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25-6752 Jerome Moore v. Texas Texas 2026-02-06 Pending IFP criminal-procedure digital-privacy electronic-device fourth-amendment probable-cause search-warrant Does a search warrant need to allege specific facts about a defendant's electronic device and his use of that device--and not merely allege facts abou…
25-484 Aaron Rayshan Wells v. Texas Texas 2025-10-20 Pending Amici (3)Response RequestedRelisted (2) digital-privacy fourth-amendment geofence-warrant law-enforcement-technology location-tracking search-and-seizure Does law enforcement's collection of digital location-history data pursuant to geofence warrants violate the Fourth Amendment?
25A242 Aaron Rayshan Wells v. Texas Texas 2025-08-29 Presumed Complete digital-privacy fourth-amendment geofence-warrant location-tracking probable-cause search-and-seizure Whether geofence warrants violate the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on general warrants by allowing law enforcement to conduct broad, multi-step sear…
24-7430 Trenton Jared Powell v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-06-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP cellphone-search criminal-procedure digital-privacy evidence-preservation fourth-amendment warrant-requirement Can the police hold a defendant's cellphone seized incident to his arrest until necessary forensic software is developed based upon evidence that the …
24-6281 Zodiac Azucenas v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP digital-privacy fourth-amendment government-intrusion messenger-communications physical-intrusion warrantless-search Whether the Government's warrantless review of private written communications on Facebook's Messenger application constitutes a physical intrusion in …
24-5620 Salvador Salas, Jr. v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP carpenter-v-united-states container-search digital-privacy fourth-amendment riley-v-california search-and-seizure Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits application of the 'container search' doctrine to digital storage devices
24-89 Cory Johnson v. United States Second Circuit 2024-07-29 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment-search-and-seizure digital-evidence digital-privacy fourth-amendment gps metadata metadata-search probable-cause riley-precedent riley-v-california warrant-requirements warrant-scope Does Riley v. California prohibit the Government from searching privacy protected GPS information in the metadata of a digital video labeled contraban…
24-5092 Moises Orlando Zelaya-Veliz, Jose Eliezar Molina-Veliz, Luis Alberto Gonzales, Gilberto Morales, and Jonathan Rafael Zelaya-Veliz v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-07-16 Denied IFP digital-privacy facebook-data fourth-amendment government-scrutiny probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant social-media temporal-limitation warrant Does the Fourth Amendment prohibit the issuance of apparent 'all-data' warrants for Facebook accounts without any temporal limitation or for a period …
23-893 Jonathan Walker v. Arkansas Arkansas 2024-02-21 Denied 4th-amendment algorithm digital-privacy fourth-amendment law-enforcement law-enforcement-search private-company probable-cause search-and-seizure technology-search warrant-requirement Does the Fourth Amendment require a warrant to open a digital file flagged by a private company's algorithm as potentially illegal?
23A676 Kevin McCall v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-22 Presumed Complete cloud-storage digital-privacy fourth-amendment good-faith-exception search-and-seizure warrant-requirement Whether the Fourth Amendment permits warrantless searches of an entire digital cloud storage account based on a good faith exception to the warrant re…
23-6518 Anthony Bailey v. Nevada Parole Board, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-01-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights digital-privacy due-process search-and-seizure standing Whether the government's warrantless search and seizure of a person's private digital data violates the Fourth Amendment
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 Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment
23A446 Jonathan Walker v. Arkansas Arkansas 2023-11-17 Presumed Complete digital-privacy fourth-amendment hash-value-match private-search-doctrine search-and-seizure warrant-requirement Whether law enforcement's warrantless viewing of an unopened digital file reported by a private platform through an automated hash value match constit…
23-5985 Russell Wayne Bullock v. Pete Bludworth, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-11-09 Denied IFP cell-phone-data digital-privacy fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence privacy search-and-seizure Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable …
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
23-5827 Keiron K. Sneed v. Illinois Illinois 2023-10-17 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP contents-of-mind digital-privacy fifth-amendment fisher-v-united-states foregone-conclusion passcode passcode-compulsion search-warrant self-incrimination Can the foregone conclusion rationale be used to compel an individual to enter a passcode into a personally held cellular phone?
23-5748 James M. Holman v. Ohio Adult Parole Authority Ohio 2023-10-11 Denied IFP but no text was provided for analysis. Without th but no text was provided for me to analyze. Witho I cannot generate the requested output. If you wo please provide the full text of the petition. 4th-amendment 4th-amendment-jurisprudence cell-phone-data digital-privacy privacy search-and-seizure Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on unreasonable sear…
23-5481 Festus Okwudili Ohan v. Armando B. Fontoura, Sheriff, Essex County, New Jersey, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-08-30 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights digital-privacy due-process excessive-force false-arrest fourth-amendment law-enforcement malicious-prosecution probable-cause retaliation traffic-stop warrantless-search Which legal issues were raised in the SCOTUS petition?
