The Fourth Amendment : select issues and cases / Jesse V. Kessler, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kessler, Jesse V.

Series:

Laws and legislation series.

Laws and legislation

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Constitution--4th Amendment.

United States.

Searches and seizures--United States.

Searches and seizures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (161 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[Hauppauge, N.Y.] : Nova Science Publishers, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution requires government-conducted searches and seizures to be supported by probable cause and a warrant. Federal courts have long recognised that there are many exceptions to these requirements, one of which is the border search exception. The border search exception permits government officials to conduct "routine" searches based on no suspicion of wrongdoing whatsoever. On the other hand, when warrantless border searches are particularly invasive, and thus "non-routine", they are permissible only when customs officials have, at a minimum, a "reasonable suspicion" of wrongdoing. This book examines the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution as it relates today to border security, government access to phone calling activity and related records, student strip searches, and governmental drug testing and compulsory DNA collection from people who have been convicted on criminal charges.

Contents:

Protecting the U.S. perimeter : border searches under the Fourth Amendment / Yule Kim

Border searches of laptop computers and other electronic storage devices / Yule Kim

Government access to phone calling activity and related records : legal authorities / Elizabeth B. Bazan, Edward C. Liu, Gina Stevens

Herring v. United States : extension of the good-faith exception to the exclusionary rule in Fourth Amendment cases / Anna C. Henning

Fourth Amendment protections against student strip searches : Safford Unified School District #1 v. Redding / David H. Carpenter

Governmental drug testing programs : legal and constitutional developments / David H. Carpenter

Compulsory DNA collection : a Fourth Amendment analysis / Anna C. Henning.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record and cip data provided by publisher.

ISBN:

1-61761-085-2

OCLC:

721985983