curtilage
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-6032 | Thomas E. Nidiffer, et al. v. Officer David Lovato, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2025-11-05 | Denied | IFP | curtilage fourth-amendment knock-and-talk law-enforcement qualified-immunity warrant | Whether a locked gate surrounding the curtilage of a home clearly revokes the implied social license for law enforcement officers to enter the propert… |
| 25-412 | Rolando Antuain Williamson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-10-06 | Pending | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | curtilage fourth-amendment law-enforcement privacy-expectation search-and-seizure surveillance | Whether a purposeful investigative act directed toward an individual's home constitutes a 'search' under the Fourth Amendment, regardless of reasonabl… |
| 25-399 | Ronell Moses, Jr. v. United States | Third Circuit | 2025-10-03 | Denied | Amici (1) | criminal-procedure curtilage fourth-amendment law-enforcement property-rights search-and-seizure | Whether a defendant's actual use of an area adjacent to his home is relevant to determining curtilage under the Fourth Amendment, and whether a portio… |
| 25-5673 | Daquon Rollo Corrothers v. North Carolina | North Carolina | 2025-09-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | curtilage fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant | Whether the Fourth Amendment protects a citizen from a search of the curtilage surrounding his home when prompted by a prior warrantless search, and w… |
| 24-7228 | Eric Corder v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2025-05-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | consent curtilage evidence-gathering fourth-amendment illegal-entry implied-license | Whether government agents have an implied license to enter the curtilage of a fenced and gated home to gather evidence, and whether voluntary consent … |
| 24-75 | Nicholas Yarofalchuw v. John Cabrera, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-07-25 | Denied | Response Waived | 4th-amendment curtilage curtilage-exception exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment misdemeanor misdemeanor-seizure reasonable-officer-standard santana-precedent search-and-seizure warrantless-arrest | Is a warrantless arrest, in the absence of exigent circumstances, by physical force, for a misdemeanor, in the entrance to the curtilage of the suspec… |
| 24-72 | Bruce L. Hay v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-07-23 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | curtilage curtilage-search founding-era-expectations fourth-amendment home home-privacy law-enforcement-surveillance mosaic-theory reasonable-expectation-of-privacy warrantless-surveillance | Whether the Government's warrantless, longterm video camera surveillance of an individual's home and curtilage constitutes a 'search' for Fourth Amend… |
| 23A1075 | Bruce L. Hay v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-05-31 | Presumed Complete | curtilage fourth-amendment pole-camera reasonable-expectation-of-privacy surveillance warrantless-search | Whether long-term, warrantless pole camera surveillance of a person's home and curtilage constitutes an unreasonable search under the Fourth Amendment | |
| 23-846 | City of Sparks, Nevada, et al. v. Rosa Ester Brizuela, Individually and as Special Administrator of the Estate of Rolando Antonio Brizuela, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-02-06 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | circuit-split clearly-established-law community-areas community-owned-areas curtilage multi-family-dwelling multifamily-dwelling ninth-circuit precedent | Did the Ninth Circuit err in holding that community-owned areas in front of a multifamily dwelling constituted curtilage? |
| 23-400 | Travis Palmer Curran, et al. v. Janet Turner O'Kelley, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-10-17 | Dismissed | Response Waived | civil-rights curtilage due-process exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment objective-reasonableness qualified-immunity seizure | Whether the Fourth Amendment objective reasonableness standard for exigency, and the availability of qualified immunity itself, remain questions of la… |
| 22-7781 | Donell Jamar Hines v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-06-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment curtilage fourth-amendment good-faith-exception jardines-precedent k9-sniff search-and-seizure warrant-requirement warrantless-search | Whether the Leon good faith exception should allow admission of evidence obtained as a result of two unconstitutional searches, in violation of Jardin… |
| 22-1031 | Constance Westfall v. Jose Luna, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2023-04-25 | Denied | 4th-amendment coercive-interrogation consent curtilage fourth-amendment knock-and-talk search seizure warrant warrantless-search | Whether the 'knock-and-talk' exception to the Fourth Amendment's protection against unlawful entry onto a person's property permits police officers to… | |
| 22-731 | Tyler Brienza v. City of Peachtree, Georgia, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-02-06 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 4th-amendment civil-rights curtilage exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment investigative-detention knock-and-talk law-enforcement seizure voluntary-encounter | When occupants answer a 'knock-and-talk' by law enforcement officers and step onto the porch, or curtilage of the home, to address the officers, may t… |
| 22-481 | Daphne Moore v. United States | First Circuit | 2022-11-22 | Denied | Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | curtilage fourth-amendment home home-curtilage police-technology reasonable-expectation-of-privacy reasonable-expectation-privacy search search-and-seizure surveillance surveillance-camera | Whether long-term police use of a surveillance camera targeted at a person's home and curtilage is a Fourth Amendment search |
