Lower courts are divided on the Fourth Amendment implications of a drug detection dog that jumps into a car on its own and then alerts to illegal drugs. I thought I would offer some thoughts on the ...

US Supreme Court Examines Emergency Entries Under the Fourth Amendment The court must determine whether the emergency aid exception to the Fourth Amendment’s warrant requirement necessitates a showing ...

I recently posted about the open fields doctrine of Fourth Amendment law, the rule that it is not a "search" under the Fourth Amendment for the government to trespass on to your open field. In my post ...