Fourth Amendment Blog
by John Wesley Hall Criminal Defense Lawyer and Fourth Amendment consultant Little Rock, Arkansas Contact / The Book Search and seizure law consulting http://www.johnwesleyhall.com
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Fourth Amendment cases, citations, and links
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- US DOJ Report on Mt. Vernon Police Department Finds highly intrusive strip searches were a gross violation of the Fourth Amendment on an enormous... - December 25th, 2024 [December 25th, 2024]
- Permissibility of Cross-Border Share Swap: Understanding the Fourth Amendment of the NDI Rules and its Implications - SCC Online - November 23rd, 2024 [November 23rd, 2024]
- Does the Fourth Amendment protect smartphone users? - Lewiston Morning Tribune - October 12th, 2024 [October 12th, 2024]
- The Fourth Amendment shouldn't stop once you get up to drone level: Albert Fox Cahn - Fox Business - September 21st, 2024 [September 21st, 2024]
- The Reasonableness of Retaining Personal Property Post-Seizure and the Ascendancy of Text, History, and Tradition in Fourth Amendment Jurisprudence -... - September 21st, 2024 [September 21st, 2024]
- Gujarat's Proposes Fourth Amendment To Net Metering Regulations For Rooftop Solar Systems Up To 100 KW - SolarQuarter - July 26th, 2024 [July 26th, 2024]
- Nearly 96% of Private Property Is Open to Warrantless Searches, New Study Estimates - Reason - March 15th, 2024 [March 15th, 2024]
- Heres what to do (and not do) if you get pulled over in California. What are my rights? - Yahoo Movies Canada - December 12th, 2023 [December 12th, 2023]
- FBI Seized $86 Million From People Not Suspected Crimes. A Federal Court Will Decide if That's Legal. - Reason - December 12th, 2023 [December 12th, 2023]
- Digital justice: Supreme Court increasingly confronts law and the internet - Washington Times - December 12th, 2023 [December 12th, 2023]
- MCHS goes on lockout after weapons found on campus - Mineral County Independent-News - November 19th, 2023 [November 19th, 2023]
- Cops Stormed Into a Seattle Woman's Home. It Was the Wrong ... - Reason - November 19th, 2023 [November 19th, 2023]
- Ron Wyden, U.S. Senator from Oregon The Presidential Prayer ... - The Presidential Prayer Team - November 19th, 2023 [November 19th, 2023]
- Bill Maher Slams Critics of the West Amid Israel Conflict: Marginalized People Live Better Today Because of Western Ideals (Video) - Yahoo... - November 5th, 2023 [November 5th, 2023]
- Surveillance authority change could harm ability to stop attacks, FBI ... - Roll Call - November 5th, 2023 [November 5th, 2023]
- New York's progressive chief judge joins with conservatives to ... - City & State - November 5th, 2023 [November 5th, 2023]
- Should domestic abusers have gun rights? | On Point - WBUR News - November 5th, 2023 [November 5th, 2023]
- The Biden administrations latest executive order calls for a ... - R Street - November 5th, 2023 [November 5th, 2023]
- DPS Presents Purple Hearts, Medal of Valor and Other Prestigious ... - the Texas Department of Public Safety - November 5th, 2023 [November 5th, 2023]
- Senators Katie Britt and John Kennedy Call for Investigation into ... - Calhoun County Journal - October 15th, 2023 [October 15th, 2023]
- Trump and Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment: An Exploration ... - JURIST - October 15th, 2023 [October 15th, 2023]
- Expert Q&A with David Aaron on FISA Section 702 Reauthorization ... - Just Security - October 15th, 2023 [October 15th, 2023]
- A Constitution the Government Evades - Tenth Amendment Center - October 15th, 2023 [October 15th, 2023]
