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 ...

But this week, the sheriff is wading into debate over a different constitutional right — the Fourth Amendment — which ...

...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 ...

Lawyers argued over the limits of cell phone search warrants before the Michigan Supreme Court Thursday. Colin Jackson has ...

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 ...

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

Mapp v. Ohio was a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case that safeguarded the Fourth Amendment right to privacy after a Cleveland woman was wrongly convicted following an illegal search of her home.

The State government’s amendment petition, along with two other individual writ petitions filed by TASMAC to declare the entire search and seizure operation illegal and to injunct the ED from ...

(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 .

A three-judge panel unanimously decided Wednesday that township police officers violated the Fourth Amendment against illegal search and seizure because they should have obtained a warrant before ...