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24-5185 George Gaio Mano v. Janet Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-07-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP 10th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 9th-amendment bank-secrecy bank-secrecy-act constitutional-privacy data-collection foreign-bank-account-report fourth-amendment privacy privacy-rights Does the US government's mass collection of private banking data violate the 4th, 5th, 9th, and 10th Amendments?
24-5136 John Michael Murphy v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment constitutional-violation contraband fourth-amendment pat-down plain-touch-doctrine probable-cause search-and-seizure warrantless-search Whether the plain-touch doctrine allows deputies to remove an unknown object from under a person's clothing when they do not believe it is a weapon or…
24-75 Nicholas Yarofalchuw v. John Cabrera, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-07-25 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment curtilage curtilage-exception exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment misdemeanor misdemeanor-seizure reasonable-officer-standard santana-precedent search-and-seizure warrantless-arrest Is a warrantless arrest, in the absence of exigent circumstances, by physical force, for a misdemeanor, in the entrance to the curtilage of the suspec…
24-5107 Myron Motley v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-07-18 Denied IFP 4th-amendment fourth-amendment jurisdictional-split law-enforcement medical-records prescription-data prescription-drugs privacy privacy-expectation search-and-seizure Whether patients hold a reasonable expectation of privacy under the Fourth Amendment in prescription medication records
24-5074 Charles Brian O'Neill v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-07-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith good-faith-exception law-enforcement probable-cause search-warrant suppression Do the deficiencies in the search warrants and their supporting affidavits merit good faith protection from the exclusionary rule?
24-5071 Dennis German v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-07-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 8th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance eighth-amendment fifth-amendment relevant-conduct sentencing sentencing-guidelines Whether the government violated the petitioner's 8th Amendment and 5th Amendment constitutional rights by using separate incidents as relevant conduct…
24-5056 Tyrone Stafford v. Arnold S. Zwicke, Executive Sheriff, Guadalupe County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-07-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement malicious-prosecution police-misconduct qualified-immunity use-of-force Question not identified.
23-7827 Gianni Montay Minners v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-06-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment fourth-amendment gang-affiliation high-crime-area investigative-detention law-enforcement prior-gun-possession probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure Is an investigative detention reasonable when there are insufficient facts to conclude the individual is a gang member or the area is a high crime are…
23-7831 In Re Olamide Olatayo Bello 2024-06-28 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment search-and-seizure search-warrant Whether a search warrant and seizure violate the petitioner's Fourth, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights
23-7834 Willie Medina v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-06-28 Denied IFP 4th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force judicial-review law-enforcement probable-cause search-warrant unlawful-detention Whether the officers had probable cause for the stop, whether there was a search warrant for the car, whether there was sufficient evidence to support…
23-1285 Shawn T. Swindell v. Kenneth Bailey Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-07 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 4th-amendment civil-rights exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment law-enforcement-entry misdemeanor misdemeanor-arrest payton-rule payton-v-new-york probable-cause qualified-immunity Was the entry into the home to arrest the misdemeanant clearly established as unconstitutional?
23-7636 Russell Davis v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-06-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure sworn-testimony warrant-affidavit Does the Leon good-faith exception apply to salvage a barebones affidavit?
23-7622 Angel Luis Concepcion-Rosario v. United States Third Circuit 2024-06-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure district-court-error due-process exclusionary-rule impeachment judgment-of-acquittal miranda-rights motion-for-mistrial physical-evidence sentencing suppression-of-evidence Did the district court error in not suppressing the physical evidence and the statement?
23-1257 Santos Argueta, et al. v. Derrick S. Jaradi Fifth Circuit 2024-05-31 Denied Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 4th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights deadly-force factual-question qualified-immunity tennessee-v-garner use-of-force Whether the Fourth Amendment permits police to shoot a fleeing suspect who might be holding a gun but exhibits no other signs of dangerousness
23-7580 Joseph Moraga v. Texas Texas 2024-05-29 Denied IFP 4th-amendment advisory-opinion contemporaneous-to-arrest custodial-arrest fourth-amendment possession probable-cause reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-incident-to-arrest warrantless-search Whether the warrantless search of luggage stored in a motel closet was valid as incident to arrest
23-7562 Ricky Escobedo v. Katherine R. Gutierrez, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-05-28 Denied Relisted (3)IFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment color-of-law constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment law-enforcement search-and-seizure traffic-stop Whether petitioner's motorvehicle traffic stop by a third-party (State - Local) under federal color of law was the result of a denial of his Fourth Am…
23-7579 James B. Jordan v. Federal Bureau of Investigation Ninth Circuit 2024-05-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process free-speech retaliation surveillance Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights to due process, freedom of speech, and freedom from unreasonable search and seizure were violated by th…
23-7475 Steve Podkulski v. Illinois Illinois 2024-05-15 Denied IFP 4th-amendment cell-phone-data civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction legal-document petition privacy search-and-seizure supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable …
23-7416 Christopher J. Pratt v. United States Second Circuit 2024-05-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment circuit-court-split circuit-split fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant staleness standard-of-review Did the Second Court of Appeals err when they failed to apply their own standards under United States v. Raymonda, 780 F.3d 105 (2nd Cir. 2015), when …
23-7311 Holly Harvey v. Allen Dillis, Warden Georgia 2024-04-26 Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights court-filing criminal-procedure due-process employment-history financial-disclosure in-forma-pauperis income-sources poverty-affidavit search-and-seizure standing Whether the lower court erred in its application of the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on unreasonable searches and seizures
23-1151 Nathaniel Brian Verellen v. Michigan Michigan 2024-04-23 Denied 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment brady-material constitutional-rights due-process indian-commerce-clause license-plate traffic-code tribal-sovereignty Did the State of Michigan erroneously redefine 'registration plate' so as to unlawfully broaden and apply Michigan Traffic Code, MCL 257.256, License …
23-7289 Robert A. Horse v. South Dakota South Dakota 2024-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment cell-phone-data civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment search-and-seizure third-party third-party-doctrine warrantless-search Whether the warrantless search and seizure of a third party's (Google's) cell phone location data violated the Petitioner's Fourth Amendment rights
23-7284 Neal Merrell Walker v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-04-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment conspiracy controlled-substance criminal-intent due-process ex-post-facto money-laundering sentencing sentencing-enhancement Due-process-violation
23-7290 Theodore Macon Carrington, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 4th-circuit-review attorney-general attorney-general-custody civil-commitment criminal-commitment custody due-process mental-health procedural-objection statutory-interpretation Whether the district court properly committed Appellant to the custody and care of the Attorney General pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 4246
23-1139 John F. Gallagher v. Northampton County Revenue Appeals Board, et al. Third Circuit 2024-04-19 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 8th-amendment comity constitutional-claims federal-jurisdiction property-tax subject-matter-jurisdiction takings-clause tax-injunction-act Whether federal subject matter jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. §1331 is barred by the Tax Injunction Act or the doctrine of comity for claims challenging…
23-7269 Willis Maxi v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-04-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure Whether the lower court erred in its application of the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable searches and seizures
23-1116 Daniel Creger v. Andrew Tucker, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-04-15 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment civil-rights fourth-amendment malicious-prosecution material-misrepresentation probable-cause section-1983 warrant-affidavit Whether state law citations showing lack of evidence for criminal charges is sufficient to establish lack of probable cause for a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 mal…
23-7234 Orlando Bell v. United States District Court for the District of Columbia District of Columbia 2024-04-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment impartiality-standard judicial-bias judicial-recusal recusal witness witness-conflict Whether a reasonable and informed observer would question the judge's impartiality when the judge allowed an AUSA who became a witness in the proceedi…
23-1107 Joan Ghougoian, et al. v. Lamarr Monson Sixth Circuit 2024-04-11 Denied 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-standard devenpeck fourth-amendment malicious-prosecution manuel pre-trial-detention probable-cause section-1983 Whether the Fourth Amendment's objective standard applies to all claims arising thereunder, such that there is no violation so long as probable cause …
23-7168 Robert J. Plato, Jr. v. Indiana Indiana 2024-04-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment airport-screening civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment privacy search-and-seizure standing tsa-procedures unreasonable-search Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits the warrantless seizure of a person's cell phone data from a third-party service provider
23-7131 Joel Michael Guy, Jr. v. Tennessee Tennessee 2024-04-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-acts exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment minnesota-v-olson overnight-guest reasonable-expectation-of-privacy Does an overnight guest lose his or her reasonable expectation of privacy by engaging in criminal acts within the house?
23-7087 Natasha Bates, aka Tasha Bates v. Tennessee Tennessee 2024-03-27 Denied IFP 4th-amendment 6th-amendment criminal-procedure evidence fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel probable-cause search-warrant sixth-amendment Did the trial court commit reversible error by failing to grant Petitioner's post conviction relief due to introduction of evidence from a warrantless…
23-7069 Jesse R. Redmond, Jr. v. District of Columbia District of Columbia 2024-03-25 Denied IFP 4th-amendment constitutional-rights court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment jurisdiction precedent rule-4 rule-4a Whether the District of Columbia Court of Appeals fails to apply the law in the precedent set by the United States Supreme Court pursuant to Criminal …
23-6957 Marcus Kelly v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment cannabis-odor exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment probable-cause scope-of-search search-and-seizure search-scope vehicle-search warrantless-search Does dismantling the vehicle interior exceed the scope of a warrantless search based on the odor of burnt cannabis?
23-6920 Nicholas Morrow v. Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-03-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment home-intrusion mental-health mental-health-arrest trespassing trespassing-claim warrantless-entry Could the need for a mental health arrest, without more, justify intruding upon the Petitioner's home without a warrant?
23-950 Michael J. Lindell, et al. v. United States, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-02-29 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment cell-phone-seizure civil-rights electronic-data fourth-amendment free-speech legal-precedent preliminary-injunction retaliation seizure warrant-particularity Whether a preliminary injunction may be granted if it requests the ultimate relief sought in the litigation
23-931 J. W., et al. v. Elvin Paley Fifth Circuit 2024-02-27 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment school-official school-seizure seizure student-rights Whether a claim that a school official has used excessive force against a student that meets the definition of a Fourth Amendment seizure should be ev…
23-6796 Yanier N. Tellez, aka Yanier Tellez-Crespo v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment consent consent-search fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure seizure-of-evidence traffic-stop wallet-search warrantless-search Was the District Court's denial of Petitioner's Motion to Suppress a result of clear error in determining the facts relative to consent for search ver…
23-893 Jonathan Walker v. Arkansas Arkansas 2024-02-21 Denied 4th-amendment algorithm digital-privacy fourth-amendment law-enforcement law-enforcement-search private-company probable-cause search-and-seizure technology-search warrant-requirement Does the Fourth Amendment require a warrant to open a digital file flagged by a private company's algorithm as potentially illegal?
23-872 Josh Patrick v. LaRhonda Dunlap Perez Sixth Circuit 2024-02-14 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity taser taser-use Is there variance among federal judicial circuits regarding how they apply Fourth Amendment law in excessive force cases involving taser use?
23-869 Tyler Land v. Donald L. Edenfield, in His Official Capacity as Sheriff of Jackson County, Florida, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2024-02-13 Denied 4th-amendment affidavit criminal-arrest fourth-amendment intentional-misstatements law-enforcement probable-cause reckless-misstatements search-and-seizure warrant When is evidence of mere presence in a car with an alleged drug dealer sufficient for probable cause to arrest the driver?
23-6688 Christian Alejandro Estrella v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement parole parole-search police-authority probable-cause search-and-seizure suspicionless-search suspicionless-seizure Does probable cause to believe that a person is on parole suffice for a suspicionless seizure and search or is knowledge of parole status required?
23-6649 Larry David Davis v. Barry Sims, Judge, 7th Division, Pulaski County Circuit Court, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-02-01 Dismissed IFP 4th-amendment adverse-action civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fingerprinting investigative-procedures law-enforcement legal-standing probable-cause search-and-seizure Whether the police violated the Fourth Amendment by fingerprinting the petitioner without probable cause or a warrant
23-6609 Kevin McCall v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment cloud-search electronic-media exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception particularity probable-cause search-warrant Whether the good faith exception to the exclusionary rule can save a cloud search warrant unsupported by probable cause and devoid of particularity
23-6601 Quentin John Fishburne v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-conviction due-process exclusionary-rule firearm-possession fourth-amendment motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-checkpoint traffic-stop Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in failing to reverse the trial court's order denying the Petitioner's Motion to Suppress the discov…
23-6541 In Re Ronald Freeman 2024-01-23 Denied IFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-policy due-process federal-detention habeas-corpus marijuana-offense Whether being in federal detention, custody is a substantial denial of Ronald Freeman's constitutional right of liberty, without sufficient cause, wit…
23-6518 Anthony Bailey v. Nevada Parole Board, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-01-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights digital-privacy due-process search-and-seizure standing Whether the government's warrantless search and seizure of a person's private digital data violates the Fourth Amendment
23-6455 Darrel R. Fisher v. United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri Eighth Circuit 2024-01-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1981 42-usc-1982 4th-amendment civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-protections due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement property-rights trespass warrantless-search Whether the police officer's warrantless trespassing on the petitioner's private property was justified, and whether the petitioner's subsequent reque…
23-6448 Stephen Dudley Brunson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-01-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment arrest drug-interdiction fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery law-enforcement pretext probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-stop Whether officers may cure an unlawfully prolonged traffic stop by arresting the motorist for the traffic violation or claiming inevitable discovery ba…
23-6352 LaDerrius Williams v. Illinois Illinois 2023-12-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-arrest criminal-procedure due-process owner-driver-inference probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop vehicle-ownership Whether Glover's owner-driver inference constitutes probable cause to arrest a vehicle's owner for a crime involving the vehicle, even if the police c…
23-6353 Robert John Virnig v. Minnesota Minnesota 2023-12-26 Denied IFP 4th-amendment agency exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment government-informant home-office probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-requirement warrantless-search Did the District Court err in ruling that the government informant was not acting as an agent of the government when, without a warrant or an exceptio…
23-6319 Lacarl Dow v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-12-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment franks-hearing probable-cause suppression-of-evidence warrant-application Did the affiant officer intentionally or recklessly make false or misleading statements or omissions in support of the warrant
23-6158 Derrick Hunt v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-12-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment child-pornography criminal-procedure evidence fourth-amendment motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant Did the District Court abuse its discretion in denying Defendant's motion to suppress the search of his computer?
23-6085 Randall Gray Stoneman, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure district-court evidence evidence-seizure federal-sentencing-guidelines motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure sentencing sentencing-guidelines video-surveillance Was the district court in error in denying the motion to suppress the evidence?
23-6032 James William Thomas, III v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-11-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment common-law-presumption-of-ownership fourth-amendment property-seizure reasonable-expectation-of-privacy reasonable-expectation-privacy search-and-seizure search-warrant standing trespassory-test Whether a defendant has standing to challenge the search of property seized from his residence
23-6034 Alfredo Sanchez Barboza v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2023-11-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment contraband exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery inventory-search probable-cause standardized-protocol subjective-motivation Whether the inevitable discovery doctrine validates the prior illegal seizure of a controlled substance and drug paraphernalia when the police officer…
23-499 Jesus Leonardo Esquivel-Carrizales v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-11-13 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment companion-suspicion criminal-activity drug-crime fourth-amendment investigative-stop law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop Whether an investigative stop under the Fourth Amendment is reasonable based solely on an individual's interaction with a suspected criminal companion
23-5955 Kyle Maurice Parks v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourth-amendment government-attorney government-misconduct illegal-evidence search-and-seizure warrantless-search Can an attorney for the government go outside the jurisdictional process and ask a friend to search an office without a warrant and not violate the IV…
23-5952 Semaj Lemar Williams v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-11-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment detention evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop Did the district court improperly deny suppression and did the appellate court improperly affirm the district court?
23-5921 Vahe Sarkiss v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-10-31 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment child-pornography civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment interstate-commerce reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure supervised-release Whether Petitioner's Fourth Amendment rights were violated due to lack of reasonable suspicion for search
23-442 Anthony Prescott v. K. Johnson, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-10-27 Denied 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment conspiracy cruel-and-unusual-punishment food-contamination food-service fourth-amendment intentional-tort official-capacity-claim prisoner-rights public-entity use-of-force Does involuntary exposure to non-medical substances constitute unreasonable force?
23-446 Junjie Li v. Rhode Island Rhode Island 2023-10-27 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 4th-amendment civil-rights decriminalization drug-enforcement fourth-amendment marijuana-odor probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop Whether the slight odor of marijuana creates reasonable suspicion to prolong a traffic stop
23-440 S. B., on Behalf of Her Minor Daughter, S. B. v. Jefferson Parish School Board, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-10-26 Denied Amici (1) 14th-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-scrutiny corporal-punishment due-process excessive-force fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment section-1983 Is unconstitutionally excessive corporal punishment by a public-school employee cognizable under § 1983?
23-396 Bowe Marvin v. David Holcomb, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-10-16 Denied 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment in-home-arrest law-enforcement-conduct probable-cause warrantless-arrest Whether there is a felony-exception to requiring probable-cause for in-home-arrests without-a-warrant
23-5793 Phillip Serapio Baca v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-10-16 Denied IFP 4th-amendment brendlin-precedent circuit-split civil-rights exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment passenger-rights search-and-seizure standing traffic-stop vehicle-detention Whether a passenger in a vehicle subject to a traffic stop may contest the legality of his detention
23-5748 James M. Holman v. Ohio Adult Parole Authority Ohio 2023-10-11 Denied IFP but no text was provided for analysis. Without th but no text was provided for me to analyze. Witho I cannot generate the requested output. If you wo please provide the full text of the petition. 4th-amendment 4th-amendment-jurisprudence cell-phone-data digital-privacy privacy search-and-seizure Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on unreasonable sear…
23-5741 Hewitt A. Grant, II v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Florida 2023-10-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-prosecution jurisdiction standing witness-testimony Whether the District Court erred in denying the same 4th Amendment protection of legal intrusion as the initial entry question
23-5718 Adam Neftali Santana v. United States Third Circuit 2023-10-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment conspiracy-charge criminal-indictment criminal-procedure evidence evidence-sufficiency firearm-possession motion-to-suppress search-warrant standing Did the Court err when it denied Petitioner's Motion to Suppress the evidence obtained through the execution of the contingency search warrant?
23-5696 Elvins Sylvestre v. United States First Circuit 2023-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment controlled-purchases informant-reliability law-enforcement probable-cause search-warrant warrant-sufficiency Was there sufficient probable cause for the issuance of the search warrant where law enforcement officers failed to fully supervise a series of contro…
23-335 Kansas v. Jeremy A. Cline Kansas 2023-09-29 Denied 4th-amendment adequate-remedies civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force exclusionary-rule lawful-seizure police-misconduct remedies Does the exclusionary rule apply to suppress evidence where a court has found the use of excessive force in the execution of an otherwise lawful seizu…
23-5676 Terry Wayne King, II v. Texas Texas 2023-09-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure employer-property employment fourth-amendment incarceration privacy privacy-expectation search-and-seizure transportation trucking-industry Does a person have a legitimate expectation of privacy in a tractor trailer truck cab that serves as his home while he is on the road working for an e…
23-5624 Charles M. Porter v. United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida Eleventh Circuit 2023-09-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process extraordinary-circumstances judicial-discretion law-enforcement probable-cause trial-court-error warrantless-arrest Whether the warrantless arrest is unlawful due to insufficient probable cause
23-5625 Gale L. Davis v. Chester James Walker, Jr., Father Second Circuit 2023-09-20 Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process qualified-immunity search-and-seizure standing Whether the lower court erred in its application of the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable searches and seizures
23-5615 Roosevelt L. Linicomn, Jr. v. District Attorney, 482nd Judicial District Court of Texas, Harris County, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-09-19 Denied IFP 42-usc-1985 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process law-enforcement probable-cause warrant-validity warrants Does the Constitution ensure that a person is entitled to section 242 of title 18 if a person is truly deprived of a right or privilege protected by t…
23-5582 Juan Manuel Reyes v. Washington County, Oregon, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-09-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment accrual-of-discovery civil-rights constitutional-rights constructive-notice due-process fourth-amendment governmental-action section-1983 statute-of-limitations Does a Fourth Amendment or any other United States Constitutional Amendment violation have a federal expiration date or time limitation other than the…
23-221 Andrew H. Zoellick v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2023-09-08 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment jurisprudential-definition mitigating-factors probable-cause reasonable-suspicion totality-of-circumstances totality-of-the-circumstances Whether the absence of any jurisprudential definition of the term 'totality' has led to the degradation of the Fourth Amendment totality of the circum…
23-215 John F. Marchisotto v. Ocean County Prosecutor's Office New Jersey 2023-09-07 Denied 2nd-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment procedural-due-process red-flag-laws retaliation second-amendment Constitutionality-of-Red-Flag-Laws
23-5510 Anthony James Braxton v. Larry E. Harrah, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-09-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment administrative-forfeiture civil-rights constitutional-protections due-process property-rights search-and-seizure Do I have a fundamental right to receive notice of administrative forfeiture of seized property?
23-5458 Kimeo Delmar Conley v. Jason Wells, Warden Seventh Circuit 2023-08-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourth-amendment jury-instructions sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation When Criminal statute has [8] elements on its face (wis stat) (144.051) to be Proved beyond a Reasonable doubt and the state only tries to prove [3] e…
23-5460 Clinton D. Johnson, Jr., aka Kayzon Ru v. Sgt. Johnson, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-08-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 8th-amendment antiterrorism-act civil-rights constitutional-protection due-process excessive-force fourteenth-amendment law-enforcement Was excessive force used during an arrest and detention at a detention center?
23-5428 Hector Gastelum Valenzuela v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment law-enforcement motel-room motel-search probable-cause protective-sweep search-and-seizure warrantless-search Whether the mere presence of a person in a motel room—that officers believe contains drugs and a gun—creates exigent circumstances sufficient to justi…
23-5429 Tywan Sykes v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-08-24 Denied IFP 18-usc-2251 4th-amendment child-exploitation civil-rights fourth-amendment governmental-entity internet-service-provider private-search-doctrine recidivist-enhancement standing statutory-interpretation Whether the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children is a Governmental Entity
23-5395 In Re Justin Lewis 2023-08-18 Denied IFP 4th-amendment appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-court judicial-review prosecutorial-misconduct statutory-interpretation Whether the government's prosecution of an individual complies with the Fourth Amendment and due process when the individual's behavior does not const…
23-5356 Trequan Devonte James v. Virginia Virginia 2023-08-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection identification judicial-review police-procedures statutory-interpretation Did the courts err in upholding the identification of the petitioner as the perpetrator of the crime
23-5251 Mark Edwin Guida v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-08-01 Denied IFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment cell-phone-evidence criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment illegal-search probable-cause search-and-seizure suppression-of-evidence warrant-requirement Was evidence presented at a trial for murder subject to the exclusionary rule, where said evidence was the result of an illegal search of the defendan…
23-5247 In Re David Jackson 2023-07-31 Dismissed IFP and post-conviction proceedings trial 14th-amendment 4th-amendment arrest-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression fifth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel post-conviction-relief probable-cause retaliation search-and-seizure self-incrimination trial-procedure Whether the warrantless search and seizure of February 14, 1991 violated the 4th and 14th Amendment rights
23-85 James Giehl v. Bank of America Florida 2023-07-28 Denied 18-U.S.C.-Sec.-242 4th-amendment civil-case civil-rights color-of-law foreclosure-process fourth-amendment judicial-misconduct void-decision void-decisions Do Florida Judges have the ability to depart from a person's 4th-Amendment-Rights and violate the 'color-of-law-18-U.S.C.-Sec.-242 code to avoid corre…
23-5185 Yolanda Howard v. United States First Circuit 2023-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment investigative-detention law-enforcement-procedure probable-cause reasonable-suspicion rodriguez-v-united-states traffic-stop Did the Maine State Trooper's hunch that 'there were a lot of drugs inthis car' based solely on his initial encounter with Ms. Howard justify delaying…
23-5120 Clim Eugene Murphy Thomas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-07-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights consensual-encounter consent-search due-process fifth-circuit law-enforcement police-encounter racial-profiling totality-of-circumstances Whether the Fifth Circuit improperly applied its totality-of-the-circumstances analysis by ignoring race in petitioner's confrontation
23-5078 Kendrick Ramon Page v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-07-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure fourth-amendment minimization minimization-requirement motion-to-suppress necessity probable-cause theory-of-defense-instruction wiretap wiretap-evidence Whether the 8th Circuit erred in affirming the denial of wiretap evidence and the refusal to provide a theory of defense instruction
23-37 Kyle Cardenas v. Josiah Saladen, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-07-12 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity section-1983 unlawful-arrest Regularizing qualified immunity
23-5070 Samuel Tobin McKaig v. Arkansas Eighth Circuit 2023-07-11 Denied IFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process free-speech judicial-review legal-issue precedent prosecutorial-misconduct statutory-interpretation Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when the police threatened him with prosecution for exercising his right to remain silent…
23-5057 Nicholas Scott Werling v. Circuit Court of Wisconsin, Rock County Wisconsin 2023-07-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment arrest-warrant civil-rights home-privacy search-and-seizure warrant-requirement Whether the Fourth Amendment requires a warrant for a search of a person's home when the person is not present and the search is conducted pursuant to…
23-5010 Donald Lee Linville v. Arizona Arizona 2023-06-30 Denied IFP 4th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence habeas-corpus post-conviction-relief search-and-seizure Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits the warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone and the subsequent use of the information obtained …
22-1243 Hieu Minh Le v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-06-27 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment 8th-circuit administrative-search constitutional-search due-process eighth-circuit inspection-level motion-to-suppress north-american-standard-inspection warrant-requirement Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in holding a North American Standard Inspection Level II inspection is an adequate substitute for the warrant require…
22-7848 Danielle Lawson v. Matthew Lawson Georgia 2023-06-22 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment constitutional-rights custody due-process joint-legal-custody non-custodial-parent parental-interference violence-against-women-act visitation visitation-rights Does the imposition of unending supervised visitation violate the Violence Against Women's Act and the non-custodial parent's Constitutional Rights?
22-1226 Idaho v. Kirby Anthony Dorff Idaho 2023-06-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 4th-amendment constitutional-protection drug-detection drug-detection-dog fourth-amendment governmental-conduct law-enforcement lawfully-stopped-car physical-intrusion search search-and-seizure Does a drug-detection dog's physical intrusion on a lawfully stopped car constitute an unreasonable search?
22-7795 Gregory Ifesinachi Ezeani v. Laura B. Zuchowski, Director, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, Vermont Service Center Second Circuit 2023-06-15 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 8th-amendment administrative-law administrative-procedure appeal-suppression civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-officials immigration-law Whether the plaintiff's constitutional rights were violated by the USCIS director's suppression of the plaintiff's appeal application, resulting in hi…
22-7781 Donell Jamar Hines v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment curtilage fourth-amendment good-faith-exception jardines-precedent k9-sniff search-and-seizure warrant-requirement warrantless-search Whether the Leon good faith exception should allow admission of evidence obtained as a result of two unconstitutional searches, in violation of Jardin…
22-7691 Jace Emerson Fesler v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-06-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment citizen-rights civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment free-speech law-enforcement police-procedure reasonable-suspicion terry-stop Does a citizen's noncompliance with an unlawful order from law enforcement create reasonable suspicion to conduct a Terry frisk?
