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25-6057 Katrina Lawson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-phone-seizure exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment search-warrant unreasonable-search warrantless-search 1. Whether the i warrantless seizure of a cell phone from a private closet during a lawful arrest, without either a warrant, or the owner's consent …
25A291 Brycen Dennis Scofield v. Oregon Oregon 2025-09-12 Presumed Complete emergency-aid-exception exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure warrantless-search Whether the warrantless search of a residence under the emergency aid exception violates the Fourth Amendment when police no longer reasonably believe…
25A105 Ismael Bimbow v. United States Second Circuit 2025-07-25 Presumed Complete due-process evidence-suppression exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment search-warrant warrantless-search Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits the admission of evidence obtained through a warrantless search lacking exigent circumstances and potentially b…
24-975 Latrisha Winder, as Next Friend of J. W., a Minor and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Stephen Wayne Winder, Deceased, et al. v. Joshua M. Gallardo, et al. Fifth Circuit 2025-03-12 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-split disability-discrimination exigent-circumstances law-enforcement reasonable-accommodation Whether Title II of the ADA applies when law-enforcement officers face exigent circumstances during encounters with individuals with disabilities
24-6222 Donat Caleb Porter v. North Carolina North Carolina 2025-01-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights controlled-substance exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment pro-se-litigation state-police-powers Whether North Carolina's Controlled Substance Act and Federal Substance laws violate constitutional rights regarding marijuana possession and use
24-624 William Trevor Case v. Montana Montana 2024-12-06 Judgment Issued Amici (18)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) emergency-aid-exception exigent-circumstances home-search law-enforcement-entry probable-cause search-warrant Whether law enforcement may enter a home without a search warrant based on less than probable cause that an emergency is occurring, or whether the eme…
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…
24-310 Sean Michael McGuire v. Texas Texas 2024-09-19 Denied Response Waived exigent-circumstances felony-arrest fourth-amendment misdemeanor probable-cause warrantless-arrest Does the Fourth Amendment permit a police officer to make a warrantless arrest for a felony not committed in his presence where probable cause only ex…
24-75 Nicholas Yarofalchuw v. John Cabrera, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-07-25 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment curtilage curtilage-exception exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment misdemeanor misdemeanor-seizure reasonable-officer-standard santana-precedent search-and-seizure warrantless-arrest Is a warrantless arrest, in the absence of exigent circumstances, by physical force, for a misdemeanor, in the entrance to the curtilage of the suspec…
24-5147 Lamon D. Boyd v. Ohio Ohio 2024-07-25 Denied IFP due-process exclusionary-rule exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment issue being raised search-and-seizure term-1 term-2 term-3 term-4 term-5 term-6 warrantless-search 4th-amendment-search-and-seizure,14th-amendment-due-process,exclusionary-rule,plain-view-doctrine,exigent-circumstances,6th-amendment-fair-trial
23-1285 Shawn T. Swindell v. Kenneth Bailey Eleventh Circuit 2024-06-07 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 4th-amendment civil-rights exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment law-enforcement-entry misdemeanor misdemeanor-arrest payton-rule payton-v-new-york probable-cause qualified-immunity Was the entry into the home to arrest the misdemeanant clearly established as unconstitutional?
23A1042 Curtis Mitchell Paul v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-05-22 Presumed Complete digital-device exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment motion-to-suppress probable-cause warrantless-search Whether the Fourth Amendment permits the warrantless search of a digital device based on exigent circumstances without a contemporaneous probable caus…
23-7350 Raul Zamora-Quinonos v. Illinois Illinois 2024-04-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP coercion consent-search exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment involuntary-consent law-enforcement search-and-seizure traffic-stop unreasonable-search Whether law enforcement violated the petitioner's right to be free from unreasonable search and seizure under the Fourth Amendment
23-7295 Glen Taylor Helzer v. California California 2024-04-23 Denied IFP criminal-procedure evidence exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment plain-view-doctrine probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-requirement warrant-scope Does the plain view doctrine apply where police enter and seize a home under a warrant to search for evidence of specified crimes, and forego getting …
23-7131 Joel Michael Guy, Jr. v. Tennessee Tennessee 2024-04-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-acts exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment minnesota-v-olson overnight-guest reasonable-expectation-of-privacy Does an overnight guest lose his or her reasonable expectation of privacy by engaging in criminal acts within the house?
