If the court upholds such digital searches without an identified suspect, legal experts say the strategy could expand to pry ...

The court heard oral arguments this week in the case of a robbery suspect who was identified after police obtained cell phone ...

The Fourth Amendment protects all persons from warrantless government searches and seizures of their persons, houses, papers and effects. It requires that warrants be supported by ...

"Geofence" searches illustrate the perilous combination of modern technology and deference to law enforcement.

A convicted felon wants the Justices to bar ‘geofence’ warrants of the kind that let police catch him in Chatrie v. U.S.

Some justices seemed to advocate for a relatively narrow ruling that would clarify what such warrants require, even if it ...

The ACLU has raised concerns about the FBI's use of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which allows ...

“A lot of people are being hypocritical around here,” Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) told HuffPost. Fitzpatrick is a moderate ...

Earlier this month, the Supreme Court rendered obsolete the 4th Amendment’s prohibition on suspicionless seizures by the police. When the court stayed the district court’s decision in Noem vs. Vasquez ...

The U.S. Supreme Court is hearing a case dealing with geofence warrants, also called reverse warrants — and more aptly so ...