22-7674 John Paul Waldon v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-05-31 Denied IFP 4th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus standing Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit erred in denying Petitioner's petition for writ of certiorari
22-1157 Craig Roper v. De'On Crane, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-05-30 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 4th-amendment civil-rights deadly-force excessive-force objective-reasonableness officer-safety police-conduct police-intervention qualified-immunity use-of-force vehicle-stop Whether an objective police officer could have believed it reasonable to shoot a person who had warrants for his arrest, had locked the doors and rais…
22-7602 James Franklin Snyder v. Idaho Idaho 2023-05-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-protections due-process judicial-review police-misconduct property-seizure qualified-immunity standing state-court-jurisdiction Whether officers can lie about probable cause to obtain a warrant and search a vehicle without consent
22-7593 In Re Edwin W. Rubis 2023-05-18 Denied IFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-custody habeas-corpus liberty marijuana-prohibition whether-rules-14-g-and-h-are-applicable-to-habeas-corpus-petition
22-7578 In Re Carlos A. Seino 2023-05-17 Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-appellate jurisdictional-challenge massachusetts-law procedural-rules search-and-seizure standing Whether the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court erred in its interpretation and application of the Fourth Amendment in the context of a warrantless s…
22-7514 Joshua Brown v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-05-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment color-discrepancy fourth-amendment high-crime-area probable-cause reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop vehicle-registration Whether an officer has reasonable suspicion to stop a vehicle based solely on a discrepancy between the vehicle's apparent color and the color listed …
22-7520 Levaughn Collins v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment appellate-review criminal-procedure fifth-amendment fourth-amendment motion-to-suppress statutory-interpretation suppression-of-evidence wiretap-evidence wiretapping Whether the District Court erred in denying Mr. Collins' Motions to Suppress Wire Tap evidence
22-7502 Anthony Gilbert-Brown v. United States Third Circuit 2023-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment police-conduct seizure sentencing-guidelines standing supreme-court-review use-of-force Whether Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming Gilbert-Brown was seized
22-1091 David Zook v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-05-09 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment administrative-subpoena civil-procedure due-process epa federal-agency official-curiosity reasonable-suspicion rule-6a Must the issuance and/or enforcement of an administrative subpoena (EPA) to a private individual be supported by something beyond 'official curiosity'…
22-1072 Lori A. Saxon v. Ameritas Life Insurance Corporation District of Columbia 2023-05-04 Denied 1st-amendment 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 7th-amendment bankruptcy-law constitutional-rights debt-collection due-process homestead-law judicial-foreclosure Were Lori Saxon's fundamental guaranteed rights to Due Process and 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and Ist, 4th, 5th, 7th, 8th, 9th, and 14th amendments violated?
22-7440 Robert Christopher England v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-05-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment computer-forensics computer-search digital-evidence exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-requirement Whether the district court erred in denying the defendant's motion to suppress evidence obtained from the search of his computer
22-7401 Brandon Quane Hudson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure drug-trafficking fourth-amendment good-faith-exception magisterial-review magistrate-review probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant Whether the Leon good-faith exception applies to a search warrant that lacked sufficient probable cause to support a search
22-1041 Kevin Brunner v. Megan Marie McMurry, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-04-27 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment child-welfare children civil-rights due-process exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment law-enforcement protective-custody qualified-immunity Whether a child left alone in a residence without adult supervision constitutes an exigent circumstance under the Fourth Amendment?
22-7379 Igor Grushko v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement loss-calculation probable-cause reasonableness reasonableness-standard search-and-seizure search-warrant sentencing-guidelines Whether the police entering a residence to execute a search warrant must possess probable cause that the person they are seeking is inside the residen…
22-1031 Constance Westfall v. Jose Luna, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-04-25 Denied 4th-amendment coercive-interrogation consent curtilage fourth-amendment knock-and-talk search seizure warrant warrantless-search Whether the 'knock-and-talk' exception to the Fourth Amendment's protection against unlawful entry onto a person's property permits police officers to…
22-7340 Damorius D. Gaines v. Geoffrey Benedict Eaton, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-04-20 Denied IFP 4th-amendment 6th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel search-warrant Did the South Carolina courts err in denying relief on petitioner's claims that his constitutional rights were violated?
22-1011 Tony Holt v. City of Chicago, Illinois, et al. Illinois 2023-04-17 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment appellate-court circuit-split civil-rights due-process evidentiary-standard illinois-v-gates judicial-precedent probable-cause standing Does the Appellate Court's bright-line rule on probable cause violate Illinois v. Gates?
22-7264 Corey Shamon McKinney v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-04-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure drug-possession evidence-suppression fourth-amendment franks-v-delaware probable-cause search-warrant standing Whether an illegal search and seizure took place
22-978 Jackie Jackson v. Ohio Ohio 2023-04-10 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 4th-amendment contraband criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement lower-court-conflict police-conduct precedent probable-cause search search-and-seizure vehicle-search Whether a police search of a car occurred under the Fourth Amendment
22-7216 Terrell Anderson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-04-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment appellate-review criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-circuit judicial-review motion-to-suppress pretrial-motion search-and-seizure standard-of-review Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred when it affirmed the district court's denial of Terrell Anderson's pretrial mo…
22-7097 Monta Olander Jordan v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-03-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception gps-tracking leon-exception probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant Whether The Court Of Appeals Misapplied United States v. Leon
22-7098 Rashid Turner v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-03-24 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment bank-robbery-act cell-phone cell-phone-search double-jeopardy exclusionary-rule good-faith good-faith-exception hobbs-act search-and-seizure warrant warrant-requirement Whether good faith should apply when law enforcement agency has a policy, written or unwritten, where the officer who conducts a search of a cell phon…
22-933 Jean Henderson, as Next Friend and Guardian of Christopher Henderson v. Harris County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-03-24 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment police-misconduct qualified-immunity section-1983 unreasonable-force Does qualified immunity shield an officer who uses unreasonable force against a fleeing misdemeanor suspect who complies with an officer's order to st…
22-6995 Matthew Patrick Langenberg v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-03-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment apparent-authority cell-phone cell-phone-privacy consent consent-search fourth-amendment privacy riley-precedent search warrantless warrantless-search Whether an employer has 'apparent authority' to consent to a complete search, including a forensic examination, of an employee's cell phone based upon…
22-862 Brooklyn Zavion Johnson v. West Virginia West Virginia 2023-03-10 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment 5th-amendment consent-to-search due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment juvenile-rights probable-cause search-and-seizure warrantless-entry warrantless-search Whether Petitioner's 4th amendment right against unreasonable search and seizure was violated
22-6977 Sharif Talib v. Maryland Maryland 2023-03-09 Denied IFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights due-process evidence sentencing Whether the lower court violated Appellant's constitutional rights
22-830 Corey Forest v. Tennessee Tennessee 2023-03-02 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment citizen-arrest citizen's-arrest civil-rights drug-dog law-enforcement pretextual-stop search-and-seizure seizure traffic-stop Whether a law enforcement officer acting as a private citizen has the authority to prolong a traffic stop
22-6802 Luis Miguel Sierra-Ayala v. United States First Circuit 2023-02-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment consensual-search consent exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree illegal-seizure police-misconduct reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure Should evidence obtained during an illegal police seizure be suppressed where the rights-violating officer testifies that the person in his custody co…
22-6774 Dewayne Lewis v. United States Seventh Circuit 2023-02-14 Denied IFP 4th-amendment constitutional-protection dog-sniff economic-status fourth-amendment multiunit-living-space multiunit-living-spaces privacy-rights property-rights warrantless-search Does warrantless use of a drug detection dog constitute an unreasonable search when the officer and dog are standing in the common area of a multiunit…
22-6768 Stanley Foster Baker v. Texas Texas 2023-02-13 Denied IFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights custodial-interrogation due-process equal-protection evidence-presentation judicial-procedure miranda-warnings reasonable-person-standard state-court supreme-court-precedent Was it objectively reasonable for the State courts to conclude that no reasonable factfinder could believe that Baker was in custody during interrogat…
22-731 Tyler Brienza v. City of Peachtree, Georgia, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-02-06 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 4th-amendment civil-rights curtilage exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment investigative-detention knock-and-talk law-enforcement seizure voluntary-encounter When occupants answer a 'knock-and-talk' by law enforcement officers and step onto the porch, or curtilage of the home, to address the officers, may t…
22-6646 Omar Shaheer Thomas v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2023-01-27 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment certificate-of-appealability constitutional-violation due-process illegal-arrest ineffective-assistance search-and-seizure warrantless-arrest Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals Erred in Denying Petitioner a Certificate of Appealability
22-6605 Towaki Komatsu v. City of New York, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2023-01-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights court-security due-process judicial-misconduct malicious-prosecution retaliation Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by an illegal stop, assault, seizure, and arrest by NYPD personnel, malicious prosecution…
22-6580 Daniel J. Campbell v. Ohio Ohio 2023-01-19 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment cell-phone digital-devices digital-privacy fourth-amendment probation probation-search reasonable-suspicion search search-conditions state-supervision Is a search reasonable under the 4th Amendment when a probation officer lacks required reasonable suspicion and violates state law to search a probati…
22-640 David Wellington v. Fernando Daza, et al. Tenth Circuit 2023-01-10 Denied Response Waived 1st-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights content-seizure first-amendment fourth-amendment overbreadth qualified-immunity search-warrant tax-code Is a search warrant that authorizes a search for violations of the entire federal tax code (26 U.S.C. §7201), plus any other numerous codes and laws f…
22-6508 Joseph M. Evans v. Amy Helene Zubrensky District of Columbia 2023-01-10 Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law court-precedent due-process judicial-review legal-interpretation search-and-seizure standing statutory-interpretation surveillance Whether the warrantless surveillance of an individual's cell phone location data violates the Fourth Amendment
22-6489 Brian Matthew Morton v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-01-09 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights good-faith probable-cause riley-v-california search-and-seizure Whether the pervasive role of cell phones in contemporary society alone can supply probable cause to believe that evidence of a known or suspected cri…
22-627 Harold L. Wilborn v. Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security Ninth Circuit 2023-01-09 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3) 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act constitutional-claims due-process procedural-due-process sovereign-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction title-vii Whether procedural due process under the Fourth, Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments are denied, resulting in deprivation of a constitutionally protected …
22-564 Juan Carlos Salazar v. Juan Rene Molina Fifth Circuit 2022-12-20 Denied Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 4th-amendment circuit-split excessive-force graham-v-connor law-enforcement qualified-immunity reasonableness-of-force surrender-protocol use-of-force Whether a suspect's dangerous past flight, without more, authorizes officers to doubt the sincerity of a subsequent surrender
22-6312 Kristian Jones v. United States Third Circuit 2022-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment circuit-split constitutional-law criminal-procedure fourth-amendment hotel-guest hotel-guest-rights privacy reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure standing Whether there is a reasonable expectation of privacy in the hotel room of a non-registered guest
22-6305 Kaleb L. Basey v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-12-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment campbell-ewald civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process fourth-amendment government-liability property-rights property-seizure rule-41g standing Whether a person seeking return of illegally-seized property under Fed. R. Crim. P. Rule 41(g) has an absolute right to reject the government's offer …
22-6293 Dkyle Jamal Bridges v. United States Third Circuit 2022-12-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment automobile-exception confrontation-clause confrontation-right fourth-amendment franks-hearing plain-view sentencing-factors sex-trafficking testimonial-hearsay Did the automobile exception to the Fourth Amendment justify the warrantless search of Petitioner's vehicle?
22-6286 John Yang v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-12-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-activity fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop vehicle-seizure Whether the Fourth Amendment permits a police officer to seize a vehicle and its occupants based on limited information
22-6187 Demetrio Lifrieri v. James Stinson Second Circuit 2022-12-01 Denied IFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fair-trial fourth-amendment murder-prosecution police-search unlawful-evidence unlawful-search Was petitioner's right to a fair trial compromised by the admission of the unlawfully obtained evidence?
22-6197 Albert Bautista Guzman v. Christian Pfeiffer, Warden Ninth Circuit 2022-12-01 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment interrogation-tactics police-misconduct search-and-seizure self-incrimination Whether detectives investigating cases should practice integrity under the Due Process Clause of the 5th and 14th Amendments, preventing fabrication, …
22-505 Tamika J. Pledger v. Gloria Geither, Warden Tenth Circuit 2022-11-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 4th-amendment 5th-amendment affidavit arrest-warrant auto-accident civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process frank-v-delaware no-fault-auto-insurance probable-cause toxicology Does Affidavit for Application for Arrest Warrant include false-statements-knowingly-and-intentionally, probable-cause, due-process, frank-v-delaware,…
22-6169 Shane Alan Nault v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-11-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment fourth-amendment investigatory-stop rodriguez-standard rodriguez-v-united-states search-and-seizure seizure-scope terry-stop traffic-stop Whether seizing an individual seated in a parked car in a private parking lot should be analyzed in the context of a 'traffic stop' under Rodriguez, o…
22-486 Texas v. John Wesley Baldwin Texas 2022-11-22 Denied 4th-amendment cell-phone cell-phone-search criminal-conspiracy fourth-amendment illinois-v-gates organized-crime probable-cause riley-standard riley-v-california search-warrant warrant-requirements Whether an officer's uncorroborated belief that co-conspirators who planned a crime over multiple days used their cell phones to do so is a 'bare conc…
22-478 David M. Greco v. Matthew J. Platkin, Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2022-11-21 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process erpo-act fourth-amendment standing state-court-proceedings younger-abstention Whether the fact that the challenged portions of New Jersey's ERPO Act are flagrantly and patently violative of the Fourth Amendment bars the Federal …
22-6051 Arriba Lewis v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment career-offender criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance motion-to-suppress racial-profiling selective-enforcement sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel
22-6014 Herbert G. Green v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-11-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment evidence-admission exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree illegal-search independent-source-doctrine police-procedure search-warrant Does the independent source doctrine permit the admission of evidence found during an illegal search of a home if police later obtained a search warra…
22-5925 Christopher Santillanes Ceja v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-10-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-investigation drug-trafficking fourth-amendment investigative-duration law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop Was the traffic stop of Mr. Ceja unreasonably prolonged?
22-5898 Daren W. Phillips v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-10-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights fourth-amendment government-search physical-trespass privacy privacy-expectation property-rights search-and-seizure search-warrant trespass Whether a wholly privacy-based exception to the Fourth Amendment's search warrant requirement can apply to exempt the government's search when it is a…
22-377 Steven Elmer Hinds v. Texas Texas 2022-10-24 Denied Relisted (2) 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-amendments due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourth-amendment policing-for-profit sixth-amendment Is Texas Penal Code (T.P.C.) § 42.105 repugnant to the 1st, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 13th and 14th Amendments to the Constitution?
22-378 Steven Elmer Hinds v. Texas Texas 2022-10-24 Denied Relisted (2) 4th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment policing-for-profit sixth-amendment state-prosecution Is Texas Penal Code (T.P.C.) § 42.105 repugnant to the 1st, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 13th and 14th Amendments to the Constitution?
22-371 Pennsylvania v. Akim Sharif Jones-Williams Pennsylvania 2022-10-20 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment blood-draw blood-testing exigent-circumstances mitchell-v-wisconsin motor-vehicle-incident probable-cause supreme-court-precedent warrantless-search Did the Pennsylvania Supreme Court issue a decision in conflict with, and fail to properly apply and follow, binding legal precedent from the United S…
22-5846 Michael Pacelli v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance jurisdiction search-and-seizure statute-of-limitations warrantless-search Can a law enforcement agency seize evidence or record private phone calls without a warrant, and then use the gathered evidence against a defendant?
22-5858 Heather Nicole Trogdon v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment criminal-procedure eighth-circuit evidence fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery inventory-search policy probable-cause Does the inevitable discovery doctrine apply when it is based on the expectation that an inventory search of an arrestee's backpack will occur at the …
22-5863 Arlandis Shy v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 6th-amendment apprendi-v-new-jersey due-process fair-trial fourth-amendment jury-instruction probable-cause search-warrant sixth-amendment unreasonable-search Whether the district court clearly erred by failing to properly instruct the jury, in violation of Apprendi v. New Jersey, and by admitting Defendant …
22-5806 Jessica Lynne Gould v. Isaiah Ben Johnson Missouri 2022-10-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment child's-passport due-process fourth-amendment international-travel parental-rights passport-restriction state-court-authority state-courts warrantless-seizure Does the 4th Amendment protect parents against the warrantless seizure of their child's passport by state courts
22-5813 Katherine Elizabeth Langhorst v. Texas Texas 2022-10-12 Denied IFP 4th-amendment constitutional-violation due-process evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree illegal-search ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel plea-bargaining search-and-seizure trial-procedure Was the evidence seized in this cause/case 'Fruits of The Poisonous Tree'?
22-5745 Deron Devaughn Mahone v. Georgia, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-10-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment material-omission probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure search-warrant warrant-application Whether a reasonable officer would have known that Officer Stewart's warrant affidavit failed to establish probable cause and that he should not have …
22-5684 Victor Gavillan Martinez v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-09-27 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 6th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment warrantless-search Whether Petitioner's Fourth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendment Rights to the United States Constitution Require this Court to vacate Petitioner's convic…
22-5672 Luan Van Nguyen v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-09-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP and whether the ineffective assistance of counsel 4th-amendment carjacking civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-conspiracy exclusionary-rule ineffective-assistance probable-cause search-and-seizure sixth-amendment standing Whether the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution prohibits or limits the government's ability to conduct warrantless searches and seizures?
22-5615 Santiago Villa v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-09-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process property-rights search-and-seizure takings Whether the government's seizure of a person's property without a warrant or probable cause violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreaso…
22-5564 Michael Muthee Munywe v. Washington Washington 2022-09-14 Denied IFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jury-interrogation miranda-rights sixth-amendment trial-rights Question not identified
22-5547 Seneca Loyal Neal v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment body-camera-evidence constitutional-rights credibility-of-witnesses drug-conspiracy exclusionary-rule illegal-entry illegal-search-and-seizure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prejudice section-2255-motion Whether the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit erred in affirming the District Court's denial of Mr. Neal's 28-USC-2255-claim
22-5486 Hillary Best v. New York City Police Department Sex Offender Unit Second Circuit 2022-09-01 Denied IFP 13th-amendment 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 6th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process Whether the State Statute, under New York Criminal Procedure Law §100.30(1)(d), is unconstitutional by allowing arrest and detention upon unsworn crim…
22-5397 Trenton J. Miller v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-08-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process habeas-corpus procedural-safeguards unlawful-detention Whether the petitioners were lawfully detained for 4 days without a hearing
22-5286 Jesse James Palato v. Dwayne Hamilton, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-08-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment anonymous-messages anonymous-messaging certificate-of-appealability fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure social-media probable-cause,anonymous-messages,social-media,4th-amendment,search-and-seizure,certificate-of-appealability
22-5282 Cory Mingo v. Florida Florida 2022-08-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 6th-amendment cell-site-location-information criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance probable-cause search-and-seizure sixth-amendment warrantless-search Whether the Petitioner was deprived of the effective counsel
22-5273 Bradley Beauchamp v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-08-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule illegal-traffic-stop reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure sentencing-enhancement suppression-of-evidence traffic-stop venue-violation Whether the District Court caused reversible error by not suppressing evidence obtained by an illegal traffic stop where the officer lacked articulabl…
22-5227 In Re Eric Krieg 2022-07-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment administrative-law civil-rights national-security separation-of-powers standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims challenging the constitutionality of the government's surveillance program
22-87 Arthur O. Armstrong v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2022-07-29 Denied 14th-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment standing Whether respondents acted in a conspiracy to deprive the appellant of liberty and property without due process
22-5213 Clifford Lavern Stokes v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-07-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment attenuation-doctrine civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment intervening-circumstance reasonable-suspicion rodriguez-standard search-and-seizure traffic-stop warrant-check Whether a warrant check of a passenger that extends a valid traffic stop is a per se 'fishing expedition' under the attenuation doctrine
22-5186 Brandon Richardson v. Brandon Belote, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-07-26 Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fisa standing surveillance Whether the Unconstitutional Surveillance Practices of the FBI and DOJ violated the Fourth Amendment rights of the petitioners by using FISA warrants …
22-5094 Garfield D. Campbell v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-07-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure district-court due-process evidence fourth-circuit marijuana-use reversible-error sentencing supervised-release Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred by denying Mr. Campbell's meritorious argument that the district court committed reversible error by…
22-5074 Kurtis D. Worley v. Illinois Illinois 2022-07-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance plea-negotiations post-conviction-relief seizure settlements Whether petitioner's due process of law was violated by detectives' illegal seizure of petitioner's settlements while in public, violating petitioner'…
22-13 Nicholas James Imhoff v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-07-05 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-suspicion rental-car search-and-seizure traffic-stop vehicle-search Whether a person driving a rental car is sufficient factual basis during a routine traffic stop to create reasonable suspicion to perform a vehicle se…
22-5022 Ronald Wayne Thrasher v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights confidential-informant due-process fourth-amendment probable-cause search-warrant self-corroboration warrant-particularity When probable cause is based on a confidential informant, is it sufficient for law enforcement to establish the informant's reliability by the informa…
22-8 Anthony Momphard, Jr., Individually and in His Official Capacity as a Deputy Sheriff of the Macon County Sheriff's Department, et al. v. Melissa B. Knibbs, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Michael Scott Knibbs Fourth Circuit 2022-07-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights deadly-force due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-use-of-force qualified-immunity use-of-force Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in finding that a reasonable officer in Deputy Momphard's position would not have perceived a danger that justified l…
22-5013 In Re Megan Kyte 2022-06-30 Denied IFP 4th-amendment due-process false-arrest fourth-amendment habeas-corpus malicious-prosecution search-and-seizure sixth-amendment unreasonable-search Was petitioner denied her Fourth Amendment right to a pro se habeas corpus
21-8260 Tracy Garrett v. Warden, FCC Coleman-USP II Eleventh Circuit 2022-06-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment appellate-review certiorari-standard circuit-split consent constitutional-violation federal-question fourth-amendment search-and-seizure supervisory-power warrantless-search Whether the 11th Circuit erred in declining to entertain a 4th Amendment violation issue
21-8150 Lorenzo Shelton v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-06-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment cell-phone cell-phone-privacy exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment parole parole-conditions reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure warrantless-search Whether the lower courts erred in allowing the Petitioner's cell phone to be searched just because he was on State parole
21-8112 Jaime Luevano v. Ivanka Trump, et al. Second Circuit 2022-06-09 Dismissed IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process free-speech jurisdiction standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims alleging violations of their constitutional rights under the First and Fourth Amen…
21-1540 Nita Gordon, Personal Representative of the Estate of Antonio Gordon v. Keith Bierenga Sixth Circuit 2022-06-08 Denied Relisted (2) 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-violation excessive-force fourth-amendment police-misconduct police-use-of-force precedent qualified-immunity section-1983 Whether qualified immunity protects government officials when no prior precedent exists recognizing the unconstitutionality of a fact pattern exactly …
21-8069 Billy Wayne Lewis v. Texas Texas 2022-06-06 Denied IFP 4th-amendment appellate-review circuit-split constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure fourth-amendment rodriguez-precedent rodriguez-v-united-states search-and-seizure supreme-court-guidance unreasonable-search Has the Tenth Court of Appeals of the State of Texas made a decision in this instant case that is in direct conflict with this Court's decision and gu…
21-8049 Thomas Tate Tunstall v. Hope Daigle, fka Hope D. Theriot Fifth Circuit 2022-06-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process eleventh-amendment equal-protection ex-parte-young fourth-amendment section-1983 statute-of-limitations Whether the doctrine of Ex parte Young allows a federal court to exercise jurisdiction over a claim seeking return of illegally seized property
21-8017 Stephen Scott Meals, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-06-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure district-court due-process exclusionary-rule federal-law fifth-circuit judicial-review motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure standing Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in affirming the district court's denial of the defendant's motion to suppress
21-7993 Louis Neptune v. Andrew Carey, et al. Third Circuit 2022-05-27 Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process ex-parte-communication federal-procedure judicial-immunity probable-cause procedural-rules recusal standing Whether the lower courts violated due process, exceeded their jurisdiction, and failed to follow the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
21-1482 Dequantey Maurice Williams v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-05-25 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment criminal-procedure evidence fourth-amendment law-enforcement motion-to-suppress plain-view-doctrine probable-cause search-and-seizure vehicle-search Whether the United States District Court For The Middle District Of North Carolina Erred in Denying Mr. Williams's Motion to Supress evidence related …
21-7954 Jordan Monroe v. United States First Circuit 2022-05-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights district-court-discretion exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment prima-facie-showing probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant warrant-validity Is the warrant herein an invalid search and seizure warrant?
21-7973 In Re Roberto Villarreal 2022-05-25 Denied IFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment habeas-corpus liberty-interest marijuana-criminalization Whether the Supreme Court will grant a writ of habeas corpus to review the denial of a certificate of appealability for habeas relief
21-7950 Enrique Alejandro Faz v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-05-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment burden-of-proof constitutional-responsibility drug-conversation drug-evidence due-process evidence-discovery government-agent probable-cause warrantless-search Whether it is unconstitutional to derive from an alleged phone call that the conversation is about drugs simply because an agent of the government say…
21-1465 Austin Channing McGraw v. Kentucky Kentucky 2022-05-20 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment self-incrimination warrantless-search Whether the government can advise a jury that a Defendant invoked his right against self-incrimination, and refused a consensual, warrantless search o…
21-1466 Lenard Johnson v. Richard Winfrey, Jr., et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-05-20 Denied 4th-amendment affidavit civil-rights damages-claim franks-v-delaware law-enforcement probable-cause qualified-immunity section-1983 warrant-affidavit Whether a law enforcement officer violates clearly established law under Franks v. Delaware if the officer does not include information in an affidavi…
21-7934 Robert Cash Scheuerman v. Kansas Kansas 2022-05-20 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment fourth-amendment passenger-rights privacy probable-cause search-and-seizure standing vehicle-search Whether passengers are categorically unable to challenge the search of a car in which they are the riding unless they can show an ownership or possess…
21-7889 Zahkuan Bailey-Sweeting, aka Zahkuan Sweeting-Bailey v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2022-05-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment fourth-amendment individualized-suspicion pat-frisk police-hunch police-stop reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop unreasonable-search Did the pat-frisk of Mr. Bailey-Sweeting violate his right to be free from unreasonable searches under the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment?
21-7874 William Meyer v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-05-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights consent due-process exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment home-entry knock-and-talk search-and-seizure warrantless-search Whether a homeowner's repeated denials of consent to search during a 'knock and talk' establishes exigent circumstances, specifically that the destruc…
21-7820 Darron Thomas v. United States Third Circuit 2022-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction fourth-amendment judicial-misconduct judicial-recusal mandamus-petition probable-cause standing Whether the lower courts erred in denying the petitioner's request for a writ of mandamus to recuse a judge who engaged in wrongful, excessive, inappr…
21-7826 Dexter Durrell Cooper v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review constitutional-error court-of-appeals due-process habeas-corpus judicial-procedure legal-standard petition-review standing Whether or not the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit erred in its constitutional analysis regarding the petitioner's bail motion
21-7780 Selvin Orlando Carranza v. California California 2022-05-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 8th-amendment brady-violation constitutional-rights due-process exculpatory-evidence impeachment-evidence police-misconduct prosecutorial-misconduct third-party-culpability Whether a prosecutor's failure to disclose exculpatory and impeachment evidence related to a police officer's prior criminal conduct violates the defe…
21-7785 Jose Mena-Valdez v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-05-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure law-enforcement probable-cause vehicle-search warrantless-search Did law enforcement officers have probable cause to conduct a warrantless search of the vehicle driven by the Defendant?
21-1396 Dustin Dillard, et al. v. Vicki Timpa, Individually and as Representative of the Estate of Anthony Timpa, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-04-29 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment bystander-liability civil-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement-liability mental-health-intervention qualified-immunity section-1983 Whether the Fifth Circuit misapplied the Court's qualified-immunity jurisprudence
21-7724 Anthony Fields v. United States District of Columbia 2022-04-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment court-of-appeals evidence-suppression Faretta-v-California fourth-amendment Koon-v-United-States legal-error precedent-interpretation self-representation traffic-stop Whether the court of appeals' decision affirming the denial of Petitioner's request to exercise his right to self-representation while ignoring comple…
21-7712 Curtis Lee Sheppard, Jr. v. Michael A. Collum, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-04-26 Dismissed IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights cover-up due-process federal-crimes government-records Whether the government's collection of personal records to cover up federal crimes violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable sea…
21-7654 Gregory Munoz v. Superior Court of California, Orange County, et al. California 2022-04-19 Denied IFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment appellate-procedure cell-phone-search civil-rights constitutional-rights digital-evidence digital-privacy due-process search-and-seizure supreme-court-review Whether the California Supreme Court erred when it denied petitioners' request for review on the summary denial of petitioners' writ of mandate and pr…
21-7641 Jose Diaz Perez v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2022-04-18 Denied IFP 4th-amendment constitutional-law constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-seizure intoxication-statements search-warrant Did the State of Texas and the U.S. District Court improperly admit evidence obtained unconstitutionally?
