Orin Kerr is the Frances R. and John J. Duggan Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law. He is a nationally recognized scholar of criminal procedure and computer crime law. Before becoming a law professor, Kerr was a trial attorney in the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section at the Department of Justice and a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia. He is a former law clerk for Justice Anthony M. Kennedy of the U.S. Supreme Court and Judge Leonard I. Garth of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
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How to think about a recent privacy case before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
The decision is an interesting measure of where Fourth Amendment law may go in the post-Carpenter era.
A midyear supplement to cover the Supreme Court's Carpenter decision, the Cloud Act and more.
How might a Justice Kavanaugh approach search and seizure cases ?
Carpenter holds, for the first time, that a search can occur without it being a taking of information from any particular place, thing, or person.
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A primer on the privacy ruling the Supreme Court handed down on Friday.