Inserting a key into a vehicle’s door is a Fourth Amendment search, requiring preexisting probable cause to believe that the vehicle belongs to or is controlled by, the suspect.

Google, using its proprietary “hashing” procedures to identify child pornography constitutes a private person search, which is not illegal under the Fourth Amendment. Law enforcement’s viewing of the same information is also therefore lawful…

A law enforcement officer’s use of a ruse falsely misrepresenting his authority, resulting in a suspect being subject to a detention and/or his vehicle subject to a search where such detention or search would otherwise have been unlawful, violates…

Absent some observed criminal violation and a determination of probable cause, it is illegal for law enforcement to search a person’s motor vehicle for marijuana.

Strip searches of visitors to a prison facility must be based upon a reasonable suspicion to believe the visitor is in possession of contraband. A visitor to a prison with a reasonable suspicion to believe that he or she possesses contraband may be…