Civil Rights and Wrongs is a recurring series by Daniel Harawa covering criminal justice and civil rights cases before the ...

Jason McCullough and Brandon Moss of Wiley Rein LLP examine the Supreme Court's decision in Chatrie v. United States, which ...