Articles Posted in Search & Seizure

Courtesy of fourthamendmentlaw.com here is an interesting summary of search law from the Oregon Federal Public Defender. First he acknowledges that a persons privacy right has been restricted over the years and with the advent of technology privacy may get harder to protect. A. Introduction The revolution of the Warren Court, especially in the area…

Courtesy of FourthAmendment.com here is a good case to know about. Defendant and his wife got into a domestic dispute, and she called the police to tell them about his illegal firearms. They came to the scene and she consented to the search. He was there and vociferously objected. The police searched anyway. The search…

Here is an interesting technology case from the Third Circuit as reported by the Wall Street Journal blog. Technology has made it increasingly easy for the government to track an individual’s whereabouts. But on Tuesday, a three-judge panel of the Third Circuit ratcheted back the government’s surveillance power, finding that judges have the right to…

Two items relevant to the internet, privacy, and the Fourth Amendment. Orwell would be . . . Orin S. Kerr, Applying the Fourth Amendment to the Internet: A General Approach, 62(4) STANFORD L. REV. 1005 (2010). This Article proposes a general approach to applying the Fourth Amendment to the Internet. It assumes that courts will…

FourthAmendment.com has this post: Today is the 26th anniversary of United States v. Leon and the good faith exception. When I remembered that this morning, I had a flash back to the last CLE I did for prosecutors about 1990 where the speaker after me referred to July 5th as “Independence Day from the Fourth…

United States v. Huntzinger. I. WHETHER THE MILITARY JUDGE ERRED IN CONCLUDING THAT NO SOLDIER AT FORWARD OPERATING BASE (FOB) LOYALTY HAD A REASONABLE EXPECTATION OF PRIVACY IN ANY REGARD. II. WHETHER THE MILITARY JUDGE ERRED IN DENYING A MOTION TO SUPPRESS APPELLANT’S EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE AND PASSWORD PROTECTED LAPTOP WHEN THE COMMANDER WHO ORDERED…

Garcia v. Commandant, USDB, No. 10-3027 (10th Cir. May 27, 2010). Fernando Garcia was convicted after a guilty plea before a general court martial. He then sought habeas relief in federal district court pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 2241, arguing that the military appellate courts failed to afford him adequate review of his Fourth Amendment…

SCOTUSBlog has a podcast of today’s oral argument.

SCOTUSBlog reports that: At about 11 a.m. Monday, the Supreme Court will hear one hour of oral argument in City of Ontario, et al., v. Quon, et al. (08-1332). Arguing for the California city and its police department will be Kent L. Richland of Greines, Martin, Stein & Richland in Los Angeles. The federal government,…

Here’s a case from New Jersey of some interest, Stengart v. Loving Care Agency, Inc., 2010 N.J. LEXIS 241 (March 30, 2010). [W]e find that Stengart had a reasonable expectation of privacy in the e-mails she exchanged with her attorney on Loving Care’s laptop. Stengart plainly took steps to protect the privacy of those e-mails…