The Supreme Court has been doing a pretty good job of resisting government arguments that interpretation of the Fourth Amendment should ignore the implications of modern technology. Two years ago, for ...

Lady Liberty rejoiced recently when a rare unanimous U.S. Supreme Court held that police may not rummage through an arrestee's cell phone without a warrant. For years now, police officers have riffled ...

Law360 (July 13, 2026, 8:42 PM EDT)--The Fourth Circuit has ruled that manual searches of a cellphone at the border are legal because they are considered routine and do not require individualized ...

“No suspicion is required before the government searches a traveler’s cellphone at the border,” said the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit by a 2-1 vote: “No suspicion is required before ...

The auditor general found that corrections officers in many cases appeared to falsely state that required cell searches had been completed. The Corrections Department blamed training issues and ...