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Oct 2023
Fund for Empowerment v. Phoenix, City of

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Fund for Empowerment v. Phoenix, City of

Fund for Empowerment is a challenge to the City of Phoenix’s practice of conducting sweeps of encampments without notice, issuing citations to unsheltered people for camping and sleeping on public property when they have no place else to go, and confiscating and destroying their property without notice or process.
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35 Reforming Police Cases

police officers with dog enter home to search it
Court Case
Sep 2013

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John Doe, Jane Doe, and James Doe v. Todd Entrekin

The Etowah County Sheriff’s Department has subjected a family in Alabama to an ongoing series of unannounced, random, and suspicionless inspections of their home, threatening the family with arrest if they fail to cooperate.
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Court Case
Sep 2013
police officers with dog enter home to search it

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John Doe, Jane Doe, and James Doe v. Todd Entrekin

The Etowah County Sheriff’s Department has subjected a family in Alabama to an ongoing series of unannounced, random, and suspicionless inspections of their home, threatening the family with arrest if they fail to cooperate.
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DNA
U.S. Supreme Court
Jun 2013

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Maryland v. King

Whether collecting and analyzing DNA samples from arrestees without a warrant or consent violates the Fourth Amendment.
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U.S. Supreme Court
Jun 2013
DNA

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Maryland v. King

Whether collecting and analyzing DNA samples from arrestees without a warrant or consent violates the Fourth Amendment.
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Morrow v. City of Tenaha
Court Case
Mar 2013

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Smart Justice

Morrow v. City of Tenaha, et al.

Beginning in 2006, under the guise of looking for criminal activity, the police in Tenaha, Texas stopped, searched, and often seized property from Blacks and Latinos traveling through town with no suspicion of criminal activity.
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Court Case
Mar 2013
Morrow v. City of Tenaha

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Smart Justice

Morrow v. City of Tenaha, et al.

Beginning in 2006, under the guise of looking for criminal activity, the police in Tenaha, Texas stopped, searched, and often seized property from Blacks and Latinos traveling through town with no suspicion of criminal activity.
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Salinas v. Texas
U.S. Supreme Court
Feb 2013

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Criminal Law Reform

Salinas v. Texas

Whether the Fifth Amendment prohibits the prosecution from commenting at trial on a defendant’s silence when questioned by the police prior to Miranda warnings.
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U.S. Supreme Court
Feb 2013
Salinas v. Texas

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Criminal Law Reform

Salinas v. Texas

Whether the Fifth Amendment prohibits the prosecution from commenting at trial on a defendant’s silence when questioned by the police prior to Miranda warnings.
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Florida v. Harris
U.S. Supreme Court
Sep 2012

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Florida v. Harris

Whether the police may conduct a warrantless search for drugs based solely on an alert by a drug-sniffing dog without any other evidence of the dog's reliability so long as the dog has been trained or certified.
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U.S. Supreme Court
Sep 2012
Florida v. Harris

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Florida v. Harris

Whether the police may conduct a warrantless search for drugs based solely on an alert by a drug-sniffing dog without any other evidence of the dog's reliability so long as the dog has been trained or certified.
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