In 2019, Haley Olson’s life in Grant County, Oregon, was upended when people in town appeared to know about private nude photos that Olson kept on her phone. Worse, some of the people appeared to have ...

The justices will consider whether criminal investigators can use broad sweeps of cell-phone location data.

A three-judge panel for the Court of Appeals upheld the convictions and 102-year prison sentence of Ramon Rodriguez-Ortiz. He made multiple arguments on appeal, including that the search warrant ...

A screenshot of the Facebook post that caused panic at Ottawa Hills High School in Grand Rapids in early 2025. A case argued before the Michigan Supreme Court Thursday could decide what’s required for ...

Cell phone and laptop searches do happen but they are relatively rare. Although the Fourth Amendment right to be free of unreasonable searches and seizures is drastically reduced at a port of entry, ...

A man who pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the death of a friend in Jersey City is getting a new trial after an appeals court found a search warrant on his phone was too broad, rendering it ...

Can schools in Ohio legally confiscate or search students' cell phone? In Ohio, state lawmakers voted this year to prohibit cell phone use during the school day under most circumstances. Each school ...