United States v. Moalin
In a brief, the Brennan Center argued that the NSA’s systematic surveillance and collection of communications metadata violates the Fourth Amendment right to privacy.
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Grabell v. New York City Police Department
In a Freedom of Information Law case regarding the NYPD’s use of military-grade x-ray vans, the Brennan Center supports a lower court’s decision to compel the NYPD to release responsive documents, arguing that transparency about the use of new technologies by law enforcement is critical for accountability and oversight. -
In Re 381 Warrants Directed to Facebook Inc.
A lower court ruling against Facebook Inc. could prevent New Yorkers from challenging broad-based government search and seizure through electronic warrants, the Brennan Center argued in a brief. -
Fairchild v. Kansas
Fairchild v. Kansas is a lawsuit against the state of Kansas challenging a provision of a budgeting law passed earlier this year that now threatens to defund the entire Kansas judiciary. -
Quartavious Davis v. United States (Amicus Brief)
The Brennan Center urges the Supreme Court to take a case about whether the Fourth Amendment requires law enforcement to obtain a warrant to access historical information about the location of an individual’s cell phone. -
Abdur Rashid v. New York City Police Department
In this amicus brief, the Brennan Center argues that the Glomar doctrine, which allows federal agencies to “neither confirm nor deny” that records exist under federal FOIA law, does not similarly apply to state FOIL law, in a case involving a Muslim-American’s attempt to obtain records from the NYPD regarding their surveillance of him and his mosque. -
U.S. v. Ganias
When the government seizes entire hard-drives of data to facilitate particular searches, the Fourth Amendment forbids the government from retaining any non-responsive data for longer than reasonably necessary to effectuate its search, the Brennan Center argued in this brief. -
United States v. Cotterman (Amicus Brief)
Brennan Center Counsel Michael Price served as counsel for amici on a brief in United States v. Cotterman arguing that the suspicionless seizure and forensic search of a defendant’s laptop at the border violated the Fourth Amendment. -
Brennan Center for Justice et al. v. New York State Board of Elections
The Brennan Center and Emery Celli Brinckerhoff & Abady LLP, representing several former and current state legislators, filed suit in the Supreme Court in Albany County, New York against the State Board of Elections to close the state’s infamous “LLC Loophole.” -
The People of New York v. Ali Moalawi
Cell phone location data reveals highly sensitive information about a person’s life and should not be obtained without a warrant, the Brennan Center argued in this brief.
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