Fourth Amendment - Search and Seizure

• Search and Seizure
  • History and Scope of the Amendment
    • History
    • Scope of the Amendment
    • The Interest Protected
    • Arrests and Other Detentions
    • Searches and Inspections in Noncriminal Cases
  • Searches and Seizures Pursuant to Warrant
    • Issuance by Neutral Magistrate
    • Probable Cause
    • Particularity
    • First Amendment Bearing on Probable Cause and Particularity
    • Property Subject to Seizure
    • Execution of Warrants
  • Valid Searches and Seizures Without Warrants
    • Detention Short of Arrest: Stop-and-Frisk
    • Search Incident to Arrest
    • Vehicular Searches
    • Vessel Searches
    • Consent Searches
    • Border Searches
    • "Open Fields"
    • "Plain View"
    • Public Schools
    • Government Offices
    • Prisons and Regulation of Probation
    • Drug Testing
  • Electronic Surveillance and the Fourth Amendment
    • The Olmstead Case
    • Federal Communications Act
    • Nontelephonic Electronic Surveillance
    • The Berger and Katz Cases
    • Warrantless "National Security" Electronic Surveillance
  • Enforcing the Fourth Amendment: The Exclusionary Rule
    • Alternatives to the Exclusionary Rule
    • Development of the Exclusionary Rule
    • The Foundations of the Exclusionary Rule
    • Narrowing Application of the Exclusionary Rule
    • Operation of the Rule: Standing

Last modified: June 27, 2012