fourth amendment

Innocent Elderly Woman Pulled Over for No Reason as Cops Steal Her Life Savings, Prescription Medicine and Mock Her 18 April 2022 In December 2021, Jeanetta Jones, 62, had harmed no one, committed no crime, and was simply driving home when she was targeted by officers with the the notoriously...

'Geofence Warrant' for All Cell Location Data From Area Near Robbery Is Ruled Unconstitutional Plus: New rules on sex discrimination in education, economists warn of housing market exuberance, and more... 1 April 2022 "Geofence warrant" was unconstitutional, says judge. Can the cops use...

The Supreme Court Says You Can Sue Cops Who Frame You on False Charges The previous standard barring such lawsuits made “little sense," wrote Justice Brett Kavanaugh for the majority. 5 April 2022 Police officers could frame people, file bogus charges, conjure evidence out of thin air—and, in...

A Federal Judge Says a Victim of Retaliatory Prosecution Can Sue a Cop Who Treated Criticism As a Crime An Arkansas police officer used trumped-up charges to punish a man who criticized him for violating the Constitution. 31 March 2022 Four years ago, Grant Long, a resident of Forrest City...

The 5th Circuit Approves a Cop's Violent Response to a Dispute Over a 7-Year-Old's Littering The officer used a "pain compliance maneuver" to force information from the boy's sister, who was recording the encounter. 25 March 2022 A 2016 dispute between neighbors that began when a 7-year-old...

The 5th Circuit Approves a Cop's Violent Response to a Dispute Over a 7-Year-Old's Littering The officer used a "pain compliance maneuver" to force information from the boy's sister, who was recording the encounter. 25 March 2022 A 2016 dispute between neighbors that began when a 7-year-old...

Federal Court Says Good Faith Prevails In Deployment Of Extremely Questionable ‘Reverse’ Warrant 21 March 2022 “Who are we to judge?,” say federal court judges. That’s the questionable conclusion reached by an otherwise solid reading [PDF] of the constitutional implications of one of law...

65 Teens, Arrested, Shackled, Jailed Because Cops Found a Small Bag of Weed Outside of a Party 20 March 2022 House parties among teenagers and young adults are a part of growing up. When kids experience freedom from their parents for the first time, they will often make poor choices and this...

Video Shows California Cops Arresting Mom and Grandma for Filming Them Mariah Herefored says police in Hemet, California, smacked cell phone cameras out of her and her mother's hands and violently arrested them 8 March 2022 Police officers in Hemet, California, arrested a mother and...

Beneficiary Of First Amendment Protections Says Fourth Amendment Shouldn’t Be Respected By Cops, Courts 15 March 2022 The New York Post editorial team has apparently decided some rights are more important than others. The Post has the First Amendment right to publish its opinion on other...

Virginia Court Blocks Geofence Warrant As Unconstitutionally Vague 9 March 2022 There are multiple places government agencies can go to acquire location data. The Supreme Court’s Carpenter decision put a damper on warrantless demands, but the private sector has rushed to fill this hole in the...

Seventh Circuit: No Immunity For Chicago Cop Who Lied To A Judge Before Accidentally Raiding The Right Apartment 28 February 2022 There’s a good reason we have strict standards for warrant requests — ones that requires plenty of probable cause and factual statements. Because if we didn’t have...

A Federal Lawsuit Challenges Blatantly Unconstitutional Anti-Crime Checkpoints in Jackson, Mississippi "You can't treat everyone like a criminal to find the criminals," an outraged driver says. In Jackson, apparently you can. 25 February 2022 Archie Skiffer Jr., who lives in Mendenhall...

Anti-Crime Checkpoints in Jackson, Mississippi, Blatantly Violate the Fourth Amendment To "get wanted individuals off the streets," police are stopping drivers without any evidence that they have broken the law. 23 February 2022 "We're checking driver's license, proof of insurance," a...

Massachusetts Court Says No Expectation Of Privacy In Social Media Posts Unwittingly Shared With An Undercover Cop 22 February 2022 Can cops pretend to be real people on social media to catfish people into criminal charges? Social media services say no. Facebook in particular has stressed --...

San Francisco police used rape victims’ DNA to try to ‘incriminate’ them, D.A. says 14 February 2022 San Francisco’s district attorney said police used a database with DNA collected from victims of rape and sexual assault to connect some of them to crimes. Dist. Atty. Chesa Boudin said...

Chicago Cops Love Them Some Facebook Sharing, According To Internal Facial Recognition Presentation 1 February 2022 Somewhere between the calls to end encryption and calls to do literally anything about crime rate spikes at this time of year, at this time of day, in [insert part of the...

In 2019, The FBI Took NSO Malware For A Spin Before Deciding It Might Cause Too Many Problems In Court 31 January 2021 The latest disturbing revelation about Israeli malware merchant NSO Group is a bit delayed. NSO has claimed its malware can't be used to target American phone numbers which...

Kansas and California Cops Used Civil Forfeiture to Stage Armored Car Heists, Stealing Money Earned by Licensed Marijuana Businesses The Institute for Justice argues that the seizures violated state law, federal law, and the U.S. Constitution. 18 January 2022 Because the continued federal...

Judge: Baton Rouge Violated the First Amendment by Trying To Imprison a Professor for Sharing Body Camera Footage It was the city that put the footage in the public record in the first place. 10 January 2022 The city of Baton Rouge tried to throw a law professor in prison after he shared...