updated Tue. January 10, 2023
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The Hill
March 1, 2018
May the government monitor your internet habits or the location of your cell phone without a warrant? The United States Supreme Court will soon decide. This year, the court could decide as many as three cases involving the scope of the Fourth Amendment in the digital age. If the oral arguments in theseÃâà...
C-SPAN
February 15, 2018
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Newsweek
December 4, 2017
Her underlying claim was that the government's action violated the defendant's “reasonable expectation of privacy,” which was first announced in the key 1967 Supreme Court decision of Katz v. United States. Katz held that evidence the government had collected by attaching “an electronic listening andÃâà...
Lawfare (blog)
October 19, 2017
While content is protected under the Supreme Court decision Katz v. United States, the metadata is not. The court reasoned that, like the suspected robber in Smith v. Maryland whose dialed numbers were communicated to the telephone company and then collected by the government via a pen register,Ãâà...
SCOTUSblog (blog)
August 4, 2017
In 1967, when Katz v. United States was decided, two kinds of cases dominated Fourth Amendment law defining what is a search. The first kind of case identified the spaces that merited Fourth Amendment protection. Homes received protection, but open fields didn't. Katz was one of these cases, because itÃâà...
WBAL Baltimore
October 24, 2016
A 1967 Supreme Court decision, Katz v. U.S., established the third-party doctrine, which states that giving that information does not give you a reasonable expectation of privacy. "In some ways, I think Katz has turned out to be problematic for the increase in technology," University of Baltimore School of LawÃâà...
NPR
March 9, 2016
United States, in which the Supreme Court ruled that wiretapping could be conducted without a warrant; then compare it with the 1967 case Katz v. United States, when the court essentially said the opposite. "The justices had phones [by 1967], and they knew that they talked about their most private stuff onÃâà...
Constitution Daily (blog)
December 18, 2015
On December 18, 1967, the Supreme Court ruled in Katz v. United States, expanding the Fourth Amendment protection against “unreasonable searches and seizures” to cover electronic wiretaps. Charles Katz lived in Los Angeles and was one of the leading basketball handicappers in the country in theÃâà...
