| 25-6373 |
Latonia Smith v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-12-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cell-phone-privacy electronic-evidence fourth-amendment riley-precedent search-and-seizure warrant-particularity |
Whether a warrant that fails to specifically describe cell phones as an item to be seized violates the Fourth Amendment's particularity requirement in… |
| 25-112 |
Okello T. Chatrie v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-07-30 |
Granted |
Amici (2)Relisted (2) |
cell-phone-privacy exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment geofence-warrant law-enforcement-search probable-cause |
Whether the execution of a geofence warrant by law enforcement seeking cell phone location data without a particularized warrant violates the Fourth A… |
| 23-7413 |
Adonis Marquis Perry v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-05-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cell-phone cell-phone-privacy consent constitutional-rights fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation law-enforcement privacy search-and-seizure third-party-consent warrantless-search |
Whether a third party's personal use and physical possession of Petitioner's cell phone transfer authority to the third party to consent to law enforc… |
| 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… |
| 22-6766 |
Michael A. Weis v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2023-02-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
cell-phone cell-phone-privacy civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment search-and-seizure warrantless-search |
Did the Illinois courts violate Petitioner's fourth Amendment right to be free from illegal search and seizure when the police seized his cell phone f… |
| 22-5298 |
Seth Anthony Johnson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-08-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cell-phone-privacy fourth-amendment homeland-security homeland-security-search privacy-interest probation-condition probation-officer search-condition supervised-release warrantless-search |
Whether the Ninth Circuit improperly ruled that Mr. Johnson's supervised release search condition substantially diminished his weighty privacy interes… |
| 22-27 |
Alyssa Jones v. Riot Hospitality Group, LLC, nka Noatoz LLC, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-07-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-jurisdiction cell-phone-privacy cell-phones civil-litigation civil-rights due-process injunctive-relief privacy privacy-interests riley-v-california standing sua-sponte-order |
Whether orders requiring the turn over of cell phones for cloning and global searching have the practical effect of granting or denying an injunction … |
| 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 |
| 21-1525 |
Antonio Daron Futrell v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2022-06-03 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
abandonment abandonment-exception cell-phone-privacy cell-phones digital-data digital-privacy fourth-amendment riley-precedent riley-v-california search-and-seizure warrantless-search |
Whether the abandonment exception to the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement allows the Government to conduct warrantless searches of the digital d… |
| 21-6546 |
Jorge Delgado-Rivera v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2021-12-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cell-phone-privacy constitutional-rights digital-privacy evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure text-messages |
Does the Fourth Amendment prevent the government from using a person's sent text messages against them when those messages are obtained through an unc… |
| 21-5321 |
Jerome Kieffer v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-08-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cell-phone-privacy civil-rights constitutional-procedure criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech government-seizure standing |
Whether the unconstitutionally vague language of 18 USC 1001 applies to 18 USC 1343(a)(1) |
| 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 |
| 20-6300 |
Bryan Mitchell Lietzau v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2020-11-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
cell-phone cell-phone-privacy fourth-amendment privacy-rights probation probation-search reasonable-suspicion search warrantless-search |
Does the Fourth Amendment require reasonable suspicion for a probation officer to conduct a warrantless search of a probationer's person or property? |
| 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 |
| 19-1102 |
Dontae Small v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-03-09 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
abandonment-exception carjacking-statute cell-phone cell-phone-privacy cell-phones digital-contents digital-privacy digital-search fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-warrant-requirement mens-rea riley-v-california search-incident-to-arrest |
Whether the Fourth Amendment permits warrantless searches of the digital contents of an abandoned cell phone |
| 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? |
| 19-6573 |
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… |
| 19-6267 |
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… |
| 19-5766 |
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… |
| 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 |
| 18-6512 |
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 |
| 18-350 |
Lamar Sequan Brown v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2018-09-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
abandonment abandonment-doctrine cell-phone-privacy cell-phones digital-data fourth-amendment privacy reasonable-expectation-of-privacy reasonable-expectation-privacy search-and-seizure search-warrant warrant-requirement |
Whether police must obtain a warrant before searching cell phone data on a lost but passcode-protected phone |
| 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… |
| 18-5085 |
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… |