21-7603 Glen S. Evans v. Bill Stange, Warden Eighth Circuit 2022-04-12 Denied IFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure fruit-of-poisonous-tree fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence motion-to-suppress prejudice reasonable-suspicion second-degree-murder sufficiency-of-evidence where-the-trial-court-has-erred-and-abused-its-discretion
21-1344 Christin Campbell-Martin and Adam Scott Leiva v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-04-11 Denied and established the arrestee's identity secured the arrestee in a police car 4th-amendment arrest-search criminal-procedure established-identity false-identification fourth-amendment incident-to-arrest police-procedure probable-cause search-and-seizure search-incident-to-arrest secured-arrestee vehicle-search Whether police may search a vehicle incident to arrest when the officers have arrested a recent occupant for providing false identification, secured t…
21-7553 Larry David Davis v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction Eighth Circuit 2022-04-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment administrative-procedure civil-rights discretionary-relief due-process immigration-law ineffective-assistance judicial-review motion-to-reopen speedy-trial Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the delayed issuance of an arrest warrant and probable cause affidavits
21-7525 Jerome Perkins v. Grady Perry, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process post-conviction-relief search-and-seizure Whether the traffic stop was legal
21-7508 Draven Greene v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-03-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment caretaker-exception constitutional-rights criminal-evidence evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment police-misconduct search-and-seizure vehicle-search warrantless-search Whether the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution extends to occupied vehicles
21-7487 Dion Fisher v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure discovery district-court-order evidentiary-ruling harmless-error motion-to-suppress suppression-hearing trial-witness-list witness-disclosure witness-testimony Whether petitioner is entitled to a new trial based on the district court's order denying his motion to suppress
21-7472 Earnest Eugene Walker, Jr. v. Kansas Tenth Circuit 2022-03-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus illegal-sentence ineffective-assistance post-conviction-relief sentencing Whether the SHtuce ESA QQ-S50y Coetection of Sentence avid AS fAe Samer SKe fobeasr your to be Consteuec ns Ye Same fo Coegecf aN ZV hegal Sedfev ce A…
21-7402 Brandon Leon Bibbs v. Don Barnes, Sheriff, Orange County, California Ninth Circuit 2022-03-17 Denied IFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel investigative-procedure Whether the petitioner's conviction was unconstitutional due to provisional circumstances surrounding his arrest and detention
21-7387 Henry E. Wood v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-03-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment cellphone circuit-split fourth-amendment law-enforcement mobile-phone parolee parolee-rights search-and-seizure warrant-requirement warrantless-search Whether the Seventh Circuit's decision allowing law enforcement officers to conduct a warrantless search of a parolee's mobile phone upon arrest has c…
21-7375 Rodolfo Rodriguez, Jr. v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-03-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment appellate-review consensual-encounter consent criminal-procedure investigative-detention investigative-stop law-enforcement-interaction search-and-seizure standard-of-review voluntary-consent What is the appropriate standard to be applied in determining whether an encounter with police was consensual or an investigative stop?
21-1216 Yan Ping Xu v. Suffolk County, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2022-03-08 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment frivolous frivolous-claim privacy-invasion rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine standing state-court-order warrantless-seizure Whether the appeal has been properly dismissed because it 'lacks an arguable basis either in law or in fact' Neitzke v. Williams, 490 U.S. 319, 325 (1…
21-7287 Ivan Cruz-Rivera v. United States First Circuit 2022-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure fourth-amendment informant informant-tip law-enforcement police-officer probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure Whether it is not necessary to evaluate the basis of knowledge underlying an informant's tip if the informant is a police officer
21-7313 Domonick Deshay Wright v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-misconduct probable-cause qualified-immunity reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop Whether the lower courts have sanctioned a dangerous expansion of qualified immunity that shields police officers from liability for violating clearly…
21-7298 Dennis Allen Conte, III v. Maryland Maryland 2022-03-07 Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure standing Did the lower courts violate Mr. Conte's constitutional rights, including his Fourth Amendment rights?
21-7281 Kevin Debnam v. Javier Salazar, Sheriff, Bexar County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-03-04 Denied IFP 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
21-7230 Gemar Morgan v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-03-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process judicial-review legal-standard probation sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation supervised-release Whether the words 'a house' in the Fourth Amendment apply both to the defendant's conduct as a renter of a house and to the defendant's period of 2 to…
21-1190 Ramon Rios, III v. Texas Texas 2022-02-28 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 4th-amendment arrest fourth-amendment home-search law-enforcement plain-view-doctrine protective-sweep surveillance warrantless-search Does the Fourth Amendment prohibit a warrantless protective sweep of a home following the arrest of a resident outside his home under surveillance?
21-1163 Carolyn L. Baburka v. Township of Hazlet, New Jersey, et al. New Jersey 2022-02-23 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 42-usc-1988 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-amendments federal-law qualified-immunity search-and-seizure state-law Did the courts below commit error by failing to recognize federal law?
21-7165 Bernard Middleton v. Brittany Greene, Warden Seventh Circuit 2022-02-22 Denied IFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment amendment-violations article-1-section constitutional-violations dismissal-without-prejudice dismissals-without-notification due-process federal-courts preliminary-hearing Whether the federal courts erred in denying the petition for writ of certiorari despite the petitioner's claims of due process violations, lack of pre…
21-1125 Matthew Schantz v. Benny Deloach Eleventh Circuit 2022-02-15 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment civil-rights deadly-force fourth-amendment objective-reasonableness police-pursuit qualified-immunity summary-judgment traffic-stop use-of-force Does the Fourth Amendment allow police to use deadly force to prevent the escape of a joyriding motorcyclist?
21-7114 Robert Noel Smith v. Florida Florida 2022-02-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment exigent-circumstances felony-fleeing fourth-amendment fresh-pursuit home-entry lange-v-california misdemeanant-pursuit probable-cause vehicle-registration warrantless-search Can State courts lawfully hold evidence admissible obtained from a warrantless search, seizure, and arrest where an officer entered the residence of a…
21-7089 LeAndre Jordan v. Ohio Ohio 2022-02-09 Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-reasonableness exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause unreasonable-seizure warrant-requirement warrantless-arrest Are warrantless, probable cause arrests reasonable when no exigency or contemporaneous crimes are present to excuse the failure to obtain a warrant?
21-1092 Aaron Evan Perry v. Tennessee Tennessee 2022-02-07 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment agency-law civil-rights constitutional-protections constitutional-rights fourth-amendment loss-prevention private-enforcement private-search public-interest state-action state-action-doctrine Whether the distinction between state and private actors has blurred in retail crime investigations
21-7022 Patrick Nilo Gil v. Virginia Virginia 2022-02-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction public-defender sentencing suppression-hearing video-evidence Whether the seizure of a vehicle by law enforcement officers was lawful, given the alleged lack of authority and the defendant's claims of defective p…
21-7024 Edgar Manuel Sierra-Serrano v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process exceptions fourth-amendment judicial-review probable-cause search-and-seizure standard-of-review warrantless-search Has the progeny of 'probable-cause' and the innovations of 'exceptions' to the Fourth-Amendment concerning the justification to advance in a warrantle…
21-1032 Jason T. Berry v. Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al. First Circuit 2022-01-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 4th-amendment cell-phone-intrusion civil-procedure en-banc-review evidence exceptional-importance fbi-abuses fourth-amendment mandate-recall pro-se pro-se-litigation standing Whether additional evidence of claims occurring while a judgment is pending and immediately after case closure merit recall of a mandate
21-6885 Miguel Gonzalez Segovia v. United States Third Circuit 2022-01-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment evidence-suppression evidentiary-hearing exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment pretrial-motion probable-cause search-and-seizure vehicle-stop Whether the Court erred when it denied Mr. Gonzalez Segovia's pretrial motion to suppress evidence seized pursuant to the vehicle stop
21-6841 Ada Maria Benson v. Hemet Police Department Ninth Circuit 2022-01-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment civil-rights civil-rights-violation color-of-law due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment police-misconduct probable-cause Whether 42 USC 1983 can protect a law-abiding educated senior-citizen with disabilities from abduction (arrest) without probable-cause or warrant by a…
21-6800 Abdulkhaliq Mohammed Murshid, aka Andy v. Mississippi Mississippi 2022-01-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment business-records civil-rights compulsory-process constitutional-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-action law-enforcement prosecutorial-discretion search-and-seizure Whether officers can search a business without a search warrant
21-6774 Brandon Shane Harris v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2022-01-07 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment due-process ex-post-facto Whether petitioner's 27-year sentence for trafficking should be vacated or reduced to the 20-year statutory maximum
21-6755 Kenny Pugh v. Illinois Illinois 2022-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule in-forma-pauperis judicial-district legal-representation search-and-seizure state-court state-courts Whether the Petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when the trial court denied his motion to suppress evidence obtained from an unlawful sea…
21-6761 Patrick Killen, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment mlat mlat-evidence search-warrant sixth-amendment Whether this Court should visit the issue of allowing law enforcement to gather information initiated by the United States to use a Mutual Legal Assis…
21-6744 Jose D. Resto-Figueroa v. United States First Circuit 2021-12-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment appellate-review criminal-justice-act criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule first-circuit in-forma-pauperis pro-se-petition probable-cause search-and-seizure vehicle-search Whether the district court erred in denying the petitioner's motion to suppress evidence obtained from a warrantless search of his vehicle
21-947 Tettus Davis, et ux. v. Jonathon Hodgkiss Fifth Circuit 2021-12-28 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights fourth-amendment franks-challenge interlocutory-appeal probable-cause qualified-immunity search-warrant section-1983 summary-judgment Franks-v-Delaware-violation
21-6731 Curtis James McGarvey v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-12-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process property-rights standing Whether the government's warrantless seizure and indefinite retention of a person's personal property violates the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on u…
21-6717 Kenneth Lamont Sanders v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-12-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights community-caretaking domestic-disturbance due-process emergency-aid fourth-amendment greenlaw-v-united-states party-presentation warrantless-search Whether the 'principle of party presentation' is violated
21-6725 Russ Scohy v. Pinellas County Code Enforcement Division Florida 2021-12-23 Denied IFP 4th-amendment access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-law due-process government-trespass pro-se pro-se-access property-rights search-and-seizure takings warrant-violation Whether trespass by government officials without a warrant, illegal search and seizure, and excessive fees resulting in loss of property violate const…
21-6726 Mark Jason Davis v. Florida Florida 2021-12-23 Denied IFP 4th-amendment drug-detection fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment k9-sniff police-dog private-property probable-cause search search-and-seizure search-warrant Whether an open-air sniff conducted by a police K9 on private property without a warrant or probable cause constitutes a search
21-6621 Valentine Okonkwo v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment administrative-search criminal-prosecution dea dea-inspection due-process forfeiture-judgment prescription-fraud warrant writ-of-audita-querela Did the lower court err for ruling that an administrative search, without a warrant, ostensibly conducted by a DEA Diversionary inspector was lawful t…
21-6628 Frank McNabb v. Texas Texas 2021-12-15 Denied IFP 4th-amendment consent-search consent-to-search detention-extension fishing-expedition fourth-amendment official-coercion retroactive-forgiveness traffic-stop warrant-exception Whether consent to search retroactively forgives any and all violations by police prior to consent
21-874 Arthur O. Armstrong v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2021-12-14 Denied 14th-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection equal-protection-clause false-reports fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment official-discrimination search-and-seizure Whether respondents acted in a conspiracy to violate petitioner's constitutional rights
21-6535 Jennifer Smith v. William Paul Nichols, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment bivens bivens-action civil-rights constitutional-injury due-process extraterritorial-warrant fourth-amendment monell search-and-seizure search-warrant section-1983 Does forgery, drug distribution, perjured affidavits, defective extraterritorial search warrants, improper execution of search warrants, coupled with …
21-841 Michael Smallwood v. William Paul Nichols, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-12-07 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment government-agency government-liability liberty-interest search-and-seizure standing Can state and federal agencies use private entities as agents to commit unlawful search and seizure and deprivation of liberty interest to medical car…
21-835 Otha Ray Flowers v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-12-06 Denied 4th-amendment criminal-procedure fourth-amendment high-crime-area illinois-v-wardlow law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion terry-stop terry-v-ohio Whether conduct that is consistent with either lawful or unlawful behavior, and in which law-abiding members of the general public routinely engage, c…
21-6515 Chadd A. Morris v. Jerry Worley, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-12-03 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment case-dismissal civil-procedure civil-rights court-recusal due-process judicial-misconduct legal-standards precedential-law procedural-error property-rights standing Whether the government's warrantless seizure and indefinite retention of a person's personal property violates the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on u…
21-814 Christopher Castagna, et al. v. Harry Jean, et al. First Circuit 2021-12-01 Denied 4th-amendment cady-v-dombrowski community-caretaking home-privacy search-and-seizure warrantless-entry Did this Court's opinion in Cady v. Dombrowski, 413 U.S. 433 (1978) clearly establish that the community caretaking exception applied only to warrantl…
21-6436 Korey Stewart v. United States Second Circuit 2021-11-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure speedy-trial Whether a reasonable law enforcement officer could have concluded that the evidence provided to the agents of the Drug Enforcement Administration cons…
21-6441 Sonny Scott v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-11-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment attorney-performance constitutional-rights criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure strickland-standard strickland-v-washington warrantless-search Was counsel's refusal to file a meritorious, dispositive motion to suppress the fruits of a warrantless search unreasonable under Strickland v. Washin…
21-6449 Pizarro Thomas v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-11-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-conduct criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement-conduct police-policy reasonable-suspicion terry-stop terry-v-ohio warrantless-seizure Was there reasonable suspicion for Terry stop?
21-6392 Janet Berry v. William Paul Nichols, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-11-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment bivens-claim civil-rights digital-privacy fourth-amendment medical-records search-and-seizure standing state-actors warrantless-search Where a BERT is created by the government accompanied with private entities acting as state actors under the color of law, via an invalid warrantless …
21-6394 Kyle S. Matthews v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-11-23 Denied IFP 4th-amendment good-faith-exception indicia-of-probable-cause probable-cause prosecutor-involvement search-and-seizure Where a search warrant affidavit lacks probable cause
21-6401 Sherry L. Dow v. Debbie Stabenow, United States Senator, et al. District of Columbia 2021-11-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1st-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights congressional-oversight constitutional-rights due-process federal-torts foreign-intelligence-surveillance government-oversight human-experimentation pro-se-complaint Whether the United States District Court and the United States Court of Appeal's erred in violating the petitioner's constitutional rights
21-6370 Omil Cotto, aka Omil Gomez, aka Omil Alfredo Gomez v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment cell-phone-seizure cellphones criminal-procedure fourth-amendment overbreadth probable-cause road-rage search-and-seizure search-warrant warrant warrant-overbreadth Whether the search warrant was constitutionally overbroad in authorizing the seizure of 'any cellphones' in the house when officers had no reason to b…
21-752 Rex Hammond v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-11-19 Denied Amici (1) 4th-amendment carpenter-v-united-states cell-site-location-information exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception real-time-tracking search warrant-requirement wireless-carrier Whether a government agent's direction to a wireless carrier to send a signal to a person's phone, so that the phone reveals the person's precise loca…
21-6324 Jesus Alfredo Ramirez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-11-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-procedure communication-interception criminal-procedure district-court evidence-suppression probable-cause title-iii wiretap Whether the district court erred in authorizing a wiretap of Petitioner's communications under Title III and in failing to suppress the evidence inter…
21-6294 Robert Michael Junkins v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-11-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure drug-evidence drug-sentencing illegal-search motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure sentencing sentencing-guidelines vehicle-search Whether the district court erred in denying Junkins' motion to suppress evidence
21-6304 Neng Por Yang v. Ann Marie Holland Minnesota 2021-11-16 Dismissed IFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment harassment-restraining-order judicial-jurisdiction pro-se Whether the Minnesota Court of Appeals decision to continue the enforcement of a fraudulent and pretentious state harassment restraining order to an i…
21-709 Jacob Clark, et ux. v. Bernadette Stone, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-11-15 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment burden-of-proof child-protective-services civil-rights home-invasion home-privacy qualified-immunity warrantless-search warrantless-searches Whether qualified immunity applies to shield from liability child protective services case workers who repeatedly conduct warrantless searches of a ho…
21-715 In Re Jody Tremayne Wafer 2021-11-15 Denied Relisted (2) 4th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-liberty criminal-justice drug-crime drug-policy due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus Is the incarceration of the petitioner for a marijuana-related offense a violation of their constitutional rights?
21-6251 Jason Wattie Buzzard and Paul William Martin v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-investigation fourth-amendment police-questioning prolonged-detention reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop unlawful-detention Whether a police officer conducting a traffic stop unlawfully prolongs that stop, in violation of the Fourth Amendment, by asking the occupants of the…
21-6243 Richard Barnhart, Jr. v. Neil Turner, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-11-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-for-new-trial ohio-appellate-court search-and-seizure supreme-court-precedent unreasonable-application Is a Petitioner denied his due process rights when the Ohio Appellate Court applies an unreasonable application of U.S. Supreme Court precedent in reg…
21-6223 Aaron Martin Mercado-Gracia v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-11-09 Denied IFP 4th-amendment consent fourth-amendment police-questioning race racial-profiling reasonable-person reasonable-person-standard totality-of-circumstances traffic-stop Whether the person's race is a factor in determining if a person objectively believed he could refuse an officer's request to answer more questions af…
21-6175 Shaun Short v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-11-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment automobile-exception criminal-procedure disabled-car franks-hearing parked-car probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-requirement Does the automobile exception to the warrant requirement extend to a parked and disabled car, or is it limited to its original justifications?
21-6191 Julio Hernandez-Pacheco v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-11-04 Denied IFP 4th-amendment appellate-precedent circuit-split constitutional-violation davis-v-united-states exclusionary-rule hudson-v-michigan identity-evidence illegal-search search-and-seizure vehicle-stop may-identity-related-evidence-be-suppressed-under-exclusionary-rule
21-6154 Shawn Ford v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-11-03 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment apparent-authority consent-to-search criminal-procedure fourth-amendment reasonable-belief residence search-and-seizure third-party-consent Whether a third party's apparent authority to consent to a search of a criminal suspect's residence requires that the police reasonably believe that t…
21-6158 Delilah Colarte v. Florida Florida 2021-11-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment constitutional-limits fourth-amendment passenger-identification rodriguez-limits rodriguez-v-united-states seizure-duration traffic-stop warrant-check Whether law enforcement can require passengers to identify themselves during a traffic stop
21-6140 Leonard Morrison v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-11-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment community-caretaking consent exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment home-search implied-consent law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure warrantless-entry Whether a court can find voluntary 'implied consent' to a warrantless home entry when the officer did not request permission to enter and was unaware …
21-6085 Robert George Knecht, Jr. v. Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Florida 2021-10-27 Denied IFP 1st-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment standing Whether the State Court of Appeals erred and departed from the essential requirements of the law and federal constitutional claims
21-6086 William Keith Watson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-10-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment conflicting-testimony credibility deputy-testimony due-process fourth-amendment stop-and-frisk supervisory-jurisdiction suppression-hearing sworn-deposition testimony Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in affirming the denial of the motion to suppress despite a deputy's conflicting testimony under oath
21-6033 Larry Gene Francis v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-10-20 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process exculpatory-evidence fair-trial material-facts parole-violation state-misconduct testimony Was petitioner subjected to Double Jeopardy?
21-6006 Cory Wayne Kilgore v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-10-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment address-connection appellate-review child-pornography criminal-procedure fourth-amendment prior-conviction probable-cause search-warrant Did the Tenth Circuit err in holding that the search warrant affidavit provided adequate basis for probable cause?
21-5968 Timothy Stemen v. Florida Florida 2021-10-14 Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process evidence fifth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-counsel police-misconduct search-and-seizure self-incrimination Did law enforcement violate the petitioner's due process rights under the 14th Amendment regarding the recordings
21-5913 Desmond S. Gaines v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-10-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 911-tip anonymous-tip anonymous-tips corroboration drug-sales reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure seizure terry-stop totality-of-circumstances Whether an anonymous 911 tip that implies the person sold drugs in a public area provides reasonable suspicion to seize the person without first corro…
21-5885 Michael Alan Webb v. Virginia Virginia 2021-10-05 Denied IFP 4th-amendment arbitration-award civil-rights district-court due-process federal-law legal-precedent manifest-disregard motion-to-vacate qualified-immunity search-and-seizure standing Whether the lower courts erred in denying the petitioner's Fourth Amendment claims regarding an allegedly unconstitutional search and seizure
21-5834 Mechele R. Parker v. Sara LaRosa, et al. District of Columbia 2021-09-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights damages federal-cause-of-action fourth-amendment law-enforcement rico-act unlawful-search unlawful-searches-and-seizures What is the U.S. Supreme Court's Ruling On All Members To A Conspiracy?
21-5821 In Re Eduardo Pineda 2021-09-29 Denied IFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process liberty liberty-interest marijuana-regulation police-power strict-scrutiny Does the constitutional right to 'liberty' as contained in the due process clause still mean freedom from physical restraint by government police powe…
21-5823 Salvador Vasquez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-09-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment marijuana-decriminalization probable-cause search-and-seizure state-law state-marijuana-laws vehicle-search warrantless-search When a state has decriminalized marijuana possession and use, does evidence of marijuana use inside a car—combined with nonspecific indications that t…
21-5777 Vance Keith Wilson v. Louisiana Louisiana 2021-09-24 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment bail civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-challenge judicial-discretion pretrial-detention Whether a district court can, sua sponte and without any question of suspicion, order a pretrial defendant to urinate in front of a bailiff as a condi…
21-5732 In Re Artoska Gillispie 2021-09-23 Denied IFP 4th-amendment cell-site-location-information fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance misidentification personal-location-information probable-cause suggestive-identification warrant has-prejudice-been-shown
21-5771 Sirshun Dontrell Burris v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-09-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment appellate-review circuit-court circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process evidence jurisdiction search-and-seizure standing statutory-provisions Whether officers' search of a defendant's house without a warrant violates the Fourth Amendment
21-410 Gregorio Gigliotti and Angelo Gigliotti v. United States Second Circuit 2021-09-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 4th-amendment 4th-amendment-violation constitutional-standard criminal-investigation criminal-procedure foreign-law-enforcement fourth-amendment joint-investigation law-enforcement wiretapping Whether the Fourth Amendment is violated when foreign law enforcement officials engage in wiretapping at the behest of United States officials pursuan…
21-5602 Charles E. Garza, Jr. v. Nebraska Nebraska 2021-09-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment constitutional-rights expectation-of-privacy fourth-amendment privacy probable-cause residence search-and-seizure vehicle-search warrant warrant-scope Whether petitioner had expectation of privacy in parked vehicle
21-5612 Geontay Patterson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-09-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment constitutional-rights controlled-substances prolonged-detention reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop Whether the district court and appellate court improperly found justification for the search and seizure of Mr. Patterson
21-5617 Akube Wuromoni Ndoromo v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. District of Columbia 2021-09-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment amendment-protections civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment government-seizure Does the Federal Government have the authority to seize individuals' bank accounts?
21-341 William J. Cost, et al. v. Borough of Dickson City, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2021-09-02 Denied 4th-amendment 911-call civil-rights domestic-disturbance due-process emergency-assistance exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment search-and-seizure warrantless-entry Whether the court of appeals erred when it held exigent circumstances existed based solely on a 911 call about a domestic disturbance from a disgruntl…
21-5519 Steven P. BuBenchik, Jr. v. Douglas Fender, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance search-warrant standing warrantless-search Whether the Constitution or laws require a trial court to fabricate facts outside sworn testimony to justify a warrantless entry
21-5528 Gabriel Samar Martinez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP can give rise to reasonable suspicion to justify standing alone 4th-amendment 4th-amendment-jurisprudence anonymous-tip corroboration fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion seizure terry-stop vehicle-stop Whether an uncorroborated anonymous tip, standing alone, can give rise to reasonable suspicion to justify a seizure
21-5487 Norman Michael Achin v. Virginia Virginia 2021-08-26 Denied IFP 4th-amendment 6th-amendment due-process electronic-surveillance fourth-amendment impersonation law-enforcement-conduct privacy privacy-rights warrant-requirement Does intercepting private electronic messages and cell phone communications without a warrant by impersonating another adult or by impersonating an im…
21-5456 Yarlin Garcia v. United States First Circuit 2021-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure district-court evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment legal-standard motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure standard-of-review Whether the District Court erred by denying Mr. Garcia's Motion to Suppress?
21-5364 Tyrone Cammon v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment arrest-warrant civil-rights fourth-amendment minnesota-v-olson payton-v-new-york probable-cause protective-sweep search-and-seizure steagald-v-united-states third-party-residence warrantless-entry Whether Steagald v. United States protects an arrestee in a third party's residence
21-5265 Terry Reed v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment affidavit criminal-procedure fourth-amendment good-faith-doctrine good-faith-exception probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-exception warrant-requirement Whether the good faith exception to the warrant requirement extends so far as to excuse an officer's reliance upon an affidavit he drafted with the on…
21-5228 Dwayne Sheckles v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-07-28 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure drug-crimes drug-dealing evidence-seizure home-invasion probable-cause residential-searches search-warrant search-warrants Whether a person's status as a suspected drug dealer, alone, provides probable cause to allow for a warrant to be issued for that person's residence
21-5176 De'Undre Rashad Robert Turner v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-07-22 Denied IFP 4th-amendment federal-courts noncriminal-violation reasonable-suspicion seizure state-courts Whether a seizure can be initiated upon reasonable suspicion of a noncriminal violation
21-16 Robert Paul Magtulis Cledera v. United States, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-07-08 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment bivens civil-rights constitutional-law due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement reasonable-expectation-of-privacy redressability search-and-seizure standing Does a Petitioner need to be charged with a crime and arrested for him to have Locus Standi
20-8445 Christian Kalen Crawford v. Florida Florida 2021-06-29 Denied IFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment blood-draw criminal-procedure detention due-process fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-stop Whether law enforcement officers may extend the detention of a driver involved in an accident resulting in the death of another person in order to wai…
20-8418 Bruce Harland Butler v. Michigan Michigan 2021-06-28 Denied IFP 4th-amendment carpenter-v-united-states cell-site-location-information civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel retroactivity standing Whether the lower court's decision was contrary to clearly established United States Supreme Court precedent?
20-8421 Braulio Perez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-06-25 Denied IFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment 911-call armed-career-criminal body-camera body-camera-footage constitutional-rights'\n'Issue 4 criminal-history criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-procedure'\n'Issue 2 criminal-procedure'\n'Issue 3 criminal-procedure'\n'Issue 4 enhancement evidence fair-trial fifth-amendment firearm fourth-amendment motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure self-incrimination sentencing sentencing-enhancement statements statutory-interpretation witness witness-testimony Issue 1
20-1784 Ohio v. Daniel Deuble Ohio 2021-06-23 Denied 4th-amendment digital-communication fourth-amendment identity-corroboration law-enforcement law-enforcement-sting probable-cause search-and-seizure social-media Whether probable cause existed to detain a person suspected of soliciting sexual activity from a law enforcement officer posing as a minor
20-8389 Asa Lea, aka Asa Lorenzo-Lamiyah Lea v. United States District of Columbia 2021-06-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure district-court-error exclusionary-rule illegal-evidence judgment-of-acquittal motion-for-new-trial motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure tangible-evidence Whether the District Court erred by denying Mr. Lea's Motion to Suppress Illegal Tangible Evidence?
20-8411 C. T. v. Orange County Social Services Agency California 2021-06-23 Denied IFP 4th-amendment 6th-amendment child-endangerment child-welfare civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment medical-privacy medical-treatment parental-rights sixth-amendment Does the act of forcefully administering psychotropic medications to a child before trial violate the IV and VI amendments in the absence of a court o…
20-8352 David Alexandre v. United States First Circuit 2021-06-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment circuit-split criminal-activity criminal-procedure fourth-amendment nexus-requirement probable-cause search-warrant supreme-court Did the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit erroneously hold the government was not required to establish probable cause to the belie…
20-1745 Richard Sylvester v. United States First Circuit 2021-06-16 Denied 4th-amendment burden-of-proof community-caretaking fourth-amendment investigatory-motive law-enforcement-procedure police-policy probable-cause subjective-intent totality-of-circumstances vehicle-impound vehicle-impoundment whether-vehicle-impound-complies-with-4th-amendment
20-1747 Erich Sorenson v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2021-06-16 Denied Amici (3)Response Waived 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-protection curtilage due-process fourth-amendment home-privacy law-enforcement search-and-seizure standing warrantless-arrest Whether the hallway area immediately adjacent to an apartment, in a private multi-family dwelling that is not open to the public, is part of the curti…
20-8243 Spencer Richard Andrews v. Michigan Michigan 2021-06-08 Denied IFP 4th-amendment appellate-review consent consent-scope digital-privacy fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel privacy-rights search-and-seizure smartphone smartphone-search Did the Michigan court of appeals erroneously expand the defendant's consent to retrieve a telephone number from his smartphone into a consent to sear…
20-8167 Bryan Keith Miller v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-06-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment automobile-exception field-testing plain-view probable-cause search-and-seizure Did an officer have probable cause to retrieve and field test a loose substance observed in Mr. Miller's vehicle, under the plain view exception to th…
20-8180 Benjamin Ross v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-06-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment 4th-amendment-violation fourth-amendment pretextual-stop probable-cause reasonable-suspicion rodriguez-precedent rodriguez-v-united-states traffic-stop Whether the Fourth Amendment requires reasonable, articulable suspicion and probable cause to justify a pretextual traffic stop?