| 21-7681 | Oniel McKenzie v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-04-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | canine-sniff curtilage fourth-amendment law-enforcement privacy-interest privacy-interests search search-and-seizure storage-unit | Whether a warrantless canine sniff of the exterior of a private storage unit to detect contraband inside the unit constitutes a search in violation of… |
| 21-541 | Travis Tuggle v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2021-10-13 | Denied | Amici (6) | curtilage fourth-amendment home home-privacy law-enforcement privacy search search-and-seizure surveillance | Whether long-term, continuous, and surreptitious video surveillance of a home and its curtilage constitutes a search under the Fourth Amendment |
| 21-5819 | Rahem Lipford v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-09-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | curtilage fourth-amendment home-privacy search-and-seizure trash-pull trespass | Whether a trash pull which took place at Lipford's home, from a location where trash cans were not kept when they were put out for regular collection,… |
| 20-1747 | Erich Sorenson v. Massachusetts | Massachusetts | 2021-06-16 | Denied | Amici (3)Response Waived | 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-protection curtilage due-process fourth-amendment home-privacy law-enforcement search-and-seizure standing warrantless-arrest | Whether the hallway area immediately adjacent to an apartment, in a private multi-family dwelling that is not open to the public, is part of the curti… |
| 20-1299 | Eric S. Clark v. City of Williamsburg, Kansas | Tenth Circuit | 2021-03-19 | Denied | Response Waived | castle curtilage fourth-amendment general-warrant home implied-license law-enforcement physical-intrusion search search-and-seizure warrant-requirement | Should the court adopt the original meaning of the Fourth Amendment by holding that a search of a home(castle) is unreasonable when the implied licens… |
| 20-7415 | Keith Griffin v. New York | New York | 2021-03-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment curtilage fishing-expedition fourth-amendment home-privacy implied-license probable-cause search-and-seizure standing warrantless-search | Whether police can search the curtilage of a home without evidence of a crime |
| 20-7265 | Jonathan Lindsey v. Illinois | Illinois | 2021-03-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | curtilage dwelling-search fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-rights narcotics-detection reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure warrantless-search | Whether the government's warrantless use of a narcotics detection dog on a dwelling without curtilage violates the resident's Fourth Amendment right a… |
| 20-6905 | Christopher Payton May-Shaw v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-01-22 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | curtilage fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence pole-camera reasonable-expectation-of-privacy surveillance warrantless-search | Was the warrantless long-term surveillance of the parking lot and carport adjacent to Petitioner's apartment building through the use of a pole camera… |
| 19-8715 | Timothy Robert Treffinger v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-06-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | curtilage effective-assistance-of-counsel fourth-amendment knock-and-talk law-enforcement privacy-expectation reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure | Do law enforcement officers have an implied license to conduct a 'knock and talk' in the curtilage of a home? |
| 19-1301 | Clyde S. Bovat v. Vermont | Vermont | 2020-05-20 | Denied | Amici (3)Relisted (3) | 4th-amendment curtilage exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure warrant-requirement | Whether a police officer can access 'semiprivate' areas within a home's curtilage to conduct an investigation without a warrant |
| 19-8401 | Roderick Delon Lewis v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-05-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | collins-v-virginia curtilage fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-suspicion terry-stop terry-v-ohio warrant | Whether an officer's intrusion into the curtilage of a residence implicated Fourth-Amendment-protections, requiring probable-cause rather than reasona… |
| 19-7610 | Luciano Camberos-Villapuda v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-02-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | automobile-exception collins-v-virginia curtilage Due-Process exigent-circumstances Expectation-of-Privacy fourth-amendment payton-v-new-york probable-cause Warrantless-Entry warrantless-search | Whether exigent circumstances justified warrantless entry onto the curtilage and search of a vehicle under the automobile exception |
| 19-6943 | Sheila Annette Cunningham v. Florida Credit Union | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-12-13 | Denied | IFP | burden-of-proof civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights curtilage discrimination due-process employment equal-protection fourth-amendment investigative-authority law-enforcement search-and-seizure standing summary-judgment | Whether the Jistia Couvt Cured Mol ding | Heat Curnningham Failes to prvite evidence of racial diSciminaton |
| 19-6296 | Michael Holmes v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-10-17 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act bright-line-rule burglary-statute curtilage fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure implied-license knock-and-talk no-trespassing-sign property-rights reasonable-expectation-of-privacy reasonable-person-test | Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals violated this Court's Fourth Amendment precedence and committed reversible error by endorsing a bright-l… |
