| 25-6799 |
Salena Nicole Glenn v. Erin Maldonado, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2026-02-12 |
Pending |
IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment probable-cause unreasonable-seizure warrantless-search |
1. Does the warrantless seizure, arrest, and no search warrant of a legally parked vehicle occupant-without probable cause or reasonable suspicion! vi… |
| 25-6766 |
Eric Joshua Mapes v. United States District Court for the Western District of Texas |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-02-10 |
Pending |
IFP |
arrest-warrant due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment judicial-oversight probable-cause |
1. Police Complaint as Arrest Warrant Whether a notarized police-authored criminal complaint, executed without judicial oversight and misrepresented a… |
| 25-6752 |
Jerome Moore v. Texas |
Texas |
2026-02-06 |
Pending |
IFP |
criminal-procedure digital-privacy electronic-device fourth-amendment probable-cause search-warrant |
Does a search warrant need to allege specific facts about a defendant's electronic device and his use of that device--and not merely allege facts abou… |
| 25-6753 |
Michael Sharpe v. Connecticut |
Connecticut |
2026-02-06 |
Pending |
IFP |
biological-material dna-analysis fourth-amendment identification-profiling probable-cause warrantless-search |
Whether the Fourth Amendment allows the government, without a warrant or probable cause, to (1) extract and (2) analyze DNA from biological material i… |
| 25-6721 |
Palma Jefferson, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-02-04 |
Pending |
IFP |
constitutional-challenge fourth-amendment judicial-review probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-defect |
I. Fourth Amendment: Warrant and Entry Defects
1. Whether the Fourth Amendment's probable cause
requirement is satisfied when a search warrant issues… |
| 25A881 |
Ngozi Odimegwu v. Gregory Long |
Massachusetts |
2026-02-04 |
Application |
|
constitutional-rights criminal-complaint due-process fourth-amendment judicial-misconduct law-enforcement |
Question not identified. |
| 25-6686 |
Ricardo Nellons v. Thomas Gee, Superintendent, Cayuga Correctional Facility |
Second Circuit |
2026-02-02 |
Pending |
IFP |
darden-hearing due-process fourth-amendment ineffective-counsel probable-cause warrant-requirements |
The New York Courts ' requirements for establishing probable
cause are not adhered to in the case at bar. When probable cause
is totally reliant on … |
| 25-894 |
Abiel Brathwaite v. Anthony Georgiades, Police Officer, Maryland Transportation Authority, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2026-01-29 |
Pending |
|
civil-rights fourth-amendment pleading-standards pro-se-litigation probable-cause section-1983 |
In §1983 claims for unconstitutional false arrest (a Fourth Amendment violation), the existence of probable cause is often treated as an absolute defe… |
| 25-885 |
United States v. Donte J. Carter |
District of Columbia |
2026-01-28 |
Pending |
|
constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement racial-profiling seizure |
Whether perceptions of law enforcement that a court attributes to a particular racial group are a relevant factor in the Fourth Amendment analysis of … |
| 25-875 |
Fort Bend Independent School District v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas |
Texas |
2026-01-22 |
Pending |
|
cell-phone-logs confidential-records fourth-amendment government-disclosure privacy-rights public-records |
The Fourth Amendment protects "the right of the people to be secure in their . . . papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures." U… |
| 25-6637 |
Elizabeth A. Hughes v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2026-01-21 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
blood-test civil-consequence due-process fourth-amendment voluntary-consent warrant-requirement |
Whether the voluntary consent exception to the Fourth Amendment warrant requirement applies where a person arrested for driving under the influence ag… |
| 25-6640 |
Juan Carlos Bejar-Guizar v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2026-01-21 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
border-patrol fourth-amendment illegal-entry reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure totality-of-circumstances |
Whether a court assessing the existence of reasonable suspicion under the Fourth Amendment may exclude facts that show a likelihood of innocent behavi… |
| 25-6635 |
Jose Amaury Sanchez-Jimenez v. United States, et al. |
First Circuit |
2026-01-21 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure federal-tort-claims-act fourth-amendment malicious-prosecution probable-cause superseding-indictment |
A. Chiaverini v. City of Napoleon, 602 U.S. 556 (2024) held that the presence of probable cause for one charge in a criminal proceeding does not categ… |
| 25-859 |
Chelesy Eastep, as Surviving Spouse and Next of Kin of Landon Dwayne Eastep v. Steven Carrick, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2026-01-20 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
deadly-force excessive-force fourth-amendment graham-v-connor qualified-immunity reasonableness-standard |
1. Whether or how police officers' own creation of, or contribution to, a dangerous situation prior to the use of deadly force factors into the Fourth… |
| 25-6562 |