20-8187 Christopher Takhvar v. Florida Florida 2021-06-01 Denied IFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights due-process property seizure Whether virtual currency is property under the Fourth and Fifth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution, and whether seizure of virtual currency without d…
20-8160 Tamaran Edward Bontemps v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-05-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-stop reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-stop terry-v-ohio Whether a sweatshirt bulge alone gives an objectively reasonable and particularized suspicion to stop a person under Terry v. Ohio
20-1646 Steven K. Stanley v. Angel Quiros, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Correction Connecticut 2021-05-26 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment criminal-procedure evidence fourth-amendment habeas-corpus phone-number-obfuscation privacy privacy-expectation res-judicata search-and-seizure Does the intentional use of the *67 feature create a justifiable expectation of privacy?
20-8127 Guillermo Martinez-Torres v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-05-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment admissibility-of-evidence burden-of-proof circuit-split evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment illegal-search suppression-of-evidence Does the defendant have the burden to prove the violation was the 'but for' cause of the subsequent discovery of contraband or is it the prosecution's…
20-8109 Walter Crayton v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2021-05-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment assigned-counsel child-pornography civil-rights criminal-appeals criminal-procedure due-process free-speech legal-representation post-conviction search-and-seizure trial-court Whether the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court erred in affirming the defendant's conviction for possession of child pornography, second offense, de…
20-1628 Daniel Tekle v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2021-05-20 Denied 4th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure void-judgment warrantless-search Question not identified
20-8058 Kenneth Rose v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-05-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-protections due-process judicial-bias judicial-proceedings search-warrant sixth-circuit Has the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals so far departed from the accepted and usual course of judicial proceedings
20-8065 Arthur Greaves v. United States Third Circuit 2021-05-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment miranda-doctrine miranda-warning new-york-v-quarles private-property public-safety-exception search-and-seizure Does the public safety exception to the Miranda doctrine as set forth in New York v. Quarles, apply to private property, simply based on allegations t…
20-8014 Kelvin Baez v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-05-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process evidence-admission exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery inevitable-discovery-doctrine police-procedure search-and-seizure unlawful-search warrant-requirement Did the Court of Appeals err in expanding the inevitable-discovery doctrine to affirm the admission of evidence obtained during an unlawful search?
20-7996 Roland Leroy Reese-Bey v. Juan Guerrero, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-05-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment jurisdiction right-to-travel summary-judgment traffic-stop Where jurisdiction was questioned and never established, in an arrest and prosecution resulting from an alleged and unwarranted traffic stop with viol…
20-7979 Talmadge Adib Talib v. Juan Guerrero, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment jurisdiction jurisdiction-challenge summary-judgment Where jurisdiction was never established, in an arrest and prosecution resulting from an alleged and unwarranted traffic stop with violations of right…
20-7914 Danny Ray Williams v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-05-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment cell-phone cell-phone-search consent consent-search custodial-interrogation digital-privacy forensic-evidence forensic-search fourth-amendment search-and-seizure Whether an officer must expressly state that he is seeking consent for a forensic, not just a manual, search of a cell phone
20-7872 Jeremy Darnell Morton v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-04-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment appeal attempt-offense career-offender controlled-substance criminal-procedure guideline-range harmless-error search-and-seizure sentencing Did the court of appeals err in using the harmless error rule to resolve the illegal search and seizure of $8,300?
20-1471 Jonathan Lozada, Deputy Sheriff, in His Individual Capacity v. Dudley Teel, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Susan Teel Eleventh Circuit 2021-04-20 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment graham-factors law-enforcement obvious-factual-clarity-rule qualified-immunity use-of-force Whether the Graham factors apply to a law enforcement officer's use of force during a call for service that does not involve commission of a crime
20-1441 George Beecher v. New Jersey New Jersey 2021-04-15 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment fourth-amendment patient-privacy patient-records prescription-monitoring privacy-expectation reasonable-expectation-of-privacy reasonable-search state-pdmp-laws third-party-doctrine Did the New Jersey Supreme Court err in adopting a ruling that a defendant prescriber does not have a reasonable expectation of privacy in patient pre…
20-1443 Candace Aguilera, aka Candace Sgaggio v. City of Colorado Springs, Colorado, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-04-15 Denied 4th-amendment civil-rights fourth-amendment free-exercise implied-license indigenous-rights private-property search-and-seizure spiritual-property standing How long can government agents stay on private spiritual property after implied license is revoked?
20-7704 Daghrib Shaheed, et al. v. Stephan Kroski, et al. Second Circuit 2021-04-09 Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-entry-order civil-rights family-court fourth-amendment law-enforcement-procedure new-york-state probable-cause qualified-immunity search-warrant Is a civil New York State Family Court Investigation Entry Order the equivalent of a search warrant?
20-7662 Jaime Luevano v. Lee Yeakel, Judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-04-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process privacy standing surveillance Whether the government's warrantless surveillance of a person's location and movements through their cell phone violates the Fourth Amendment's protec…
20-7627 Khaled Shabani v. City of Madison, Wisconsin, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process federal-court free-speech judgment malicious-prosecution police-department qualified-immunity related-cases state-court Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the police and prosecutors
20-1366 Jesus Gomez-Arzate v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-03-30 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment attenuation civil-rights consensual-encounter consent consent-to-search due-process fourth-amendment standing traffic-detention unlawful-extension Whether a continued contact can be deemed a 'consensual encounter' emanating immediately from a period of unlawfully extended detention
20-1358 Arthur O. Armstrong v. United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit Fourth Circuit 2021-03-26 Denied 14th-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-violation deprivation-of-liberty detention due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment Whether appellees acted in a conspiracy to deprive appellant of liberty or property without due process of law
20-7567 Brent Douglas Cole v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-03-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process exigent-circumstances grand-jury habeas-corpus judicial-procedure legal-rights search-and-seizure standing Whether the Fourth Amendment requires a warrant for a warrantless search of a person's home based on exigent circumstances when the person is not pres…
20-7508 James W. Campbell v. Tammy Brown, Warden Fourth Circuit 2021-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-law Whether exigent circumstances can validate an otherwise invalid search under a defective search warrant
20-7513 Loretta Jones v. New York City Police Department, et al. Second Circuit 2021-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment accountability civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process institutional-racism law-enforcement-technology public-oversight public-scrutiny transparency Oversight-of-law-enforcement-technologies
20-7464 Stephen D. Long v. Ohio Ohio 2021-03-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment anonymous-informant criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause search-warrant standing totality-of-the-circumstances Can a search warrant issue for a private residence based solely on the uncorroborated statement of an anonymous citizen informant?
20-7459 Herman Rosario v. United States Third Circuit 2021-03-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule good-faith-exception independent-determination motion-to-suppress physical-evidence probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-application Whether the district court erred in denying defendant's motion to suppress physical evidence
20-7423 Jose Jesus Cruz v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment destruction-of-evidence evidence-destruction exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure Is it reasonable for law enforcement to enter a suspect's home under the exigent-circumstances exception when there is no genuine exigency?
20-7436 Frederick Dale Knight v. Florida Florida 2021-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-expectation-privacy search-and-seizure traffic-stop Does a noncriminal traffic stop and subsequent observation through the window of a stopped vehicle revealing a cylindrical brown object give rise to p…
20-7374 Demitrius Wayne Alexander v. Joseph Headley, Warden, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel right-to-counsel search-and-seizure Whether the state and federal courts erred when evidence obtained from an unconstitutional search and seizure was used against petitioner Demetrius Wa…
20-7415 Keith Griffin v. New York New York 2021-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment curtilage fishing-expedition fourth-amendment home-privacy implied-license probable-cause search-and-seizure standing warrantless-search Whether police can search the curtilage of a home without evidence of a crime
20-7416 James Lee Herman, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment driving-under-the-influence exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery inevitable-discovery-doctrine probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-stop Whether police officers who violated a driver's Fourth Amendment rights had probable cause to arrest the driver for driving under the influence and wo…
20-1247 Gerald Dix v. Edelman Financial Services, LLC, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-03-09 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eviction eviction-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct police-seizure seizure Whether the Fourth Amendment protects a person and property from seizure by police using force and threats to arrest to effect an eviction in contrave…
20-7384 Samuel Rasheen Rymond Toliver v. K. Adner Second Circuit 2021-03-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1st-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process exhaustion-of-remedies first-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech solitary-confinement Was the treatment of the Petitioner on 5/30/17, being forced into Solitary Confinement for asserting his U.S.C.A. Const. First Amendment Unconstitutio…
20-7312 Raevon Terrell Parker v. John Pickens, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-03-03 Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process probable-cause search-and-seizure Whether probable cause was sufficient to warrant a search and seizure of the Appellant, when the Appellee was only issued a citation for a violation o…
20-1198 Jerry Wiltz v. Texas Texas 2021-03-01 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment abandonment abandonment-doctrine cell-phone cell-phone-privacy civil-rights fourth-amendment privacy privacy-rights search-and-seizure standing warrant-requirement Whether a person can abandon their privacy right to an item by merely leaving it behind without evidence of intentional abandonment
20-7260 Al Rue Hopkins v. Florida Florida 2021-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment blood-draw dui dui-investigation exigency-exception exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-requirement Whether Florida statues 316.1933(1)(a) violates Petitioner's right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures
20-7271 Ramon A. Boyce v. Ohio Ohio 2021-02-26 Denied IFP 4th-amendment illinois-v-caballes k9-deployment rodriguez-v-united-states search-and-seizure traffic-stop Whether the rule in Illinois v. Caballes, 543 U.S. 405, 135 S.Ct. 834, 160 L.Ed. 2d 842 applies to the deployment of a K9 during a traffic stop
20-7247 Walter Eugene Powell v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-procedure search-and-seizure standing statutory-interpretation Whether the petitioner's Fourth Amendment rights were violated by the warrantless search and seizure of his hotel room
20-7256 James Timothy Cobb v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court fourth-circuit motion-to-suppress pretrial-motion search-and-seizure standard-of-review Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred when it affirmed the district court's denial of Appellant's pretrial motion to…
20-1166 Jorel Shophar, et ux. v. United States, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-02-24 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 4th-amendment child-welfare child-welfare-act constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment seizure state-seizures Is the 1974 Child Welfare Act of Child Protective Services violating U.S. Citizens Constitutional Rights
20-7210 Tesfa Connell v. New York New York 2021-02-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment 4th-amendment-warrant-requirement community-caretaking fourth-amendment impoundment inventory-search law-enforcement-discretion standardized-criteria vehicle-impoundment vehicle-search warrant-requirement Whether the Fourth Amendment mandates that standardized criteria govern an officer's antecedent decision to impound a legally and safely parked car
20-7187 Haseeb Malik v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-02-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment constitutional-rights fourth-amendment law-enforcement marijuana-legalization probable-cause search-and-seizure state-law-enforcement vehicle-search Does the Fourth Amendment prohibit local state law enforcement from searching a vehicle to look for a personal use amount of marijuana in states where…
20-7119 Javier Alejandro Moline-Borroto v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-02-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment checkpoint-seizure civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment investigatory-encounter prolonged-detention reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-stop terry-v-ohio Whether the lower courts erred by finding that the officer had reasonable suspicion to transform a suspicionless checkpoint seizure into a prolonged i…
20-1098 Tod Houthoofd v. Les Parish, Warden Michigan 2021-02-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process jurisdiction jurisdictional-error trial-jurisdiction venue venue-challenge Does Petitioner's convictions violate the U.S. Constitution and prior decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court?
20-7102 Toheed Ahmed v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment circuit-split dog-sniff high-crime-area motion-to-suppress racial-profiling tenth-circuit totality-of-circumstances traffic-stop Was the Tenth Circuit correct in affirming the denial of Mr. Ahmed's motion to suppress evidence
20-1079 Richard E. Boggs v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-02-08 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment 5th-amendment administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights federal-procedure fifth-amendment fourth-amendment internal-revenue-enforcement irs-authority judicial-review Does 26 U.S.C. §7608 establish the relevant requisite authority of IRS agents?
20-7078 Brandon Cordell Bennett v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-02-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment judicial-review material-omission materiality probable-cause search-warrant WHETHER OMITTED INFORMATION FROM A SEARCH WARRANT APPLICATION MUST NEGATE OR CONTRADICT ALLEGED FACTS SUPPORTING PROBABLE CAUSE IN ORDER TO BE MATERIA…
20-7002 Ryan C. Lander v. United States Second Circuit 2021-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment free-speech government-seizure plea-bargaining search-and-seizure warrantless-search Is it constitutional to prosecute citizens for cybercrime under the interstate-commerce clause
20-7003 Justin Anthony Kudla v. Minnesota Minnesota 2021-02-01 Denied IFP 4th-amendment criminal-activity criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-intrusion reasonable-suspicion terry-stop terry-v-ohio traffic-stop Did the district court error by denying the suppression motion?
20-7008 Bradley Dearborn v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process government-seizure property-rights standing Whether the government's warrantless seizure and indefinite retention of a person's personal property violates the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on u…
20-6990 Allyn Akeem Smith v. Arizona Arizona 2021-01-29 Denied IFP 4th-amendment Batson-challenge cell-site-location-information csli exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception jury-selection search-and-seizure standing Does the good faith exception to the exclusionary rule obviate an illegal seizure of CSLI?
20-6960 DeAndre McMichaels v. Illinois Illinois 2021-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment 4th-amendment concealed-carry fourth-amendment law-enforcement public-carry reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-stop terry-v-ohio Whether an officer's belief that a person is armed allows the officer to infer for purposes of a Terry search that the person is 'presently dangerous'…
20-993 Jeremy Mickens v. Arkansas Arkansas 2021-01-26 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure dog-sniff due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop Whether a police officer may extend a traffic stop to conduct a dog sniff
20-995 Anthony Vetri v. United States Third Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment aiding-and-abetting cellphone-data cellphone-privacy criminal-procedure digital-privacy evidence-search fourth-amendment particularity probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-requirements Whether the Fourth Amendment requires more stringent privacy considerations in authorizing a warrant for the seizure of a cellphone and the manner its…
20-996 Raymond Marling v. Frank Vanihel, Warden Seventh Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment circuit-split closed-container fourth-amendment incriminating-evidence inventory-search officer-discretion standardized-criteria warrantless-search Does a police department's policy sufficiently limit officer discretion during an inventory search if it enables an officer to choose to open a closed…
20-6889 Gregory Bartunek v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-01-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus internet-protocol overbreadth search-warrant standing vagueness Whether the federal rules of criminal procedure are unconstitutionally overbroad and vague
20-6901 Antonio Sierra v. Jack Daneri, et al. Pennsylvania 2021-01-15 Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment habeas-corpus rules-of-court standing state-court-error unreasonable-seizure Whether petitioner sufficiently asserted federal rights in the case being heard by state courts who defeated by rules of court, in error, petitioner's…
20-6859 Jonathon Ray Swan v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process search-seizure standing unreasonable-search Whether the Fourth Amendment rights of mine, get violated through S13. (3060? De WUE foe hee fours amddinth?é reguitenents 5 FT Tt. SUL Vel lA, He [ac…
20-6813 Manuel Diaz v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment child-pornography circuit-split fourth-amendment probable-cause search-warrant warrantless-arrest Whether an officer has probable cause to obtain a search warrant or to make a warrantless arrest for the offense of possession of child pornography ba…
20-6814 Rodney Johnson v. Illinois Illinois 2021-01-08 Denied IFP 4th-amendment family-home fourth-amendment parolee-search parolees police-misconduct privacy-rights samson-precedent search suspicionless-search warrantless-search Whether Illinois has lowered the bar of reasonableness for the search of parolees beyond this Court's holding in Samson v. California, 547 U.S. 843 (2…
20-6771 Oristel Soto-Peguero v. United States First Circuit 2021-01-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree good-faith-exception illegal-search independent-source-doctrine search-and-seizure warrant-application Whether the court erred when it denied Petitioner's motion to suppress evidence discovered during an illegal search
20-6774 Craig B. Snoddy v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-01-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment colorado-v-bertine fourth-amendment inventory-search investigative-search search-and-seizure south-dakota-v-opperman supreme-court-precedent vehicle-search warrantless-search Whether the court of appeals' decision not to suppress evidence found in a warrantless vehicle search conflicts with Supreme Court precedent on invent…
20-6740 Darnell Lewis Peak v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2020-12-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment impoundment inventory-search pennsylvania-law police-procedure private-property vehicle-impoundment Whether the inventory search was illegal under 75 Pa.C.S. § 6309(a) as no public interest was threatened
20-870 John W. Orem, et ux. v. Matthew Gillmore, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-12-31 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights fourth-amendment medical-privacy probable-cause qualified-immunity search search-and-seizure Whether the Respondent State Trooper's lack of probable cause to search was sufficiently clear, when all reasonable inferences are made in Petitioner'…
20-6724 Kaseem Alexander v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-12-30 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment abuse-of-discretion civil-rights criminal-procedure downward-variance due-process gun-range property-rights search-and-seizure sentencing-guidelines standing target-shooting Whether the government's warrantless search of a person's home and seizure of their property violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreas…
20-6728 Jarvis O'Neil Adams v. Georgia Office of the Governor, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-12-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment arrest civil-rights criminal-procedure law-enforcement narcotics officer-opinion probable-cause search-and-seizure seizure Whether probable cause can be established solely on officer's opinion of narcotics smell
20-6733 John Christopher Ferguson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-12-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment affidavit exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception jurisdiction jurisdictional-limits law-enforcement search-warrant warrant-affidavit Whether the good faith exception to the exclusionary rule applies where law enforcement knew or should have known the affidavit would lead to a mistak…
20-6716 Mack Calvin Martin v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry Ninth Circuit 2020-12-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process excessive-force qualified-immunity search-and-seizure Whether the petitioner's alleged pretrial bias against him violated his due process rights
20-6697 Damon O’Neil v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-12-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process franks-v-delaware ineffective-assistance-of-counsel search-and-seizure Whether the modified Franks v. Delaware 438 U.S. 154 (1978) rule announced by the Eighth Circuit allowing for deletion and retroactive replacement of …
20-840 Kenneth Knowles v. Officer Jason Michael Hart Eleventh Circuit 2020-12-22 Denied 2nd-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights deadly-force due-process fourth-amendment police-entry second-amendment self-defense standing use-of-force Does the Fourth Amendment authorize the use of deadly force against a citizen exercising her Second Amendment right to wear a holstered, licensed hand…
20-6677 In Re William Harold Wright, Jr. 2020-12-21 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process probable-cause search-and-seizure standing whether-the-district-court-erred-in-denying-the-defendant's-motion-to-suppress
20-6678 Larry David Davis v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Eighth Circuit 2020-12-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process government-surveillance privacy standing Whether the government's seizure and retention of an individual's personal information without a warrant violates the Fourth Amendment's protections a…
20-6654 Gabino Romero v. Raymond Madden, Warden Ninth Circuit 2020-12-18 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment chain-of-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-rulings fair-trial jury-instructions prejudice search-and-seizure standing Whether the conduct of the United States in conducting research prior to deliberation on a trial judge's decision violated the 4th Amendment
20-825 Christopher Brewer v. Teresa Hooks, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2020-12-18 Denied 4th-amendment causal-connection fourth-amendment informant informant-testimony probable-cause qualified-immunity search-warrant section-1983 Whether probable cause or arguable probable cause exists to seek a search warrant where an officer relies upon an informant who turns himself in, admi…
20-6647 Douglas Charles Knicely v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-12-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment appellate-review criminal-procedure district-court fourth-circuit motion-to-suppress pretrial-motion search-and-seizure standard-of-review Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred when it affirmed the district court's denial of Appellants' pretrial motion to…
20-785 Eboni Nicole Baldwin v. Latoisha Dorsey Fifth Circuit 2020-12-10 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment medical-care medical-care-delay pre-gerstein-arrestee state-actor-liability How many hours of delayed mental health care is reasonable before a state actor can be held liable for deliberately indifferent or objectively unreaso…
20-6586 Shane Mauritz Vandergroen v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-12-09 Denied IFP 4th-amendment anonymous-tip circuit-split corroboration law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion terry-stop warrant-exception warrant-requirement Must police independently corroborate the reliability of a secondhand anonymous tip before relying on it to stop a person under an exception to the wa…
20-6495 Michael Alford v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-12-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment government-seizure personal-property property-return property-rights riley-v-california search-and-seizure Whether the court erred in refusing to return personal property
20-6472 Raquel Cortez v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-12-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment border-patrol civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop Whether the same rule applies when an officer extends a traffic stop to allow border patrol agents to arrive without reasonable suspicion or other law…
20-6480 Maurice Freeman v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-11-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment bailey-v-united-states detention fourth-amendment immediate-vicinity michigan-v-summers police-authority premises-search probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure search-warrant Does the rule of Michigan v. Summers extend to individuals on a public street near the residence?
20-741 Tacara Anderson, on Behalf of Minor Child M. A. v. Officer Jonathan Vazquez Eleventh Circuit 2020-11-30 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment bodily-injury civil-rights due-process excessive-force law-enforcement qualified-immunity use-of-force Are federal courts required to afford qualified immunity to a law enforcement officer who released a K9 on a child causing serious bodily injury?
20-6445 Cristofer Jose Gallegos-Espinal v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-11-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment cell-phone cell-phone-search consent consent-form forensic-search fourth-amendment government-surveillance perpetuity riley-precedent riley-v-california Whether verbal consent to 'look through' a cell phone, followed by written consent on an outmoded pre-Riley consent form, permits the government to pe…
20-6467 Craig Howard v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-11-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment co-tenant co-tenant-consent consent-to-search detention fernandez fourth-amendment law-enforcement physical-presence randolph reasonable-search search-and-seizure Does the lawful detention of an objecting co-tenant in a squad car on the premises to be searched make him absent such that another co-tenant may cons…
20-6454 Mark David Zimmerman v. Texas Texas 2020-11-25 Denied IFP 4th-amendment constitutional-law constitutional-rights fourth-amendment fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree k-9-search probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop Whether the lower court erred in denying Petitioner's motion to suppress evidence obtained during a traffic stop under the Fourth Amendment search-and…
20-733 Terrill A. Rickmon, Sr. v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-11-25 Denied 4th-amendment circuit-split due-process emergency-exception fourth-amendment individualized-suspicion reasonable-suspicion terry-stop terry-v-ohio Does the sound of gunshots create an emergency so that the 'individualized suspicion' required by Terry attaches to anyone near the shots?
20-6392 Peter Gakuba v. United States District of Columbia 2020-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights declaratory-relief electronic-communications federal-circuit-court privacy privacy-protection search-and-seizure standing statutory-interpretation telecommunications Whether the Carpenter v. United States decision extends to cell-site location information obtained from a third-party cell phone provider without a wa…
20-6329 Daniel Acedo v. United States District Court for the Southern District of California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-11-16 Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process extraordinary-remedy federal-jurisdiction judicial-interpretation property-rights relief-sought standing statute-of-limitations Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits warrantless searches of vehicles parked on private property
20-6343 Ashley Fernandes v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2020-11-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure digital-devices digital-search-warrant electronic-evidence evidence fourth-amendment general-warrants probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant Whether a search warrant can authorize an unlimited search of all of a suspect's digital devices based on an affidavit describing the type of crime be…
20-645 Standing Akimbo, LLC, et al. v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-11-12 Denied Relisted (13) 16th-amendment 4th-amendment controlled-substances-act fifth-amendment fourth-amendment preemption self-incrimination state-rights supremacy-clause tax-law Does Colorado's state-legal cannabis sales violate the Controlled Substances Act?
20-6265 Alfredo Aguilar Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-11-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment border-search cell-phone cell-phone-privacy forensic-examination fourth-amendment privacy riley-precedent riley-v-california warrant warrantless-search Whether a warrantless forensic search of a cell phone at a border port of entry is an unreasonable search
20-595 Dennis Lemma, Sheriff, Seminole County, Florida v. Seana Barnett Eleventh Circuit 2020-11-05 Denied 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-reasonableness detention detention-duration due-process dui dui-arrest fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause Is it constitutionally unreasonable for a jail to detain for eight hours any driver arrested with probable cause for driving under the influence of al…
20-600 Anthony Sevy v. Philip Barach Sixth Circuit 2020-11-04 Denied 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights excessive-force first-amendment free-speech government-official qualified-immunity retaliation retaliatory-force symbolic-protest Does the First Amendment prohibit government officials from using retaliatory force against an individual exercising protected speech?
20-6194 Brian E. Vodicka v. Michael B. Tobolowsky, Executor of the Estate of Ira E. Tobolowsky, et al. Texas 2020-11-03 Denied IFP 4th-amendment carpenter-v-united-states cell-phone-data civil-rights digital-privacy due-process fourth-amendment mandamus-petition riley-v-california search-and-seizure supreme-court-precedent warrantless-search Whether the warrantless search and seizure of a cell phone's digital contents and location information by a private citizen debt collector violates th…
20-6200 Randall Gray Webb v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-11-03 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment cell-site-location-information constitutional-law privacy search-and-seizure standing Whether the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable searches and seizures apply to the government's acquisition of historical cell-site lo…
20-6172 Yulian Manuel Villavicencio, aka Cristian Rodriguez v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-10-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment due-process fourth-amendment interdiction probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search traffic-stop vehicle-search Whether payment of $630 for a SUV rental in the defendant's home state of Florida to go to North Carolina for a visit, the inability to recall the spe…
20-552 Jeremiah Paige Rice v. Illinois Illinois 2020-10-28 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment free-speech healthcare medical-cannabis probable-cause search-and-seizure warrantless-search Whether the detectable odor of burnt cannabis alone, without any other indicators, is sufficient for law enforcement to form probable cause to subject…
20-6149 Jose Sanchez v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-stop unreasonable-search Whether an unlawful search of a vehicle performed by law enforcement after an improperly conducted dog sniff constitutes an unreasonable extension of …
20-6150 Andres Keyon Roman v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment collective-knowledge due-process fourth-amendment narcotics reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure substantive-due-process vehicle-search warrantless-search Whether the District Court denied the Petitioner's constitutional right to substantive due process under the Fourth Amendment in this narcotics case b…
20-6142 Steven Spain v. Illinois Illinois 2020-10-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment gun-rights law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion second-amendment terry-v-ohio In a state that allows residents to carry a firearm in public, is it reasonable under the Fourth Amendment to stop and arrest someone for carrying a f…
20-529 Richard E. Boggs v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-10-21 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) 4th-amendment 5th-amendment administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-rights enforcement-scope fifth-amendment fourth-amendment internal-revenue-enforcement irs-authority judicial-review standing Does 26 U.S.C. §7608 establish the relevant requisite authority of IRS agents?
20-526 Jason M. Blackburn v. United States Armed Forces 2020-10-20 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment child-pornography criminal-procedure digital-evidence fourth-amendment good-faith-exception military-justice probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant Whether the Court of Appeals erred in holding the good faith exception applied to the search and seizure of Petitioner's computer?