22-7592 Grace Woodham v. Tucker Scheffer New Hampshire 2023-05-18 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion civil-rights digital-privacy due-process electronic-communications equal-protection fourth-amendment free-speech probable-cause search-and-seizure standing warrantless-search Whether the New Hampshire Supreme Court violated the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution by denying the petitioner's appeal to continue their app…
22-6948 Robert E. Spiker v. Robert E. Erskines, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-03-06 Denied IFP cell-phone-data constitutional-claims deliberate-indifference digital-privacy federal-jurisdiction fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence habeas-corpus medical-care prisoner-rights privacy search-and-seizure Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable …
22-6777 Fharis Denane Smith v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-02-14 Denied IFP cell-phone circuit-split digital-privacy fourth-amendment good-faith law-enforcement-procedure probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant warrant-requirement Question Presented
22-6580 Daniel J. Campbell v. Ohio Ohio 2023-01-19 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment cell-phone digital-devices digital-privacy fourth-amendment probation probation-search reasonable-suspicion search search-conditions state-supervision Is a search reasonable under the 4th Amendment when a probation officer lacks required reasonable suspicion and violates state law to search a probati…
22-549 Raymond J. Liddy v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-12-15 Denied Response Waived digital-privacy electronic-evidence fourth-amendment internet-subscriber-information law-enforcement-search personal-data search-and-seizure subscriber-information warrant-requirement Does Internet subscriber information constitute a digital 'paper' or 'effect' under the Fourth Amendment?
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…
21-7821 Mandrail Jamar Woodberry v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-law digital-privacy due-process fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining probable-cause sentencing unreasonable-search warrantless-search whether-possession-of-a-firearm-beyond-the-five-year-post-release-period-is-a-crime
21-7779 Gilberto Juarez v. California California 2022-05-04 Denied Relisted (2)IFP cell-phone-data digital-privacy fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence privacy search-and-seizure Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable …
21-7654 Gregory Munoz v. Superior Court of California, Orange County, et al. California 2022-04-19 Denied IFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment appellate-procedure cell-phone-search civil-rights constitutional-rights digital-evidence digital-privacy due-process search-and-seizure supreme-court-review Whether the California Supreme Court erred when it denied petitioners' request for review on the summary denial of petitioners' writ of mandate and pr…
21-7274 Kaleb L. Basey v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-03-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2703 digital-privacy electronic-communications email-preservation fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-jurists search-and-seizure warrantless-search Whether reasonable jurists could disagree with the district court's decision that the initial and continuous, nine-month warrantless preservation of B…
21-6913 Timothy Dewayne Littlejohn v. Sergeant Bowman, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-01-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP cell-phone-data complaint-amendment digital-privacy district-court-discretion fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence judicial-error leave-to-amend privacy pro-se-pleading procedural-due-process search-and-seizure Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable …
21-921 Mark A. Witaschek v. District of Columbia District of Columbia 2021-12-22 Denied administrative-summons carpenter-v-united-states digital-privacy fourth-amendment good-faith-exception government-surveillance probable-cause tax-evasion third-party-doctrine Whether the Fourth Amendment's third-party doctrine should be overruled, limited, or held inapplicable
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…
21-6392 Janet Berry v. William Paul Nichols, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-11-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment bivens-claim civil-rights digital-privacy fourth-amendment medical-records search-and-seizure standing state-actors warrantless-search Where a BERT is created by the government accompanied with private entities acting as state actors under the color of law, via an invalid warrantless …
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 …
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…
21-5223 Donnell Bledsoe v. CBS Television Network, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-07-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights content-moderation copyright-infringement data-collection digital-privacy fair-use fourth-amendment intellectual-property privacy-policy social-media user-consent Whether the plaintiff's copyright and other intellectual property rights were violated by the defendants' unauthorized use of the plaintiff's content …
20-8243 Spencer Richard Andrews v. Michigan Michigan 2021-06-08 Denied IFP 4th-amendment appellate-review consent consent-scope digital-privacy fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel privacy-rights search-and-seizure smartphone smartphone-search Did the Michigan court of appeals erroneously expand the defendant's consent to retrieve a telephone number from his smartphone into a consent to sear…
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
20-995 Anthony Vetri v. United States Third Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment aiding-and-abetting cellphone-data cellphone-privacy criminal-procedure digital-privacy evidence-search fourth-amendment particularity probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-requirements Whether the Fourth Amendment requires more stringent privacy considerations in authorizing a warrant for the seizure of a cellphone and the manner its…
20-6725 Larry Durant v. South Carolina South Carolina 2020-12-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation cell-phone-data criminal-sexual-conduct digital-privacy fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence judicial-instruction jury-coercion privacy search-and-seizure sixth-amendment trial-procedure Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable …
