The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit described the case as one presenting “a novel question involving two provisions within the Constitution: the U.S. Postal Service and the Fourth Amendment.”

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit recently held that conducting a stop and frisk at gunpoint was reasonable based on officers’ observations of a suspect’s conduct.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth and Sixth Circuits are divided on temporarily halting the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) from enforcing its arrest and deportation guidance.

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.

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.

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.