23-6957 Marcus Kelly v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment cannabis-odor exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment probable-cause scope-of-search search-and-seizure search-scope vehicle-search warrantless-search Does dismantling the vehicle interior exceed the scope of a warrantless search based on the odor of burnt cannabis?
23-6920 Nicholas Morrow v. Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee, et al. Sixth Circuit 2024-03-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment home-intrusion mental-health mental-health-arrest trespassing trespassing-claim warrantless-entry Could the need for a mental health arrest, without more, justify intruding upon the Petitioner's home without a warrant?
23-6583 Muhammad Khan v. SAP Labs, LLC Ninth Circuit 2024-01-26 Denied IFP 9th-circuit appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment judicial-review notice-of-appeal personal-property special-needs time-limitation unreasonable-searches-and-seizures warrantless-seizure Whether the government's warrantless seizure and indefinite retention of a person's personal property, without any showing of exigent circumstances or…
23-6511 Thomas Albert Sosnowski v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-protective-services constitutional-rights due-process exhaustion-requirement exigent-circumstances federal-court fourth-amendment habeas-corpus social-worker state-court warrantless-search Whether a wrongfully convicted Section 2254 petitioner's U.S. constitutional rights violation claims that were not previously exhausted in the state c…
23-400 Travis Palmer Curran, et al. v. Janet Turner O'Kelley, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-10-17 Dismissed Response Waived civil-rights curtilage due-process exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment objective-reasonableness qualified-immunity seizure Whether the Fourth Amendment objective reasonableness standard for exigency, and the availability of qualified immunity itself, remain questions of la…
23-5428 Hector Gastelum Valenzuela v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment law-enforcement motel-room motel-search probable-cause protective-sweep search-and-seizure warrantless-search Whether the mere presence of a person in a motel room—that officers believe contains drugs and a gun—creates exigent circumstances sufficient to justi…
23-5412 Keith Allen Shrum v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process electronic-evidence evidence exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant warrant-specificity warrantless-search Whether the exigent circumstances exception saves a warrantless seizure of a defendant's phone
23-5396 Antoine Clark v. United States Third Circuit 2023-08-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause title-iii wiretap wiretap-law Whether law enforcement's self-created exigent circumstances justify a Title III wiretap?
22-7629 Jose Luis Nunez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-05-24 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery probable-cause protective-sweep search-and-seizure warrant-requirement warrantless-search Whether police may enter and perform a 'protective sweep' of a home not proximate to an arrest scene and when they lack affirmative information sugges…
22-1041 Kevin Brunner v. Megan Marie McMurry, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-04-27 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment child-welfare children civil-rights due-process exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment law-enforcement protective-custody qualified-immunity Whether a child left alone in a residence without adult supervision constitutes an exigent circumstance under the Fourth Amendment?
22-7217 Antoine Bryant, Sr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-04-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP deterrence evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment no-knock-warrant search-and-seizure suppression warrant-requirements Whether a no-knock search warrant issued, without any evidence of an exigent circumstance, should result in the evidence being suppressed under the Fo…
22-731 Tyler Brienza v. City of Peachtree, Georgia, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2023-02-06 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 4th-amendment civil-rights curtilage exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment investigative-detention knock-and-talk law-enforcement seizure voluntary-encounter When occupants answer a 'knock-and-talk' by law enforcement officers and step onto the porch, or curtilage of the home, to address the officers, may t…
22-6575 Paul Michael Malagerio v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-01-19 Denied IFP civil-rights constructive-entry exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment home-invasion knock-and-announce law-enforcement santana-doctrine scott-v-harris search-and-seizure Whether multiple armed law enforcement officers surrounding a home at daybreak, repeatedly banging on the home's only door, refusing to leave, and ord…
22-371 Pennsylvania v. Akim Sharif Jones-Williams Pennsylvania 2022-10-20 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment blood-draw blood-testing exigent-circumstances mitchell-v-wisconsin motor-vehicle-incident probable-cause supreme-court-precedent warrantless-search Did the Pennsylvania Supreme Court issue a decision in conflict with, and fail to properly apply and follow, binding legal precedent from the United S…
21-7874 William Meyer v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-05-16 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights consent due-process exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment home-entry knock-and-talk search-and-seizure warrantless-search Whether a homeowner's repeated denials of consent to search during a 'knock and talk' establishes exigent circumstances, specifically that the destruc…
21-7860 Erick Rahumid Hobbs v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-05-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-site-location-information exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment fourth-circuit imminent-harm warrantless-search Whether law enforcement's warrantless collection of real-time cell-site location information (CSLI) is reasonable under the 'imminent harm' clause of …
21-7324 Caleb Guerrier v. United States Third Circuit 2022-03-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment home-arrest law-enforcement-procedure protective-sweep reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure warrant-exception warrant-requirement Whether the search of the second floor of the petitioner's home was within the 'protective sweep' exception to the warrant requirement when the police…
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?
