Article: Police interrogation of motorists at traffic stops: the Fourth Amendment prohibits the police from turning routine traffic stops into investigations of other criminal activity. This article reviews several recent cases addressing the limitations of police inquiry in these circumstances.

Article: What were they smoking?: the Supreme Court's latest step in a long, strange trip through the Fourth Amendment.(Supreme Court Review)
Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology;  September 22, 2002 ;     700+ words ......requires a warrant under the Fourth Amendment. (2) The Court held that...approach to technology and the Fourth Amendment. Physical encroachment without...a clear violation of the Fourth Amendment. (6) As technology has advanced...

Article: The fourth amendment and the limits of theory: Local versus general theoretical knowledge
St. John's Law Review;  July 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......Supreme Court cases construing the Fourth Amendment are a mess that lacks coherence and...general theoretical knowledge of the Fourth Amendment that animates the cases. The commentators...commentators agree on what the proper Fourth Amendment theory is. Each focuses on different...

Article: Watch what you type: As the FBI records your keystrokes, the fourth amendment develops carpal tunnel syndrome
The American Criminal Law Review;  July 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......Rights by striking, inter alia, the Fourth Amendment.2 The article proceeds to quote-in...General Ashcroft commenting how the Fourth Amendment has "severely hampered" FBI efforts...administration's encroachment into Fourth Amendment protections, one must decide which...

Article: Kaupp v. Texas: breathing life into the Fourth Amendment.
Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology;  March 22, 2004 ;     700+ words ......States Supreme Court held that the Fourth Amendment was violated when police officers...illegal seizure, thereby reaffirming Fourth Amendment jurisprudence protecting citizens...of a reasonable seizure. While the Fourth Amendment applies to both searches and seizures...

Article: Terry and fourth amendment first principles
St. John's Law Review;  July 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......seven-times-thirty years after the adoption of the Fourth Amendment, many lawyers, scholars, and judges...Terry and two centuries after the Fourth Amendment, we can, if we are wise, affirm insights...In short, Terry can help us grasp Fourth Amendment first principles, and these ...

Article: Fourth Amendment - must police knock and announce themselves before kicking in the door of a house?(Supreme Court Review)
Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology;  June 22, 1996 ;     700+ words ......with a search warrant violates the Fourth Amendment.(2) This question had been left unanswered...a search warrant will violate the Fourth Amendment.(4) The Court's holding was based...forced entry is merely a factor in a Fourth Amendment reasonableness determination.(6) This...

Article: Square Pegs, Round Hole: The Fourth Amendment and Preflight Searches of Airline Passengers in a Post-9/11 World
Brigham Young University Law Review;  November 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......searches constitutional under the Fourth Amendment?3 This Comment shows that a new Fourth Amendment approach is necessary to justify warrantless...exceptions to the Warrant Clause in the Fourth Amendment.4 Part II outlines how the history...

Article: What is a search? Two conceptual flaws in Fourth Amendment doctrine and some hints of a remedy.
Stanford Law Review;  October 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......and Bank Records INTRODUCTION The Fourth Amendment protects [t]he right of the people...and seizures. (1) Ushering in modern Fourth Amendment doctrine, the Supreme Court held in...and later decisions affirmed, the Fourth Amendment gives individuals a reasonable expectation...

Article: A few new developments in the Fourth Amendment
The Army Lawyer;  April 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......has been relatively quiet along the Fourth Amendment front. The Supreme Court has issued...of cases, one might assume that the Fourth Amendment, despite all of its requirements and...the military courts leave important Fourth Amendment doctrines unchanged, and that few...

Article: Search and seizure protections for undocumented aliens: The territoriality and voluntary presence principles in fourth amendment law
The American Criminal Law Review;  July 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ......have begun questioning whether the Fourth Amendment applies to undocumented aliens in...are entitled to receive any Fourth Amendment protection whatsoever."4 At least...within United States territory, the Fourth Amendment does not shield an undocumented alien...

Article: Mere platitudes: the "Domino Effect" of school-search cases on the Fourth Amendment rights of every American.
Iowa Law Review;  January 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...I. INTRODUCTION II. ONE FOURTH AMENDMENT BEYOND THE SCHOOLHOUSE GATE, ANOTHER WITHIN IT A. SEARCHES UNDER THE FOURTH AMENDMENT 1. Pre-T.L.O. Principles 2. The Fourth Amendment After T.L.O.: The Special Needs Exception and Its Dangers B. THE...

Article: The Fourth Amendment and traffic stops: bright-line rules in conjunction with the totality of the circumstances test.(Supreme Court Review)(Case Note)
Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology;  March 22, 1998 ;     700+ words ......voluntary.(2) The Court held that the Fourth Amendment does not require the application of...constitutions, rather than on the Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution...A. ORIGINS AND APPLICATIONS OF THE FOURTH AMENDMENT The Fourth Amendment of the United...

Article: EDITORIAL: Court's decision attacks Fourth Amendment
University Wire;  December 8, 1998 ;     562 words ......Court continued its assault on the Fourth Amendment last week, reinstating two drug convictions...guests in a person's home under the Fourth Amendment, which prohibits unreasonable searches...home may claim the protection of the Fourth Amendment but one who is merely present with...

Article: FOURTH AMENDMENT KEY TO LEGAL CASES.(Main)
Albany Times Union (Albany, NY);  April 21, 1991 ;     366 words ......issue since the Revolution. But the Fourth Amendment is the closest the drafters came to creating a right of privacy. It is the Fourth Amendment that is called into play when a school...compartment for drugs. Undeniably, the Fourth Amendment occasionally rescues criminals from...