April 06, 2020
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that, absent any other evidence, it is reasonable for police officers to pull over a driver if a registration check shows that the car's owner has a revoked license, calling it a matter of "common sense."
November 04, 2019
Justice Neil Gorsuch, arguably the Supreme Court's new swing vote in Fourth Amendment cases, appeared torn Monday over whether police officers can pull someone over for no other reason than the registered owner of the car has a suspended license, questioning the basis for a Kansas deputy's "common sense" assumption.
November 01, 2019
The U.S. Supreme Court will embark on a nautical November argument session this week talking about maritime vessels new and old, from Blackbeard's sunken flagship, Queen Anne's Revenge, to a modern tanker that spilled 260,000 gallons of crude oil into the Delaware River. Here, Law360 walks through the legal issues on the docket.
October 11, 2019
While the U.S. Supreme Court doesn't currently have a blockbuster privacy case on its docket, several hot-button issues are primed to be added to the justices' agenda, such as the standards for certifying massive privacy classes and the harm that has to be shown to prop up data breach claims.
April 01, 2019
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to review the Kansas Supreme Court's decision in a Fourth Amendment case that said it was unreasonable for law enforcement to conduct a traffic stop based on the "stacking [of] unstated assumptions," which falls short of a reasonable suspicion of a crime.