- Imagine If Feds Hunted More Real Terrorists, Not Conservatives - The Federalist - October 15th, 2023 [October 15th, 2023]
- Lake Orion Voters Could Decide Removing TIF Funding for ... - Oakland County Times - August 24th, 2023 [August 24th, 2023]
- A marriage of convenience: Why the pushback against a key spy program could cave in on progressives - Yahoo News - August 24th, 2023 [August 24th, 2023]
- Iowa Public Information Board accepts one complaint against ... - KMAland - August 24th, 2023 [August 24th, 2023]
- Burleigh County weighs OHV ordinance to crack down on reckless ... - Bismarck Tribune - August 8th, 2023 [August 8th, 2023]
- AI targets turnstile jumpers to fight fare evasion, but experts warn of ... - 1330 WFIN - August 8th, 2023 [August 8th, 2023]
- As of July 1, police won't be able to stop people for smell of cannabis - The Baltimore Banner - May 20th, 2023 [May 20th, 2023]
- Baby Ninth Amendments Part V: Real Life, Potpourri, and the Big ... - Reason - May 20th, 2023 [May 20th, 2023]
- COA affirms SVF firearm conviction, finds stop and search by police ... - Indiana Lawyer - May 20th, 2023 [May 20th, 2023]
- BARINGS BDC, INC. : Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement, Creation of a Direct Financial Obligation or an Obligation under an Off-Balance Sheet... - May 20th, 2023 [May 20th, 2023]
- Column: : Justice, tyrants and the mob (5/19/23) - McCook Daily Gazette - May 20th, 2023 [May 20th, 2023]
- Alabama appeals court reverses murder conviction of Ala. officer ... - Police News - May 20th, 2023 [May 20th, 2023]
- Oakland narrows town manager search to five | West Orange Times ... - West Orange Times & SouthWest Orange Observer - May 20th, 2023 [May 20th, 2023]
- The Durham Report Is Right About the Need for More FBI Oversight - Reason - May 20th, 2023 [May 20th, 2023]
- Hashtag Trending May 19- U.S. government use invasive AI to track refugees; OpenAI releases iOS ChatGPT app; Microsoft bets on nuclear fusion - IT... - May 20th, 2023 [May 20th, 2023]
- Collective knowledge doctrine applies to a traffic stop - Police News - May 18th, 2023 [May 18th, 2023]
- Privacy and civil rights groups warn against rapidly growing mass ... - TechSpot - May 18th, 2023 [May 18th, 2023]
- There Is No Defensive Search Exception to the Fourth Amendment ... - Center for Democracy and Technology - May 8th, 2023 [May 8th, 2023]
- Napolitano: Does government believe in the Constitution ... - The Winchester Star - May 8th, 2023 [May 8th, 2023]
- Constitution might as well be abandoned if amendments are not ... - Washington Times - May 8th, 2023 [May 8th, 2023]
- One police officer opens a car door, and another looks inside. Did ... - SCOTUSblog - May 8th, 2023 [May 8th, 2023]
- Biden retains option of invoking 14th Amendment to avoid default - Geo News - May 8th, 2023 [May 8th, 2023]
- North Carolina Legislature Pushing Bill That Would Allow Cops To ... - Techdirt - May 8th, 2023 [May 8th, 2023]
- Letter: Threat to our freedom | Opinion | news-journal.com - Longview News-Journal - May 8th, 2023 [May 8th, 2023]
- Parents file lawsuit alleging civil rights violations after children were ... - The Boston Globe - May 8th, 2023 [May 8th, 2023]
- Nevada moves to strengthen protections around use of sexual ... - This Is Reno - May 8th, 2023 [May 8th, 2023]
- Feds rethink warrantless search stats and oh look, a huge drop in numbers - The Register - May 8th, 2023 [May 8th, 2023]
- Its literally cost me everything. Missouri man gets jail time in Capitol riot case - Yahoo News - May 8th, 2023 [May 8th, 2023]
