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Constitutional Cacophony: Federal Circuit Splits And The Fourth Amendment, Wayne A. Logan
Constitutional Cacophony: Federal Circuit Splits And The Fourth Amendment, Wayne A. Logan
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Despite their many differences, Americans have long been bound by a shared sense of constitutional commonality. Federal constitutional rights, however, can and do often vary based on geographic location, and a chief source of this variation stems from an unexpected origin: the nation's federal circuit courts of appeals. While a rich literature exists on federal circuit splits in general, this Article provides the first empirical study of federal constitutional law circuit splits. Focusing on Fourth Amendment doctrine in particular, the Article highlights the existence of over three dozen current circuit splits, which result in the unequal allocation of liberty and …