In the past week, CFJ had interviews and commentary featured in Bloomberg, The Guardian, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Atlanta Jour

In the past week, CFJ had three op-eds published in Fox News and one op-ed published in The Hill. Interviews and commentary were featured in

In a decision lauded by privacy advocates, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 on Friday that the historical cell phone location data used to convic

"...On Friday the Supreme Court decided four cases, including a closely watched Fourth Amendment case, Carpenter v. United States, in which the justices held 5-4 that the government ordinarily needs a warrant to access historical cell-site location information. At Good Judgment, Ryan Adler assesses the crowd’s forecast in the case. At NPR, Nina Totenberg reports that “until now, the prevailing legal theory was that if an individual voluntarily shares his information with a th

In an opinion by Chief Justice John Roberts, the court acknowledged that Fourth Amendment doctrines must evolve to account for “seismic shif

The Fourth Amendment protects American citizens from unwarranted searches and seizures, but how far does that protection extend? The Carpent

Mr. Carpenter was convicted in 2013 of a series of armed robberies. Evidence leading to the conviction included historical cell phone locati

The Court's newest justice, Neil Gorsuch, was sympathetic at oral argument today to the argument that the government had usurped Carpent

In our analyses of Carpenter v. United States, we argue that the third-party doctrine is at odds with the protections found in the Fourth Am