Acknowledgments
We want to express our deep appreciation to Dana Liebman, a 38-year veteran public school teacher of English and Social Studies, who made her classroom a model of democracy through her innovative approach to teaching. Her suggestions were indispensable.
We thank Joe Cadillic, who provides Digital Fourth with a continuous and comprehensive infusion of articles germane to the Fourth Amendment, and has thereby indirectly contributed most of the information included in this unit.
We thank Adrianne Bock, the Curriculum Director of the Democratic Knowledge Project at Harvard University, for providing helpful suggestions to improve both the content and pedagogy of the unit.
We are grateful for the help of Chris Bavitz, Clinical Professor of Law and Vice Dean for Experiential and Clinical Education at Harvard Law School at the Berkman Klein Center Law Clinic and his graduate students, Olivia Staff and Margaret Cross, who thoroughly reviewed the curriculum and advised us about permissions for all borrowed material.
Alex Marthews, Chair of Digital Fourth, contributed valuable editorial advice.
We greatly appreciate Cedric Hopkins, Esq., creator of The People v. Podcast, for allowing us to use excerpts from his outstanding podcast Terry v. Ohio – Stop and Frisk Law.
We gratefully acknowledge our use of links to SCOTUS cases accessible on oyez.org as well as a link to their recording of oral arguments in Riley v. California. We accept the terms of the licensure agreement, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode, including that oyez.org does not endorse use of our materials.
I deeply appreciate my husband, David Borhani, for both his full support of this project and his help with formatting and other technical aspects and our daughter, Jody D’Amico for her help with the website and the visual presentation of the curriculum.
This unit was inspired by the podcast, Bound by Oath, which was created by The Institute for Justice’s Center for Judicial Engagement.
This curriculum was developed by Digital Fourth (Massachusetts branch of Restore the Fourth) with funding from the Calyx Institute.
Any use of material from this curriculum must comport with Creative Commons License CC-BY-NC 4.0.
Photo Credits
Police Stop: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LVMPD_Traffic_Stop_on_Lone_Mountain_Road_(2020-02-16).jpg
James Otis Plaque: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/46/James_Otis_burial_site_%2836071%29.jpg
Cell Tower: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Amendment_4.jpg
Police Stop: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LVMPD_Traffic_Stop_on_Lone_Mountain_Road_(2020-02-16).jpg
James Otis Plaque: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/46/James_Otis_burial_site_%2836071%29.jpg
Cell Tower: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Amendment_4.jpg