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ERIC Number: EJ1045693
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2014
Pages: 4
Abstractor: ERIC
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ISSN: ISSN-0037-7724
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Supreme Court Term Review: Cell Phones, Protests, and Prayer
Cohen, Mark
Social Education, v78 n5 p212-215 Sep-Oct 2014
If there is one thing that teenagers like to talk about when it comes to the law, it's who does and does not have the right to search their "stuff." And in the world of "stuff," there is nothing more important to average American teenagers than their cell phones. So when, in the waning days of its 2013-2014 term, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a landmark Fourth Amendment ruling in a cell phone search case, it might as well have put it in a box, wrapped it up with a tidy little bow and tied a tag indicating "for classroom use." A review of last term's Supreme Court cases can spur lively classroom discussion on issues such as technology and the Fourth Amendment, religion and workplace benefits, and prayer at public meetings. Taken together, these cases illustrate the ways in which our understanding of Fourth Amendment protections has evolved along with new technologies and changing expectations of what is and what is not private. The American Bar Association Division for Public Education has a comprehensive secondary-level lesson plan, "Technology and the Fourth Amendment," available for download online (www.americanbar. org/groups/public_education/resources/ lesson-plans.html).
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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