20-498 Sonia Garcia, et vir v. Wesley Blevins, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-10-16 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-rights deadly-force fourth-amendment qualified-immunity stare-decisis unpublished-decisions unpublished-opinions Whether a person holding a gun has a Fourth Amendment right to be free from deadly force
20-6055 Terrill Bernard Weatherspoon v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment companion-rule fourth-amendment law-enforcement officer-safety pat-down-search reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-stop terry-v-ohio Must an officer have a reasonable suspicion that a companion of an arrestee is armed and dangerous, independently of a reasonable suspicion that the a…
20-6058 Lacey Renee Baxter Moore, aka Lacey Kittrell v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-10-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process liberty-deprivation probation probation-condition sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation statutory-purposes supervised-release Whether a standard condition of supervised release requiring a person to permit a probation officer to visit at any time at home or elsewhere is too b…
20-6006 Terrance Leon Washington v. Crystal Willett, Superintendent, Meherrin River Regional Jail Fourth Circuit 2020-10-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process entrapment ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct state-court-conviction How can law enforcement's warrantless search and seizure with fraudulent search warrants and issue a wrong indictment
20-5972 John Garrett Smith v. Ronald Hayes, Superintendent, Stafford Creek Correctional Center Ninth Circuit 2020-10-09 Dismissed IFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment criminal-procedure search-and-seizure standing suppression-of-evidence Whether a court can acquire subject matter jurisdiction over a criminal charge when the warrant used to search a smartphone is invalid because the aff…
20-5978 Yoder Austin Blalock v. Alaska Alaska 2020-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-amendments criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection self-incrimination unreasonable-search Whether the decisions of the State of Alaska and the Alaska Court of Appeals are inconsistent with the U.S. Constitution's protections against double …
20-5991 Mayra Yurivia Reyes v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment canine-sniff detention-extension drug-enforcement fourth-amendment law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop Whether Reyes' 4th Amendment Rights were violated
20-456 Michael Elder v. United States Second Circuit 2020-10-08 Denied 4th-amendment civil-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment judicial-procedure official-misconduct party-presentation search-and-seizure supervisee-rights supervisee-search suspicionless-search Whether the Second Circuit violated the party presentation principle
20-5955 Charles Lynch Pettis v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-10-08 Denied Relisted (3)IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process qualified-immunity search-and-seizure standing Whether the United States Court of Appeals erred in its interpretation and application of the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable sear…
20-5966 Keven A. Morgan v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2020-10-08 Denied IFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment attorney-general authorization-order criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial law-enforcement wire-tapping wiretapping Whether law enforcement and the district attorney failed to attach the United States Attorney General's special designated authorization order and aut…
20-5918 Leonard F. Locke, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-10-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights defense-counsel due-process fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel police-misconduct probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-stop warrantless-search Question not identified
20-5879 Michael Matthew Phillips v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-10-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment constructive-possession criminal-law criminal-procedure evidence felon-in-possession firearm-evidence rule-404b rules-of-evidence witness-testimony Whether evidence that a defendant walked with a person to a public place where the other person retrieved a firearm is sufficient to show that the def…
20-411 Traize T. Wash v. Ohio Ohio 2020-09-29 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment automobile-exception civil-rights fourth-amendment law-enforcement pretextual-stop probable-cause racial-profiling reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure whren-v-united-states Whether a police officer's subjective intent should be considered in the context of a Fourth Amendment analysis involving a pretextual stop and unreas…
20-5829 Jerry Fruit v. United States Third Circuit 2020-09-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement officer-safety probable-cause rodriguez-precedent search-and-seizure traffic-stop Whether police may delay a traffic stop, in the interest of officer safety, absent probable cause, in order to conduct a search?
20-5843 Courtney C. Brown v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2020-09-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment constitutional-rights fourth-amendment police-authority reasonable-suspicion rodriguez-v-us search search-and-seizure totality-of-circumstances traffic-stop Should the Court reverse Pennsylvania v. Mimms?
20-5811 Ruth Torres v. Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, et al. Texas 2020-09-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-violations due-process equal-protection equal-protections governmental-immunity judicial-bias pro-se-litigation whistleblower-rights When Pro Se Indigent parties lack meaningful access, procedurally and meritoriously, does this constitute lack of due process and equal protections un…
20-5797 Jeffrey Murray v. Rhode Island Rhode Island 2020-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process judicial-determination probable-cause probation-violation standing warrantless-arrest Whether a summons must issue prior to the issuance of a bench warrant
20-5776 Joel Thomas Augard v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-09-23 Denied IFP 4th-amendment affidavit criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule good-faith good-faith-exception probable-cause search-warrant warrant-execution Whether the good-faith analysis prohibits consideration of facts not included in the search-warrant affidavit?
20-5744 Antonio Miller v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-09-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights expectation-of-privacy private-property search-and-seizure standing Whether trial counsel failed to bring the issue of the defendant's expectation of privacy in a rental car parked on his private property to the attent…
20-5747 Ryan Nicholas Haynes v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-09-17 Denied Relisted (4)IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process law-enforcement passenger-rights passenger-search plain-error-review search-and-seizure traffic-stop Whether a traffic stop of a bus for a minor traffic violation allows law enforcement to order all passengers off the bus to be searched?
20-5612 Anthony Roy Brown v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-09-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment charging-instrument criminal-procedure due-process felony-sentencing intervening-arrest prior-sentences same-charging-instrument sentencing-guidelines Whether prior sentences imposed on the same day or in the same charging instrument should be counted separately or treated as a single sentence
20-283 Austin J. Bass v. Patrick M. Greve, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-09-03 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6) 4th-amendment arrest arrest-justification civil-rights criminal-intent due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement-discretion probable-cause qualified-immunity Whether Officer Bass had probable cause to arrest under the Fourth Amendment
20-5568 Alex Alberto Castro v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-09-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment appellate-review criminal-procedure evidence-law exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure suppression-of-evidence wiretap-suppression wiretaps Whether the Court of Appeals erred in affirming the District Court's Order denying the defense motion to suppress wiretaps
20-5555 Franklin C. Edwards v. Illinois Illinois 2020-09-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment investigatory-stop kansas-v-glover law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop vehicle-search Whether the traffic stop was lawful where the police had no idea who the driver was but knew the registered owner of the vehicle was neither involved …
20-5476 Derek Tyler Horton v. Alabama Alabama 2020-08-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights duty-to-investigate fourth-amendment law-enforcement lawful-arrest pretext pretextual-arrest probable-cause warrant-validity Whether a police officer's reason for acting should factor into the Fourth Amendment inquiry
20-5494 Ernest Ray Snow v. Indiana Indiana 2020-08-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment appellate-review criminal-procedure evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception search-warrant standard-of-review Does United State v. Leon, 468 U.S. 897 (1984), permit an appellate standard of review that requires an appellant to raise and rebut the applicability…
20-190 Daniel Sohn, et ux. v. Mariposa County, California, et al. California 2020-08-19 Denied 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights civil-rights-statute constitutional-violation fourth-amendment government-entity property-rights subdivision-map-act Where a government entity enters and takes real and personal property of its citizens under color of law based on an intentional misinterpretation of …
20-5390 Michael Betts v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-08-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment police-investigation police-powers reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop warrantless-search Whether a police officer inquiring about drugs without reasonable suspicion unconstitutionally broadens a traffic investigation
20-5351 Terry Alexander Wade v. Stanley Williams, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2020-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process personal-property search-and-seizure Whether the government's warrantless seizure and indefinite retention of a person's personal property violates the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on u…
20-5339 Leandre R. Jennings, III v. Nebraska Nebraska 2020-08-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment fourth-amendment good-faith good-faith-exception illinois-v-krull judicial-approval judicial-review law-enforcement probable-cause search-warrant united-states-v-leon Whether the reviewing court must use the test set forth in United States v. Leon or the test set forth in Illinois v. Krull to determine if good faith…
20-5309 Michael Owen Harriot v. Department of Justice, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-08-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process law-enforcement property-rights search-and-seizure Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits law enforcement from conducting a warrantless search of a person's home and seizing their personal property wit…
20-5285 Melvin Lee Jones v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-08-06 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment circuit-court-split criminal-procedure drug-enforcement fourth-amendment locked-containers marijuana-odor probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant Scope of search warrant based on marijuana odor
20-5290 Eric J. Perez, aka Ignacio Valdez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment electronic-communications fourth-amendment government-agency law-enforcement seizures stored-communications-act warrant-requirement warrantless-search warrantless-searches Whether subsection (f) of the Stored Communications Act is unconstitutional
20-5262 Stephen Henderson v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-08-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment carpenter-v-united-states cell-site-tracking fourth-amendment habeas-corpus retroactive-application retroactivity search-and-seizure supreme-court-precedent title-28-usc-2253 united-states-v-jones warrantless-search Should this Court's decision in United States v. Jones and Carpenter v. United States be applied retroactively under Title 28 U.S.C. § 2253
20-5246 Jerry Luke v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-08-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights conviction-review court-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process jurisdictional-challenge search-and-seizure standing statutory-interpretation Whether the district court erred in denying the defendant's motion to suppress evidence obtained through a warrantless search
20-5229 Arthur Lopez v. Costa Mesa Police Department, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-07-30 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process free-speech Should the obsence + Probable Guar onal Che absence f over beasonalte Ausp tion ino Warns tleay Mep f Petitioner, his dour Wino oh Adee, and vetiule B…
20-5230 Arthur Lopez v. Newport Beach Police Department, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-07-30 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure Whether the seizure and warrantless search of a vehicle and its contents, including a cell phone, violates the Fourth Amendment rights of the vehicle'…
20-99 Elliott Schuchardt v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. Third Circuit 2020-07-30 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights electronic-surveillance fourth-amendment government-overreach government-surveillance national-security privacy privacy-rights standing warrant-requirement Whether Schuchardt has presented sufficient factual evidence of Defendants' bulk collection of e-mail to establish a prima facie case for violation of…
20-91 Joseph H. Martin v. Department of Homeland Security Federal Circuit 2020-07-29 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-employee-rights first-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech hotel-privacy labor-management-relations standing union-speech Whether the 4th amendment protects speech in a rented hotel room
20-5186 John Edward Butler v. North Carolina North Carolina 2020-07-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights confidential-informant constitutional-rights criminal-investigation dna-evidence due-process excessive-force law-enforcement trial-procedure Whether the defendant's Fourth, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights were violated by the police officers' use of excessive force, warrantless searc…
20-5195 Gilbert Carrasco v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-07-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 4th-amendment-violation border-patrol contraband-search fourth-amendment immigration-checkpoint immigration-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure suspicion-less-stops unreasonable-search Whether the Border Patrol's use of internal immigration checkpoints to search for contraband, weapons, and undocumented immigrants violates the Fourth…
20-5182 Jesse Williams v. Bryan Wells, Warden Fourth Circuit 2020-07-27 Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process exigent-circumstances search-and-seizure unlawful-conduct Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits the warrantless search of a person's home based on the exigent circumstances exception when the police created …
20-5139 Algere Jones v. United States Second Circuit 2020-07-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule federal-district-court fourth-amendment search-and-seizure standing supervised-release Can a federal district court bar the use of the Exclusionary Rule during the petitioner's violation of supervised release hearing?
20-50 Monica Voss v. Gregory G. Goode Fifth Circuit 2020-07-21 Denied 4th-amendment appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights clearly-established-right due-process fourth-amendment qualified-immunity section-1983 standing sua-sponte Whether an appellate court may impute third-party actions to a § 1983 claimant as the basis for qualified immunity
20-5099 Lantrel DeKeith Wilson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-07-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 6th-circuit consent-search consent-to-search criminal-procedure inevitable-discovery motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure sixth-circuit supreme-court-precedent terry-stop Whether the decision of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals conflicts with Terry-v-Ohio
20-5091 Phillip Shawn Horton v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-07-16 GVR IFP vacate the judgement and remand for reconsiderati 4th-amendment case-reconsideration certiorari criminal-procedure Davis-remand davis-v-united-states judicial-remand precedent-application remand search-and-seizure Supreme-Court-review Whether this Court should grant certiorari, vacate the judgement and remand for reconsideration in light of Davis v. United States, 140 S. Ct. 1060 (2…
20-18 Arthur Gregory Lange v. California California 2020-07-14 Judgment Issued Amici (19)Relisted (2) 4th-amendment exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment home-search misdemeanor misdemeanor-pursuit probable-cause search-and-seizure warrantless-entry Does pursuit of a person who a police officer has probable cause to believe has committed a misdemeanor categorically qualify as an exigent circumstan…
19-8917 Melody Jackson Hale v. Indiana Department of Child Services, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process probable-cause property-rights search-and-seizure Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits law enforcement from conducting a warrantless search of a person's home and seizing their property without prob…
19-1470 Samuel A. Gurrola v. Walgreen Company Fifth Circuit 2020-07-08 Rehearing Relisted (2) 14th-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment monopoly monopoly-power obstruction-of-justice property-rights res-judicata Can the world's largest pharmacy chain influence a State to fabricate evidence to achieve its monopoly goals, abridge plaintiffs rights and steal plai…
19-8841 Gregory Moore v. Orange County, California, et al. California 2020-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment government-liability rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine Should the United States Supreme Court overturn a state case where serious United States Constitutional human rights have been violated by government …
19-1429 David Pena, III v. Texas Texas 2020-06-26 Denied 4th-amendment automobile-exception criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-4th-amendment-search-and-seizur exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fruit-of-poisonous-tree fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree miranda-rights probable-cause search-and-seizure Whether Texas' Third Court of Appeals erred in finding that the items found in the trunk of petitioner's car did not constitute fruit of the poisonous…
19-8759 Terry Dale Ray v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-06-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-procedure criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule interrogation-rights mental-health miranda-rights miranda-warning Whether the Constitution requires the exclusion of physical evidence found as a result of incriminating statements made by a suspect with a known ment…
19-8725 Jarvis Lee Glenn v. Michigan Michigan 2020-06-17 Denied IFP 4th-amendment access-rights civil-rights constitutional-protections defendants-rights due-process equal-protection federal-statute judicial-review search-and-seizure standing state-appeal Did the State of Michigan Supreme Court deny Glenn the equal protection under the state and federal constitution when it rubber-stamped Dr. Glenn's ap…
19-8699 Jeremy P. Spencer v. Lieutenant Minter, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-06-15 Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process excessive-force qualified-immunity unlawful-arrest Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the use of excessive force and unlawful arrest by law enforcement officers
19-8594 Justin Harrington Darrell v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-06-03 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment high-crime-area illinois-v-wardlow officer-safety reasonable-suspicion seizure terry-stop terry-v-ohio Whether 'officer safety' can justify the Terry stop
19-8511 Herbert W. Morrison, Jr. v. Andrew J. Hale Eighth Circuit 2020-05-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights civil-rights-action collateral-estoppel fourth-amendment heck-doctrine Heck-v-Humphrey illegal-search-and-seizure qualified-immunity section-1983 Whether 42 U.S.C. §1983 civil-rights claims based on 4th-amendment illegal-search-and-seizure are barred under Heck-v-Humphrey, collateral-estoppel, o…
19-8512 Alexander P. Mhlanga v. Jennifer Hicks Sixth Circuit 2020-05-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights damages due-process qualified-immunity Whether the defendant violated the plaintiff's constitutional rights under the Fourth Amendment and Equal Protection Clause
19-1309 Kari Janae Phipps v. Idaho Idaho 2020-05-21 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 4th-amendment detention detention-authority fourth-amendment michigan-v-summers probation probation-search reasonable-suspicion residence-check search-and-seizure search-warrant summers-doctrine Whether the 'limited authority to detain' during the execution of a judicially approved search warrant for contraband, Michigan v. Summers, 452 U.S. 6…
19-1301 Clyde S. Bovat v. Vermont Vermont 2020-05-20 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (3) 4th-amendment curtilage exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure warrant-requirement Whether a police officer can access 'semiprivate' areas within a home's curtilage to conduct an investigation without a warrant
19-8506 David James Ward v. United States Third Circuit 2020-05-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process qualified-immunity search-and-seizure standing Whether the lower court erred in its application of the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on unreasonable searches and seizures
19-8508 Javier Villar v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-05-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule managerial-role motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-and-seizure sentencing-enhancement standing u-s-sentencing-guidelines Whether the district court and the court of appeals erred in denying the defendant's motion to suppress evidence
19-8486 Quincy Tremayne Bloodworth v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-05-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights fourth-amendment law-enforcement marijuana-legalization police-encounter probable-cause search-and-seizure standard-of-review unreasonable-seizures Are minott ties and pool people in America provided adequate protection from unreasonable Searches and Seizures?
19-8432 Donald Randolph LaFlamme v. California California 2020-05-11 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights disparate-impact due-process employment-discrimination equal-protection fifth-amendment prison-conditions title-vii workplace-practices Whether the 4th and 8th Amendment protections, as incorporated by the 14th Amendment, were violated by the conditions of confinement in California sta…
19-1266 H. B., a Minor, Individually and as Successor in Interest to Michelle Lee Shirley, By and Through His Guardian ad Litem, Ronnie Shirley v. City of Torrance, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-05-05 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment civil-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment objective-reasonableness police-conduct qualified-immunity scott-v-harris summary-judgment use-of-force In a 42 USC § 1983 action where videos capturing the claimed use of excessive force are open to multiple interpretations as to whether the use of leth…
19-8393 Joshua Tucker v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-05-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause probation probation-rights search-and-seizure warrantless-searches Whether a probationer has a right to be free from warrantless searches and seizures conducted by law enforcement officials without reason or purpose p…
19-8281 Luqman Abdullah v. New Jersey New Jersey 2020-04-17 Denied IFP 4th-amendment delayed-notification federalism fourth-amendment new-jersey patriot-act separation-of-powers sneak-and-peek surveillance-procedure tenth-amendment Whether the enhanced surveillance procedure under Section 213 of the U.S. Patriot Act is presumptively unconstitutional
19-8227 Joshua Dwayne Carrier v. Colorado Colorado 2020-04-09 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4-year-old-transaction 4th-amendment 4th-amendment-violation constitutional-rights double-jeopardy expert-testimony fourth-amendment probable-cause search-warrant stale-information Was the search warrant for Mr. Carrier's home and computers relying on a single transaction from four years earlier based upon stale information and l…
19-8212 Santiago Soto-Garcia v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-04-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-stop witness-testimony Did the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals err in concluding that the mere presence or possession of guns/weapons seen in plain view and registered to the l…
19-1200 Johndrell Elliott v. Ohio Ohio 2020-04-08 Denied 4th-amendment dog-handler dog-sniff drug-offense drug-sniffing-dog fourth-amendment probable-cause rodriguez-standard rodriguez-v-us search-and-seizure traffic-stop warrantless-search Was the drug offense arrest based on the facts of the traffic stop and use of the drug-sniffing dog valid under Rodriguez v. U.S.?
19-8194 Jonathan Crupi v. New York New York 2020-04-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights data-collection digital-privacy electronic-devices exploratory-searches fourth-amendment particularity particularity-doctrine search-and-seizure Should the Carpenter decision on CSLI extend to digital devices?
19-8181 Arkeem Hakim Jordan v. North Carolina Fourth Circuit 2020-04-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-disclosure particularity probable-cause prosecutorial-misconduct search-and-seizure speedy-trial Whether the search warrant and the resulting constitutionally and sufficiently particularized, and whether the officers were allowed to use their disc…
19-8131 Dwayne B. Sheron v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-03-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-powers probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure vehicle-search warrantless-search Whether a police officer can utter the 'magic words' 'I smelled an odor of marihuana' to justify a warrantless search based on a 'hunch'
19-8069 Eric S. Newton, Jr. v. Ohio Ohio 2020-03-23 Denied IFP 4th-amendment cell-phone-search civil-rights constitutional-rights fourth-amendment jurisdiction law-enforcement-misconduct police-misconduct probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant Was the Ohio Supreme Court in error when it refused to accept jurisdiction over a matter that, like the instant petition, involves a substantial Const…
19-1161 Justin Hawkins v. Ohio Ohio 2020-03-23 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion stolen-vehicle traffic-stop vehicle-registration vehicle-search Whether a report that a car's color is different from the color listed on the car's registration—without any additional facts—gives a police officer r…
19-8050 Cuwan Merritt v. United States First Circuit 2020-03-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment canine-sniff criminal-procedure de-facto-arrest law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-articulable-suspicion reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure Whether the level of corroboration and investigation required for reasonable articulable suspicion gives rise to a de facto arrest, which requires pro…
19-1142 Kendall R. Carter v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-03-18 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment administrative-subpoena carpenter-v-united-states civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment internet-privacy internet-subscriber-information ip-address privacy privacy-interest subpoena third-party-doctrine warrant-requirement Whether the Fourth Amendment warrant requirement protects a right to privacy in an internet protocol (IP) address and internet subscriber information
19-1128 Jose Mendes Da Costa v. City of Mount Vernon Police Officer Pereira, et al. Second Circuit 2020-03-13 Denied 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment civil-rights civil-rights-violation claim-preclusion constitutional-amendments due-process petition-rights res-judicata Whether the right to petition the government for redress of grievances is violated by the claim preclusion Res Judicata, Bar Order
19-7983 Eric S. Newton, Jr. v. Ohio Ohio 2020-03-13 Denied IFP 4th-amendment affidavit cell-phone-search civil-rights constitutional-rights fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-rights law-enforcement-misconduct misidentification police-misconduct probable-cause reckless-disregard search-and-seizure search-warrant standing Was the Ohio Supreme Court in error when it refused to accept jurisdiction over a matter involving a violation of the petitioner's Fourth Amendment ri…
19-7968 Akube Wuromoni Ndoromo v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. District of Columbia 2020-03-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment jury-trial seventh-amendment standing takings Does the Fourth Amendment protect the right of the people to be secure therein?
19-7950 Daejerron L. Valentine v. Nebraska Nebraska 2020-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment ambiguity automobile-exception conjunctive consistency criminal-procedure Did the removal of 'or' create ambiguity? disjunctive fourth-amendment Is a defendant entitled to consistent jury instruc jury-instructions jury-trial legislative-history possession probable-cause reasonableness reasonableness-standard scope-of-search search search-and-seizure search-scope statutory-interpretation warrant-requirement warrantless-search Did the warrantless search of an automobile exceed the scope of the automobile exception?
19-1099 City of Bakersfield, California, et al. v. Leslie Laray Crawford Ninth Circuit 2020-03-09 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment mental-illness negligence objective-reasonableness police-procedure prior-knowledge reasonable-officer use-of-force Did the Ninth Circuit err when it held that evidence of prior incidents which indicate that an individual may be mentally ill could be introduced for …
19-7881 Tavares L. Farrington v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-behavior criminal-procedure first-hand-witness fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure second-hand-information terry-stop Under the Fourth Amendment, a Terry stop and frisk must be supported by reasonable suspicion that a crime has been or will soon be committed. Here, po…
19-7828 Ronald Hayward v. Keith J. Foley, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-03-02 Denied IFP 4th-amendment box-truck civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause racial-profiling search-and-seizure standing vehicle-search Do police officers have probable cause to search a vehicle or box truck without a warrant?
19-1070 Jeffrey Alan Olson v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2020-02-28 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 4th-amendment Birchfield-v-North-Dakota blood-draw constitutional-rights criminal-penalties criminal-procedure due-process retroactivity substantive-law supreme-court-precedent warrantless-blood-draw warrantless-search Whether this Court's holding that states may not impose criminal penalties on the refusal to submit to a warrantless blood draw, Birchfield v. North D…
19-1059 Angela Hamm, et vir v. Tennessee Tennessee 2020-02-26 Denied Amici (1) 4th-amendment fourth-amendment home-invasion home-search law-enforcement-search privacy privacy-rights probation probation-condition reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure warrantless-search Whether police violate the Fourth Amendment when they conduct a suspicionless search of a probationer's home
19-1055 Dustin Moss v. United States First Circuit 2020-02-25 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment civil-procedure criminal-procedure evidence-suppression fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation illegal-search package package-description particularity-requirement probable-cause search-warrant tracking-number Whether the search of a package that was solely referenced by its tracking number in the warrant's caption, but was not otherwise described in the war…
19-7716 Timmy Wallace v. United States Second Circuit 2020-02-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment database-search fourth-amendment police-database reasonable-suspicion rodriguez-precedent rodriguez-v-united-states search-and-seizure traffic-stop vehicle-identification Does Rodriguez v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 1609 (2015) permit a traffic stop to be extended based on a suspicion that had already been dispelled by p…
19-7667 Robert Tremaine Williams v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-02-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment coercion detainment due-process fourth-amendment k-9-search law-enforcement search-and-seizure seizure traffic-stop video-evidence Whether the promise to be free to leave after clearance of driver's license, vehicle papers, and warrants with issuance of a warning traffic citation …
19-7628 Glen Gary Guyn v. Jason Kent, Warden Fifth Circuit 2020-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment cause-and-prejudice comity due-process finality fourth-amendment fundamental-injustice incarceration search-and-seizure unreasonable-search unreasonable-search-and-seizure Whether Mr. Guyn's Fourth Amendment right against unreasonable searches and seizures was violated
19-7656 Michael Huntoon v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment affidavit computer-privacy computer-search fourth-amendment franks-hearing magistrate probable-cause reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure search-warrant Whether the lower court can interpret the meaning of words to determine probable cause existed in a search warrant without the false information
19-7631 Regina Wolgamott v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-02-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment garrison-v-hudson law-enforcement privacy privacy-rights probable-cause residential-search search-and-seizure search-warrant standing If when executing a search warrant of a single-family residence, officers discover multiple occupants with their own private rooms, are officers requi…
19-7592 John D. McAllister v. Timothy Malfitano, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-02-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment judicial-integrity jurisdiction jurisdictional-overreach law-enforcement-misconduct probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-falsification Whether the Fourth Amendment was violated by the illegal arrest and search of the petitioner without probable cause
19-7605 Vincent Kane v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2020-02-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment abandonment abandonment-doctrine cell-phone-privacy cell-phones fourth-amendment intent-to-reclaim password-protected property-rights public-place reasonable-expectation search-and-seizure Whether the doctrine of abandonment applies to password protected cell phones found in a public place?
19-991 Samson Primm v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-02-07 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment forfeiture forfeiture-case fourth-amendment search-and-seizure standing suppression-hearing Whether one who has the requisite standing to move to suppress based on contentions, which if validated show his Fourth Amendment rights were violated…
19-7490 Omar Ernesto Hernandez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment appeal conclusory-statements criminal-procedure fourth-amendment human-smuggling investigatory-stop law-enforcement law-enforcement-database reasonable-suspicion Whether the district court and Ninth Circuit erred in relying on factually unsupported statements in determining reasonable suspicion for an investiga…
19-7507 Tommy Gurule v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment consent consent-search detention fourth-amendment passenger-rights passengers search-and-seizure traffic-stop vehicle-search If the driver of a car consents to its search, may officers frisk non-consenting passengers and detain them for the duration of the search?
19-7477 Raul Mejia v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process expert-testimony fair-trial fourth-amendment franks-hearing search-and-seizure trial-fairness warrant warrant-validity Was petitioner's truck illegally searched due to an invalid warrant? Was petitioner improperly denied a Franks hearing? Did Officer Carbajal testify a…
19-7432 Edwin David Calligan v. Indiana Indiana 2020-01-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights fourth-amendment michigan-v-long officer-safety protective-sweep reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop vehicle-search Whether officers can reasonably fear a suspect will retrieve a weapon after being told he is free to go
19-7438 Javion Scott v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-01-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure fourth-amendment griffin-v-wisconsin law-enforcement-action parole post-release-supervision probation probation-supervision search-and-seizure special-needs-search united-states-v-knights warrantless-search Whether a warrantless search of a North Carolina post-release supervisee is a special-needs probationary search or a law-enforcement search
19-7408 Daniel Jay Bowman v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment government-prosecution parallel-construction standing Whether the Government's use of 'Parallel Construction' violates 4th-and-5th-amendment-rights
19-7392 Demetrius Darrell Davis, aka Meatman v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 4th-amendment-search-and-seizure abandonment abandonment-doctrine criminal-procedure disclaimer-of-ownership fourth-amendment incriminating-statement incriminating-statements police-questioning property-rights reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure Whether a mere disclaimer of ownership in an effort to avoid making an incriminating statement constitutes abandonment
19-7370 Mario Alberto Buenrostro-Lopez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-01-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment anonymous-tip border-patrol border-security civil-rights criminal-activity criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment investigatory-stop reasonable-suspicion vehicle-stop Whether an individual's telephone call to law enforcement is sufficient to establish reasonable suspicion for an investigatory stop
19-899 Shaniz West v. Doug Winfield, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-01-21 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (6) 4th-amendment civil-rights consent due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement property-damage property-rights qualified-immunity Whether an officer who has consent to 'get inside' a house but instead destroys it from the outside is entitled to qualified immunity in the absence o…
19-7342 Ray Turner v. Veronica Cadney, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-01-17 Denied IFP 1983-complaint 4th-amendment civil-rights civil-rights-act-1983 dismissal due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment section-1983 standing temporary-restraining-order Did the U.S. District Court error by not applying the Fourth Amendment equal protection to the petitioner's case when he applied for a temporary restr…
19-7319 Thomas Bradford Waters v. John Stewart, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-01-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process evidentiary-standards excessive-force free-speech judicial-interpretation legal-procedure procedural-review qualified-immunity standing summary-judgment takings Whether the district court erred by granting summary judgment in favor of the defendant, despite the plaintiff's claims that there were genuine issues…
19-7311 Alphonso Vernell Frazier, II v. City of Omaha Police Department, et al. Eighth Circuit 2020-01-15 Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights color-of-law due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment search-and-seizure section-1983 unreasonable-search unreasonable-search-and-seizure Whether the authorities of the Municipal Government of the City of Omaha failed to properly train their officials and employees
19-7282 John Anthony Arnold v. Virginia Virginia 2020-01-14 Denied IFP 4th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment law-enforcement motion-to-suppress ninth-circuit search-warrant standing warrantless-arrest Did the Virginia Supreme Court err in upholding petitioner's warrantless arrest?
