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Surveillance and the Constitution
(Wayne Law Review, 2009)
My focus will be on the extent to which the Constitution limits government surveillance activities. The details of regulation should be statutory, but the basis for that statutory regulation must be founded on constitutional ...
Capacity to Contest a Search and Seizure: the Passing of Old Rules and Some Suggestions for New Ones
(American Criminal Law Review, 1981)
Professor Slobogin examines recent Supreme Court decisions involving standing to challenge search and seizure violations, and argues that the Court's commitment to a "totality of the circumstances" approach has permitted ...
The Liberal Assault on the Fourth Amendment
(2007)
As construed by the Supreme Court, the Fourth Amendment's reasonableness requirement regulates overt, non-regulatory government searches of homes, cars, and personal effects-and virtually nothing else. This essay is primarily ...
Rehnquist and Panvasive Searches
(Mississippi Law Journal, 2013)
In the history of the Supreme Court, William Rehnquist may have been the least friendly justice toward the view that the Fourth Amendment should be read expansively. Even he, however, might have interpreted the amendment ...
Making the Most of United States v. Jones in a Surveillance Society: A Statutory Implementation of Mosaic Theory
(Duke Journal of Constitutional Law & Public Policy, 2012)
In the Supreme Court's recent decision in United States v. Jones, a majority of the Justices appeared to recognize that under some circumstances aggregation of information about an individual through governmental surveillance ...
The Poverty Exception to the Fourth Amendment
(Florida Law Review, 2003)
This essay, written for the Sixth Annual LatCrit conference, explores the subterranean motifs of current rules regulating searches and seizures by the police. More specifically, it investigates whether and to what extent ...
World Without a Fourth Amendment
(UCLA Law Review, 1991)
The subject of this Article is suggested by a single question: How would we regulate searches and seizures if the Fourth Amendment did not exist? This question is a useful one to ask even leaving aside the possibility of ...
Cause to Believe What? The Importance of Defining a Search's Object--Or, How the ABA Would Analyze the NSA Metadata Surveillance Program
(Oklahoma Law Review, 2014)
Courts and scholars have devoted considerable attention to the definition of probable cause and reasonable suspicion. Since the demise of the “mere evidence rule” in the 1960s, however, they have rarely examined how these ...