SCOTUS

Traffic stop for a noise violation leads Supreme Court to consider a BIG expansion of warrantless entries

Case makes for strange bedfellows, uniting the ACLU with gun groups, albeit for different reasons

SCOTUS year in review: Decisions on vehicle stops and qualified immunity

While the 2019 U.S. Supreme Court term was a quiet year for police-related cases, Justice Clarence Thomas continued to express concern with qualified immunity

How FirstNet plus mobile computing represents the evolution of public safety communications

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Connect your agency’s rugged mobile computing tools to the FirstNet public safety wireless network for fast, reliable, dedicated broadband coverage across the country

What can law enforcement expect from Justice Amy Coney Barrett?

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Justice Barrett is protective of privacy rights and has authored two 7th Circuit opinions wherein she held for the defendant in search and seizure cases

SCOTUS takes a commonsense approach to reasonable suspicion

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At issue was a motor vehicle stop by a deputy sheriff based on a license plate check showing the registered owner’s driver’s license was revoked

What can law enforcement expect from SCOTUS nominee Brett Kavanaugh?

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Justice Kennedy’s successor enters into what is expected to be a highly contentious and politically divisive confirmation battle

SCOTUS: Police need warrant to obtain cellphone tracking records

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The decision marks a significant change in how police can obtain cellphone tower data

SCOTUS to hear case where cop killer allegedly can't remember killing

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Vernon Madison's attorneys argue that strokes and dementia have left him unable to understand his execution or remember killing Officer Julius Schulte

SCOTUS sides with police over partygoers in wild bash

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The court ruled that police had sufficient reason to make arrests at the raucous party in a vacant home that had been turned into a makeshift strip club

SCOTUS sides with police in Calif. shooting case

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SCOTUS sided with deputies in a legal dispute stemming from 2010, when a couple of bystanders were shot while the deputies searched for a wanted man

What does the Constitution say about the rights of law enforcement to obtain private data?

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Fourth Amendment rights are no less impacted by emerging technologies, but standard legal understandings of what information will now be considered private versus public is undergoing new consideration

SCOTUS judge: 'Disturbing trend' in how court deals with police misconduct cases

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Justice Sonia Sotomayor argued the courts "rarely intervene" when officers have been "wrongly afforded" qualified immunity

Policing Matters Podcast: What the public should know about police SCOTUS cases

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Jim and Doug talk about a host of cases that the public should know

Gorsuch sworn into Supreme Court, vows to serve Constitution

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Gorsuch promised to be a "faithful servant of the Constitution and laws of this great nation"

What Trump's selection of Neil Gorsuch means for police

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If confirmed by the Senate, Justice Antonin Scalia’s seat on the Supreme Court will be given to Neil Gorsuch, a 49-year-old federal appeals court judge on the 10th Circuit