Articles by: Christine K Newman

• Supreme Court to Consider the Constitutionality of Warrantless GPS Tracking

  Courts, Criminal Justice, Issue Areas, Privacy and National Security October 24, 2011 9:39 am 2 comments

  On November 8th the Supreme Court is to hear oral argument for the case United States v. Jones, which questions the constitutionality of warrantless GPS tracking. The blog Threat Level has asserted that this case is one of the most significant Fourth Amendment cases to be heard in a decade because [...]

   

• Second Circuit Allows Constitutional Challenge to Warrantless Wiretapping to Proceed on Merits

  Courts, Privacy and National Security October 4, 2011 10:33 am no comments

  The Second Circuit recently denied the government’s petition for a rehearing en banc, thereby allowing the constitutional challenge to a 2008 amendment to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (“FISA”) to proceed on the merits. The FISA, passed in 1978, dictates the procedures by which the government may target and monitor [...]