19-7225 Michael Lara Salas v. N. Vazquez, Warden Fifth Circuit 2020-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure-issues constitutional-provisions due-process factual-background police-report standing 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process exigent-circumstances probable-cause search-and-seizure Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when the police conducted a warrantless search of their home and seized personal property…
19-7221 Anthony Gray v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-01-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 4th-amendment,probable-cause,search-and-seizure,ma marijuana probable-cause recreational-marijuana search-and-seizure vehicle-search Does the faint smell of marijuana in a car, alone, give local police probable cause to search the car for contraband under the Fourth Amendment?
19-7209 Jurother Lee Alston, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-4th-amendment-exclusionary-rule evidence-law exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery nix-v-williams search-and-seizure What is the scope of the Inevitable Discovery doctrine originally set out in Nix v. Williams, 467 U.S. 431, 444 (1984)?
19-7213 Rodney Banks v. California California 2020-01-08 Denied IFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment arrest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourth-amendment law-enforcement miranda-rights probable-cause search-and-seizure Whether the arresting officer failed to read the petitioner their Miranda rights and used the wrong evidence for deliberation
19-7139 Daryl Glenn Pawlak v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-01-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment circuit-split due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment good-faith outrageous-government-conduct rule-41 search-warrant warrant-violation Whether the Fifth Circuit's standard for determining outrageous government conduct violates the Fifth Amendment Due Process clause
19-7106 Peter Woodley v. United States Third Circuit 2019-12-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment consent consent-to-search lawful-possession reasonable-expectation-of-privacy rental-car search-and-seizure standing Whether an unauthorized driver of a rental car maintains lawful possession and control of the car where there are modest violations of the rental car …
19-797 City of St. Louis, Missouri, et al. v. Mary R. Meier Eighth Circuit 2019-12-23 Denied 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment civil-rights fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment municipal-liability probable-cause section-1983 seizure wanted-bulletin warrantless-seizure Whether a municipality can be held liable under 42 U.S.C. §1983 for a warrantless seizure of an automobile based on probable cause
19-7035 Michael B. Lowry v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment attenuation-doctrine burden-of-proof criminal-procedure evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment search-and-seizure suppression-of-evidence Does the government bear the burden of proving that the attenuation doctrine applies to preclude suppression of evidence after an illegal search or se…
19-7037 Shannon Bradley v. Thomas A. Cox, Jr. Georgia 2019-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment arrest-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule jurisdiction probable-cause search-and-seizure trial-court-jurisdiction unlawful-search unlawful-seizure Whether the trial court lawfully obtained its jurisdiction to be heard?
19-7043 John A. Toth v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-20 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment abuse-of-discretion attenuation civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining police-conduct post-conviction-relief Whether police custodial interrogation on less than probable cause for arrest held violative of 18 U.S.C. §§ 241-242 and Petitioner's 4th Amendment ri…
19-7020 Nahach Garay v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment affidavit criminal-procedure fourth-amendment inventory-search law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure training-and-experience warrant warrantless-search Whether a purported inventory search that produces no inventory can justify the warrantless search of an automobile
19-7022 Jesus D. Cruz v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-12-19 Denied IFP 4th-amendment constitutional-violation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel rehaif-v-united-states search-and-seizure search-warrant sentencing toxicology-report Whether Counsel was ineffective for not showing the Petitioner and or verifying to the Petitioner, that the officers never producted a valid search wa…
19-6969 Leviticus A. Swift v. Georgia Georgia 2019-12-18 Denied IFP 4th-amendment arrest-warrant civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment indictment probable-cause search-and-seizure Whether the probable cause for the issuance of an arrest warrant was insufficient to justify the petitioner's arrest?
19-7006 Alvin Andrae Drummond v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment armed-career-criminal-act criminal-sentencing misdemeanor-crime-of-violence physical-force predicate-offense probable-cause search-warrant statutory-interpretation violent-crime Whether a misdemeanor crime of violence, not aggravated by any additional force, can properly meet the elements of an Armed Career Criminal Act predic…
19-6887 In Re Brad K. Edmonds 2019-12-09 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment 4th-circuit carpenter-v-united-states civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment gps-tracking probable-cause retroactivity search search-and-seizure suppression warrantless-search Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits warrantless GPS tracking of a vehicle, and whether the retroactive application of the Supreme Court's decision …
19-6859 Michael A. Green v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-12-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment abandoned-vehicle community-caretaking criminal-procedure fourth-amendment inventory-search investigatory-motive law-enforcement-motive pretext search-and-seizure tow-policy vehicle-impoundment vehicle-search Whether an officer with a motive to search for incriminating evidence may impound a vehicle and inventory its contents in contravention of the standar…
19-6821 Tim Sundy v. Friendship Pavilion Acquisition Co., et al. Georgia 2019-12-03 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 1st-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment takings Whether Petitioner Tim Sundy, without a meaningful remedy, has immunity, as provided by the due process clause of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments …
19-6768 Cary VanDerMeulen v. Thomas L. Leclaire, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-11-26 Denied IFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment abuse-of-authority civil-asset-forfeiture civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-abuse law-enforcement-misconduct property-rights standing takings When are the Federal Courts going to take-up the cause concerning the violation(s) of Constitutional Law and abuse(s) of authority by the States of th…
19-661 Mynor Abdiel Tun-Cos, et al. v. B. Perrotte, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-11-22 Denied 4th-amendment bivens bivens-action civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-law-enforcement federal-tort-claims-act immigration-enforcement law-enforcement qualified-immunity search-and-seizure Whether victims of an unconstitutional search and seizure may bring a civil action against rogue agents under Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of th…
19-6737 Leonard L. Little, Jr. v. Florida Florida 2019-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment appellate-review carpenter-v-united-states constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-law fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure jurisdiction legal-standards privacy search-and-seizure sixth-amendment-confrontation-clause standing supreme-court-precedent Did the Second District Court of Appeal apply federal law issued by the United States Supreme Court in a way that frustrates and undermines its holdin…
19-6691 Robert H. Smith v. Indiana Indiana 2019-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment exclusionary-rule fifth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance judicial-review sixth-amendment state-court-conflict strickland-standard Whether the Indiana Supreme Court/Court of Appeals has entered a decision in conflict with other decisions previously made in the United States Suprem…
19-6698 Amon Rweyemamu Mtaza v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-11-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel involuntary-consent plain-view-doctrine probable-cause search-and-seizure sixth-amendment venue-defense wire-fraud Whether the petitioner's Fourth Amendment rights were violated by an unlawful arrest, unlawful search and seizure, and involuntary coerced consent
19-649 N. E. L., et al. v. Monica Gildner, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-11-19 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment child-custody civil-rights decisional-law due-process fourth-amendment jurisdiction post-removal-hearing post-seizure-hearing qualified-immunity uccjea Were Colorado's UCCJEA requirements detailed enough to defeat qualified immunity in a Fourth Amendment claim arising from the denial of a post-seizure…
19-626 Robert Huff, et al. v. Michele Choate Tenth Circuit 2019-11-15 Denied 4th-amendment civil-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment graham-v-connor pre-seizure-conduct qualified-immunity reckless-creation Whether the Tenth Circuit's 'reckless creation' theory, which imposes liability for the creation of the need to use force, should be barred because it…
19-6640 Ramelus D. Bradley v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment circuit-court circuit-court-review civil-rights federal-law federal-law-violation fourth-amendment gps-tracking jones-v-united-states search-and-seizure supreme-court-precedent vehicle-search Whether the circuit court erred when it failed to find that the state court had violated federal law and in doing so, violated petitioner Bradley's Fo…
19-6642 Michael Allen Channel v. Benjamin Marquez, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech privacy search-and-seizure standing technology Whether the warrantless search and seizure of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable searches and …
19-6602 Carey Ackies, aka Boyd v. United States First Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment cell-phone cell-phone-tracking criminal-procedure direct-review drug-offense first-step-act law-enforcement-surveillance location-tracking search-and-seizure sentencing-thresholds surveillance Whether a cell phone is a 'tracking device' under 18 U.S.C. § 3117(b)
19-6603 Dijon Rasheed Brown v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment anticipatory-warrant controlled-delivery drug-possession fourth-amendment jury-selection probable-cause search-and-seizure standing Whether the Fourth Amendment tolerates the mere placing of a package containing drugs on a person's property, then executing the warrant when any pers…
19-609 Erin J. Shepherd, et al. v. Angela Studdard Sixth Circuit 2019-11-12 Denied Relisted (3) 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct qualified-immunity sixth-circuit summary-judgment use-of-force Whether police officers are entitled to qualified immunity for shooting a knife-wielding suspect on open ground based on a case involving a shooting-t…
19-6573 Garron Gonzalez v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-11-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment cell-phone cell-phone-privacy civil-rights constitutional-rights digital-evidence effective-assistance-of-counsel fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel probation probation-search search-and-seizure suppression-of-evidence unreasonable-search Whether the Fourth Amendment required suppression of evidence found during warrantless interception of incoming calls on a jailed probationer's cell p…
19-6561 Maurice D. Joseph v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-08 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment illegal-interrogation right-to-privacy secret-recording self-incrimination unlawful-interrogation warrantless-recording Whether a detective's interrogation of a suspect at the suspect's home and secret recording of the suspect without consent, court authorization, or a …
19-6512 Michael Allen Channel, Sr. v. John Brinker, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-11-07 Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process excessive-force judicial-review legal-precedent qualified-immunity search-and-seizure standing statutory-interpretation Whether the defendants' warrantless seizure and search of the plaintiffs' home violated the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on unreasonable searches an…
19-6491 Matthew Shaffer v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-11-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-4th-amendment-search-and-seizur drug-conspiracy due-process evidence-suppression evidentiary-hearing exclusionary-rule firearms-expert-testimony-drug-activity law-enforcement-testimony multiple-conspiracies-sentencing-enhancements rule-29-motion-sufficiency-of-evidence search-warrant sentencing-enhancement standing Whether the trial court erred in failing to conduct an evidentiary hearing and suppress evidence obtained under a search warrant
19-6332 Walter Glenn v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment consent-to-search criminal-procedure fourth-amendment leadership-role obstruction-of-justice rental-vehicle search-and-seizure sentencing-guidelines standing standing-civil-procedure standing-doctrine traffic-stop Whether a relief driver of a rental vehicle had standing to challenge evidence seized from the car
19-6343 Antoine Richmond v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-10-23 Denied IFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure felon-in-possession fourth-amendment home-entry home-privacy probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure warrantless-search Did law enforcement's suspicion that a firearm would be found just inside the threshold of the home justify their search?
19-6319 Antonio Bogan v. Jeffrey German, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-10-21 Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement owner-knowledge probable-cause stare-decisis vehicle-seizure warrantless-search Whether probable cause to effect a warrantless seizure of a vehicle is equivalent to officers' knowledge of an arrestee being its owner?
19-494 David Zachary Morgan v. Washington Washington 2019-10-17 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedRelisted (2) 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment government-search plain-view-doctrine plain-view-exception probable-cause property-seizure search-and-seizure warrant-requirement Whether a government official who would like to seize someone's personal property, and has both probable cause and the time to obtain a warrant, must …
19-6267 Michael E. Goynes, Jr. v. Nebraska Nebraska 2019-10-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment affidavit cell-phone cell-phone-privacy crime-investigation criminal-investigation fourth-amendment nexus probable-cause search search-and-seizure search-warrant warrant-requirement Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits the search of the content of a suspect's cell phone when the affidavit in support of the search provides no nex…
19-6273 Henry Cyrus Lucas v. Florida Florida 2019-10-15 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process liberty qualified-immunity search-and-seizure standing takings Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable searches and seizures
19-466 Zachery Pittman v. Herman Harris Fourth Circuit 2019-10-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established excessive-force fourth-amendment qualified-immunity scott-v-harris section-1983 summary-judgment use-of-force Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in deviating from other circuit holdings and announcing that Scott v. Harris directs the lower courts to examine whet…
19-6233 Alshaqah Tariq Powell v. United States Third Circuit 2019-10-09 Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-procedure consent consent-search consent-to-search constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process expectation-of-privacy fourth-amendment involuntary-consent traffic-stop vague-consent-form vagueness Whether Petitioner had the Fourth Amendment rights as a United States Citizen to be advised of his rights to the 'expectation of privacy' during a det…
19-426 Pennsylvania v. Michael J. Hicks Pennsylvania 2019-10-01 Denied Amici (1) 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-analysis due-process element-or-defense-test firearm-possession innocent-scenarios law-enforcement police-officer police-stop reasonable-suspicion stop totality-of-circumstances Whether the Pennsylvania Supreme Court's decision is contrary to SCOTUS precedent on reasonable suspicion analysis
19-6095 Charles Devan Fulton, Sr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-09-27 Denied IFP 4th-amendment cellphone-privacy evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception leon-good-faith-exception predicate-illegality probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant united-states-v-leon warrant-requirement Whether the Government can whitewash, via United States v. Leon, 468 U.S. 897 (1984), its predicate illegal seizure of a citizen's cellphone and salva…
19-6046 Steven Gary Sanders v. William Beck, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-25 Denied IFP 1st-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment law-enforcement search-and-seizure vehicle-seizure Issues being raised
19-398 LMP Services, Inc. v. City of Chicago, Illinois Illinois 2019-09-24 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment competition due-process food-truck-regulation fourth-amendment gps-tracking licensure municipal-ordinance privacy-rights restaurants search unreasonable-search Whether Chicago's requirement that licensed food trucks install GPS devices that create comprehensive records of their movements in order to protect r…
19-6028 Adam Lane v. Adam Nading, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-09-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-violation fourth-amendment knock-and-announce parole-search parole-searches qualified-immunity Whether qualified immunity applies to § 1983 actions for failure to knock-and-announce in parole searches
19-365 John Barth v. United States First Circuit 2019-09-19 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment civil-rights compensation constitutional-rights copyright copyright-law due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction seizure sovereign-immunity takings takings-clause Violation of Constitutional Rights
19-5972 Dimitri Bernard Robinson v. Michigan Michigan 2019-09-18 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights federal-courts jurisdiction pen-register petition privacy probable-cause supreme-court trap-and-trace writ-of-certiorari Was petitioner's Fourth Amendment right to privacy and protection violated without probable cause, when law enforcement obtained an unreasonable order…
19-5897 Carlos German Lema Nogales v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 4th-circuit-precedent 6th-amendment conspiracy constitutional-violations criminal-informant due-process eavesdrop effective-assistance-of-counsel fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance multiple-conspiracies search-and-seizure warrant warrant-reliability WHETHER PETITIONER WAS DENIED EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL
19-5902 Sharvelt Mister v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Arkansas 2019-09-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression judicial-hearing judicial-process jurisdiction procedural-fairness standing supremacy-clause Whether the actions taken by law enforcement, including arrest and detention without a judicial determination of probable cause, violate the petitione…
19-5915 Steven J. Varnauskas v. Illinois Illinois 2019-09-11 Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment license-plate probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-violation vehicle-impoundment vehicle-search warrantless-search Whether a bicycle rack attached to the rear of a vehicle was stowed accordingly and correctly to the manufacturer's instructions and does not obscure …
19-5881 Arthur O. Armstrong v. Virginia, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-09-10 Dismissed IFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-procedure-rule-60-b-6 constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment liberty property rule-60 Whether Petitioner is entitled to relief, pursuant to Rule 60(b)(6) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure or any relief
19-5868 William Charles Burgess v. Chuck Bowers, Jr., et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-09-09 Denied IFP 4th-amendment circuit-court circuit-court-review criminal-procedure district-court district-court-finding district-court-findings expectation-of-privacy legal-precedent precedent prior-decisions search-and-seizure sixth-circuit Whether the Sixth Circuit Court improperly reversed the District Court's finding that Petitioner had an expectation of privacy in and around his busin…
19-5801 Emory Chiles v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-09-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure district-court evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fourth-circuit motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-and-seizure standard-of-review Whether the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred when it affirmed the district court's denial of Chiles' motion to suppress evidence?
19-5825 Mario Garcia-Zavala v. United States First Circuit 2019-09-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment booking-exception booking-information-exception constitutional-law criminal-procedure evidence-of-identity fifth-amendment fourth-amendment immigration-crimes miranda-v-arizona miranda-warnings stop-and-identify Does the booking information exception to the warnings required by Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436 (1966), apply to evidence of identity in prosecuti…
19-5766 Tham Bui v. California California 2019-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment cell-phone cell-phone-location-data cell-phone-privacy fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search gps gps-tracking location-data privacy reasonable-expectation-of-privacy telecommunications Did petitioner have a reasonable expectation of privacy in the contemporaneous Global Positioning System coordinates transmitted by the petitioner's c…
19-5751 Charles Massengill v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment interstate-compact parole parole-supervision parolee-rights reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure state-statute warrantless-search Whether reasonable suspicion is required for a law enforcement officer to conduct a warrantless search of a parolee or his residence in the absence of…
19-263 Cody Ross v. Johnnie Rochell, Jr. Eighth Circuit 2019-08-28 Denied 4th-amendment 8th-circuit assault-weapon civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-violation eighth-circuit excessive-force kisela-v-hughes law-enforcement qualified-immunity use-of-force Did the Eighth Circuit depart from this Court's decision in Kisela v. Hughes, __ U.S. _, 188 S. Ct. 1148 (2018) (per curiam) and numerous other cases …
19-5731 Angel Mesa Madueno v. California California 2019-08-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights consensual-encounter consent fourth-amendment independent-contractor privacy property-rights search-and-seizure standing trespass warrantless-entry Whether an independent contractor legitimately working in another's back yard has standing to contest a warrantless and non-exigent entry onto the pro…
19-5605 Stephen Alan Macomber v. Kansas Kansas 2019-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment burden-of-proof civil-liberties constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-trial fourteenth-amendment sixth-amendment state-action use-of-force Did the trial courts fail to give a specific use-of-force presumption, thereby lowering the burden of proof for the state and violating the defendant'…
19-5606 Ndokley Peter Enow v. Ricky Foxwell, Warden, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-08-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment plea-bargaining probable-cause search-and-seizure sentencing standing Did the trial court err by admitting into evidence the illegally obtained wiretap recordings of the defendant's phone conversations with an undercover…
19-5670 Thomas James v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment byrd-doctrine exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment passenger-rights passenger-standing rakas-v-illinois reasonable-expectation-of-privacy reasonable-expectation-privacy search-and-seizure standing vehicle-search Does a passenger have standing to challenge the search of a vehicle in which they have no ownership or possessory interest?
19-222 Paul Anthony Valderas v. City of Lubbock, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-08-20 Denied 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights deadly-force due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct police-use-of-force qualified-immunity reasonable-force reasonable-inference use-of-force Whether an officer on the scene constrained by what he observes to use any force creates a reasonable inference that deadly force is excessive?
19-202 Solomon McLemore v. City of Shoreline, Washington Washington 2019-08-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 4th-amendment civil-rights community-caretaking due-process fourth-amendment free-speech obstruction obstruction-of-justice probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-requirement warrantless-entry warrantless-search Whether it is a violation of the Fourth Amendment for States to charge and convict a person of obstruction for passively refusing to open the door to …
19-5596 Eric T. Latham v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-08-15 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment arizona-v-gant civil-rights criminal-procedure evidence fourth-amendment minor-traffic-offense probable-cause search-incident-to-arrest traffic-offense vehicle-search Whether the search incident to arrest exception permits police officers to conduct a search based on probable cause for a minor traffic offense and bo…
19-5600 Rafael Tello v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-08-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment border-patrol canine-sniff fourth-amendment free-air-sniff immigration-checkpoint martinez-fuerte-standard reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure united-states-v-martinez-fuerte May a Border Patrol agent working in the primary inspection lane of an interior immigration checkpoint extend the immigration stop beyond the 'brief q…
19-5585 Aljulah Cutts v. New York New York 2019-08-14 Denied IFP 4th-amendment carpenter-retroactivity carpenter-v-united-states cell-site-location-information ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jones-v-united-states procedural-default real-time-tracking retroactivity stored-communications-act warrant-requirements Whether Congress intended for an order under the Stored Communications Act to be sufficient to authorize real time tracking of cell phone generated Ce…
19-5555 Reginald Lacey v. David Gomez, Warden Seventh Circuit 2019-08-12 Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement search-and-seizure statutory-authority unreasonable-search void-order warrant-validity warrantless-search Whether the police department's use of a 'void order' to conduct a warrantless search violated the petitioner's Fourth Amendment rights
19-171 In Re Jack R. Finnegan 2019-08-06 Denied 14th-amendment 1st-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment goldberg-v-kelly government-redress judicial-procedure Was Petitioner denied his Constitutional guaranteed rights, power, privilege, or immunity
19-5444 Andrew Blake Moorehead v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception jurisdiction jurisdiction-limitation network-investigative-technique void-ab-initio warrant warrant-validity When a warrant is void ab initio, does the Good-Faith exception to the exclusionary rule apply?
19-5462 Wayne Pettaway v. Michael Clark, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion Third Circuit 2019-08-06 Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jury-prejudice magistrate-bias Was there grounds for a lawful warrant for my arrest?
19-5475 Mitchell Taebel v. Maricopa County Attorney's Office, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-08-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-misconduct qualified-immunity standing unreasonable-seizure Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated
19-5488 Loretta Jackson v. Joseph Barla, et al. Delaware 2019-08-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment animal-rights civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment property-rights state-action state-actor Whether The Supreme Court of the State of Delaware deprived Loretta Jackson of her Due Process rights under the 4th and 14th Amendment of the United S…
19-5458 Samantha Winter v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-08-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation evidence evidence-admission harmless-error miranda-warnings motion-to-suppress rule-404b search-and-seizure warrantless-search whether-miranda-rights-were-violated
19-5429 Cantrell Lamont Burwell v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-01 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment appellate-procedure clear-error consent-search consent-to-search de-novo de-novo-review eleventh-circuit fourth-amendment standard-of-review totality-of-circumstances Whether an appellate court should review de novo or for clear error a district court's finding that a defendant did not voluntarily consent to a searc…
19-5431 DeAndre Cherry v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-08-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel eighth-amendment exclusionary-rule fifth-amendment fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation probable-cause search search-and-seizure vehicle-search Was the petitioner's Fourth Amendment right infringed upon when the officers conducted an illegal search of his vehicle absent probable cause?
19-5414 Arthur Whitley v. Texas Texas 2019-07-31 Denied IFP 4th-amendment affidavit cell-phone cell-phone-data cell-phone-search criminal-investigation evidence-nexus fourth-amendment murder-investigation nexus-requirement probable-cause riley-precedent riley-v-california search-warrant search-warrant-precedent Whether the Fourth Court of Appeals' legal analysis of the nexus between evidence about a murder investigation and information in the Petitioner's cel…
19-5347 Joshua Frederick Davis v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights dog-sniff due-process probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-stop traffic-stop Whether the Court should revisit Florida v. Harris to clarify what the dog's 'alert' means and whether the dog is trained to display an alert for any …
19-5357 Daniel Eugene Cookson v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights exclusionary-rule federal-magistrate federal-magistrates-act federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fourth-amendment good-faith-exception magistrate-judge search-warrant territorial-jurisdiction When a warrant authorizes a search beyond the issuing judge's territorial jurisdiction, does the good-faith exception to the exclusionary rule apply t…
19-5326 Sean Frederik Franke v. Florida Florida 2019-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment blood-draw blood-extraction civil-rights drunk-driving due-process exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment missouri-v-mcneely probable-cause warrant-requirement warrantless-search Whether the Court should resolve the question of whether law enforcement officers can rely on the exigent circumstance exception to the Fourth Amendme…
19-5341 Roshard Whitehead v. Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process federal-rule-3 fifth-amendment fourth-amendment illegal-search-and-seizure search-and-seizure standing victim-rights Whether the courts overlooked federal law and the U.S. Constitution when they overlooked the 4th Amendment exclusionary rule, the 5th Amendment right …
19-5343 Amoire Dupree v. United States Second Circuit 2019-07-25 Denied IFP 4th-amendment constitutional-law exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree incident-to-arrest law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure search-incident-to-arrest warrantless-search Can the warrantless search of a person be justified as incident to arrest where, at the time of the search, no arrest has been made and none would hav…
19-5283 Kyle Jason Korte v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment good-faith-exception illinois-v-krull improper-application judicial-precedent law-enforcement search-and-seizure statutory-interpretation valid-law Does the 'good faith exception' outlined in Illinois v. Krull extend to circumstances where the statute remains valid but was improperly applied?
19-5280 Charles D. Tuttoilmondo, Jr. v. Texas Texas 2019-07-22 Denied IFP 4th-amendment administrative-law administrative-search border-patrol checkpoint-search civil-rights commercial-vehicles constitutional-reasonableness criminal-procedure drug-interdiction fourth-amendment roving-patrol search-and-seizure special-needs-doctrine Does Texas' use of commercial motor vehicle inspectors combined with a roving drug interdiction task force unconstitutionally and unreasonably abuse t…
19-5213 Arthur O. Armstrong v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania Third Circuit 2019-07-17 Dismissed Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-procedure-rule-60-b-6 constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment liberty property rule-60b6 Whether Petitioner is entitled to relief, pursuant to Rule 60(b)(6) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure or any relief
19-5218 In Re Teon Jamell Williams 2019-07-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-evidence due-process exceptional-circumstances indictment indictment-challenge ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel retroactivity search-and-seizure short-form-indictment Was the conviction obtained by use of evidence obtained by unreasonable search and seizure?
19-5139 Alauna Gaye Morris v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-07-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights fourth-amendment impound inventory-search investigative-stop law-enforcement policy pretext search-and-seizure unreasonable-search vehicle-impoundment Whether the Government meets its burden of proving the existence of a clear written policy for searching impounded vehicles
19-5081 David Morel, Jr. v. United States First Circuit 2019-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment computer-location computer-search digital-privacy expectation-of-privacy fourth-amendment internet-activity-tracking ip-address law-enforcement reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure warrantless-search Whether the warrantless search for personal IP address information related to images that Morel privately uploaded to Imgur, an image-hosting website,…
19-21 Gregory Owens v. United States First Circuit 2019-07-03 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-protection due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement-procedure property property-rights search search-and-seizure standing warrant warrant-requirement Does the Fourth Amendment protect a person's property from a search without a warrant?
19-5045 Donald Lee Hathorn v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 5th-circuit appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process electronic-devices fourth-amendment search-and-seizure supervised-release warrantless-search Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit erred by affirming the district court's requirement for Mr. Hathorn to submit his com…
19-5013 Hugo Santana-Dones v. United States First Circuit 2019-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-circuit-review intercept-standard necessity standard-of-review statutory-burden statutory-rights warrant-necessity wire-communications wiretap Whether the First Circuit's standard of review on the necessity of a warrant to intercept wire communications violates the defendant's constitutional …
19-5035 Calvin James v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process evidence probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant standing trial witness Do officers need consent to search private property without a search warrant?
