Is it a violation of the Constitution for a police officer to act on a misunderstanding of the law? That’s what the Supreme Court asked in its first case of the new term. The story of Heien v. North ...

In Monday’s Heien v. North Carolina decision, Eight of the nine Supreme Court justices voted to give police even more latitude in determining when stopping someone on the street is justified. Although ...

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I attended the oral argument this morning in the Supreme Court’s first case of the new Term, Heien v. North Carolina. I had a long preview of Heien here. He are some impressions of the argument. On ...

Over at Slate, Mark Joseph Stern has an article trying to explain the Justices' votes in Rodriguez v. United States, yesterday's Fourth Amendment case on the length of traffic stops. Stern focuses his ...

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The Supreme Court has handed down Heien v. North Carolina, the Fourth Amendment case I have blogged about a few times on whether the Fourth Amendment is violated when an officer pulls over a car based ...

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