Fourth Amendment case law deals with three central questions: what government activities constitute "search" and "seizure"; what constitutes probable cause for these actions; and how violations of ...

The judge overseeing the case appeared aghast at the incident that led to prosecutors receiving 19 pages of defense legal ...

if the provocation is an independent Fourth Amendment violation.” In other words, if the officers violated Mendez’s Fourth Amendment rights by unlawfully entering his home, they could be held ...

Fourth Amendment case law deals with three central questions: what government activities constitute "search" and "seizure"; what constitutes probable cause for these actions; and how violations of ...

Third, the remedies for violations of the Fourth Amendment remained uncertain until the introduction of the exclusionary rule in Weeks v. United States (1914) (evidence unlawfully seized may not ...

Hester challenged his arrest as a violation of the Fourth Amendment: The agents had hopped a fence and traipsed across a pasture, without a warrant, to get to him. In 1924, the Supreme Court sided ...

A scathing DOJ report found the Trenton Police Department in violation of the U.S. Constitution for using excessive force and ...

The Federal Justice Department claims the Trenton Police Department and the City of Trenton engage in conduct that constitute ...