Although a warrant is generally required for police to enter a home or conduct a search, police are not required to seek a warrant if there are exigent circumstances requiring immediate attention – ...

In a ruling yesterday in United States v. Curry that ought to earn careful attention from the Supreme Court, the en banc Fourth Circuit divided sharply along ideological lines on the substance of the ...

When child protective services (CPS) knocks at your door, the Fourth Amendment generally gives you the same core protections you have against the police. Your home cannot be searched, and your ...

The Pennsylvania Superior Court affirmed a defendant's conviction and held that the commonwealth was not required to prove exigent circumstances when an officer had lawfully seized a firearm in a ...

Although warrantless searches are presumptively unreasonable under the Fourth Amendment, the Court has carved out exceptions to that general rule for (among other things) exigent circumstances, such ...

In a case of first impression, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has held that exigent circumstances can justify law enforcement's access to a defendant's cellphone "pings," or GPS ...

Tuesday afternoon, U.S. District Court Judge G. Murray Snow unsealed the operations plan for Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s “crime suppression” sweep, which took place this weekend in the West Valley.