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Noncitizens on U.S. soil are entitled to protections under the Fifth Amendment: courts and advocates say the Due Process Clause applies to “persons,” not citizens only, and that enforcement practices ...
Courts have treated qualified immunity claims by or against ICE officers inconsistently: federal appellate courts have granted qualified immunity in some abuse-of-authority suits where they found no “...
Several federal courts of appeals have held that private internet companies that scan user content for CSAM are not government actors subject to the Fourth Amendment when they voluntarily search their...
The claim that Child Protective Services (CPS) are “practicing eugenics” and that a Supreme Court challenge featuring Dwight Mitchell is underway is a . Reporting and legal documents show CPS and rela...
Immigration and advocacy reporting shows —ranging from misrepresenting identity to staged scenarios designed to obtain voluntary consent to enter homes—and a recent internal memo authorizes forcible e...
Courts have generally treated platforms that proactively scan private user content for CSAM more like private actors whose searches do not automatically trigger Fourth Amendment protections, but that ...
Federal courts were sharply divided before the Supreme Court’s ruling: a minority of circuits—most notably the Fifth, along with the Second, Fourth, and Eighth in practice—applied a compressed “moment...
Since 2015 federal courts have split on whether the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) and the CyberTipline reports it receives and forwards constitute state action for Fourth Am...
Hash-value matches to known CSAM can sometimes give police probable cause but do not automatically eliminate Fourth Amendment requirements; courts are divided on whether a provider’s automated hash ma...
Post-2020 federal and state rulings have not settled the question of whether browser cache or other transient files constitute “possession”; instead courts continue a preexisting split where some deci...
The available reporting says the Department of Education is actively revising IDR rules and reopening IDR applications after court actions and regulatory changes; the department expects a December 202...
The materials provided converge on a clear point: rather than a single prescribed item of proof. Agencies and courts accept a mix of EBT transaction data, replacement-card patterns, interviews, underc...
The materials present four central claims: the Trump administration is pressuring universities to adopt anti-trans policies under threat of lost federal funding; Republican groups spent roughly on ant...