| 25-623 |
Ronald Smith v. Bexar County, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-12-02 |
Pending |
community-caretaking constitutional-seizure fourth-amendment law-enforcement mental-health-detention qualified-immunity |
Under the 4th Amendment, a warrantless emergency mental health detention constitutes a physical seizure. Police often misconstrue ordinary street enco… |
| 25A184 |
Ronald Smith v. Bexar County, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-08-14 |
Presumed Complete |
fourth-amendment mental-health-detention probable-cause seizure traffic-stop warrantless-search |
Whether law enforcement may conduct a warrantless emergency mental health detention during a traffic stop based solely on subjective observations of '… |
| 23-5831 |
Roberto Carlos Mendives, Individually and On Behalf of His Four Minor Children, R. C. M., II, M. A. M., G. L. M., and E. F. M. v. Bexar County, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-18 |
Denied |
child-custody civil-rights due-process family-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment parens-patriae parental-rights standing strict-scrutiny |
Whether this court should overrule the fact that the state court has separated a fit parent from his/her minor children without an adjudication hearin… |
| 23-141 |
Rowland J. Martin, Jr., Individually and as Administrator to the Estate of Johnnie Mae King v. Bexar County, Texas, et al. |
Federal Circuit |
2023-08-15 |
Denied |
appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure federal-circuit jurisdiction patent patent-jurisdiction remand removal removal-action statute-of-limitations subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether a removal action supported by 28 USC 1338 and 1454 is justiciable by way of a district court order of remand issued pursuant to 28 USC 1447? |
| 21-7281 |
Kevin Debnam v. Javier Salazar, Sheriff, Bexar County, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-03-04 |
Denied |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process police-misconduct probable-cause unlawful-arrest |
Whether police violated the Fourth Amendment by arresting the petitioner without probable cause |