border-search
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25A463 | David Quarles v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-10-23 | Application | border-search cellphone-search electronic-device fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause | Whether a warrantless border search of a cellphone at a port of entry violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable searches and sei… | |
| 25-5795 | Jordan Jysae Pulido v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-10-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | border-search electronic-device fourth-amendment privacy-rights reasonableness search-and-seizure | What limits does the Fourth Amendment's reasonableness requirement impose on searches of electronic devices performed at the border? |
| 24-519 | Eunice Bisong Nkongho v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-11-06 | Denied | Response Waived | border-search criminal-investigation electronic-media fourth-amendment law-enforcement search-warrant | Whether the border exception to the Fourth Amendment allows warrantless seizure and search of electronic media for criminal investigation purposes, an… |
| 24-302 | Marcos Mendez v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2024-09-17 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | border-search cell-phone-search electronic-privacy fourth-amendment suspicionless-search warrantless-search | Whether the Government may conduct a warrantless and suspicionless search of electronic contents of a person's cell phone at the border |
| 23-6916 | Rufaro Christopher Smith v. Jacob Beasley, Warden | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-03-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | border-search civil-procedure civil-rights due-process electronic-privacy fourth-amendment georgia-constitution probable-cause search-and-seizure standing takings warrant-exception | Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in concluding that Petitioner's claims were constitutionally barred by the Eleventh Amendment |
| 23A810 | Arthur Lopez v. Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District, et al. | California | 2024-03-04 | Presumed Complete | border-search electronic-devices fourth-amendment privacy-rights probable-cause warrantless-search | Whether the Fourth Amendment permits warrantless searches of electronic devices at the border without individualized suspicion of criminal activity | |
| 23-5840 | Alvaro Castillo, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-10-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | border-search cell-phone-search cell-phones constitutional-rights customs-and-border-protection digital-privacy fourth-amendment search-and-seizure u.s-border warrantless-search | Whether the Fourth Amendment permits warrantless search of cell phone at U.S. border |
| 23-199 | George Anibowei v. Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2023-09-01 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | attorney-client-privilege border-search cellphone-privacy cellphone-search circuit-conflict fourth-amendment preliminary-injunction warrantless-search | Whether the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable searches and seizures entitles petitioner to a preliminary injunction against additiona… |
| 22-7603 | James Snyder v. Aaron Krieger, Warden, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-05-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | border-search civil-procedure civil-rights due-process electronic-privacy fourth-amendment judicial-misconduct prison-conditions probable-cause search-and-seizure standing warrantless-search | Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated |
| 22-6053 | Charles Skaggs, Jr. v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2022-11-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | border-search border-searches electronic-device electronic-devices fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-suspicion warrant-requirement warrantless-search | Does the Fourth Amendment require warrants for border searches of electronic devices? |
| 20-8057 | Raymond Idemudia Aigbekaen v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-05-18 | Rehearing | Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | border-search civil-rights electronic-devices electronic-privacy forensic-examination fourth-amendment reasonable-suspicion warrantless-search | Whether a warrantless forensic search at a border by agent of the United States of electronic cell phones and computers, lacking a reasonable suspicio… |
| 20-1505 | Zainab Merchant, et al. v. Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. | First Circuit | 2021-04-28 | Denied | Amici (2) | border-search border-searches digital-contraband electronic-device electronic-devices fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-suspicion warrant-requirement | Does the Fourth Amendment require that searches of electronic devices at the U.S. border be conducted pursuant to a warrant based on probable cause, o… |
| 20-1043 | United States v. Miguel Angel Cano | Ninth Circuit | 2021-01-29 | Denied | Relisted (2) | border-crime border-related-crimes border-search digital-contraband digital-evidence electronic-device fourth-amendment physical-smuggling warrant-exception | Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in concluding that the scope of a search of an electronic device under the border-search exception to the Fourth Amend… |
| 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 |
| 20-5133 | Steven Baxter v. United States | Third Circuit | 2020-07-22 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | border-search customs customs-border fourth-amendment suspicion-less-search unincorporated-territory united-states-virgin-islands warrant-requirement warrantless-search | Does the border-search exception to the Fourth Amendment allow routine, suspicion-less searches at internal/domestic customs borders? |
| 19-1221 | Derrick Lucius Williams, Jr. v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2020-04-16 | Denied | border-search circuit-split customs digital-device forensic-search fourth-amendment reasonable-suspicion warrant-exception | Whether government agents need reasonable suspicion to conduct a warrantless forensic search of a digital device at the border | |
| 18-9381 | Hubert Youte v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-05-22 | Denied | IFP | border-search civil-rights fourth-amendment living-quarters maritime-law reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure vessel vessel-search | Whether the Fourth Amendment requires reasonable suspicion to enter and search the living quarters on a vessel docked at the border |
| 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 |
| 18-7050 | Javier Portillo v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-12-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | border-crossing border-search criminal-evidence criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process evidence jury knowledge-standard mens-rea narcotics-possession ninth-circuit standard-of-proof sufficiency-of-evidence trial-sufficiency | Whether the Ninth Circuit's analysis of the facts was inadequate |
| 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 |