21-7182 Ernest Judge Smith, III v. Florida Florida 2022-02-24 Denied IFP due-process exigent-circumstances fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment knock-and-announce law-enforcement-tactics probable-cause search-and-seizure unreasonable-search warrantless-arrest Isn't the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments violated when exigent circumstances are created through police officers use of unreasonable law enforcement…
21-7114 Robert Noel Smith v. Florida Florida 2022-02-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment exigent-circumstances felony-fleeing fourth-amendment fresh-pursuit home-entry lange-v-california misdemeanant-pursuit probable-cause vehicle-registration warrantless-search Can State courts lawfully hold evidence admissible obtained from a warrantless search, seizure, and arrest where an officer entered the residence of a…
21-7089 LeAndre Jordan v. Ohio Ohio 2022-02-09 Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-reasonableness exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause unreasonable-seizure warrant-requirement warrantless-arrest Are warrantless, probable cause arrests reasonable when no exigency or contemporaneous crimes are present to excuse the failure to obtain a warrant?
21-6478 Endalkachew Merid v. Virginia Virginia 2021-12-02 Denied IFP caniglia-v-strom community-caretaking exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment police-entry reasonable-belief suicide-intervention warrantless-entry warrantless-search Whether the warrantless entry and search of Merid's apartment violated the Fourth Amendment
21-6140 Leonard Morrison v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-11-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment community-caretaking consent exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment home-search implied-consent law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure warrantless-entry Whether a court can find voluntary 'implied consent' to a warrantless home entry when the officer did not request permission to enter and was unaware …
21-402 Akari Williams v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-09-14 Denied Response Waived certificate-of-appealability exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment general-search-warrant ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-suppress Is a defendant entitled to a certificate of appealability to challenge a denied 28-U.S.C-2255 motion on ineffective-assistance-of-counsel when an atto…
21-341 William J. Cost, et al. v. Borough of Dickson City, Pennsylvania, et al. Third Circuit 2021-09-02 Denied 4th-amendment 911-call civil-rights domestic-disturbance due-process emergency-assistance exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment search-and-seizure warrantless-entry Whether the court of appeals erred when it held exigent circumstances existed based solely on a 911 call about a domestic disturbance from a disgruntl…
21-5519 Steven P. BuBenchik, Jr. v. Douglas Fender, Warden Sixth Circuit 2021-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-claim due-process exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance search-warrant standing warrantless-search Whether the Constitution or laws require a trial court to fabricate facts outside sworn testimony to justify a warrantless entry
20-8261 Francisco Felix v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-06-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant wiretap Whether the wiretap application failed to satisfy the requisite Fourth Amendment standard that requires exigent circumstances for an application to be…
20-7567 Brent Douglas Cole v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-03-25 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process exigent-circumstances grand-jury habeas-corpus judicial-procedure legal-rights search-and-seizure standing Whether the Fourth Amendment requires a warrant for a warrantless search of a person's home based on exigent circumstances when the person is not pres…
20-7423 Jose Jesus Cruz v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment destruction-of-evidence evidence-destruction exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure Is it reasonable for law enforcement to enter a suspect's home under the exigent-circumstances exception when there is no genuine exigency?
