The Supreme Court handed down Collins v. Virginia today, ruling 8-1 that the Fourth Amendment doesn't permit the police to go onto the curtilage around a home to search a car using the lower standard ...

I'm very happy to post a draft of a new article, "Popular Conceptions of Fourth Amendment Curtilage," written together with my co-author Matthew Kugler, forthcoming in the Michigan Law Review. The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s not unconstitutional to limit curtilage to one acre when calculating homestead property taxes, the Indiana Supreme Court ...

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With the spread of video capability from cameras to iPhones, it is no wonder that the standard limiting warrantless use of video surveillance by law enforcement is evolving. When discussing the ...

Some types of curtilage searches are easy to analyze—like the search of a front porch in Jardines —and do not require a close, multi-factor analysis. Others, such as the driveway and backyard at issue ...

It’s not unconstitutional to limit curtilage to one acre when calculating homestead property taxes, the Indiana Supreme Court ruled Monday in a Lake County case. “This is not only a positive outcome ...