- Board Member Rallies to Student Who Vandalized LGBTQ Posters - FlaglerLive.com - May 8th, 2023 [May 8th, 2023]
- 4th Circuit upholds $730K award to Black Secret Service agent - Virginia Lawyers Weekly - April 19th, 2023 [April 19th, 2023]
- Suspected drug dealer who used alias to rent condo wins reversal in ... - Indiana Lawyer - April 19th, 2023 [April 19th, 2023]
- Do Priests Have a Right to Privacy? - Commonweal - April 19th, 2023 [April 19th, 2023]
- This Deceptive ICE Tactic Violates the Fourth Amendment - ACLU - April 13th, 2023 [April 13th, 2023]
- LDF Appeals Grant of Qualified Immunity in Case Involving Invasive ... - NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund - April 13th, 2023 [April 13th, 2023]
- Livestreaming police stop constitutionally protected - North Carolina Lawyers Weekly - April 13th, 2023 [April 13th, 2023]
- F.B.I. Feared Lawmaker Was Target of Foreign Intelligence Operation - The New York Times - April 13th, 2023 [April 13th, 2023]
- Houston police officer who opened fire in Family Dollar parking lot also shot Mario Watts in separate 2021 incident, HPD confirms - KTRK-TV - April 13th, 2023 [April 13th, 2023]
- Jayland Walker: What's legal and what's illegal during protests - Akron Beacon Journal - April 13th, 2023 [April 13th, 2023]
- IMPD officers indicted for death of Herman Whitfield III - WISH TV Indianapolis, IN - April 13th, 2023 [April 13th, 2023]
- You can support Second Amendment and want gun reform, too ... - Straight Arrow News - April 13th, 2023 [April 13th, 2023]
- Does the five-second rule apply to extending a traffic stop to permit a ... - Police News - April 13th, 2023 [April 13th, 2023]
- Charlotte moves to dismiss lawsuit from man injured during 2020 ... - Carolina Journal - April 13th, 2023 [April 13th, 2023]
- TRAVEL & LEISURE CO. : Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement, Creation of a Direct Financial Obligation or an Obligation under an Off-Balance... - April 11th, 2023 [April 11th, 2023]
- Socialism and the Equal Sharing of Misery | Business ... - The Weekly Journal - April 11th, 2023 [April 11th, 2023]
- Top 10 Court Cases That Changed the U.S. Justice System - Listverse - April 11th, 2023 [April 11th, 2023]
- A new look at the lives of ultra-Orthodox Jews: Shtetl.org provides ... - New York Daily News - April 11th, 2023 [April 11th, 2023]
- VERISK ANALYTICS, INC. : Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement, Creation of a Direct Financial Obligation or an Obligation under an Off-Balance... - April 11th, 2023 [April 11th, 2023]
- Power Of Arrest In India, USA And UK - BW Legal World - April 11th, 2023 [April 11th, 2023]
- Jalil Muntaqim: The time to end prison slavery is now - The Real News Network - April 11th, 2023 [April 11th, 2023]
- Race and the Fourth Amendment: Defendants Raise Issue in ... - Law.com - April 9th, 2023 [April 9th, 2023]
- Why Founding Fathers passed the Third Amendment to the ... - Tennessean - April 9th, 2023 [April 9th, 2023]
- The journey of the Constitution - Pakistan Observer - April 9th, 2023 [April 9th, 2023]
- Former MPD officer sued - McMinnville - Southern Standard - April 9th, 2023 [April 9th, 2023]
- No, the RESTRICT Act wouldnt give the government access to data from your home devices - WCNC.com - April 9th, 2023 [April 9th, 2023]
- Analysis: How Strict Enforcement of Strict Gun Laws Begets ... - The Reload - April 9th, 2023 [April 9th, 2023]
- New York Court Rules Due Process Must be Considered for 'Red ... - National Shooting Sports Foundation - April 9th, 2023 [April 9th, 2023]
- Opinion: Democracy can't exist without "legal technicalities" - The Connecticut Mirror - April 9th, 2023 [April 9th, 2023]