20-7260 Al Rue Hopkins v. Florida Florida 2021-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment blood-draw dui dui-investigation exigency-exception exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-requirement Whether Florida statues 316.1933(1)(a) violates Petitioner's right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures
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…
20-982 Sharon Lynn Brown v. Polk County, Wisconsin, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-01-25 Denied Amici (2)Relisted (3) body-cavity-search civil-rights exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment pre-trial-detainee pretrial-detainee probable-cause search search-and-seizure warrant-requirement Whether the Fourth Amendment permits jail officials to conduct a physical, penetrative search of the vagina and/or anus of a pretrial detainee without…
20-659 Larry Thompson v. Pagiel Clark, et al. Second Circuit 2020-11-13 Judgment Issued Amici (17)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process exigent-circumstances favorable-termination fourth-amendment section-1983 standing warrantless-entry Whether the rule that a plaintiff must await favorable termination before bringing a Section 1983 action alleging unreasonable seizure pursuant to leg…
20-5767 William Emmett LeCroy, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-22 Denied IFP all-writs-act death-sentence district-court-discretion execution-date exigent-circumstances federal-district-court federal-procedure injunction judicial-modification stay-of-execution May a federal district court reset or modify an execution date for a federally death-sentenced inmate in order to manage unforeseen exigent circumstan…
20-139 Bryant Kazuyoshi Iwai v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-08-10 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) anticipatory-search-warrant beeper controlled-delivery exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment home-entry law-enforcement-perjury probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant Whether the Ninth Circuit majority opinion has adopted a rule of exigent circumstances contrary to United States v. Grubbs and Kentucky v. King
20-5182 Jesse Williams v. Bryan Wells, Warden Fourth Circuit 2020-07-27 Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process exigent-circumstances search-and-seizure unlawful-conduct Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits the warrantless search of a person's home based on the exigent circumstances exception when the police created …
20-18 Arthur Gregory Lange v. California California 2020-07-14 Judgment Issued Amici (19)Relisted (2) 4th-amendment exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment home-search misdemeanor misdemeanor-pursuit probable-cause search-and-seizure warrantless-entry Does pursuit of a person who a police officer has probable cause to believe has committed a misdemeanor categorically qualify as an exigent circumstan…
19-1301 Clyde S. Bovat v. Vermont Vermont 2020-05-20 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (3) 4th-amendment curtilage exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure warrant-requirement Whether a police officer can access 'semiprivate' areas within a home's curtilage to conduct an investigation without a warrant
19-8347 Joseph A. Daniels v. Virginia Virginia 2020-04-23 Denied IFP due-process exigent-circumstances extrinsic-fraud Fourth-Amendment jurisdiction motion-to-vacate probable-cause property-rights standing void-judgment warrantless-search Did the Supreme Court of Virginia have jurisdiction to adjudicate the claims of Daniels' Motion to Vacate, based upon extrinsic fraud, and could it be…
19-8201 James R. Householder v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2020-04-07 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure Whether the petitioner's Fourth Amendment rights were violated when the police conducted a warrantless search of their home without exigent circumstan…
19-7610 Luciano Camberos-Villapuda v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP automobile-exception collins-v-virginia curtilage Due-Process exigent-circumstances Expectation-of-Privacy fourth-amendment payton-v-new-york probable-cause Warrantless-Entry warrantless-search Whether exigent circumstances justified warrantless entry onto the curtilage and search of a vehicle under the automobile exception
19-7225 Michael Lara Salas v. N. Vazquez, Warden Fifth Circuit 2020-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure-issues constitutional-provisions due-process factual-background police-report standing 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process exigent-circumstances probable-cause search-and-seizure Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when the police conducted a warrantless search of their home and seized personal property…
19-6473 Gelu Topa v. Teofilo Melendez, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights conciseness criminal-procedure due-process exigent-circumstances facts fourth-amendment police-report relevance scotus-petition warrantless-search writ-of-certiorari Whether the police violated the Fourth Amendment by conducting a warrantless search of the petitioner's home without exigent circumstances?
