New Draft Article: "The Fourth Amendment After Chatrie"

This morning I posted a new draft article, The Fourth Amendment After Chatrie, on SSRN. It's about the Supreme Court's late June ruling, Chatrie v. United States. The article abstract: At the end of the Supreme Court's recent Term, the Court handed down a Fourth Amendment ruling in Chatrie v. United States about what is a Fourth Amendment "search." Although the case has received little attention so far, it is a blockbuster. Chatrie presents itself as an application of precedent, but a close read shows that it repeatedly recasts old cases and adopts new principles for the Fourth Amendment. Chatrie is now the most important Fourth Amendment case on new technology, and it throws into question a wide range of existing surveillance practices. This Article explains how Chatrie adopts a new cours