Source: http://id.uscourts.gov/clerks/2019_Civics_Contest.cfm
Timestamp: 2019-04-24 14:08:52+00:00

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The United States District and Bankruptcy Courts for the District of Idaho will conduct a local contest to select finalists for the circuit-wide competition. To enter the local contest, students must reside in the State of Idaho. Local district winners in each category also will receive prizes of $1,000 for 1st place, $500 for 2nd place, and $250 for 3rd place.
The Fourth Amendment protects “[t]he right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures.” For more than 50 years, courts have applied the Fourth Amendment to new technology. In the landmark case of Katz v. United States, 389 U.S. 347 (1967) (Harlan, J. concurring), the United States Supreme Court determined that the Fourth Amendment applies when someone has a “reasonable expectation of privacy.” The Court held that the police violated the Fourth Amendment when they attached a listening device to the outside of a public telephone booth to record telephone conversations secretly.
In 2012, in United States v. Jones, 565 U.S. 400 (2012), the Supreme Court held that installing a Global Positioning System (GPS) tracking device on a vehicle to monitor its movements constituted a search subject to the limitations of the Fourth Amendment. The opinion did not rely upon the principle of an “expectation of privacy,” stated in Katz, but instead held that the placement of the GPS device on the vehicle was a trespass, which constituted a search.
The Supreme Court has not considered whether the Fourth Amendment applies to drones equipped with cameras and other surveillance devices, which may be operated by or on behalf of the government. However, it has applied the Fourth Amendment to other technologies used for surveillance, including thermal imaging, Kyllo v. United States, 533 U.S. 27 (2001), and aerial observation and photography from an airplane or helicopter. California v. Ciraolo, 476 U.S. 207 (1986); Florida v. Riley, 488 U.S. 445 (1989); Dow Chemical Co. v. United States, 476 U.S. 227 (1986).
An essay and video contest for high school students in the western United States and Pacific Islands. Contest rules, entry instructions and more information can be found at http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/civicscontest.
Entries accepted beginning February 1, 2019. Deadline for entries is April 1, 2019. Sponsored by the U.S. Federal Courts for the Ninth Circuit.

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