19-541 Michael Lambert v. Estate of Kevin Brown, by its Successor in Interest Rebecca Brown, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-10-24 Denied cold-case criminal-investigation criminal-procedure dna-evidence exigent-circumstances false-statements fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violations murder-case probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant third-party Whether the Fourth Amendment requires a warrant to search a home based on probable cause and exigent circumstances when the home is owned by a third p…
19-272 Willie Lee Cooks v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-30 Denied Response Waived emergency-aid-exception exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment home-entry home-privacy home-search probable-cause reasonable-belief warrant-requirement warrantless-search Whether the emergency-aid exception permits a warrantless, nonconsensual search of a private home based upon officers' inability to 'rule out the poss…
19-5326 Sean Frederik Franke v. Florida Florida 2019-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment blood-draw blood-extraction civil-rights drunk-driving due-process exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment missouri-v-mcneely probable-cause warrant-requirement warrantless-search Whether the Court should resolve the question of whether law enforcement officers can rely on the exigent circumstance exception to the Fourth Amendme…
18-9565 Casey Stoermer v. Ohio Ohio 2019-06-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP consent drug-possession exigent-circumstances fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant sentencing-enhancement warrantless-search Whether the warrantless search of Stoermer's apartment was justified despite the lack of exigent circumstances
18-9485 Dante Taylor v. New York New York 2019-05-30 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP cell-site-location cell-site-location-information exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment privacy-interest reasonable-expectation-of-privacy secure-communications-act statutory-violation suppression-remedy warrantless-search Whether the warrantless acquisition of cell site location information from a cell phone provider violates the Fourth Amendment
18-9437 In Re Steven Weste 2019-05-28 Denied IFP carpenter-v-united-states cell-site-location-information criminal-procedure exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-privacy government-subpoena privacy-rights subpoena warrant-requirement Does the government's use of a pretrial subpoena to obtain a defendant's historical cell-site location information (CSLI) from a wireless carrier viol…
18-8928 Alberto Julio Guillen v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process evidence evidence-suppression exigent-circumstances search-and-seizure standing Whether a warrantless entry and search, where the totality of the circumstances indicates that exigent circumstances had occurred, or was recovering e…
18-8849 Keith Andre Robinson v. H. White, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-04-16 Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure standing warrantless-search Did the District Court err in finding that no exigent circumstances were present to justify the warrantless search and seizure of Petitioner's home an…
18-8109 Robert Blake Adams v. Texas Texas 2019-02-22 Denied IFP 4th-amendment blood-draw criminal-procedure due-process exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment retroactive-application retroactivity texas-transportation-code warrant-requirement warrantless-search Should this court's holding in Missouri v. McNeely, 133 S. Ct. 1552 (2013), be applied retroactively to state cases?
18-7982 Obelin Jaimes-Aviles v. Florida Florida 2019-02-14 Denied IFP 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights due-process exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure vehicle-search Whether the warrantless search and seizure of a person's vehicle and its contents violates the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable sea…
18-7187 Willis Wheeler v. United States Third Circuit 2018-12-27 GVR Relisted (4)IFP circuit-split curtilage exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment key-insertion privacy reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search warrantless-search Whether a law enforcement officer's warrantless insertion of keys into a locked apartment door, within a secured multi-unit dwelling, to gain informat…
18-531 Terry Lee Coffman v. Iowa Iowa 2018-10-24 Denied Response Waived cady-v-dombrowski cady-v-drombrowski community-caretaking constitutional-law exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment immediate-need objective-facts police-assistance probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure warrant-requirement warrantless-seizure Whether the Court's holding in Cady v. Dombrowski permits a warrantless seizure under the Fourth Amendment without objective facts establishing an imm…
18-6290 Damon John White Bird Solgado v. Colby Braun, Warden Eighth Circuit 2018-10-12 Rehearing IFP 4th-amendment compulsory-process constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment insufficient-evidence privacy search-and-seizure Whether violation of Petitioner's 4th Amendment Constitutional rights occurred when Police illegally searched and seized Petitioner's files and record…
18-6210 Gerald P. Mitchell v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2018-10-04 Judgment Issued Amici (11)Relisted (2)IFP blood-draw exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment implied-consent motorist-rights search-and-seizure unconscious-motorist warrant-requirement warrantless-search Whether a statute authorizing a blood draw from an unconscious motorist provides an exception to the Fourth Amendment warrant requirement
18-5936 Terrance D. Johnson v. Randall Williams, Warden Fourth Circuit 2018-09-12 Denied IFP evidence-preservation exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure vehicle-search Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits law enforcement officers from conducting a warrantless search and seizure of a vehicle based solely on probable…
18-5901 Willis Maxi v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-09-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment attenuation-doctrine civil-rights due-process evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment illegal-search knock-and-talk law-enforcement-entry motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-and-seizure Whether the district court erred in denying petitioner's motion to suppress evidence and statement?
18-179 John Goodman v. Florida Florida 2018-08-09 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment blood-draw drunk-driving due-process exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment missouri-v-mcneely warrant-requirement Whether the Court should resolve the question of whether law enforcement officers can rely on the exigent circumstance exception to the Fourth Amendme…
18-5267 Arthur Waters v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-07-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment categorical-exception drug-distribution exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment in-home-arrest precedent protective-sweep reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure Should Buie be expanded to permit protective sweeps in all cases involving in-home arrests of suspected drug distributors?