The threshold question under the Fourth Amendment is whether a government search or seizure has occurred. A person’s property is “seized” when the government meaningfully interferes with a ...

An expert in criminal law and former GW Law professor discussed his new book about the U.S. Constitution’s Fourth Amendment ...

...no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. The first half ...

Staged “perp walks” violate the Fourth Amendment rights of criminal suspects to be free ... actions further the legitimate law enforcement purposes behind the search or seizure. Noting that the walk ...

The Tamil Nadu government has amended its prayer in a writ petition filed before the Madras High Court against the search and ...

Here’s a subject new to this column: The Fourth Amendment. The Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibits “unreasonable searches and seizures.” Before the U.S. Supreme Court in Barnes v.

Now, tax authorities can reassess hitherto undisclosed earnings only, and not income that’s already been declared.

(CN) — A claim that the government's searching of cellphones belonging to those on the terrorist watchlist violates their Fourth Amendment right against unreasonable searches and seizure can proceed .