19-5048 Mark Anthony Dolph v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure custody custody-determination due-process evidentiary-standard interrogation legal-procedure miranda-warnings officer-testimony video-evidence Why does Geasoned Opinions of _jprist Thou out the federal system demonstrate that freminded ytist can disagree AS +o Whether the use of handtudfs jtu…
19-5050 John Asmodeo v. United States Second Circuit 2019-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment attenuation-doctrine Attenuation-Factors circuit-split civil-rights due-process exclusionary-rule Finucan-Factors Flagrant-Misconduct fourth-amendment fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree illegal-search Intervening-Circumstances Purpose-of-Condon's-Interview suppression-hearing Temporal-Proximity Whether the attenuation doctrine applies when law enforcement officials deliberately discuss illegally seized evidence with a third party in order to …
19-5002 Jared Len Cruse v. Texas Texas 2019-06-28 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment cell-phone-evidence conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel life-sentence search-and-seizure warrantless-search Whether the cell phone evidence was the product of a warrantless search and seizure and/or an illegal detention; and thus, whether this evidence can b…
19-5011 Danny P. Phipps v. New York New York 2019-06-28 Denied IFP 4th-amendment abandonment abandonment-property burden-of-proof burden-shifting civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process jury-selection pro-se-representation property-abandonment search-and-seizure standing Can Appellate Division develop a rule that shifts the burden from the People to a defendant to prove he or she did not abandon property making it subj…
18-9825 Shepell Orr v. Ron Neal, Superintendent, Indiana State Prison Seventh Circuit 2019-06-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 14th-amendment-equal-protection 4th-amendment 4th-amendment-seizure 5th-amendment 5th-amendment-due-process 6th-amendment 6th-amendment-fair-trial 8th-amendment-cruel-punishment circuit-court-conflict fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment sudden-heat Whether the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals' decision conflicts with another circuit court decision and a state court decision, and whether the petitione…
18-1577 Pennsylvania v. Edward Adams Pennsylvania 2019-06-25 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) 4th-amendment 4th-amendment-law civil-rights conflict-with-other-jurisdictions fourth-amendment investigative-detention law-enforcement-encounter pennsylvania-supreme-court probable-cause reasonable-suspicion seizure terry-stop traffic-stop Whether the Pennsylvania Supreme Court erred in finding that Adams was subjected to an unreasonable seizure in violation of the 4th Amendment
18-9775 Dustin Washington v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-06-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment affidavit criminal-procedure drug-weight forfeiture fourth-amendment fourth-circuit motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant sentencing-error standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in failing to find that the trial court erred in denying Mr. Washington's motion to suppress the search of the BMW
18-9756 Hector Guadalupe Lozano v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-06-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights drug-dog fourth-amendment law-enforcement lawful-possession odor-detection probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure Whether a drug dog's alert, standing alone, is sufficient to establish probable cause to search when the dog is known to react to the odor of a substa…
18-9736 Darius Kinney v. Ohio Ohio 2019-06-20 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (3)IFP 4th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-law criminal-procedure fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure sixth-amendment warrant warrantless-search Were Petitioner's Sixth Amendment rights violated?
18-9655 Sylvester Ekwunife v. City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2019-06-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment affidavit affidavit-accuracy civil-rights constitutional-procedure criminal-procedure detective-misconduct fourth-amendment groh-v-ramirez probable-cause warrant warrant-preparation Whether the dictates of Groh v. Ramirez were violated when the Detective in this case did not have all the correct facts when preparing a probable cau…
18-9694 Oliver Douce v. New York New York 2019-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1st-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights false-arrest fifth-amendment fifth-amendment-self-incrimination first-amendment-free-speech fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure illegal-arrest illegal-search jurisdiction probable-cause search-and-seizure standing Whether fingerprints obtained from John Doe appellant should have been excluded from evidence as the product of false arrest and illegal search under …
18-9606 Curtis Wayne Givens v. Virginia Virginia 2019-06-11 Denied IFP 4th-amendment Arrest criminal-procedure due-process evidence-seizure Fifth-Amendment Jury-Selection motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-and-seizure standing Voir-Dire witness-examination Whether the trial court properly overruled the Petitioner's motion to suppress evidence seized without probable cause
18-9631 Erickson Meko Campbell v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-06-11 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception reasonable-suspicion rodriguez-v-united-states seizure-doctrine traffic-stop united-states-v-griffin Whether the exclusionary rule should apply when the only precedent the officer could rely on was not directly on point, explicitly rejected a bright-l…
18-9571 Willie Carl Jones v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2019-06-06 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence false-testimony fourteenth-amendment juror-influence search-and-seizure Whether the denial of petitioner's motion to suppress bullets conflicts with relevant decisions of this Court in violation of petitioner's Fourteenth …
18-9553 Marvin Eugene Jones v. California California 2019-06-05 Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure standing statutory-provisions Whether the lower court erred in its application of the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable searches and seizures
18-9434 Juan Carlos Rodriguez v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 404(b) 4th-amendment co-defendant-consent consent-search consent-to-search fourth-amendment jury-instructions prior-bad-acts prior-bad-acts-404(b) rule-404b search-and-seizure sentencing sentencing-variance standing-4th-amendment-search-and-seizure standing-to-suppress variance warrantless-search Whether the trial and appellate court erred in adjudging that Petitioner had no standing to request suppression of evidence obtained from a warrantles…
18-1483 Gene N. Barry v. Scott M. Freshour, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-05-29 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment administrative-law administrative-search civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment medical-records privacy privacy-interest property-rights section-1983 standing Must doctors have an ownership interest in their medical practices in order to have cognizable privacy or property interests in medical records that (…
18-1486 Zachariah J. Marshall v. Indiana Indiana 2019-05-29 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment federal-precedent fourth-amendment law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion speeding traffic-stop vehicle-movement vehicle-speed warrantless-stop Whether the Fourth Amendment requires reasonable suspicion of speeding based on an officer's ability to provide actual or estimated vehicle speed or o…
18-1478 Ryan Lawrence Steck v. Maryland Maryland 2019-05-28 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment drug-dog-search drug-sniffing-dog fourth-amendment law-enforcement-procedure police-investigation police-procedure probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search search-and-seizure vehicle-search Does an indication of a drug-sniffing dog being 'in odor' without an alert provide probable cause for a search?
18-1466 County of Sonoma, California, et al. v. Rafael Mateos Sandoval, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-05-24 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 4th-amendment constitutional-rights continued-detention detention due-process fourth-amendment lawful-seizure monell-liability municipal-liability property-rights property-seizure public-safety section-1983 seizure vehicle-impound Whether the Fourth Amendment can be violated by the government's mere continued detention of property even though its full-blown seizure satisfied the…
18-9419 Mario Laron Waiters v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-05-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1st-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment first-amendment fourth-amendment Whether the Virginia Statute 19.2-72 violates due-process, equal-protection, 1st-amendment, 4th-amendment, 5th-amendment, 6th-amendment
18-9422 Davaus L. McCown v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment controlled-buys criminal-pattern criminal-procedure drug-crimes drug-enterprise drug-sales fourth-amendment ongoing-activity ongoing-criminal-activity probable-cause probable-cause-search search-and-seizure search-warrant stale-information Whether two police-orchestrated, controlled buys demonstrate an ongoing pattern of drug sales sufficient to support probable cause for an otherwise-st…
18-9388 In Re Ramsey Randall 2019-05-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 8th-amendment appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process federal-remedy free-speech habeas-corpus judicial-review standing statutory-provisions Whether the federal abstention doctrine restricts federal courts from providing relief to state criminal defendants who seek to challenge their convic…
18-9393 Tarell McIlwain v. United States Second Circuit 2019-05-23 Denied IFP 2nd-circuit 4th-amendment circuit-split custodial-arrest fourth-amendment new-york-court-of-appeals officer-safety probable-cause search-incident-to-arrest warrantless-search Can the warrantless search of a person be justified as incident to arrest where, at the time of the search, no arrest has been made and none would hav…
18-9402 David Lester Jackson v. California California 2019-05-23 Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-rights ineffective-assistance-of-counsel probation probation-search search-and-seizure standing warrant-requirement warrantless-search Were-appellates Fourth Amend. rights violated
18-1458 Charles J. Vernier v. Debra Gallegos New Mexico 2019-05-22 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment 4th-amendment-search burden-of-proof circuit-precedent circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established clearly-established-law consent consent-burden fourth-amendment implied-consent qualified-immunity search-and-seizure Did the state appellate court err in failing to apply the standards set forth in federal case law regarding 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and the qualified immunit…
18-9371 Lawrence Dusean Adkinson v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-05-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment adhesion-contract cellular-service civil-rights consent csli due-process fourth-amendment historical-csli location-tracking privacy privacy-policy standing Whether a defendant necessarily consents to disclosure of historical CSLI data tracking his physical location in excess of seven days simply by utiliz…
18-9225 Michael Otho Raihala v. Michigan Michigan 2019-05-10 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-detention due-process pre-accusation-detention probable-cause state-agent-liability Whether it is constitutional for state and local agents to detain a citizen indefinitely without probable cause or process as a pre-accusation detaine…
18-9166 Travis Michael Ortiz v. David Baughman, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-05-08 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection standing state-action takings Can California violate my freedom of the Double Security Clauses of the 4th Amendment and 5th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution?
18-9131 Ryan Canfield v. United States Second Circuit 2019-05-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights community-caretaking due-process fourth-amendment impoundment inventory law-enforcement probable-cause public-safety reasonableness standardized-procedures vehicle-impoundment Must impoundment be reasonable under the Fourth Amendment, or conducted pursuant to standardized procedures, or both?
18-9102 Michael Bazan v. Robert Whitfield, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-05-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process evidence excessive-force qualified-immunity standing Whether the Court of Appeals erred in denying Petitioner's Excessive-Force claim
18-9041 Peter Gakuba v. Illinois Illinois 2019-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process exclusionary-rule free-speech search-and-seizure standing takings Whether the petitioner's constitutional and statutory rights were violated when the state court denied his motion to suppress evidence obtained throug…
18-9042 Kingy Ossarius Holden v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-counsel criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel newly-discovered-evidence search-and-seizure Whether the district court erred in denying the appellant's claims related to an unconstitutional search and seizure, ineffective assistance of trial …
18-9058 Juan L. Garcia v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-05-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment cell-phone-data civil-rights consent fourth-amendment home-search lawful-arrest probable-cause search-and-seizure seizure unreasonable-search warrantless-search Whether the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on unreasonable searches and seizures applies to the search of a person's home and belongings when the pers…
18-9036 Gregory Tarrel Brown v. Virginia, et al. Virginia 2019-04-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights curtilage fourth-amendment plain-smell-doctrine probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-stop terry-v-ohio Whether the defendant's Fourth Amendment rights were violated
18-9037 Rolander Brown v. Nebraska Nebraska 2019-04-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception search-and-seizure stored-communications-act Whether the 'good faith exception' to the exclusionary rule should apply to court orders obtained pursuant to the Federal Stored Communications Act
18-9050 Roland Kailihiwa v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-04-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment canine-alert contamination drug-detection drug-detection-canine expert-testimony probable-cause residual-odor search-and-seizure search-warrant training Whether Mervin's positive alert on a parcel shipped to Hawaii, given his unsophisticated training and the possibility of contamination, suffices to es…
18-1355 Edward Kramer v. Antonio Vitti, et al. Second Circuit 2019-04-29 Denied 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights factual-dispute jury-trial malicious-prosecution material-dispute material-facts seventh-amendment summary-judgment Whether the Petitioner's Seventh Amendment right to a jury determination of the material disputed facts in his case was violated when the Court of App…
18-9000 Johnnie Sterling, Jr. v. Ronda Pash, Warden Eighth Circuit 2019-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 28-usc-1257 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights dna-testing due-process post-conviction-relief skinner-v-switzer subject-matter-jurisdiction Should the United States Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals have granted the Certificate of Appealability in case no. 18-2519, where no reasonable jurist…
18-8971 William T. Liepe v. New Jersey New Jersey 2019-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment blood-alcohol blood-alcohol-test case-review constitutional-law constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression judicial-interpretation legal-standard search-and-seizure statutory-provisions suppression warrantless-search Did the warrantless search of defendant's blood for the purpose of determining his blood alcohol level violate the established constitutional principl…
18-8928 Alberto Julio Guillen v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process evidence evidence-suppression exigent-circumstances search-and-seizure standing Whether a warrantless entry and search, where the totality of the circumstances indicates that exigent circumstances had occurred, or was recovering e…
18-8943 David Raphael Concepcion v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment arrest arrest-incident constitutional-provision criminal-procedure home home-search law-enforcement maryland-v-buie police-powers protective-sweep search-and-seizure Whether the holding of Maryland v. Buie applies to protective sweeps incident to arrests made just outside a home
18-1321 Edward Ronald Ates v. Gurbir Grewal, Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2019-04-18 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment attorney-client-privilege civil-rights due-process federalism fourth-amendment interstate-communications jurisdictional-authority law-enforcement-surveillance out-of-state-interception phone-call-interception privacy state-jurisdiction wiretap-statute wiretapping Whether the New Jersey Wiretap Statute violates the Fourth Amendment by permitting law enforcement to intercept phone calls of out-of-state individual…
18-8873 Tracy Devon Thomas v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-04-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-evidence evidence judicial-standard law-enforcement perpetrator probable-cause search-warrant shooting standing vehicle-rental Can the common-sense standard of probable cause be so reduced as to allow a search warrant to be issued on the basis that a person rented a vehicle th…
18-8849 Keith Andre Robinson v. H. White, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-04-16 Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure standing warrantless-search Did the District Court err in finding that no exigent circumstances were present to justify the warrantless search and seizure of Petitioner's home an…
18-8823 Omer Al Obaidy v. Kevin K. McAleenan, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-04-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 10th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights due-process false-arrest fifth-amendment fourth-amendment immigration immigration-removal self-incrimination sixth-amendment tenth-amendment unlawful-seizure Whether a long-term legal resident with no criminal record who was removed from the U.S. based on falsified records has due process rights
18-8811 Antonio Darset King, Sr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel search-and-seizure search-warrant sixth-amendment standing voir-dire Whether the United States Court of Appeals erred in failing to grant petitioner King relief as to the denial of his motion to suppress the search warr…
18-8797 Juan Lopez-Zuniga v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-04-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 8th-circuit eighth-circuit gps-monitoring gps-tracking gps-warrant probable-cause search-and-seizure supreme-court-precedent vehicle-search vehicle-tracking warrant-standard Whether the Eighth Circuit's creation of a new standard in evaluating GPS warrants is contrary to existing United States Supreme Court precedent
18-1287 Alexander L. Baxter v. Brad Bracey, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-04-10 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (11) 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process excessive-force police-misconduct police-use-of-force qualified-immunity search-and-seizure seizure Whether the use of a police dog to apprehend a suspect who has surrendered by sitting on the ground with his hands up violates the Fourth Amendment
18-8754 Richard D. Pomeroy v. Municipality of Anchorage, Alaska Alaska 2019-04-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment blood-test breath-test civil-penalties civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure minor-traffic-infraction probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-infraction traffic-stop Should civil penalties be imposed on petitioner for refusal to submit to a breath test when an intrusive blood test was administered
18-8779 Yamura D. Hudson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-04-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing curtilage ex-post-facto exclusionary-rule fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree illegal-warrant jurisdiction-violation search-and-seizure standing warrant Whether the 11th Circuit courts must suppress the fruits of the admitted to illegal search and seizure
18-8784 DiAngelo Johnson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-04-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-justice due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct pretextual-stops racial-profiling traffic-stops whren-v-united-states Should this Court overrule Whren?
18-8758 Lamonte Diondre Gaston v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-04-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment caretaking civil-procedure community-caretaking fourth-amendment impoundment inventory-search law-enforcement outstanding-fine warrant-requirement Whether the inventory-search exception to the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement applies to a search of a vehicle that was impounded for the purpo…
18-8696 Cody R. Brown v. Louisiana Louisiana 2019-04-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process jurisdiction qualified-immunity search-and-seizure standing statutory-interpretation Whether the lower court erred in its application of the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable searches and seizures
18-8650 Ollisha Nicole Easley v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights consensual-search due-process fourth-amendment interrogation probable-cause race racial-profiling reasonable-person reasonable-person-standard search search-and-seizure When examining the totality of the objective circumstances, is a bus passenger's race a factor in understanding how a reasonable person in her positio…
18-8631 Bekim Fiseku v. United States Second Circuit 2019-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights fourth-amendment handcuffing investigative-stop police-procedure probable-cause terry-stop terry-v-ohio unusual-circumstances Whether the Second Circuit disregarded its prior decisions and created precedent that undermines the rule that officers may not handcuff a suspect dur…
18-8596 Jose Bernazard v. Joseph Koch Second Circuit 2019-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment appeals-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process exhaustion-of-remedies judicial-review legal-procedure procedural-error qualified-immunity section-1983 Did The Coork of Appeals not granting Ped, boner Access to Enter Appeal WAS ow Abvse of dixre lion by diswuss:
18-8578 DeMarius L. Williams v. Illinois Illinois 2019-03-26 Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief prosecutorial-misconduct search-and-seizure sufficiency-of-evidence Whether petitioner's Fourth Amendment rights were violated when he was convicted of possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance beyond a …
18-8487 Kevin Neysmith v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-03-22 Denied IFP 4th-amendment birchfield-precedent birchfield-v-north-dakota blood-alcohol blood-alcohol-content criminal-procedure evidence-admissibility fourth-amendment fruits-of-the-poisonous-tree o-connell-warnings o'connell-warnings search-warrant warrantless-search Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits State judicial systems from admitting evidence of blood alcohol content obtained without a search warrant
18-8518 John Moses Burton v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-03-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-protections due-process fourth-amendment good-faith good-faith-exception judicial-interpretation legal-precedent magistrate-qualifications search-and-seizure search-warrant standing When and how should the courts be bound to the precedent set by the high Court's opinion?
18-1230 Juan Zamudio v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-03-21 Denied 4th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process fourth-amendment nexus-requirement particularized-nexus probable-cause residence search-and-seizure search-warrant standing Whether a search warrant application that fails to provide any particularized nexus between an individual's alleged drug trafficking activity and the …
18-8474 John Henneberry v. County of Alameda, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-03-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment bench-warrant civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment mail-fraud qualified-immunity rico-statute service-of-process When can a court allow faulty and fabricated service-by-mail of a criminal summons instead of personal service-by-sworn-officer?
18-8457 John Garrett Smith v. Washington Washington 2019-03-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process free-speech jurisdiction standing takings us-v-will Whether the court erred in dismissing the petitioner's claims due to lack of jurisdiction and failure to state a claim under the U.S. Constitution
18-8448 Edward Bishop v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure digital-evidence digital-files dna-evidence evidence fourth-amendment particularity-requirement probable-cause search-warrant Does a search warrant which described the place to be searched and the things to be seized fail the particularity requirement of the Fourth Amendment?
18-8438 Abdul Cole v. Virginia Virginia 2019-03-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment administrative-law civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment jurisdictional-standards procedural-due-process reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure sexual-harassment strip-search title-ix university-liability Whether the strip search and visual body cavity search of Mr. Cole violated the Fourth Amendment's prohibition against unreasonable searches and seizu…
18-8402 Jesse Allen Dauenhauer, aka Jesse A. Dauenhauer v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-03-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 4th-amendment,search-and-seizure,exclusionary-rule constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment search-and-seizure suppression-of-evidence washington-state-law Should the District Court have suppressed the evidence of firearms in the Defendant's car because the search and seizure was inadmissible under Washin…
18-8361 Arturo Sarli v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights consent-to-search custodial-interrogation detention due-process fourth-amendment fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure search-consent vehicle-search Whether consent to search comes to a natural end after a thorough and fruitless search has been conducted or may officers use the initial consent to s…
18-8297 John Baccus v. Edgar L. Clements, III, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-03-06 Dismissed IFP 4th-amendment brady-v-maryland civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence judicial-power prosecutorial-misconduct Whether the Fourth Circuit Court's proceedings that led to petitioner's sentence violated his constitutional and statutory due process rights
18-8293 Rodolfo Rivero Garcia, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment border-patrol border-search drug-interdiction drug-trafficking fourth-amendment reasonable-suspicion terry-stop traffic-stop vehicle-search vehicle-stop Whether the stop of Mr. Garcia's vehicle was supported by reasonable suspicion under the Fourth Amendment
18-8213 Hector Santillan v. United States Second Circuit 2019-03-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment fourth-amendment minority-communities police-interrogation police-investigation prolonged-detention reasonable-suspicion reid-v-georgia rodriguez-standard rodriguez-v-united-states traffic-stop Whether an officer may prolong a traffic stop to investigate other matters
18-8223 Michael A. Young v. Vernon Oliver, Judge, Superior Court of Connecticut, Tolland Judicial District, et al. Second Circuit 2019-03-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights mandamus self-recusal standing 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process premature-dismissal self-recusal standing Whether petitioner was wrongfully invoking self-executing Sections 1 and 4 of the 4th Amendment, becoming a named defendant in a civil-rights case, wi…
18-8177 Julia Augusta Constan Macri v. Illinois Illinois 2019-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure deviation fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure illinois-v-caballes law-enforcement original-purpose reasonable-suspicion rodriguez-v-united-states traffic-stop Whether under the Fourth Amendment the reasonable articulable suspicion necessary to extend a traffic stop must be formed before the officer's deviati…
18-8186 Kirby Gant v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment automobile-exception civil-rights criminal-procedure eleventh-circuit inevitable-discovery inventory-search plain-view-doctrine probable-cause search-and-seizure vehicle-search Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred by finding that the automobile exception applied when the district court made no findings that the vehicle was read…
18-1121 Captain James Linlor v. Michael Polson Fourth Circuit 2019-02-27 Denied 4th-amendment bivens bivens-action civil-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment police-powers qualified-immunity sexual-battery tsa tsa-screener tsa-screening Whether the attested-as-intentional excessive and unreasonable force striking of a cooperative passenger's genitals by a TSA screener not meeting mand…
18-8146 Jamie Geer v. Florida Florida 2019-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment interstate-police-action jurisdiction jurisdictional-violation minor-consent out-of-state-jurisdiction police-conduct wire-communication wiretap-act Whether the minors consent for the interception of wire communication is legally and constitutionally valid, when secured by police acting outside of …
18-8166 Bruce Dwayne Winston v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment carpenter-v-united-states cell-site-data evidence-admissibility pretextual-stop reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure terry-stop unlawful-search-and-seizure Did the District Court err in admitting evidence obtained from an illegal Terry/pretextual stop in violation of the 4th Amendment?
18-1099 Janie L. Robinson v. State Compensation Mutual Insurance Fund Montana 2019-02-22 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process grand-bargain medical-examination new-york-central-v-white search search-and-seizure state-authority unconstitutional-conditions workers-compensation Unreasonable medical examinations in workers' compensation system violate Fourth Amendment, exceed 'Grand Bargain' limits, and improperly condition be…
18-8109 Robert Blake Adams v. Texas Texas 2019-02-22 Denied IFP 4th-amendment blood-draw criminal-procedure due-process exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment retroactive-application retroactivity texas-transportation-code warrant-requirement warrantless-search Should this court's holding in Missouri v. McNeely, 133 S. Ct. 1552 (2013), be applied retroactively to state cases?
18-1081 Curtiss Wilson v. Horton's Towing, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights drug-law-enforcement drug-laws due-process forfeiture indian-law indian-tribe-authority montana-exception montana-v-united-states non-native-americans non-native-seizure tribal-jurisdiction tribal-law tribal-sovereignty vehicle-forfeiture Whether an Indian tribe has authority under the Montana exception to forfeit automobiles owned by non-Native Americans for violation of tribal drug la…
18-8054 Michael Kenneth Young v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-02-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment crack-cocaine-seizure criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-joinder fair-trial firearm-seizure fourth-amendment joinder motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-and-seizure severance traffic-stop Did the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals err in upholding the denial of Petitioner Michael Young's motion to sever his unrelated charges arising out of…
18-8034 Jesse Brewer v. United States Third Circuit 2019-02-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure due-process eminent-domain property-rights standing takings 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process qualified-immunity search-and-seizure standing Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable searches and seizures
18-1078 James Dawson, et al. v. Joshua Brennan Sixth Circuit 2019-02-19 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (9) 4th-amendment circuit-split curtilage fourth-amendment law-enforcement probation probation-condition probation-conditions search-and-seizure sixth-circuit Sixth Circuit misapplied Supreme Court precedent on Fourth Amendment curtilage, creating circuit split
18-7962 Al-Rashid Muhammad Abdullah v. Plant City Police Department, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-02-14 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 1st-amendment 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment liberty-rights property-rights section-1983 takings Whether the Due Process Clause requires an opportunity for a post-deprivation hearing for a property right/interest § 1983 claim
18-7982 Obelin Jaimes-Aviles v. Florida Florida 2019-02-14 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights due-process exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure vehicle-search Whether the warrantless search and seizure of a person's vehicle and its contents violates the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable sea…
18-7950 Marquette Walker v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-02-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment constructive-possession criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-law premises-liability search-and-seizure Does nonexclusive possession of a premises serve to establish constructive possession of items found within the premises?
18-7889 Ramon Romero v. Illinois Illinois 2019-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process excessive-force police-misconduct qualified-immunity Whether the police officers' use of force against the petitioner was reasonable under the Fourth Amendment
18-7914 Jay Maurice Tharps v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment anonymous-informant drug-trafficking fourth-amendment leon-exception leon-good-faith-exception partially-rotten-fruit probable-cause search-warrant totality-of-circumstances totality-of-the-circumstances Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in determining that probable cause existed
18-7933 Keith Charleston v. Jeffrey Woods, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure-miranda due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel miranda-rights premeditated-murder probable-cause self-defense self-incrimination warrantless-arrest Whether petitioner's statement was unconstitutionally obtained due to intoxication and lack of sleep preventing a knowing and intelligent Miranda waiv…
18-7882 Christopher M. Gates v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-02-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment handcuffs investigative-detention officer-safety reasonable-suspicion terry-stop use-of-force Whether use of handcuffs is permissible during a mere investigative detention, or 'Terry stop,' where there is a risk to officer safety
18-1045 Nathaniel Brent, et al. v. Wayne County Department of Human Services, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-02-08 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment administrative-policy civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process ex-parte-orders judicial-oversight qualified-immunity rooker-feldman-doctrine standing Plaintiffs' constitutional rights violated by administrative policy allowing probation officer to approve non-appealable, non-final, ex-parte orders w…
18-7870 Jeremiah W. Balik v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-02-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 6th-amendment armed-forces-status civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process interlocutory-appeal judicial-bias judicial-review removal removal-jurisdiction sixth-amendment Whether harmful legal error occurred in the lower court proceedings
18-7846 Reginald Hough v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment confrontation-clause evidence expert-testimony fifth-amendment lay-witness police-procedure probable-cause search-warrant totality-of-circumstances Was there probable cause for the search warrant?
18-1024 Lenard Johnson v. Richard Winfrey, Jr. Fifth Circuit 2019-02-06 Denied 4th-amendment accrual-of-claim civil-rights false-statements fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure franks-analysis franks-v-delaware law-enforcement-misconduct legal-accrual material-omission probable-cause qualified-immunity warrant-application Franks v. Delaware analysis of omitted information material to probable cause
18-7786 Roy Shotwell v. Kevin Genovese, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-02-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure critical-stage dna-analysis dna-evidence dna-testing due-process effective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-due-process prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment standing warrantless-seizure Whether the Tennessee courts abused their discretion in denying Petitioner's DNA and post-conviction relief
18-1006 Michael Kevin Adams v. Texas Texas 2019-02-01 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights community-caretaking criminal-procedure fourth-amendment impoundment interrogation law-enforcement minor-offense probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-stop vehicle-impoundment vehicle-search Michael-Kevin-Adams
18-7711 Christopher Fitzgerald v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant united-states-v-leon warrant-affidavit Does the 'good faith' exception to the exclusionary rule apply to uphold a search
18-7619 Michael Scott Morris v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment coercion consent criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment police-coercion probable-cause search-and-seizure voluntary-consent warrant-requirement Is consent to search a home freely and voluntarily given when police threaten arrest and jail if they are required to obtain a search warrant?
