4th Amendment (automobile): January 2012 Archives

January 23, 2012

Use of GPS device attached to a vehicle is a "search," SCOTUS rules

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Today the Supreme Court of the United States held that attaching a GPS device to a vehicle and using that GPS device to monitor the movements of the vehicle constitutes a "search" under the Fourth Amendment. Read the decision in United States v. Jones, here.


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