consent-search
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-6565 | Jaison L. Coleman v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2026-01-13 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | consent-search fourth-amendment police-entry probable-cause scope-of-consent warrant-exception | 1 Having already expressly denied consent for police to enter the residence, does the occupant's "okay" in response to the officer's statement that po… |
| 25-6489 | Jason William Dobbs v. Nevada | Nevada | 2026-01-06 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | computer-privacy consent-search fourth-amendment law-enforcement third-party-consent warrantless-search | 1. Whether the Fourth Amendment requires law enforcement to make sufficient inquiries as to the authority of a third person to consent to a warrantles… |
| 25-182 | Curtis Levar Wells, Jr. v. Javier Fuentes, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-08-15 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights community-caretaker consent-search fourth-amendment reasonable-suspicion seizure | This case concerns a federal law enforcement officer's initial detention of a civilian with a post-hoc explanation of a "welfare check" or "communit… |
| 23-7350 | Raul Zamora-Quinonos v. Illinois | Illinois | 2024-04-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | coercion consent-search exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment involuntary-consent law-enforcement search-and-seizure traffic-stop unreasonable-search | Whether law enforcement violated the petitioner's right to be free from unreasonable search and seizure under the Fourth Amendment |
| 23-6796 | Yanier N. Tellez, aka Yanier Tellez-Crespo v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-02-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment consent consent-search fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure seizure-of-evidence traffic-stop wallet-search warrantless-search | Was the District Court's denial of Petitioner's Motion to Suppress a result of clear error in determining the facts relative to consent for search ver… |
| 23-6191 | In Re Colby Jerome Hale | 2023-12-07 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure consent consent-search constitutional-jurisdiction district-court due-process federal-procedure magistrate notification peace-officer standing statutory-interpretation | What is the purpose of Rule 18 of the Supreme Court of the United States on an appeal from the U.S. District Court | |
| 23-302 | Bryce Watkins v. Brian Wunderlich, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2023-09-26 | Denied | Response Waived | co-occupant-rights consent consent-search domestic-violence express-refusal fourth-amendment home-entry shared-dwelling warrantless-search | Whether the Fourth Amendment permits the police to enter a shared dwelling solely based on consent, when a physically present resident recently has ex… |
| 23-5477 | James Thomas Butler, II v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-08-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | consent consent-search digital-evidence due-process forensic-extraction fourth-amendment law-enforcement-procedure search-and-seizure smartphone smartphone-privacy | Does consent to 'take a look' at a smartphone extend to a full forensic extraction? |
| 23-5120 | Clim Eugene Murphy Thomas v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-07-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights consensual-encounter consent-search due-process fifth-circuit law-enforcement police-encounter racial-profiling totality-of-circumstances | Whether the Fifth Circuit improperly applied its totality-of-the-circumstances analysis by ignoring race in petitioner's confrontation |
| 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… |
| 22-6024 | Orentha James Pea v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-11-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | consent consent-search criminal-procedure fernandez-rule fernandez-v-california fourth-amendment physical-presence randolph-exception randolph-v-california search-and-seizure warrantless-search | Whether the Fourth Amendment requires the objecting party to be physically present on the premises at the time of the search for the objection to be v… |
| 21-6646 | Pedro Alvarado v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-12-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-111 18-usc-924 borden-v-united-states consent-search criminal-conviction criminal-law fourth-amendment ruse-search statutory-interpretation violent-crime | Whether Alvarado's conviction qualifies as a violent crime |
| 21-6628 | Frank McNabb v. Texas | Texas | 2021-12-15 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment consent-search consent-to-search detention-extension fishing-expedition fourth-amendment official-coercion retroactive-forgiveness traffic-stop warrant-exception | Whether consent to search retroactively forgives any and all violations by police prior to consent |
| 21-6558 | Keith Anthony Rosario v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2021-12-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apparent-authority consent consent-search fourth-amendment law-enforcement reasonable-belief residence search warrant-requirement | Does the apparent authority exception to the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement permit a police officer to reasonably believe a seventeen-year-old… |
