emergency-doctrine

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-985 Ohio v. Garry Smith Ohio 2025-03-14 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process emergency-doctrine hearsay-exception testimonial-statements Whether statements made to responding officers during emergency medical care are nontestimonial under the Confrontation Clause when lacking investigat…
20-7234 Kerrin Barrett v. PAE Government Services, Inc., et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-02-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP community-caretaking emergency-doctrine exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure warrantless-seizure warrantless-seizures Whether the temporal scope of the emergency doctrine governing warrantless seizures for 'community caretaking' extends beyond the immediate circumstan…