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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-1093 | Ashlee Marie Mumford v. Iowa | Iowa | 2025-04-21 | Denied | Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | dog-sniff fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure vehicle-search | Whether a dog sniff of the interior of a lawfully stopped vehicle violates the Fourth Amendment absent consent to the sniff or probable cause to belie… |
| 23-5903 | Nathan Russell Cates v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-10-27 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure dog-sniff drug-dog-alert fourth-amendment harris-v-florida motion-to-suppress probable-cause rule-16 vehicle-search | When the government attempts to establish probable cause to search a vehicle during a traffic stop by relying on a certified drug dog's alert, does Ha… |
| 22-6774 | Dewayne Lewis v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2023-02-14 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment constitutional-protection dog-sniff economic-status fourth-amendment multiunit-living-space multiunit-living-spaces privacy-rights property-rights warrantless-search | Does warrantless use of a drug detection dog constitute an unreasonable search when the officer and dog are standing in the common area of a multiunit… |
| 20-7102 | Toheed Ahmed v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-02-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment circuit-split dog-sniff high-crime-area motion-to-suppress racial-profiling tenth-circuit totality-of-circumstances traffic-stop | Was the Tenth Circuit correct in affirming the denial of Mr. Ahmed's motion to suppress evidence |
| 20-1027 | Joshua Coleman v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2021-01-28 | Denied | Response Waived | dog-sniff fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop unreasonable-seizure unreasonable-seizures | Does the Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable seizures tolerate a dog sniff which prolongs a stop, which occurs after all purposes for the… |
| 20-993 | Jeremy Mickens v. Arkansas | Arkansas | 2021-01-26 | Denied | Response Waived | 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure dog-sniff due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop | Whether a police officer may extend a traffic stop to conduct a dog sniff |
| 20-5967 | John Elisha Mayville v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2020-10-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-history-check dog-sniff fourth-amendment officer-safety out-of-state-plates reasonable-suspicion tenth-circuit traffic-stop | Whether an officer can conduct unrelated investigations during a traffic stop |
| 19-1200 | Johndrell Elliott v. Ohio | Ohio | 2020-04-08 | Denied | 4th-amendment dog-handler dog-sniff drug-offense drug-sniffing-dog fourth-amendment probable-cause rodriguez-standard rodriguez-v-us search-and-seizure traffic-stop warrantless-search | Was the drug offense arrest based on the facts of the traffic stop and use of the drug-sniffing dog valid under Rodriguez v. U.S.? | |
| 19-5347 | Joshua Frederick Davis v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-07-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights dog-sniff due-process probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-stop traffic-stop | Whether the Court should revisit Florida v. Harris to clarify what the dog's 'alert' means and whether the dog is trained to display an alert for any … |
| 18-1219 | Illinois v. Derrick Bonilla | Illinois | 2019-03-20 | Denied | Amici (1) | apartment apartment-building apartment-search common-area dog-sniff drug-detection-dog exclusionary-rule florida-v-jardines fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause search search-and-seizure | Whether a sniff by a drug-detection dog conducted in the common area of an apartment building is a Fourth Amendment search under Florida v. Jardines |
| 18-5471 | Roman Gabriel Contreras v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-08-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure civil-procedure civil-procedure-rules constitutional-rights dog-sniff due-process federal-rules-of-appellate-procedure judicial-discretion precedent probable-cause procedural-rules search-and-seizure standing vagueness | Does the Appellate Court need to follow rules? Or are they allowed to circumvent established procedure? |
| 18-117 | Brian Grimm v. Maryland | Maryland | 2018-07-27 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-review constitutional-law dog-sniff fourth-amendment probable-cause reliability search-and-seizure standard-of-review | When a defendant challenges the reliability of a dog's reported alert to the possible presence of drugs in a vehicle, what standard of appellate revie… |