Armed with the account identifiers, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) sought search warrants requiring Facebook to disclose various records and voluntarily disclosed information.

Armed with the account identifiers, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) sought search warrants requiring Facebook to disclose various records and voluntarily disclosed information.

Armed with the account identifiers, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) sought search warrants requiring Facebook to disclose various records and voluntarily disclosed information.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit described the case as one presenting “a novel question involving two provisions within the Constitution: the U.S. Postal Service and the Fourth Amendment.”

The Supreme Court held that a plaintiff bringing a claim of malicious prosecution for a Fourth Amendment violation under 42 U.S.C. §1983 only needs to show prosecution ended without a conviction.

A person’s presence in the same building with some potential connection to a fugitive fails to establish “particularized suspicion” to warrant a Terry stop, the Seventh Circuit held last week.

In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court has reversed the Ninth Circuit’s decision, holding that Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) does not displace the state secrets privilege.

On October 8, 2021, Travis Tuggle petitioned the Supreme Court to determine whether long-term, continuous, and video surveillance of a home constitutes a search under the Fourth Amendment.

In central Illinois, Sheriff’s Deputy Derek Suttles spotted a silver Volkswagen traveling well under the posted speed limit with a covering over the rear cargo area.

On August 11, 2014, Salt Lake City Police Officer Bron Cruz shot and killed Dillon Taylor after responding to a radio transmission from dispatch, reporting that an individual “flashed a gun.”

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit consolidated the appeals as they raised on common issue – whether recordings of phone calls made from prison were admissible at trial.

Saginaw, a city in Michigan, chalked car tires to enforce parking regulations. Recently, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit considered whether suspicionless tire chalking is a valid administrative search.

From 2013 to 2016, several law enforcement agencies investigated a methamphetamine distribution conspiracy in Illinois. The government installed three cameras on nearby utility poles to monitor the home of defendant Travis Tuggle. Two cameras viewed the front of Tuggle’s home and a nearby parking area. The third camera viewed a shed owned by codefendant, Joshua Vaultonburg.

In 2018, Alexander Bebris sent messages to a woman via Facebook Messenger, a private messaging system on Facebook. Facebook Messenger utilizes PhotoDNA, a Microsoft image-recognition program that provides the capability to scan images uploaded onto the company’s platform and compares the “hash,” or essence of a photo, with a database of known images of child pornography. After a “hit,” Facebook reviews the flagged images and sends them to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (“NCMEC”) through the CyberTipline.

Using three pole cameras mounted on public property to continuously monitor the exterior of a defendant’s home for 18 months without a warrant is not an unreasonable search in violation of the Fourth Amendment, according to the Seventh Circuit.

On April 16, 2019, Des Moines police officers responded to various calls of gunshots fired at an apartment complex. The callers reported 3 potential suspects and 2 cars associated with those suspects. One caller described a suspect as a black male with dreadlocks in a white shirt and dark blue pants, a description fitting Shaun Short that evening. Callers also reported that one of the cars involved was a black Dodge Charger, the same make and model car owned by Short.

Yesterday, in an opinion authored by Justice Kagan, the Supreme Court issued an order on United States v. Lange, and held that the flight of a suspected misdemeanant does not always justify the warrantless entry of a police officer into a home. FEDagent previously reported on this case when the Court granted certiorari.

On August 1, 2013, FBI Special Agent Bryan Acee was undercover and observed Matthew Maley engage in a drug deal out of his travel trailer in an RV park in Las Cruces, NM. Acee also observed a green Range Rover and a black Dodge pickup truck nearby. Officers performed a background check on Maley and found that he was a convicted felon on probation.

“Community caretaking” does not create a standalone doctrine that justifies warrantless searches and seizures in the home, a unanimous Supreme Court recently held.