20-6704 Agustin Calderon v. Texas Texas 2020-12-23 Denied IFP cell-phone-data digital-privacy fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence privacy search-and-seizure Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable …
20-6194 Brian E. Vodicka v. Michael B. Tobolowsky, Executor of the Estate of Ira E. Tobolowsky, et al. Texas 2020-11-03 Denied IFP 4th-amendment carpenter-v-united-states cell-phone-data civil-rights digital-privacy due-process fourth-amendment mandamus-petition riley-v-california search-and-seizure supreme-court-precedent warrantless-search Whether the warrantless search and seizure of a cell phone's digital contents and location information by a private citizen debt collector violates th…
20-6086 Brittan Kettles v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-10-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-phone-data digital-privacy fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence privacy search-and-seizure Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable …
20-412 Mark Stanford Katzman v. Michigan Michigan 2020-10-01 Denied digital-privacy digital-trespass fourth-amendment police-impersonation reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure standing standing-to-challenge trespass Whether the Fourth Amendment permits the police to undetectably impersonate the owner of a phone via text message, and arrest another person by means …
20-25 Isidoro Rodriguez v. Virginia State Bar Disciplinary Board Virginia 2020-07-15 Denied Response Waived cell-phone-data digital-privacy fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence privacy search-and-seizure Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable …
19-8194 Jonathan Crupi v. New York New York 2020-04-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights data-collection digital-privacy electronic-devices exploratory-searches fourth-amendment particularity particularity-doctrine search-and-seizure Should the Carpenter decision on CSLI extend to digital devices?
19-8077 Arnold Anderson v. Gilberto Valenzuela, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-03-23 Denied IFP criminal-procedure digital-privacy forensic-evidence fourth-amendment property-rights search-and-seizure Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits the warrantless seizure of a person's property for the purpose of conducting a forensic search of the property'…
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
19-7601 Craig K. Garrett v. Joseph Madder, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-02-10 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure digital-privacy due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel law-enforcement probable-cause prosecutorial-misconduct public-defender right-to-counsel search-and-seizure state-attorney Can the state of Colorado remove a defendant's right to effective assistance of counsel (trial and appellate) and use of a public defender due to pros…
19-618 Jon Eric Shaffer v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-11-14 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-exemption digital-devices digital-privacy fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search fourth-amendment,private-search-doctrine,digital-p government-search private-search-doctrine property-based-test property-rights united-states-v-jacobsen united-states-v-jones virtual-certainty Does the 'virtual certainty' that reopening 'an ordinary cardboard box' will expose nothing beyond the private actor's earlier search, Jacobsen, 466 U…
19-6533 Kaleb L. Basey v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2703(f) digital-evidence digital-privacy email-privacy fourth-amendment government-request internet-service-provider search seizure warrantless-search Whether the warrantless preservation of private emails by an Internet Service Provider pursuant to a government request under 18 U.S.C. §2703(f) amoun…
19-5173 Johnny Kirkland v. Huntington Ingalls, Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2019-07-15 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights digital-privacy due-process electronic-device fourth-amendment patent probable-cause standing takings unreasonable-search warrantless-search Whether Hunks nian 'EM As Kncocpyehion Was Ned h\\igence Under Nesse\\ Quoner +
19-5081 David Morel, Jr. v. United States First Circuit 2019-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment computer-location computer-search digital-privacy expectation-of-privacy fourth-amendment internet-activity-tracking ip-address law-enforcement reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure warrantless-search Whether the warrantless search for personal IP address information related to images that Morel privately uploaded to Imgur, an image-hosting website,…
18-8667 Donald James Anson v. United States Second Circuit 2019-04-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights digital-privacy dismissal due-process fourth-amendment opportunity-to-be-heard probable-cause search-and-seizure standing surveillance Does an appellate court err in dismissing an appeal because 'it lacks an arguable basis in law or fact' without first providing the petitioner an oppo…
18-7824 John C. Killingbeck v. United States Second Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights computer-search digital-privacy due-process first-amendment free-speech government-search internet-forums internet-speech interstate-commerce prosecution search-and-seizure standing title-28-usc Whether the government can investigate and search a private citizen's computer and storage devices for allegedly illegal speech content obtained throu…
18-6866 Thomas Edward Sperber v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2018-11-28 Denied IFP 4th-amendment cellular-phone civil-rights digital-privacy fourth-amendment privacy probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-requirement warrantless-search Does the act of accessing any information from a cellular phone without a warrant contravene the Supreme Court's decision in Riley v. California and U…
18-6734 Henry Franklin Reddick v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-11-19 Denied IFP 4th-amendment child-pornography civil-rights digital-privacy digital-search fourth-amendment hash-value private-search private-search-doctrine search-and-seizure warrant-requirement Does a police officer violate the Fourth Amendment by opening a digital file and viewing an image in it without a warrant to confirm a private company…