The Fourth Amendment is the part of the Bill of Rights that prohibits "unreasonable searches and seizures." But — what's unreasonable? That question has fueled a century's worth of court rulings that ...

The Constitutional right to protection against unreasonable searches and seizures is a concept we all have heard of, especially those of us who are fans of crime dramas. But what happens when the ...

When can the police enter a person’s home without a warrant? The Fourth Amendment and the various judicial exceptions to it don’t provide a clear answer. But the Supreme Court may provide some clarity ...

It becomes a search under the Fourth Amendment if an official invades an area where a person has a constitutionally-protected and reasonable expectation of privacy, Hamner said. The Indiana ...

After a winter recess spent recovering from their crawl through what Felix Frankfurter called the “political thicket,” the nine Justices of the United States Supreme Court are finally back to the kind ...

DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN — The Fourth Amendment was brought into focus as the topic of “Search and Seizure,” making for a compelling Continuing Legal Education (CLE) program from Hon. Barry Kamins on the ...