| 19-5445 | Ronald Lewis Coleman, Jr. v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-08-05 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | curtilage fourth-amendment fourth-amendment,search-and-seizure,curtilage,gps- gps-tracking police-intrusion private-property search-and-seizure | Whether unauthorized police intrusion into a private condominium enclave to install a GPS tracking device on a vehicle constitutes a Fourth Amendment … |
| 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… |
| 18-9036 | Gregory Tarrel Brown v. Virginia, et al. | Virginia | 2019-04-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights curtilage fourth-amendment plain-smell-doctrine probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-stop terry-v-ohio | Whether the defendant's Fourth Amendment rights were violated |
| 18-8779 | Yamura D. Hudson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-04-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-sentencing curtilage ex-post-facto exclusionary-rule fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree illegal-warrant jurisdiction-violation search-and-seizure standing warrant | Whether the 11th Circuit courts must suppress the fruits of the admitted to illegal search and seizure |
| 18-8508 | Charles Edward Cooper, Jr. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-03-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | curtilage evidence-suppression fourth-amendment gated-community home police-procedure privacy privacy-rights privacy-wall search-and-seizure warrant warrantless-entry | Whether the Fourth Amendment's protection of the home and its curtilage extends to the entrance of a privately gated community, surrounded by an eight… |
| 18-1078 | James Dawson, et al. v. Joshua Brennan | Sixth Circuit | 2019-02-19 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (9) | 4th-amendment circuit-split curtilage fourth-amendment law-enforcement probation probation-condition probation-conditions search-and-seizure sixth-circuit | Sixth Circuit misapplied Supreme Court precedent on Fourth Amendment curtilage, creating circuit split |
| 18-1035 | Keithrick Thomas v. Texas | Texas | 2019-02-07 | Denied | curtilage driveway plain-view-exception probable-cause search-and-seizure warrantless-search curtilage fourth-amendment plain-view-doctrine police-encounter probable-cause search-and-seizure standing vehicle-search warrantless-search | Warrantless search of passenger's pockets in driveway violates Fourth Amendment | |
| 18-7187 | Willis Wheeler v. United States | Third Circuit | 2018-12-27 | GVR | Relisted (4)IFP | circuit-split curtilage exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment key-insertion privacy reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search warrantless-search | Whether a law enforcement officer's warrantless insertion of keys into a locked apartment door, within a secured multi-unit dwelling, to gain informat… |
| 18-6715 | Cortney John Edstrom v. Minnesota | Minnesota | 2018-11-19 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 4th-amendment apartment-dwellers apartment-search circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights curtilage drug-detection-dog drug-detection-dogs due-process first-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech reasonable-expectation-of-privacy standing | Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for violation of their First Amendment rights |
| 18-430 | Rashaud Jones v. United States | Second Circuit | 2018-10-03 | Denied | Response Waived | 4th-amendment automobile-exception curtilage fourth-amendment multi-family-dwelling multi-family-homes privacy privacy-expectation search-and-seizure warrant-requirement | Whether dwellers in multi-family homes have a legitimate expectation of privacy in the curtilage of their home that would be regarded as curtilage und… |
| 18-407 | Matthew John Stickle v. Virginia | Virginia | 2018-10-01 | Denied | Response Waived | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure curtilage due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment fourth-amendment,fourteenth-amendment,search-and-s ip-address search-and-seizure threshold warrantless-search | Was the evidence in this case unlawfully obtained as a result of an unlawful search and seizure in violation of the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments? |
| 18-5509 | Randy David Makell v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-08-08 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment curtilage drug-dog drug-dog-search florida-v-jardines fourth-amendment home-search jardines-standard katz-v-united-states reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure | Does the use of a trained drug dog to sniff the doorway of a residence violate the resident's reasonable expectation of privacy? |
| 18-48 | Minnesota v. Quentin Todd Chute | Minnesota | 2018-07-09 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | curtilage fourth-amendment knock-and-talk plain-view plain-view-doctrine probable-cause reasonable-expectation-of-privacy reasonable-suspicion search search-and-seizure | Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits police officers from engaging in knock-and-talks to gather evidence, and whether officers can inspect evidence … |
| 18-5004 | Tremayne Antwane Mitchell v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-06-28 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 4th-amendment curtilage evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment franks-hearing franks-v-delaware good-faith-exception police-search probable-cause reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure standing warrantless-search | Whether the police officers unlawfully searched the petitioner's apartment by trespassing on the curtilage and sniffing the window and doorframe |