The new Fourth Circuit ruling in the long-running Wikimedia Foundation case illustrates a key problem with obtaining redress through the courts for coming under suspicionless mass surveillance
Author: Alex Marthews
Yesterday, the Supreme Court ruled 5-3 in Torres v. Madrid that when, in 2014, officers shot a woman repeatedly as she drove away from them, that act constituted a “seizure” under the Fourth Amendment. Ms. Torres may now continue her suit for damages against those officers. Chief Justice Roberts asserted a bright-line, relatively broad rule, […]