anonymous-tip

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-6188 John Earl Broomfield, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-12-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 911-call anonymous-tip fourth-amendment law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion supreme-court-precedent Whether the 911 callers were 'anonymous' and if their identification conflicts with Florida v. J.L. precedent
23-885 Mark Wayne Gaddy v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2024-02-16 Denied anonymous-phone-call anonymous-tip community-caretaking fourth-amendment reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop Whether the decision of the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals is an unwarranted extension of the community caretaking function of Cady, and also in d…
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…
21-5528 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
21-287 Benjamin Caleb Trott v. Maryland Maryland 2021-08-26 Denied Response Waived anonymous-tip drunk-driving fourth-amendment reasonable-suspicion terry-stop vehicle-stop Whether the Fourth Amendment permits balancing drunk-driving risk against stop intrusiveness
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…
20-5338 Ibrahim McCants v. United States Third Circuit 2020-08-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP anonymous-tip corroboration domestic-violence fourth-amendment police-response probable-cause reasonable-suspicion stop-and-frisk Does an anonymous tip providing minimal physical and location descriptors and alleging ongoing domestic violence that is not corroborated when police …
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
19-5456 Ibrahim McCants v. United States Third Circuit 2019-08-05 GVR IFP anonymous-tip categorical-approach criminal-law criminal-statute divisibility-of-state-statutes domestic-violence due-process federal-criminal-procedure firearms fourth-amendment mathis-v-united-states mens-rea police-stop-and-frisk reasonable-suspicion rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation stop-and-frisk supreme-court-precedent third-circuit-court-of-appeals Whether the government established the knowledge-of-status element under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1)
18-5667 Matthew Desmond Browne v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP anonymous-tip civil-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement-procedure location-prediction probable-cause reasonable-suspicion vehicle-identification vehicle-search warrantless-seizure Is the Fourth Amendment violated when a warrantless seizure is carried out based on an anonymous tip that correctly identifies a vehicle and a driver'…