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Search and seizure – Search warrant application provided insufficient basis to search premises

Where a search warrant application failed to establish a fair probability that contraband or evidence of a crime would have been found in the location to be searched, and a […] The...

Search and seizure – Court suppresses evidence from unlawful vehicle search

Ezell Walter Gaines III has been charged with possession with intent to distribute cocaine. He has moved to suppress fruits of an unlawful vehicle search. The court conducted an ev...

Court suppresses drug, cash evidence in car search

The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia suppressed drug and cash evidence from a vehicle search that failed inventory search exception requirements. The post C...

Police search Boardman home, seize drug paraphernalia: Report

Officers searched the home in the 4100 block of Riverside Dr. around 8:30 a.m.

The Government Faces High-Stakes Search-and-Seizure Challenges in Virginia

Federal law enforcement’s ability to take phones at the border is being challenged in court. The post The Government Faces High-Stakes Search-and-Seizure Challenges in Virginia app...

Police search Boardman home, seize drug paraphernalia: Report

Officers searched the home in the 4100 block of Riverside Dr. around 8:30 a.m.

Don’t turn a consensual contact into a seizure

Patrol cars blocking a parked vehicle created a Fourth Amendment seizure unsupported by reasonable suspicion.

Your Phone Can Be Searched at the Border Without a Warrant: Seventh Circuit Reaffirms CBP Authority

Federal law enforcement executes search warrant at former NYC sheriff's Queens home

It is unclear what prompted the search warrant at the home of former New York City Sheriff Anthony Miranda.

North Dakota Firefighter Challenges Warrantless Search of Cellphone

A North Dakota firefighter facing up to 50 years in prison for his involvement in child sex crimes, is seeking to have key evidence in the case suppressed because personal informat...

Supreme Court Rules that a Geofence Warrant Is a Search

The Supreme Court decided several major cases in its recently-concluded Term, but for people interested in the Fourth Amendment, the most anticipated was United States v. Chatrie,...

Motion for Summary Judgment Filed in Case Challenging Unlawful Search

The Second Amendment Foundation seeks summary judgment in Harrington v. Crawford, arguing an 18-year-old student's constitutional rights were violated after school officials search...

Search and seizure – No immunity for guards who intentionally failed to check on injured inmate

Where two prison officials suspected an inmate had been beaten after they heard him moaning in his cell, but they waited 20 minutes before checking on him to avoid extra […] The po...

Boardman police execute warrant for drug investigation

Boardman Police Department's Narcotics Enforcement Unit executed a search warrant Monday that resulted in an arrest and the seizure of drugs and cash.

An airport search, a wiped phone and a potential test of Fourth Amendment protections

By Holmes Lybrand, CNN (CNN) — In a small room at the Atlanta International Airport, without a warrant and ignoring his protest and requests for his attorney, a left-wing activist...

Warrantless searches of private property in Pennsylvania are ruled unconstitutional

HARRISBURG, Pa. (WTAJ) -- A years-long legal battle over private property has come to an end, and the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled in favor of two local hunting clubs. On Tuesd...

Criminal – Court upholds manual cell phone searches at border

Where the defendant argued that the search of his iPhone at the border was unlawful, and that the resulting sexually explicit photos and videos of prepubescent girls should have be...

Mich. high court rules vehicle searches based solely on low-level marijuana violations are illegal

The Michigan Supreme Court also ruled that “the smell of marijuana is not enough” to establish probable cause that there is a criminal amount of marijuana present

Pennsylvania's Top Court Unanimously Rejects Warrantless Searches of Private Land

The justices said the "open fields" doctrine, a sweeping exception to constitutional privacy protections, does not apply in the Keystone State.

Feds arrest two, seize firearms and big rig during raid at Arizona trucking school

Federal authorities arrested two people while executing a search warrant at a truck driving school in Arizona. On August 11, 2026, agents with Homeland Security Investigations (HSI...

CIK conducts searches at five locations across Kashmir

Srinagar, Aug 8: The Counter Intelligence Kashmir (CIK) on Saturday conducted searches at five locations across four districts of the Kashmir Valley in connection with an ongoing i...

CAN AN OFFICER SEARCH MY CAR WITHOUT A WARRANT?

The answer is yes.  An officer may perform an inventory search after you have been arrested and the police have taken your car.  The purpose of the search is to catalog the items i...

Owning a Gun Is Not Reasonable Suspicion: SAF Seeks Judgment Over School Truck Search

School officials searched 18-year-old Jack Harrington’s truck after learning he lawfully owned a handgun. They found nothing. SAF says gun ownership cannot erase Fourth Amendment p...

Pennsylvania High Court Bars Warrantless Searches of Posted Private Land

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has issued a significant state constitutional ruling, unanimously holding that Article I, Section 8 of the Pennsylvania Constitution protects private...