Criminal ProcedureFeaturedFourth AmendmentPrivacy
March 20, 2026By Maxwell Gregg
The Supreme Court has agreed to determine the legality of a new type of warrant: the geofence warrant.[i] A geofence warrant allows law enforcement to identify which cellphones were in a particular area at the time of a particular crime.[ii] For example, police have issued geofence warrants to determine which phones were within a certain […]
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March 18, 2026By Amanda Alfonso
The Video Privacy Protection Act (“VPPA”) was enacted in 1988, in an era of Blockbusters and video home system tapes.[i] Just a few months prior to its enactment, Judge Robert Bork was under consideration for the United States Supreme Court.[ii] During his nomination hearings, a local D.C. video store disclosed a list of Judge Bork’s […]
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FeaturedPrivacy
February 16, 2026By Bar Sadeh
Most people today do not just leave behind a house or a bank account when they die. They leave phones full of photos, email accounts, online subscriptions, cloud storage, social media, and sometimes even digital money.[i] The problem today is that when someone dies, access to all of that often dies with them. Families now […]
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Artificial IntelligenceFeaturedPrivacyThe Lanham ActTrademark Law
February 12, 2026By Victoria Reyes
Actor Matthew McConaughey (“McConaughey”) recently sought an inventive shield against artificial intelligence (“AI”) impersonators: he registered trademarks on recordings of his own voice, including his iconic phrase, “alright, alright, alright.”[i] This move made headlines not for its legal precision but for what it revealed: a glaring gap in the law.[ii] As AI makes it […]
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