18-7611 Terrance E. Everett v. Delaware Delaware 2019-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-issues court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process evidence legal-interpretation officer-discretion police-misconduct public-policy standing suspect-authority Whether the lower Court and the Delaware Supreme Court erred, and abused their discretion, with regards to the lower Court's denial of a mistrial and …
18-7561 Juan Guzman v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process standing Whether the Constitution of the United States protects against arbitrary actions of government
18-7520 Benjamin Patrick Lee v. Officer Pirko, in His Individual and Official Capacity, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-01-23 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights due-process federal-court-order standing Whether state actors can completely violate the 4th, 5th, and 14th Amendments without liability
18-7530 Tonya Udoh, et vir v. Minnesota Department of Human Services, et al. Eighth Circuit 2019-01-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment 1983-claims 1985-claims 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights davis-v-monroe-county-board due-process emotional-distress false-arrest fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment haines-v-kerner minor-children miranda-rights monell-liability municipal-liability parental-rights pro-se-litigant qualified-immunity search-and-seizure standing unconstitutional-statutes Whether pro se litigants are held to the same legal standards as counseled litigants
18-7534 Tylon Hudson v. Illinois Illinois 2019-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment parolee probable-cause reasonable-belief search-and-seizure warrant Does a Police officer who without reasonable belief that a parolee is inside his residence and repeatedly enters the parolee's unoccupied residence, i…
18-7425 Jovan Cooper v. Illinois Illinois 2019-01-16 Denied IFP 14th-amendment administrative-law civil-procedure due-process equal-protection standing 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process qualified-immunity search-and-seizure standing Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the 4th Amendment's protections against unreasonable searches and seizures
18-915 Gregory T. Christian v. K. A. Payne, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-01-16 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment audio-evidence coercion consent evidence-suppression fourth-amendment procedural-irregularities qualified-immunity search-and-seizure section-1983 suppression-of-evidence warrantless-search Whether producing identification without being requested justifies search for weapons several minutes later
18-924 Michael Antonio Bullock v. North Carolina North Carolina 2019-01-16 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-limits due-process fourth-amendment mission-scope police-conduct police-investigation reasonable-duration rodriguez-v-united-states traffic-stop Whether any activities unrelated to the mission of a traffic stop inherently prolong it, and what activities fall within the mission of a stop?
18-7294 Sergio Antonio Zambrano v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment fourth-amendment pat-down probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-stop terry-v-ohio warrantless-search warrantless-searches Whether a police officer may reach into an individual's pockets and remove objects during a Terry stop if the officer cannot determine through a pat-d…
18-7251 Consuelo Jordan v. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, et al. District of Columbia 2019-01-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process exclusionary-rule jurisdiction probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure standing takings Whether the lower court erred in its application of the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable searches and seizures
18-7256 Amin De Castro v. United States Third Circuit 2019-01-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement-interaction police-encounter police-seizure probable-cause reasonable-person reasonable-person-standard seizure terry-stop whether a reasonable person would feel free to refuse a police officer's polite request to take his hands out of his pockets
18-863 Tralvis Edmond v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-01-07 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment confidential-informant criminal-activity criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment probable-cause search-warrant temporal-evidence Whether a complaint for search warrant that is silent as to the date on which alleged criminal activity occurred and recounts only a single drug purch…
18-831 Michael Presley, et al. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-03 Denied 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process financial-privacy financial-records fourth-amendment internal-revenue-code irs-investigation preemption right-to-financial-privacy-act right-to-privacy tax-summons third-party-summons Whether the court below erroneously held that the issuance of summonses under 26 U.S.C. § 7609 preempts the privacy rights of non-party clients
18-7206 Christopher Thomas Kegler v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-01-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process evidence legal-precedent miranda-rights search-and-seizure self-incrimination supreme-court-review Should this Court reconsider and reverse Schneckloth v. Bustamente
18-7195 Eduardo Gomez v. Illinois Illinois 2018-12-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 4th-amendment-jurisprudence criminal-activity firearm-possession investigatory-seizure police-powers reasonable-suspicion Does suspected possession of a firearm, on its own, provide a police officer with reasonable suspicion of criminal activity to justify an investigator…
18-7179 Trevelle J. Taylor v. Nebraska Nebraska 2018-12-27 Denied IFP 4th-amendment arrest-standards civil-rights confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search witness-testimony Whether a person's mere proximity to others independently suspected of criminal activity, without more, gives rise to probable cause to search that pe…
18-7184 Antione Chambers, aka Sealed Defendant 1, aka Twizzie v. United States Second Circuit 2018-12-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment carpenter-v-united-states cell-site-data civil-rights exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception search-and-seizure stored-communications-act warrantless-search Whether the good faith exception to the Fourth Amendment exclusionary rule applies
18-7163 Kent Mayfield, et ux. v. Harvey County Sheriff's Department, et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-12-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 2nd-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights dog-seizure due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement personal-property pet-dog property-rights qualified-immunity search-and-seizure warrantless-search Did the defendants violate the plaintiffs' Fourth Amendment rights?
18-7095 Miguel Robinson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment circumstances circumstantial-evidence criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-search rigid-legal-rules rule-of-law search search-and-seizure search-warrant Did the Court of Appeals violate the principle that rigid legal rules are ill-suited to an analysis of probable cause by relying on a rule to find a m…
18-7124 Ruben Geovanni Hernandez v. Texas Texas 2018-12-19 Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fishing-expedition fourth-amendment law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion scope-of-detention search-and-seizure traffic-stop vehicle-search Does the Fourth Amendment protect against a 'fishing expedition' to develop 'reasonable suspicion' to exceed the scope of an initial stop in order to …
18-7062 Louis Matthew Clements v. Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Florida 2018-12-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment civil-rights civil-rights-statute constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment malicious-prosecution state-governmental-immunity Does FL.S. § 768.28 first claiming to allow Florida citizens to sue State Governmental Agencies for malicious prosecution and then disallowing it, in …
18-7043 Coleman Tuton v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-12-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment attenuation-doctrine commercial-passenger-bus drug-detection-canine fourth-amendment independent-source-doctrine luggage probable-cause search-and-seizure warrantless-search Does the general alert of a drug-detection canine to the luggage compartment of a commercial passenger bus—but not to any particular piece of luggage …
18-7053 Kevin Scott Varner v. John Christiansen, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-12-14 Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment habeas-corpus state-court state-court-litigation state-court-review stone-v-powell What constitutes an opportunity for full and fair litigation of a Fourth Amendment claim in state court?
18-764 Oscar Henry Steinmetz v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-12-14 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment civil-rights consent consent-search constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure Does the law regarding searches, seizures, and consent need clarification for proper guidance and application?
18-746 County of Los Angeles, California, et al. v. Angel Mendez, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-12-12 Denied 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment causation circuit-review civil-rights clearly-erroneous fourth-amendment intervening-event proximate-causation proximate-cause reasonable-force remand search-warrant section-1983 standard-of-review use-of-force warrantless-search Whether a plaintiff's injuries resulting from a police officer's use of force may be proximately caused by the officer's failure to secure a search wa…
18-6951 Jamal Cooper v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2518 4th-amendment congressional-intent consent-requirements criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment franks-v-delaware necessity-requirement omnibus-crime-control-act probable-cause separate-application statutory-interpretation wiretap-application wiretap-necessity wiretap-statute Is 18 U.S.C. § 2518 (1) (ce) a statutory provision that reflects Congress' core concerns and does § 2518 (1)(c) require that each request for a wireta…
18-6959 Glenn Lloyd Kingham v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-12-07 Denied IFP 4th-amendment actual-prejudice assistance-of-counsel civil-rights competency constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule habeas-corpus judicial-review post-conviction probable-cause procedural-rules search-and-seizure Whether arbitrary government intrusion violates the Fourth Amendment by means of unlawful search and seizure without probable cause
18-6963 Muhammed Tariq Camran v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-circuit 11th-circuit-split 4th-amendment 4th-circuit 4th-circuit-split circuit-split drug-corridor fourth-amendment law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion rental-vehicle search-and-seizure traffic-stop vehicle-rental Should this court resolve the split between the Fourth and Eleventh Circuit about the probity of the fact that a vehicle is a rental in the reasonable…
18-6918 Samantha Christine Velazquez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-12-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment border-search cell-phone-privacy cell-phone-search civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment probable-cause riley-precedent riley-v-california search-and-seizure warrantless-search Whether a warrantless, post-arrest cell-phone-search is permissible under the Fourth-Amendment at the United-States-border
18-6866 Thomas Edward Sperber v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2018-11-28 Denied IFP 4th-amendment cellular-phone civil-rights digital-privacy fourth-amendment privacy probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-requirement warrantless-search Does the act of accessing any information from a cellular phone without a warrant contravene the Supreme Court's decision in Riley v. California and U…
18-6775 Edward Joseph Kehoe v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-11-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure fourth-amendment harmless-error impartial-judge judicial-error racial-bias racial-discrimination reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure structural-error warrantless-search Whether the clearly improper use of a person's race by a judge to support a finding of reasonable suspicion justifying a warrantless search and seizur…
18-643 Janette Dunkle v. Jennifer Dale, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-11-19 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment 4th-amendment child-seizure circuit-court-precedent circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment qualified-immunity warrantless-seizure Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in applying the narrow approach from Kirkpatrick, and whether Circuit-level opinions stating that an emergency is requ…
18-6715 Cortney John Edstrom v. Minnesota Minnesota 2018-11-19 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment apartment-dwellers apartment-search circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights curtilage drug-detection-dog drug-detection-dogs due-process first-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech reasonable-expectation-of-privacy standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for violation of their First Amendment rights
18-6734 Henry Franklin Reddick v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-11-19 Denied IFP 4th-amendment child-pornography civil-rights digital-privacy digital-search fourth-amendment hash-value private-search private-search-doctrine search-and-seizure warrant-requirement Does a police officer violate the Fourth Amendment by opening a digital file and viewing an image in it without a warrant to confirm a private company…
18-6664 Daniel David Garza v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment law-enforcement motion-to-suppress probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop Whether the lower courts erred in denying Mr. Garza's Motion to Suppress based on the erroneous finding that the officer had reasonable suspicion to i…
18-6702 Brandon Gale Combs v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-11-14 Denied IFP 4th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception leon-doctrine probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant warrant-requirement Whether it is unconstitutional to allow appellate courts to review information known to police, but unknown to the neutral and detached magistrate at …
18-576 Robert H. Wright, Jr. v. Jerald Watson, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-11-02 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 4th-amendment civil-forfeiture civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment malicious-prosecution police-misconduct probable-cause standing Is a malicious prosecution claim under the Fourth Amendment and Manuel v. City of Joliet the proper civil remedy for an 'overcharge' prosecution?
18-6505 Brian Powell v. United States First Circuit 2018-11-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment appellate-review district-court first-circuit fourth-amendment fourth-amendment,private-search-doctrine,united-st motion-to-suppress private-search-doctrine search-and-seizure united-states-v-jacobsen Whether the First Circuit erred when it relied upon the private search doctrine as delineated by this Court in United States v. Jacobsen, 466 U.S. 109…
18-6512 Jabril Jones v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-11-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment appeals cell-phone-privacy civil-procedure civil-rights due-process exclusionary-rule false-imprisonment Fourth-Amendment jurisdiction jury-trial probable-cause search-incident-to-arrest sentencing standing warrantless-search Whether petitioners were arrested without probable cause
18-6499 Dominique Johnson v. United States Third Circuit 2018-10-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 10th-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights double-jeopardy due-process federal-agents federal-government fourth-amendment home-arrest standing tenth-amendment warrantless-search Whether an individual can challenge a warrantless arrest inside a home by federal government agents under the 4th Amendment
18-556 Kansas v. Charles Glover Kansas 2018-10-29 Judgment Issued Amici (10)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) 4th-amendment fourth-amendment habitual-violator investigative-stop law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion registered-owner traffic-law traffic-laws vehicle-registration vehicle-stop Whether an officer may reasonably suspect the registered owner of a vehicle is driving the vehicle absent information to the contrary
18-6431 Justin Jenkins v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-10-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment evidence-suppression Exclusionary-Rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception Illegal-Search Illegal-Seizure probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant standing vehicle-search Whether the trial court erred in refusing to suppress evidence from illegal searches
18-6412 Jaiyanah Bey v. Elmwood Place Police Department, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-10-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 4th-amendment-search-and-seizure administrative-search civil-rights commercial-activity constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure standing traffic-stop Can a police randomly stop and force you off the road to randomly inspect your private property without probable cause to impose a program on people t…
18-503 N. E. L., et al. v. Douglas County, Colorado, et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-10-18 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment 4th-amendment child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process familial-association full-faith-and-credit interstate-agreement procedural-due-process qualified-immunity right-to-travel Whether petitioners' summary removal from Colorado to Kansas violated clearly established rights to procedural due process, a warrant or valid court o…
18-6365 Angel Bartlett v. Michigan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-10-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-2332a 18-usc-2332h 18-usc-ch-13 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights due-process government-conspiracy state-action torture weapons-of-mass-destruction Is it wrongful or illegal to use weapons of mass destruction to radiate and torture Angel Bartlett?
18-485 Edward G. McDonough v. Youel Smith, Individually and as Special District Attorney for the County of Rensselaer, New York, aka Trey Smith Second Circuit 2018-10-16 Judgment Issued Amici (14)Relisted (2) 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-proceedings due-process fabrication-of-evidence section-1983 statute-of-limitations When does the statute of limitations begin to run on a Section 1983 claim based on fabrication of evidence in criminal proceedings?
18-6297 Jorge Robles-Avalos v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-10-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment border-patrol fourth-amendment motion-to-suppress probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure totality-of-the-circumstances vehicle-stop Must a court consider a Border Patrol agent's admission to routinely stopping vehicles without reasonable suspicion as part of the totality of the cir…
18-6318 Jeffrey Allen Ware v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-15 Denied IFP 4th-amendment constitutional-violation exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment police-misconduct search-and-seizure warrant-requirement warrantless-search Is the exclusionary rule properly limited solely to the purpose of deterring police misconduct or can/should it be used to enforce a clear constitutio…
18-6290 Damon John White Bird Solgado v. Colby Braun, Warden Eighth Circuit 2018-10-12 Rehearing IFP 4th-amendment compulsory-process constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment insufficient-evidence privacy search-and-seizure Whether violation of Petitioner's 4th Amendment Constitutional rights occurred when Police illegally searched and seized Petitioner's files and record…
18-6310 LeShawn Lawson v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-10-12 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights drug-activity due-process fourth-amendment investigative-questioning pretextual-stop prolonged-detention reasonable-suspicion rodriguez-rule rodriguez-v-united-states traffic-stop Whether five minutes of drug-related investigative questioning of a driver at the beginning of an admittedly pretextual traffic stop violates the rule…
18-6246 Michael Parnell v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction property-rights reasons-for-granting-the-writ search-and-seizure standing statement-of-the-case statutory-provisions Whether the government's seizure of petitioner's property without a warrant or probable cause violated the Fourth Amendment's protection against unrea…
18-437 Dmitri I. Medvedev v. Henrico County Virginia 2018-10-05 Denied 4th-amendment civil-rights driver's-license due-process dui fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-suspicion seizure terry-stop terry-v-ohio When the officer took and retained Petitioner's license, did it constitute a seizure for Fourth Amendment purposes where reasonable suspicion did not …
18-430 Rashaud Jones v. United States Second Circuit 2018-10-03 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment automobile-exception curtilage fourth-amendment multi-family-dwelling multi-family-homes privacy privacy-expectation search-and-seizure warrant-requirement Whether dwellers in multi-family homes have a legitimate expectation of privacy in the curtilage of their home that would be regarded as curtilage und…
18-6162 Lyanne Lemeunier-Fitzgerald v. Maine Maine 2018-10-02 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment blood-test civil-rights consent-coercion criminal-penalties due-process implied-consent mandatory-minimum sentencing-enhancement warrantless-search Does a motorist voluntarily consent to a warrantless blood draw if she has been warned that refusal to submit will result in a mandatory minimum perio…
18-6179 Mario Govan Emmanuel v. Territory of the Virgin Islands Virgin Islands 2018-10-02 Denied IFP 4th-amendment bolo-flyer collective-knowledge collective-knowledge-doctrine fellow-officer-doctrine fourth-amendment officer-discretion reasonable-suspicion stop-and-frisk terry-stop terry-v-ohio united-states-v-hensley whiteley-v-warden Does the collective knowledge or fellow officer doctrine eliminate the need for the BOLO-flyer to articulate facts supporting a reasonable suspicion t…
18-6137 Steven Doyle Burton v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-09-28 Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment probation probation-search probation-searches reasonable-suspicion search search-condition standing Whether the Fourth Amendment allows probation searches without reasonable suspicion
18-6116 Anthony Allen Jean v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-09-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment computer-searches exclusionary-rule good-faith-exception law-enforcement search search-and-seizure standing united-states-v-leon void-ab-initio warrant warrant-validity Can the good-faith exception to the exclusionary rule apply to warrants void ab initio?
18-6076 Wilton Eugene Sandifer, Sr. v. Florida Florida 2018-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence-law mandamus standing state-court third-party-guilt trial-rights Whether the petitioner was denied due process and equal protection under the 14th Amendment by the state court's denial of his petition for a writ of …
18-368 Cedrick Thomas v. Jeffrey Cozzi Eleventh Circuit 2018-09-20 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights detective-thomas district-of-columbia-v-wesby eleventh-circuit false-arrest fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause qualified-immunity Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in affirming the denial of probable cause and qualified immunity for Detective Thomas
18-6039 Darryl Taylor v. Minnesota Minnesota 2018-09-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process probable-cause search-and-seizure standing Whether the search warrant was valid and lawful
18-354 Stanley Weiss v. New Jersey Third Circuit 2018-09-18 Denied 4th-amendment due-process federalism interstate-law jones-case jones-v-united-states judicial-interpretation legal-uniformity privacy property-rights search-and-seizure supreme-court-precedent trespass Whether United States v Antoine Jones is the law of the land and should be followed in all states?
18-348 Robert Weisler, III v. Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-09-17 Denied 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment civil-rights Devenpeck-v-Alford fourth-amendment heck-v-humphrey police-accountability qualified-immunity warrantless-arrest Whether Devenpeck v. Alford, which protects officers who either incompetently or maliciously arrest a person for a crime the arrestee did not commit, …
18-5987 Ajohntae Hammond v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-09-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment circuit-split fourth-amendment officer-safety police-discretion pretext probable-cause qualified-immunity reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure totality-of-circumstances totality-of-the-circumstances warrantless-search Whether a police officer's fear for safety justified a warrantless search
18-285 Missouri v. Phillip Douglass, et al. Missouri 2018-09-05 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment particularity particularity-requirement probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant standing warrant warrant-severability Is severance the default remedy when part of a warrant is valid, or does the Fourth Amendment also require that the valid sections make up 'the greate…
18-5901 Willis Maxi v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-09-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment attenuation-doctrine civil-rights due-process evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment illegal-search knock-and-talk law-enforcement-entry motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-and-seizure Whether the district court erred in denying petitioner's motion to suppress evidence and statement?
18-5831 Willie Riley Curry v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-08-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 6th-circuit age-of-victim byrd-v-united-states carpenter-v-united-states criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment gvr plain-error scienter search-and-seizure sixth-circuit-review statutory-interpretation Does Carpenter and Byrd require a GVR in this case?
18-5734 Robert Dennis Martin v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2018-08-24 Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-waiver criminal-procedure due-process due-process,criminal-procedure,4th-amendment,stand fourth-amendment jury-verdict police-stop reasonable-doubt standing Can Oklahoma adopt a rule of law regarding the waiver of a fundamental constitutional right that does not meet the minimum criteria for such waivers s…
18-5715 Thomas A. Sweeney v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-08-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure fourth-amendment griffin-v-wisconsin law-enforcement parole parole-search-and-seizure privacy-rights probation probation-supervision samson-v-california search-and-seizure stalking-horse Did this Court's decision in Samson v. California overturn the 'stalking horse' doctrine?
18-5718 James Willis Campbell, Sr. v. Virginia Virginia 2018-08-23 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment jurisdiction probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant standard-of-review Did the Supreme Court of Virginia err in reversing the Court of Appeals of Virginia's ruling and affirming the judgment of the trial court?
18-5690 Darren Taylor v. Thomas Schweitzer, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-08-22 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment cell-phone-privacy constitutional-rights due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment gps-data search-and-seizure warrantless-search Whether Petitioner was denied his constitutional right to a full and fair opportunity to litigate his claim of being denied his constitutional right t…
18-5682 Landon Trevor Anderson v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-08-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment circuit-split fourth-amendment harmless-error plain-error reasonable-suspicion supervised-release supervised-release-conditions Must searches conducted as conditions of federal supervised release be supported by at least reasonable suspicion?
18-5627 Carl Anthony Webb v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2018-08-17 Denied IFP 4th-amendment arrest-procedure civil-rights color-of-law constitutional-violation due-process false-arrest false-evidence false-report false-testimony fourth-amendment law-enforcement video-evidence Whether the trial court's finding of fact and conclusion of law were an abuse of discretion
18-5643 Nathan Craft v. Willie Bonds, Administrator, South Woods State Prison, et al. Third Circuit 2018-08-17 Denied IFP 4th-amendment consent-search fourth-amendment habeas-corpus pro-se-litigant schneckloth-v-bustamonte stone-v-powell When pro-se litigant's 4th amendment consent search claim is misunderstood and misstated, can Stone v. Powell standard be applied to consent search is…
18-5584 Lawrence L. Thompson v. Pete Copeland, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-14 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment 8th-amendment arrest-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process eighth-amendment excessive-force failure-to-supervise fourth-amendment qualified-immunity search-and-seizure Whether Deputy Copeland's arrest of Mr. Thompson was unconstitutional and warranted the denial of qualified immunity
18-5587 Bobby Joe Rosa v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-08-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment confidential-informant criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fifth-amendment fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant sixth-amendment Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in affirming the denial of the motion to suppress evidence under the good faith exception despite the lack of probable…
18-5573 Tajuan Williams v. Sherman Campbell, Warden Sixth Circuit 2018-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law contraband due-process evidence-gathering fourth-amendment prison prison-regulations prisoner-rights regulations Should the Court review the case, de novo, to address the importance to the public of the issue in keeping contraband items out of prisons and out of …
18-5536 Joseph P. Pacheco v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-08-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment cell-phone cell-phone-search cell-phones civil-rights exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception riley-v-california search-warrant search-warrants When is a search of a cell phone conducted for the purposes of a search warrant following Riley v. California?
18-179 John Goodman v. Florida Florida 2018-08-09 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment blood-draw drunk-driving due-process exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment missouri-v-mcneely warrant-requirement Whether the Court should resolve the question of whether law enforcement officers can rely on the exigent circumstance exception to the Fourth Amendme…
18-5501 Donald Jones v. Bank of America, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-08-09 Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection florida-law foreclosure jury-trial property-rights state-law viamendment Whether the petitioner received the same equality decision from Florida state law 702.1 as he would have from a jury trial under the 7th Amendment
18-5490 Mark Madison Lowe v. Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2018-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment 8th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process judicial-discretion sixth-amendment stun-belt trial-procedure Whether the imposition of a RACC Stun belt with secret instructions to compel testimony, alter testimony, and remain silent during trial infringed upo…
18-5508 Gerald Andrew Darby v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment anticipatory-warrant computer-privacy exclusionary-rule extraterritoriality fourth-amendment good-faith-exception particularity remote-search search-and-seizure warrant-particularity Whether an FBI agent can reasonably rely on the validity of a single warrant that authorizes a million searches of 100,000 different computers without…
18-5509 Randy David Makell v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-08-08 Denied IFP 4th-amendment curtilage drug-dog drug-dog-search florida-v-jardines fourth-amendment home-search jardines-standard katz-v-united-states reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure Does the use of a trained drug dog to sniff the doorway of a residence violate the resident's reasonable expectation of privacy?
18-136 Catherine Rose Dreyer v. County Court of Texas, Coleman County Texas 2018-07-31 Denied Response Waived 1st-amendment 4th-amendment constitutional-violation due-process due-process,4th-amendment,1st-amendment,property-r ex-parte-hearing fourth-amendment property-rights religious-freedom supremacy-clause Whether the issuance of a court order from an ex-parte probate hearing, granting the petitioning party the power to enter someone else's private home …
18-145 Stepheno Jemain Alston v. South Carolina South Carolina 2018-07-31 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment automobile-detention civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion seizure traffic-stop Does South Carolina's reasonable suspicion analysis, in the context of prolonged automobile detentions, violate due process when it fails to sufficien…
18-5365 Carmencita Bruno v. City of Schenectady, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2018-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights companion-animal-rights companion-animals due-process emergency-aid fire-investigation fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment property-rights search-and-seizure Whether firefighters and police can unreasonably withhold sustenance and emergency aid to companion dogs after a fire was extinguished, to conduct an …
18-5332 Davon Merkiese Kemp v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-07-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure drug-crimes drug-trafficking evidence fourth-amendment home-search probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant unreasonable-search Whether a police officer's generalized opinion that drug dealers often keep drugs and other evidence of their trafficking activities in their homes is…
18-5267 Arthur Waters v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-07-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment categorical-exception drug-distribution exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment in-home-arrest precedent protective-sweep reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure Should Buie be expanded to permit protective sweeps in all cases involving in-home arrests of suspected drug distributors?
18-5223 Gerand Earl Ratcliff v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-12 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights consent-search consent-to-search constitutional-rights deferential-review due-process fact-finding schneckloth-v-bustamonte standard-of-review voluntariness-standard Is the voluntariness of consent to search a question of fact that is subject to the same deferential review as findings of historical fact?
18-5212 Markentz Blanc v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-07-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 11th-circuit 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment appellate-review circuit-court criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-flight-instructions district-court due-process elements flight-instructions prejudice prior-decisions sufficiency-of-evidence wiretap wiretap-evidence Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in affirming the district court's rulings on the flight instructions, the necessity requirement for the wiretap, an…
18-58 Edward Jaimaal Price v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-07-11 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment constitutional-rights evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree illegal-seizure motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-and-seizure standard-of-review Whether the evidence seized during the illegal search and seizure should be suppressed
18-46 City of Middletown, Connecticut, et al. v. William McKinney Second Circuit 2018-07-09 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived 4th-amendment active-resistance civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-rights detainee-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct qualified-immunity reasonable-officer use-of-force Did the Second Circuit Court of Appeals improperly find a constitutional violation in failing to consider the reasonableness of the use of force from …
18-5151 James G. Yahnke v. North Dakota North Dakota 2018-07-06 Denied IFP 4th-amendment blood-test civil-rights consent constitutional-rights drunk-driving due-process fourth-amendment implied-consent probable-cause search-and-seizure warrantless-search Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits warrantless blood tests for drunk driving, where a motorist has not consented to the blood test
18-5142 Robert Jay Heximer v. Michigan Michigan 2018-07-05 Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-4th-amendment-exclusionary-rule due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment illegal-detention jurisdiction probable-cause standing subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether the evidence acquired during Mr. Heximer's illegal detention is inadmissible under clearly-established law
18-5102 Scooter L. Robinson v. Frank Shaw, Warden, et al. Fifth Circuit 2018-07-03 Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel search-and-seizure standing Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the state court's denial of his motion to suppress evidence obtained in violation of t…
18-5085 Teon Jamell Williams v. North Carolina North Carolina 2018-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment cell-phone-privacy collateral-estoppel constitutional-rights criminal-procedure direct-appeal double-jeopardy effective-assistance-of-counsel fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel search-and-seizure sixth-amendment state-law warrantless-search Whether the petitioner's right to effective assistance of counsel in his first direct appeal of right was violated when counsel refused to brief his F…
18-5004 Tremayne Antwane Mitchell v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-06-28 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment curtilage evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment franks-hearing franks-v-delaware good-faith-exception police-search probable-cause reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure standing warrantless-search Whether the police officers unlawfully searched the petitioner's apartment by trespassing on the curtilage and sniffing the window and doorframe
18-5011 Xavier Cardona v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-06-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment appellate-review asset-seizure burden-of-proof civil-forfeiture currency-seizure drug-trafficking drug-transaction due-process evidence-standard judicial-conversion procedural-due-process property-rights sentencing-guidelines Was the court of appeals correct in affirming the district court's conversion of the petitioner's seized cash into cocaine when there was no evidence …
18-5016 George Eli Brown, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-06-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment driver's-license due-process fourth-amendment inchoate-hunch law-enforcement motorist-rights police-investigation reasonable-suspicion sentencing traffic-stop Whether a police officer's belief that a motorist does not have a driver's license diminishes to an inchoate hunch or suspicion when another officer s…
18-5034 Jodi Anderson v. North Dakota, et al. Eighth Circuit 2018-06-28 Denied IFP 4th-amendment administrative-law banking child-welfare civil-rights criminal-justice drug-policy due-process federalism property-rights taxation Can we legalize drugs in the form of the D.I.C. Policy?