Fourth Amendment First Principles

Terry and Fourth Amendment First Principles

The Limits of Fourth Amendment Injunctions

INTRODUCTION................................................................................... 127 I. THE LAW AND PRACTICE OF FOURTH AMENDMENT INJUNCTIONS ............................................................................ 129 II. THE DIFFICULTY WITH BROAD FOURTH AMENDMENT INJUNCTIONS ............................................................................ 133 CONCLUSION.............

The Fourth Amendment During the Lochner Era: Privacy, Property, and Liberty in Constitutional Theory

In this article, Professor Morgan Cloud proposes a surprising remedy for a Fourth Amendment jurisprudence he criticizes as lacking a unifying theory and failing to preserve the rights guaranteed by the Amendment. Professor Cloud's solution is a return to the theories espoused by the Supreme Court during the infamous Lochner era of the early twentieth century. He calls for a merging of the forma...

Power Not Reason: Justice Marshall's Valedictory and the Fourth Amendment in the Supreme Court's 1990 Term

In its 1990 Term, the United States Supreme Court heard five cases involving the Fourth Amendment. In this article, Professor Bruce Green analyzes these five search-and-seizure decisions in light of Justice Marshall's criticism that '[Plower, not reason, is the new currency of this Court's decision-making. " He examines the various considerations the Court advances in its Fourth Amendment analy...

Assessing Fourth Amendment challenges to DNA extraction statutes after Samson v. California.

DNA plays an indispensable role in modern law enforcement, and courts uniformly find that DNA extraction statutes targeting criminals satisfy the Fourth Amendment. Courts differ on which Fourth Amendment test--totality of the circumstances or special needs--ought to be employed in this context. This Note concludes that courts should apply Samson v. California's less stringent totality of the ci...