Fifth Circuit: No Fourth Amendment Standing in Another Person’s Cell Site Location Information
While conducting a narcotics investigation, the Monroe Police Department learned from drug dealers and cooperating witnesses that Matthew Beaudion and his girlfriend, Jessica Davis, were distributing drugs. Officers obtained Davis’s phone number from one witness. The witness also told the officers that Beaudion and Davis planned to drive from Houston to Monroe with four pounds of meth.
Fifth Circuit: Briefly Examining Mailing Label Is Not Fourth Amendment ‘Seizure’
Temporarily removing a package from mail processing to examine its exterior does not constitute a Fourth Amendment seizure, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit recently held.
Fifth Circuit Declines to Extend Bivens to Fourth Amendment Claims Against VA Officers
Recently, the Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit declined to extend Bivens to violations of the Fourth Amendment for excessive force and unreasonable seizure brought against Department of Veterans Affairs police officers.