The Reconciliation Roots of Fourth Amendment Privacy , 91 U. Chi. L. Rev. 2139 (2024 ..read more

Defendant’s stop for no turn signal was valid no matter the subjective motivation. State v. Sanchez, 33 Neb. App. 495 (Mar. 11, 2025).* , 2025 U.S. App. LEXIS 5853 (3d Cir. Mar. 13, 2025 ..read more

Taking $200 Out of an ATM Should Not Trigger Federal Financial Surveillance: No, not even if you do it in a county that borders Mexico. by Joe Lancaster (“One of President Donald Trump’s Day 1 executive orders designated ‘certain international cartels’ as ‘foreign terrorist organizations,’ a classification that according to the State Department ‘play[s] a critical role in our fight against terrorism and [is] an effective means of curtailing support for terrorist activities and pressuring groups to get out of the terrorism business.’ To that end, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial ..read more

After a shooting in Boston, the defendants fled to one defendant’s mother’s place where the other changed clothes. Nexus for a warrant for her apartment was shown. Commonwealth v. Phillips, 2025 Mass. LEXIS 107 (Mar. 13, 2025).* Black Lives Matter D.C. United States , 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 47417 (D.D.C. Mar. 14, 2025 ..read more

DEA Insiders Warned About Legality of Phone Tracking Program. Their Concerns Were Kept Secret. (“The DEA ignored the internal alarm about its Hemisphere mass phone data collection program, according to newly revealed details in a government report.”) It is: A Review of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Use of Administrative Subpoenas to Collect or Exploit Bulk Data (Revised March 2025; originally March 2019 ..read more

Defendant was stopped because the officer ran his LPN to confirm he was the owner, ran him through a police intel database and the courts’ online docket finding investigations and cases, and he had reasonable suspicion to continue the stop by the time the drug dog arrived. Also, he delayed the stop because he was alone and he could see other officers on the screen approaching by their GPS. State v. Johnson, 2025-Ohio-890 (11th Dist. Mar. 17, 2025).* , 2025 U.S. App. LEXIS 6205 (9th Cir. Mar. 17, 2025 ..read more

There was probable cause for the warrant for defendant’s BAC. People v. Coble, 2025 Mich. App. LEXIS 2061 (Mar. 17, 2025).* , 2025 U.S. App. LEXIS 6230 (8th Cir. Mar. 18, 2025 ..read more

Everything you say to your Echo will be sent to Amazon starting on March 28 ..read more

The search warrants here were supported by probable cause based on the statements of the reliable citizen informants and the supporting facts. The search warrants were particular in describing the items to be seized and the limitations on the search. And, even if the initial seizure of the cell phone was unlawful, the independent source doctrine applied because the search warrants were valid and not influenced by any prior unlawful action. State v. Tyson, 2025 Wash. App. LEXIS 342 (Feb. 25, 2025).* , 2025 U.S. App. LEXIS 4680 (8th Cir. Feb. 28, 2025 ..read more

Plaintiff’s claim that residential care facilities have to provide a census of children there isn’t a Fourth Amendment violation. CNS Int’l Ministries, Inc. v. Bax, 2025 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 37362 (E.D. Mo. Mar. 3, 2025).* , 2025 U.S. App. LEXIS 4951 (10th Cir. Mar. 4, 2025 ..read more