u.s. constitution

'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...

Convicted former Hialeah, Florida, officer Jesus “Jesse” Manuel Menocal, Jr. Florida Ex-Cop Avoids Sex Offender Registry Despite Pleading Guilty to Coercing Women to Perform Sex Acts While He Was ‘On-Duty’ and Wearing a Uniform 5 March 2022 A former Hialeah, Florida police sergeant pleaded...

Appeals Court Rules Ohio Cops Didn't Have Cause To Arrest Man Wearing 'Fuck the Police' Shirt The sheriff's deputies are also not entitled to qualified immunity because the First Amendment right to offend police has been repeatedly upheld. 9 February 2022 Sheriff's deputies in Ohio didn't...

Migrants Detained in Texas Border Operation Are Fighting Back — and It's Not Going Well For Gove. Greg Abbott A Texas judge ruled that the state’s arrests of migrants caught crossing the border is an unconstitutional encroachment on federal authority. 26 January 2022 Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s...

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...

New Illinois Law Says Cops Need A Warrant To Grab Data From (Some) Third Parties 12 January 2022 The state of Illinois continues to provide more protection than the US Constitution. Its privacy laws exceed what has been determined to be "reasonable" violations of privacy by decades of court...

State Bill Creates Process to Finally End Qualified Immunity, And It’s from Republicans 29 December 2021 Bills filed in the Florida House and Senate for the 2022 legislative session would create a process to sue police officers in state court for using excessive force or taking other actions...

Massachusetts Supreme Court Tackles Law Enforcement Use Of Cell Tower Dumps 29 December 2021 Years after they've become a go-to tool for law enforcement to work their way backwards to suspects, the Massachusetts Supreme Court is wrestling with the issue of cell tower dumps. Cell tower dumps...

Prison Phone Companies Are Recording Attorney-Client Calls Across the US Lawyers say their conversations with incarcerated people are being recorded and analyzed by private companies in at least nine US states. 13 December 2021 For years, many of Brooklyn Defender Services’ incarcerated...

Ohio Prosecuted a Taxidermist for Asking an Inspector to Come Back Later Regulators insist Fourth Amendment protections don’t apply to administrative searches. 8 December 2021 When law enforcement officers tell you they're certain that everybody is a lawbreaker, they inadvertently summarize a...

SWAT Team Blows Up Innocent Woman’s Home, Tell Her that She Has to Pay the $50,000 Bill 5 December 2021 In July of last year, Vicki Baker, 75, was excited to move on to the next chapter of her life in Montana by selling her home she owned for 12 years in McKinney, Texas. That sale would never...

Police Turn on Hidden Cameras, Turn Off Fourth Amendment 1 Novembber 2021 If neighbors surrounded your home with spy cameras and monitored all your comings and goings for 18 months, you might call it stalking or something worse. Yet that’s what the police did to Travis Tuggle without a...

A New Lawsuit Says Wilmington Is Running an Unconstitutional Towing and Impound Racket 24 September 2021 A new lawsuit accuses the city government of Wilmington, Delaware, of running an unconstitutional towing and impound program that strips owners of their vehicles over petty ticket debts...

Man Jailed on $50K Bond, Facing 7 Years for Accidentally Underpaying for a Soda by 43 Cents 23 September 2021 When Joseph Sobolewski got thirsty last month, he saw a sign in a nearby convenience store that was advertising two 20-ounce Mountain Dew bottles for $3. Sobolewksi only wanted one...