This case concerns the First Step Act of 2018, in which Congress made major reductions to the mandatory minimum sentences for certain federal drug and firearm offenses. These changes result in ...

When it comes to rights against government surveillance, the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2018 decision in Carpenter v. United States was greeted as an occasion for dancing in the streets. In ruling that ...

One of the fascinating questions raised by the United States Supreme Court's 2018 decision in Carpenter v. United States is how the Fourth Amendment applies to government use of automated ...

The Supreme Court ruled that the government needs a warrant to access a person’s cellphone location history. The court found in a 5 to 4 decision that obtaining such information is a search under the ...

The Government conducts a Fourth Amendment search when it accesses cell phone records that include cell-site location information. After receiving information regarding a series of robberies, the ...