Friday, February 11, 2011

WVU College of Law hosts talk on 'The Vanishing Fourth Amendment'

From the West Virginia Record:
The WVU College of Law will host a discussion titled 'The Vanishing Fourth Amendment: Irrelevance and Consent.'

The discussion is scheduled for noon Thursday, Feb. 17 in the Marlyn E. Lugar Courtroom at the WVU Law Center in Morgantown.

'The people of the United States do not realize how much their Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable search and seizure has been eroded,' says WVU College of Law Prof. Gerald G. Ashdown who along with University of Pittsburgh Prof. John M. Burkoff will discuss the topic of the Fourth Amendment with Ashdown remarking on the growing irrelevance of the Fourth amendment and Burkoff addressing the issue of consent.

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