The US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit Tuesday upheld lifetime GPS monitoring for some convicted sex offenders in Wisconsin. The plaintiffs in Braam v. Carr are repeat sex offenders who are ...

(CN) - The 9th Circuit on Monday refused to suppress evidence gleaned from GPS tracking devices, saying the Supreme Court had not deemed such searches unconstitutional when the devices were placed on ...

An appeals panel found GPS monitoring of boats, implemented as part of the state's fishing management plan, is a reasonable ...

[JURIST] A three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit [official website] on Tuesday ruled [decision, PDF] that police did not violate the Fourth Amendment [text] protection ...

Taking a major Supreme Court ruling a big step further, the Third Circuit Court in Philadelphia ruled Tuesday that police and federal agents must get a warrant in order to put a GPS tracking device on ...

The Sixth Circuit recently ruled that using GPS data to track the owner of a pay-as-you-go cell phone is constitutional and much the same as using dogs to hunt for a fugitive. In the case of U.S. v.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ST. LOUIS – A murder suspect, out on bond ...

In the summer of 2006, agents of the Drug Enforcement Agency used GPS tracking technology to locate drug courier Melvin Skinner’s prepaid phone, ultimately seizing more than 1,000 pounds of marijuana ...

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has let stand a ruling that allows federal agents to attach GPS monitoring devices under cars in private driveways – without obtaining search warrants. The issue ...

Police need to get a warrant before attaching a GPS tracker to a suspect’s vehicle, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has ruled. A case involving three brothers who allegedly burglarized ...