The case arose from a 2019 robbery of a credit union. Witnesses and surveillance footage could not identify the robber, but the evidence showed that he approached from the direction of a nearby church ...

Seven years ago, police in Midlothian, Virginia, sought to identify a bank robber by asking Google to search the records of more than 500 million people who used the company's "location history" ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In Big Win for Fourth Amendment Advocates, the Supreme Court Says 'Geofence Warrants' Count as a 'Search' The U.S. Supreme Court ...

EVANSVILLE — Monday evening, members of Evansville City Council heard from the city's police chief, Phil Smith, that automatic license plate readers had never been found to violate the Fourth ...

We close our series on the new Roberts Court and restoration of the Constitution’s original understanding with the issue most distant from the Framing: the rise of a new high-tech world. We now hold ...

Imagine if a new law required people walking on sidewalks to wear badges displaying their correct legal names. We would recognize this as conditioning the exercise of an important freedom on giving up ...

WASHINGTON – Carrying a smartphone to a bank robbery wasn’t such a smart move for Okello Chatrie. Now the Supreme Court must decide whether the "groundbreaking" and "previously unimaginable" way ...

On June 29, 2026, the Supreme Court issued its decision in Chatrie v. United States, holding in a 6-3 decision that law enforcement conducts a Fourth Amendment “search” when it obtains an individual’s ...

Part of the bedrock of American civil liberties is the Fourth Amendment's prohibition against unreasonable searches. There is no right to privacy, and no due process in the justice system, without ...

Justice Samuel Alito issued a pointed dissent after the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that police conducted a Fourth Amendment search when they obtained a Virginia robbery suspect’s cellphone location data ...

From 2021 until 2026, the U.S. Supreme Court did not decide one case involving traditional Fourth Amendment issues—such as what is a search, when is a warrant required and whether the exclusionary ...

The Fourth Amendment is the part of the Bill of Rights that prohibits "unreasonable searches and seizures." But — what's unreasonable? That... The 4th Amendment: Search and Seizure The 4th Amendment: ...