| 21-6290 | George Steven Burch v. Wisconsin | Wisconsin | 2021-11-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | consent consent-search data-retention digital-privacy fourth-amendment law-enforcement search-and-seizure smartphone-data warrantless-search | Whether the Fourth Amendment tolerates the government duplicating, retaining, and warrantlessly searching the entire digital contents of a smartphone … |
| 20-7914 | Danny Ray Williams v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-05-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment cell-phone cell-phone-search consent consent-search custodial-interrogation digital-privacy forensic-evidence forensic-search fourth-amendment search-and-seizure | Whether an officer must expressly state that he is seeking consent for a forensic, not just a manual, search of a cell phone |
| 20-5099 | Lantrel DeKeith Wilson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-07-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment 6th-circuit consent-search consent-to-search criminal-procedure inevitable-discovery motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure sixth-circuit supreme-court-precedent terry-stop | Whether the decision of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals conflicts with Terry-v-Ohio |
| 19-7507 | Tommy Gurule v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2020-01-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment consent consent-search detention fourth-amendment passenger-rights passengers search-and-seizure traffic-stop vehicle-search | If the driver of a car consents to its search, may officers frisk non-consenting passengers and detain them for the duration of the search? |
| 19-6233 | Alshaqah Tariq Powell v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-10-09 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment civil-procedure consent consent-search consent-to-search constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process expectation-of-privacy fourth-amendment involuntary-consent traffic-stop vague-consent-form vagueness | Whether Petitioner had the Fourth Amendment rights as a United States Citizen to be advised of his rights to the 'expectation of privacy' during a det… |
| 19-5429 | Cantrell Lamont Burwell v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-08-01 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 4th-amendment appellate-procedure clear-error consent-search consent-to-search de-novo de-novo-review eleventh-circuit fourth-amendment standard-of-review totality-of-circumstances | Whether an appellate court should review de novo or for clear error a district court's finding that a defendant did not voluntarily consent to a searc… |
| 18-9708 | Brad Smith v. United States | First Circuit | 2019-06-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attenuation-doctrine brown-v-illinois consent-search consent-to-search curtilage exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause | Was petitioner's consent to search following law enforcement agents' unconstitutional entry into the curtilage of his home sufficiently attenuated fro… |
| 18-9434 | Juan Carlos Rodriguez v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-05-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 404(b) 4th-amendment co-defendant-consent consent-search consent-to-search fourth-amendment jury-instructions prior-bad-acts prior-bad-acts-404(b) rule-404b search-and-seizure sentencing sentencing-variance standing-4th-amendment-search-and-seizure standing-to-suppress variance warrantless-search | Whether the trial and appellate court erred in adjudging that Petitioner had no standing to request suppression of evidence obtained from a warrantles… |
| 18-764 | Oscar Henry Steinmetz v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-12-14 | Denied | Response Waived | 4th-amendment civil-rights consent consent-search constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure | Does the law regarding searches, seizures, and consent need clarification for proper guidance and application? |
| 18-6994 | Cleveland McDowell Meador, IV v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-12-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | consent-search consent-to-search felon-in-possession fourth-amendment home-search police-procedure probable-cause search-and-seizure seizure supervision supervision-of-search withdrawal-consent withdrawal-of-consent | Whether police officers violate the Fourth Amendment when they obtain consent to search a person's home, then keep that person outside the home, preve… |
| 18-5643 | Nathan Craft v. Willie Bonds, Administrator, South Woods State Prison, et al. | Third Circuit | 2018-08-17 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment consent-search fourth-amendment habeas-corpus pro-se-litigant schneckloth-v-bustamonte stone-v-powell | When pro-se litigant's 4th amendment consent search claim is misunderstood and misstated, can Stone v. Powell standard be applied to consent search is… |
| 18-5223 | Gerand Earl Ratcliff v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-07-12 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 4th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights consent-search consent-to-search constitutional-rights deferential-review due-process fact-finding schneckloth-v-bustamonte standard-of-review voluntariness-standard | Is the voluntariness of consent to search a question of fact that is subject to the same deferential review as findings of historical fact? |