Tag: Expectation of Privacy

In Birchfield v North Dakota (2016), the U.S. Supreme Court held that the Fourth Amendment permits warrantless breath tests incident to arrests for drunk driving. However, it held that warrantless blood tests do run afoul of the Constitution. &nbs...

While the legality of the NSA’s spying program has not yet made it to the U.S. Supreme Court, the justices did recently agree to consider two important cases that impact the privacy rights of Americans. The key question now is whether the justices ...

The U.S. Supreme Court recently considered whether law enforcement’s use of a trained narcotics-detection dog to sniff a house suspected of drug activity is a “search” within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment. Although the Supreme Court has g...

UNITED STATES  v. JONES CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT No. 10–1259. Argued November 8, 2011—Decided January 23, 2012 Cite as: 565 U. S. ____ (2012) The Government obtained a sea...

In U.S. v. Jones, the Supreme Court was called upon to interpret the Fourth Amendment of the constitution when police used global positioning technology to fight crime. The issue before the Court was whether attaching a GPS device to a vehicle and t...