Our Homes and Castles

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The US Supreme Court is the highest federal court. Established pursuant to Article Three of the United States Constitution in 1789, it has ultimate appellate jurisdiction over all federal courts and state court cases involving issues of federal law plus original jurisdiction over a small range of smaller cases.

The Court says police need a search warrant for vehicles parked at private homes, this is the second time this month the justices rejected government arguments for expanding the “automobile exception” to Fourth Amendment rules against unreasonable searches.

Our cars, our homes are our castle. The US Constitution does not permit a warrantless police search of a vehicle parked in a driveway next to the owner’s house, the Supreme Court has ruled.

The nation's highest court rejected an argument by police who claimed their search of a motorcycle believed to be stolen fell under the automobile exception to the Fourth Amendment, which allows broader searches of vehicles stopped along the side of the road.

SCOTUS rejects warrantless search of the vehicle parked in the "curtilage" of a private home.

Supreme Court limits warrantless police searches in a major win for privacy rights http://hill.cm/jDvvYyB

Police Need Warrants for Driveway Searches, Supreme Court Rules https://nyti.ms/2LDCdD0

Opinion analysis: Justices decline to extend Fourth Amendment’s “automobile exception” http://www.scotusblog.com/2018/05/opinion-analysis-justices-decline-to-…

Supreme Court Rules 8-1 Against Warrantless Police Search in Important Fourth Amendment Case https://reason.com/blog/2018/05/29/supreme-court-rules-8-1-against-warr…

U.S. SUPREME COURT DECISION https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/17pdf/16-1027_7lio.pdf

https://www.supremecourt.gov/