Rights follows constitutional questions through the courts: voting access, privacy, free speech, due process, equal protection and religious liberty. Coverage quotes holdings, identifies any circuit split, and explains what a ruling permits or forbids from its effective date. For attorneys, advocates, students and citizens tracking legal change.
Constitutional litigation followed through the courts: voting access, privacy, speech, due process and equal protection, with holdings quoted accurately.
The 2018 cell-site ruling drew a line at seven days of historical location records — and the fights over geofence and real-time tracking have been running along that line ever since.
Wrongful arrests in Detroit, a first-in-the-nation ban in San Francisco, and biometric privacy lawsuits have turned a police convenience into a governed technology.
A judge-made shield from Harlow v. Fitzgerald still filters out most civil claims against officers before any jury hears them.