border-patrol
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-6640 | Juan Carlos Bejar-Guizar v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2026-01-21 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | border-patrol fourth-amendment illegal-entry reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure totality-of-circumstances | Whether a court assessing the existence of reasonable suspicion under the Fourth Amendment may exclude facts that show a likelihood of innocent behavi… |
| 24-6518 | Martin Vera-Rivas v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-02-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | border-patrol border-proximity corpus-delicti criminal-conduct illegal-entry suspicion-of-crime | Does mere proximity to the border corroborate the criminal conduct at the core of illegal entry, thereby defeating a corpus delici defense? |
| 23A607 | Department of Homeland Security, et al. v. Texas | Fifth Circuit | 2024-01-02 | Presumed Complete | Amici (1) | border-patrol federal-preemption immigration-enforcement sovereign-immunity state-tort-law supremacy-clause | Whether the Supremacy Clause precludes a state from using tort law to restrain federal Border Patrol agents from carrying out their federally authoriz… |
| 21-5352 | Vernon D. Nelson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-08-12 | Denied | IFP | border-patrol circuit-split criminal-activity drug-offense fourth-amendment immigration-enforcement law-enforcement-authority search-and-seizure seizure | Whether a Fourth Amendment violation occurs when Border Patrol agents seize a person solely on suspicion of a drug-related offense, with no suspicion … |
| 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… |
| 20-5850 | Aaron Keith Avery v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-09-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | arbitrary-questioning border-patrol civil-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment immigration-checkpoint martinez-fuerte programmatic-purpose united-states-v-martinez-fuerte | Does the Border Patrol's unfettered and arbitrary questioning of those stopped at an immigration checkpoint to ferret out crime go beyond the limited … |
| 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… |
| 19-7367 | Adalberto Magana-Gonzalez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-01-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | border-patrol confrontation-clause drug-smuggling expert-testimony hearsay prejudicial-error sixth-amendment witness-testimony | Whether the district court committed prejudicial error under the Sixth Amendment when it permitted a DEA agent to tell the jury what a Border Patrol a… |
| 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 |
| 19-5953 | Jose Juan Vallejo v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-09-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | border-patrol constitutional-seizure eighth-circuit federal-law fifth-circuit immigration-checkpoint rodriguez-standard rodriguez-v-united-states traffic-stop traffic-stops | Do the standards for traffic stops articulated in Rodriguez v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 1609 (2015), apply to immigration checkpoint stops? |
| 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… |
| 19-5280 | 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… |
| 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 |
| 18-6297 | 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… |
| 18-5585 | Karen Mackey v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-08-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | border-patrol due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment gender-discrimination traffic-stop unreasonable-search-and-seizure unreasonable-seizure vehicle-search | Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in holding that a driver's gender may be a factor in the U.S. Border Patrol's decision to stop and search the person's… |