Warrantless-Entry

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-454 Ismael Bimbow v. United States Second Circuit 2025-10-15 Denied Response Waived fourth-amendment independent-source-doctrine probable-cause search-warrant suppression-hearing warrantless-entry Did the District Court err in refusing to conduct an evidentiary hearing to determine the legality of the warrantless entry into Petitioner's apartmen…
24-1244 David A. McMaster, Jr. v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2025-06-05 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) emergency-aid-exception fourth-amendment law-enforcement-search probable-cause protective-sweep-doctrine warrantless-entry Whether it is an improper expansion of the 'emergency aid exception' and/or 'protective sweep doctrine' to authorize a warrantless entry into a home w…
24-7184 Tricia Liu v. Louie Angel David Feria California 2025-05-12 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment police-misconduct restraining-order warrantless-entry Whether the warrantless entry by El Monte Police Department officers into Petitioner's property violated the Fourth Amendment, and whether the restrai…
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?
23-530 Terrence R. Yoast v. Pottstown Borough, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2023-11-17 Denied excessive-bail false-arrest false-imprisonment fourth-amendment heck-doctrine malicious-prosecution probable-cause qualified-immunity section-1983 warrantless-arrest warrantless-entry Fourth-Amendment-in-presence-requirement
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
22-6872 Gustavo Guzman v. California California 2023-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-conduct fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence government-informant home-surveillance reasonable-suspicion warrantless-entry Whether the Fourth Amendment permits a government informant's warrantless entry into a home to monitor, transmit, or record statements without reasona…
21-6478 Endalkachew Merid v. Virginia Virginia 2021-12-02 Denied IFP caniglia-v-strom community-caretaking exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment police-entry reasonable-belief suicide-intervention warrantless-entry warrantless-search Whether the warrantless entry and search of Merid's apartment violated the Fourth Amendment
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…
21-6140 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 …
21-341 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…
21-5364 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
20-6400 Kenneth Lamont Sanders v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-11-20 GVR Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP child-welfare civil-rights community-caretaker community-caretaker-exception domestic-intervention domestic-violence fourth-amendment law-enforcement-procedure warrantless-entry welfare-check Whether the community caretaker exception to the Fourth Amendment allowed warrantless entry
20-659 Larry Thompson v. Pagiel Clark, et al. Second Circuit 2020-11-13 Judgment Issued Amici (17)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process exigent-circumstances favorable-termination fourth-amendment section-1983 standing warrantless-entry Whether the rule that a plaintiff must await favorable termination before bringing a Section 1983 action alleging unreasonable seizure pursuant to leg…
20-253 Christopher Castagna, et al. v. Harry Jean, et al. First Circuit 2020-09-01 Denied community-caretaking fourth-amendment home-sanctity police-intrusion qualified-immunity sanctity-of-home search-and-seizure warrantless-entry Whether the community caretaking exception to the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement applies to warrantless, unconsented-to entries by police offi…
20-5279 William Dale Wooden v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-08-05 Judgment Issued Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure standing warrantless-entry warrantless-search Did the warrantless entry and search of petitioner's home violate his Fourth Amendment right to be free from illegal search and seizure?
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…
19-7610 Luciano Camberos-Villapuda v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP automobile-exception collins-v-virginia curtilage Due-Process exigent-circumstances Expectation-of-Privacy fourth-amendment payton-v-new-york probable-cause Warrantless-Entry warrantless-search Whether exigent circumstances justified warrantless entry onto the curtilage and search of a vehicle under the automobile exception
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…
19-202 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 …
18-8508 Charles Edward Cooper, Jr. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-03-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP curtilage evidence-suppression fourth-amendment gated-community home police-procedure privacy privacy-rights privacy-wall search-and-seizure warrant warrantless-entry Whether the Fourth Amendment's protection of the home and its curtilage extends to the entrance of a privately gated community, surrounded by an eight…
18-6587 David James Matthew v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP anticipatory-warrant conditional-warrant florida-v-jardines fourth-amendment knock-and-announce probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant united-states-v-grubbs warrantless-entry Whether agent Waldo's initial warrantless entry into the enclosed 'screened front patio' of Matthew's residence violated the Fourth Amendment