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Showing posts with label 4th Amendment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 4th Amendment. Show all posts
Thursday, May 16, 2019

From the Dallas News: How police felt stonewalled by Dallas Diocese at every turn in sex abuse investigation

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An example of due process, specifically a search and seizure. The back and forth between Dallas police and the Diocese interests me. - Click...
Thursday, October 20, 2016

Grits for Breakfast: Pop Quiz on Fourth Amendment and the criminalization of the normal

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For our look at due process in both 2305 and 2306, and especially for out look at appellate courts in Texas in 2306. - Click here for the ar...
Tuesday, September 27, 2016

What is "Stop and Frisk" anyway?

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It was an area of disagreement between the candidates in last nights debate - and there seemed to be disagreement on whether the courts have...
Thursday, April 21, 2016

From Slate: Blood Tests and Bad Lawyering. The Supreme Court finds unity in the face of bumbling attorneys and a tough Fourth Amendment case.

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Things apparently did not go well at oral for the lawyers in this 4th Amendment case argued yesterday. - Click here for the article . Here...
Wednesday, April 22, 2015

If a police officer has stopped you for a traffic violation, can he make you wait for a drug sniffing dog?

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No - according to 6 people on the Supreme Court. - Click here for the scoop from ScotusBlog . From ScotusBlog's analysis : The Court i...
Friday, April 3, 2015

From Oyez: Shifting Scales: How the Robert's Court is interpreting the 4th Amendment

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- Click here for it . We haven't spend enough time on searches and seizures this semester - other things have got in the way - but here...
Wednesday, February 12, 2014

From the Dish: Digital Stakeouts Are Dirt Cheap

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Andrew Sullivan points out that technology is making surveillance cheaper and easier - which raises the appropriate civil liberties concern...
Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Metadata is not protected by the Fourth Amendment.

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Foreign Policy magazine finds this troubling . The mere collection of data about telephone and internet usage is not a violation of the 4th ...
Thursday, March 28, 2013

The use of drug sniffing dogs without a warrant limited by the Supreme Court

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The court had more to think about than just gay marriage this week. From the NYT : The Supreme Court on Tuesday limited the ability of the...
Thursday, January 10, 2013

Do mandatory blood tests for drunk driving violate the 4th Amendment?

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photo credit I've wondered this for years. Finally a case has ended up in the Supreme Court and we will find out. From th e NYT'...
Wednesday, November 2, 2011

From Diane Rhem The Constitution Today: Fourth Amendment

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Click here for a radio interview on the 4th Amendment and whether placing a GPS tracking device on a car without a warrant is an unreason...
Tuesday, September 13, 2011

From the NYT: Protect Our Right to Anonymity

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This promises to be a hugely consequential Supreme Court case : IN November, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in a case that could re...
Sunday, March 20, 2011

Mopery

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Probable Cause? This is a new one for me: Mopery . Mopery is a vague, informal, and usually humorous name for minor offenses. The word i...
Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Are Drug Sniffing Dogs Reliable?

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Maybe Not. From Reason : For the first few years I had her, I was impressed by my late dog Harper's uncanny ability to assess people...
Friday, January 7, 2011

Warrantless Cell Phone Searches OK'ed in California

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From Law and Disorder : The contents of your cell phone can reveal a lot more about you than the naked eye can: who your friends are, what...
Saturday, September 4, 2010

GPS and the Right to Privacy

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From Time Magazine : Government agents can sneak onto your property in the middle of the night, put a GPS device on the bottom of your car...
Friday, September 3, 2010

Sobriety Checkpoints Return

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Just in time for the holiday weekend, Montgomery County will bring back sobriety checkpoints in order to combat drunk driving. The checkp...
Thursday, July 30, 2009

Two Bits on Compelled Testimony

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Two stories from Grits for Breakfast raise questions about 4 th and 5 th Amendment issues. The first concerns neuroscience's increas...
Wednesday, July 29, 2009

An Illegal Seizure?

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From the Chronicle : A new Texas law allowing police to draw blood from DWI suspects without a judge's OK is riling defense attorneys, p...
Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Dr. Paul on the Tobacco Bill

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Our very own Ron Paul argues that the recently passed Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act violates the Constitution: The Fam...