electronic-surveillance

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A221 Wesley Mark Sudbury v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-08-26 Presumed Complete confidential-informant criminal-discovery electronic-surveillance fourth-amendment probable-cause warrantless-surveillance Whether a defendant can challenge the admissibility of evidence obtained through warrantless surveillance by a confidential informant under the Fourth…
25A113 Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al. v. Yassir Fazaga, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-07-28 Presumed Complete counterterrorism-investigation electronic-surveillance fisa fourth-amendment national-security state-secrets-privilege Whether the state-secrets privilege can be displaced by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act's (FISA) procedures for ex parte review of electroni…
24-5656 Courtney Green v. Paramount Second Circuit 2024-09-27 Dismissed IFP constitutional-rights data-exploitation electronic-surveillance negligence network-regulation privacy-violation Whether Paramount acted negligently in addressing staff conduct and network integrity, and whether its data and spyware capabilities violated privacy …
23-6700 Courtney Green v. Walt Disney Company Ninth Circuit 2024-02-08 Dismissed IFP civil-rights electronic-surveillance harassment non-consensual-monitoring privacy privacy-invasion reasonable-privacy spyware surveillance voyeurism Question not identified
23-6200 Courtney Green v. LG Electronics USA, et al. Third Circuit 2023-12-08 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights consumer-privacy data-collection defamation electronic-surveillance invasion-of-privacy racketeering telecommunications Whether the respondent LG Electronics Inc. aided in corrupt intent and racketeer influenced acts
21-7067 Kimmie Dwayne Baker v. Arizona Arizona 2022-02-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certiorari-review criminal-procedure due-process electronic-surveillance evidence exculpatory-evidence government-misconduct government-response judicial-procedure new-trial new-trial-motion surveillance Whether the government was obligated to respond and contest the merits of the July 3, 2022 motion, rather than moving to dismiss on the basis of untim…
21-1017 Carolyn Jewel, et al. v. National Security Agency, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-01-19 Denied Amici (3) civil-rights classified-evidence electronic-surveillance in-camera-review mass-surveillance national-security nonjusticiable standing standing-doctrine state-secrets-privilege Whether the state-secrets privilege can be used to exclude public evidence establishing standing and dismiss a case as nonjusticiable
21-6827 Ryan Thomas Pick v. Virginia Virginia 2022-01-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment electronic-surveillance fifth-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech miranda-rights search-and-seizure sixth-amendment standing 4th-amendment-rights,electronic-communication-privacy-act,5th-amendment-rights,6th-amendment-rights,8th-amendment-rights,sex-offender-registration
21-6395 Seitu Sulayman Kokayi v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-11-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights electronic-surveillance first-amendment fisa-surveillance foreign-intelligence-surveillance-act fourth-amendment probable-cause standing Whether electronic surveillance of a U.S. citizen under FISA violates FISA and/or the First and/or Fourth Amendments
21-5487 Norman Michael Achin v. Virginia Virginia 2021-08-26 Denied IFP 4th-amendment 6th-amendment due-process electronic-surveillance fourth-amendment impersonation law-enforcement-conduct privacy privacy-rights warrant-requirement Does intercepting private electronic messages and cell phone communications without a warrant by impersonating another adult or by impersonating an im…
20-99 Elliott Schuchardt v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. Third Circuit 2020-07-30 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights electronic-surveillance fourth-amendment government-overreach government-surveillance national-security privacy privacy-rights standing warrant-requirement Whether Schuchardt has presented sufficient factual evidence of Defendants' bulk collection of e-mail to establish a prima facie case for violation of…
19-8779 Nader Salem Elhuzayel v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-06-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process electronic-surveillance ex-parte-proceedings ex-parte-review fifth-amendment fisa in-camera-review sixth-amendment Whether the district court's in camera, ex parte review of the materials, application, and surveillance order without permitting disclosure or partici…
18-9700 Daniel Gatson v. United States Third Circuit 2019-06-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2518 aggrieved-person cell-phone-records criminal-procedure Does the District Court have the authority to sent electronic-interception electronic-surveillance expert-testimony expert-testimony-federal-rule-of-evidence-702-scie fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-cell-phone-records-probable-cause sentencing-guidelines sentencing-guidelines-upward-departure-district-co standing standing-aggrieved-person-electronic-interception- Whether acquiring a person's past movements throug Whether an expert's testimony that has never been Whether the 'target' of an electronic interception, whom voice was heard in intercepted conversations have 'standing' as an 'aggrieved person' under 1…
18-9520 Alan Bartlett v. Susanna Pineda, Judge, Superior Court of Arizona, Maricopa County, et al. Arizona 2019-06-03 Dismissed IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure electronic-surveillance fourteenth-amendment-due-process fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure legislative-authority search-and-seizure state-constitution statutory-interpretation unlawful-search warrantless-search Whether in light of Bollinger v. New Hampshire, 390 U.S. 1020, the Arizona based conviction of petitioner violates his Fourth Amendment rights where t…
18-7505 Demian Pina v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-01-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP confrontation-clause daubert due-process ecpa ecpa-violation electronic-surveillance evidence-admissibility fourth-amendment kyllo search-and-seizure speedy-trial Does the use of computer/internet surveillance technology violate the defendant's Fourth Amendment rights?
18-6681 Mark Anthony Rios, et al. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2518 electronic-surveillance federal-surveillance federalism investigative-procedures necessity necessity-requirement privacy state-wiretaps title-iii wiretap-necessity wiretapping-surveillance Is the availability of less-intrusive state wiretaps a material consideration for federal judges when evaluating Title III necessity under 18 U.S.C. §…
18-6163 Randy A. Jones v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-10-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 28-usc-2255 cell-site-simulator electronic-surveillance fourth-amendment pen-register search-and-seizure surveillance-log unreasonable-search unreasonable-search-and-seizure Did the Eighth Circuit Court Of Appeals fail to preserve the petitioner's Fourth Amendment right?
18-5759 Daniela Castellanos v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2518 electronic-surveillance fourth-amendment illinois-v-gates investigative-procedures officer-conclusions-opinions privacy privacy-invasion probable-cause wiretap-warrant wiretapping wiretapping-procedures-18-usc-2518 Whether the facts required to establish probable cause include conclusions and opinions of the officer applying for the wiretap warrant