emergency-aid
6 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25A747 | Justin Page v. Massachusetts | Massachusetts | 2025-12-23 | Application | caniglia-v-strom community-caretaking emergency-aid fourth-amendment search-and-seizure warrant-requirement | Whether the Fourth Amendment permits a 'community caretaking' exception to the warrant requirement that operates distinctly from the emergency aid exc… | |
| 24A361 | William Trevor Case v. Montana | Montana | 2024-10-16 | Presumed Complete | community-caretaking emergency-aid exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment probable-cause warrantless-search | Whether the Fourth Amendment permits warrantless home entry under a 'community caretaking' exception when officers subjectively believe an occupant ma… | |
| 21-1199 | Sally Gaetjens v. City of Loves Park, Illinois, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2022-03-02 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights due-process emergency-aid exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment home-entry probable-cause standing warrant-requirement | Whether the exigent circumstances doctrine extends to situations where there is time to obtain a warrant or other judicial process? |
| 21-6717 | Kenneth Lamont Sanders v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-12-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights community-caretaking domestic-disturbance due-process emergency-aid fourth-amendment greenlaw-v-united-states party-presentation warrantless-search | Whether the 'principle of party presentation' is violated |
| 20-7290 | Michael Scott Hanuman v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-03-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure emergency-aid emergency-aid-doctrine fourth-amendment law-enforcement protective-sweep reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure | Does the Fourth Amendment permit law enforcement officers to conduct a protective sweep search of a private home under the Buie 'reasonable suspicion'… |
| 18-5365 | Carmencita Bruno v. City of Schenectady, New York, et al. | Second Circuit | 2018-07-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights companion-animal-rights companion-animals due-process emergency-aid fire-investigation fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment property-rights search-and-seizure | Whether firefighters and police can unreasonably withhold sustenance and emergency aid to companion dogs after a fire was extinguished, to conduct an … |