We talk about “individual rights” as if they’re protections, but in practice, they function more like legal defenses we have ...

The Fourth Amendment protects Americans from “unreasonable searches and seizures” by the government. But the Supreme Court's interpretation of “unreasonable” has varied over time.

This conflict presents an opportunity to redefine two fundamental issues of Fourth Amendment doctrine: What is the role of the broad third-party doctrine in the modern age and are certain ...

For example, the Court simply asserted that "Fourth Amendment rights are properly protected absent a presence criterion." Yet Fourth Amendment questions cannot be resolved simply by asking ...

But the Jimerson-Parks family home departed from the target in other significant ways: It had a wheelchair ramp and a porch, for example ... the Jimersons' Fourth Amendment rights in executing ...