Police cannot seize property indefinitely after an arrest, federal court rules(reason.com)

773 points by throwup238 2 years ago | 385 comments

Reason article reporting that the D.C. Circuit ruled police cannot hold seized property indefinitely after an arrest, calling it unconstitutional.

Feds Arrest Telehealth Execs for Overprescribing Adderall(reason.com)

60 points by fortran77 2 years ago | 37 comments

Police Seized Innocent Peoples Property, Kept It for Years. What Will SCOTUS Do?(reason.com)

157 points by wahnfrieden 3 years ago | 105 comments

Courts Close the Loophole Letting the Feds Search Your Phone at the Border(reason.com)

226 points by mhb 2 years ago | 85 comments

FBI seized $40k from Linda Martin without charging her with a crime(reason.com)

156 points by fortran77 1 year ago | 70 comments

Cop-assisted extortion of DWI arrestees in New Mexico include getting them drunk(reason.com)

15 points by leephillips 9 months ago | 1 comments

FBI Misused Spy Database, FISA Court Says(wsj.com)

341 points by impish9208 3 years ago | 181 comments

Wall Street Journal article reporting the FBI improperly searched a foreign-intelligence database for information on Jan. 6 rioters and George Floyd protesters, per the FISA court.

Court Records Should Be Free(eff.org)

430 points by hn_acker 4 months ago | 99 comments

EFF Deeplinks article by Joe Mullin arguing that federal court records should be freely accessible to the public.

Court finds Fourth Amendment doesn’t support broad search of protesters’ devices(eff.org)

523 points by hn_acker 8 months ago | 94 comments

EFF Deeplinks post reporting that the Tenth Circuit ruled the Fourth Amendment does not permit broad searches of protesters' devices and digital data.

Full Text Search of US Court records(judyrecords.com)

412 points by FigurativeVoid 1 year ago | 81 comments

Judyrecords is a free full-text search engine covering over 740 million United States court cases, with an API.

Police cannot seize property indefinitely after an arrest, federal court rules(reason.com)

773 points by throwup238 2 years ago | 385 comments

Reason article reporting that the D.C. Circuit ruled police cannot hold seized property indefinitely after an arrest, calling it unconstitutional.

The FBI proves again it can’t be trusted with Section 702(eff.org)

321 points by freedomben 3 years ago | 123 comments

EFF Deeplinks post arguing the FBI's misuse of Section 702 surveillance powers shows it cannot be trusted with the authority ahead of reauthorization.