In debating an exception to the Fourth Amendment, the justices managed to invoke Albert Camus, crying babies, dangerous falls by the elderly, Kojak, mask ordinances, plague rats, tree-climbing ...

The “good-faith exception” to the Fourth Amendment recently passed by the House of Representatives is a bad idea. Based on TV crime-show fantasy rather than reality, it will not reduce the ...

As a general rule, the Fourth Amendment requires police to have a warrant to conduct a search. But the courts have carved out a variety of exceptions to that general rule, including one known as the ...

but also if you lard a right with too many "exceptions," that right becomes impotent. So maybe instead of counting the places and situations where the Fourth Amendment no longer applies ...

Over the years. the courts have carved out a handful of exceptions to the Fourth Amendment’s guarantee against “unreasonable searches and seizures.” One of those exceptions allows law ...

Dombrowski‘s “community caretaking” exception into the home defied the logic and holding of Cady, as well as violated the Fourth Amendment’s warrant requirement. With the court’s unanimity in Caniglia ...