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Case	Title	Lower Court	Docketed	Status	Flags	Tags	Question Presented
23-6264	Ignacio Salcido, Jr. v. United States	Tenth Circuit	2023-12-14	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	cell-phones data-collection digital-privacy fourth-amendment privacy search-and-seizure	Question not identified.
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, or under what circumstances, the Fourth Amendment permits customs officers to conduct a warrantless search of the digital contents of a perso…
23-5286	Frederick Dwight Green v. Aimee Smith, Warden, et al.	Eleventh Circuit	2023-08-04	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	administrative-procedure cell-phones civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process gang-violence legal-materials prison-access prison-conditions prisoner-rights standing	Does this Court consider widespread staff shortages in Georgia prisons that have led to prisoners being severely attacked by 'affiliated gang offender…
22-6832	James L. Mahaffey v. Oklahoma	Oklahoma	2023-02-22	Denied	IFP	cell-phones criminal-procedure digital-evidence fourth-amendment privacy search-and-seizure	Whether the government's warrantless search of a person's cell phone violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable searches and seiz…
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 …
21-1525	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…
21-6788	Bernard Lindsey v. United States	First Circuit	2022-01-10	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	appellate-review cell-phone-search cell-phones drug-crimes drug-investigation fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant warrant-particularity	Whether the mere presence of two cell phones in the petitioner's home provided sufficient grounds to search their entire contents
21-5902	Alhakka Campbell v. United States	Fourth Circuit	2021-10-05	Denied	IFP	cell-phone-search cell-phones digital-privacy electronic-data-seizure fourth-amendment law-enforcement-search particularity-requirement privacy search-and-seizure warrant-particularity warrant-requirements	Whether a warrant that authorizes police to seize a smart phone and search it for 'all electronic data' is invalid because it is insufficiently partic…
19-1327	Kris V. Zocco v. Wisconsin	Wisconsin	2020-06-01	Denied	Response Waived	cell-phone-search cell-phone-searches cell-phones evidence evidence-search fourth-amendment general-warrant general-warrants particularity-requirement personal-computers probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-requirement	Is the Fourth Amendment's ban on general warrants violated by a warrant broadly authorizing search of the 'contents' of a cell phone for unspecified '…
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?
19-6819	Frankie Ovies v. United States	Ninth Circuit	2019-12-03	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	cell-phone-evidence cell-phones circuit-split criminal-procedure digital-evidence digital-forensics expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence forensic-technology lay-testimony	Whether using Cellebrite technology to download forensic digital evidence from a cell phone requires specialized or technical knowledge so that the ev…
18-9177	Robert Murphy v. Ron Neal, Superintendent, Indiana State Prison	Seventh Circuit	2019-05-07	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	brady-violation cell-phones criminal-procedure digital-evidence due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miranda-rights privacy search-and-seizure sixth-amendment	Whether the government's warrantless search of a person's cell phone violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable searches and seiz…
18-8600	Tony McLeod v. United States	Ninth Circuit	2019-03-29	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	cell-phones circuit-split criminal-evidence digital-forensics expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence fourth-amendment internet-anonymity lay-testimony mens-rea rule-702 sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation	Whether Cellebrite forensic data requires expert testimony
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
18-5536	Joseph P. Pacheco v. United States	Tenth Circuit	2018-08-10	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	4th-amendment cell-phone cell-phone-search cell-phones civil-rights exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception riley-v-california search-warrant search-warrants	When is a search of a cell phone conducted for the purposes of a search warrant following Riley v. California?