Challenges to directives that allow the government to conduct border searches of laptop computers without reasonable suspicion have been rejected by a federal judge.
The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, The National Press Photographers Association and a graduate student whose laptop was searched after crossing the American-Canadian border asserted in Abidor v. Napolitano, 10-cv-04059, that the four-year-old Department of Homeland Security search policies ran afoul of the First and Fourth amendments.