Dustin Shane Sandiford v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2026-01-13 |
Pending |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP |
digital-evidence due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment search-and-seizure warrant-requirement |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals misconstrued the Fourth Amendment warrant requirement and the Fifth Amendment due process mandate, when … |
| 25-6564 |
Ambreia Washington v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2026-01-13 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
fifth-amendment fourth-amendment plain-view-exception probable-cause self-incrimination warrantless-seizure |
Whether information obtained in violation of the Fifth Amendment's Self-Incrimination Clause can establish the probable cause necessary to authorize a… |
| 25-6565 |
Jaison L. Coleman v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2026-01-13 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
consent-search fourth-amendment police-entry probable-cause scope-of-consent warrant-exception |
1 Having already expressly denied consent for police to enter the residence, does the occupant's "okay" in response to the officer's statement that po… |
| 25-6567 |
Rajeri Curry v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2026-01-13 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
edwards-rule evidence-suppression fourth-amendment interrogation-violation poisonous-tree-doctrine right-to-counsel |
Where the police violated the rule announced in Edwards v. Arizona by continuing to question petitioner after she twice invoked her right to counsel, … |
| 25-826 |
Lesly Pompy v. Lieutenant Marc Moore, MANTIS, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2026-01-13 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
bivens-action constitutional-tort fourth-amendment home-entry qualified-immunity warrantless-search |
1. Bivens and the Fourth Amendment— Whether a warrantless, post-warrant home entry—conducted hours after the original warrant was executed and without… |
| 25-830 |
Adam Kanuszewski, et al. v. Sandip Shah, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2026-01-13 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
article-iii fourth-amendment genetic-privacy informed-consent merits-precedent mootness |
Article III confines federal courts to live cases or controversies. When claims become moot on appeal, this Court has long required vacatur —not a mer… |
| 25-6540 |
Jason M. Potter v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2026-01-12 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment inventory-search state-law warrantless-search |
Whether the warrantless impoundment and subsequent inventory search of a vehicle violates the Fourth Amendment when the operator has not been arrested… |
| 25-6548 |
Nathan Cooper v. Rhode Island |
Rhode Island |
2026-01-12 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
emergency-aid-exception fourth-amendment home-entry law-enforcement probable-cause search-warrant |
This case presents an issue identical to that in Case v. Montana, No. 24-624, currently before this Court, i.e., whether law enforcement may enter a h… |
| 25-6535 |
James Eric Larremore v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2026-01-09 |
Pending |
IFP |
fourth-amendment law-enforcement-interaction probable-cause reasonable-person-standard seizure traffic-stop |
Whether the deputy's instruction to "hang on a sec," particularly in context, communicated to a reasonable person in Larremore's position that he was … |
| 25-797 |
Steven J. Hecke v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2026-01-07 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
affidavit-omissions criminal-procedure fourth-amendment franks-hearing probable-cause search-warrant |
1. Whether, and how, Franks applies to
material information that is omitted
from a search warrant affidavit.
2. Whether omissions from a search
warra… |
| 25-800 |
Matthew Scott Rocco v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2026-01-07 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
bailey-precedent fourth-amendment geographical-restriction law-enforcement probation-officer search-warrant |
Does it violate the Fourth Amendment when, during the execution of a residential search warrant, law enforcement subverts the geographical restriction… |
| 25-6489 |
Jason William Dobbs v. Nevada |
Nevada |
2026-01-06 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
computer-privacy consent-search fourth-amendment law-enforcement third-party-consent warrantless-search |
1. Whether the Fourth Amendment requires law enforcement to make sufficient inquiries as to the authority of a third person to consent to a warrantles… |
| 25-774 |
Eric Tyrell Johnson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2026-01-02 |
Pending |
Amici (7) |
drug-detection fourth-amendment home-privacy law-enforcement probable-cause warrantless-search |
"[W]hen it comes to the Fourth Amendment, the home is first among equals." Florida v. Jardines, 569 U.S. 1, 6 (2013). As this Court has repeatedly str… |
| 25-6455 |
Mark Bolling v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-12-31 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment impeachable-fact inevitable-discovery nix-standard search-and-seizure |
Whether the presence of impeachable fact is required under Nix before an inevitable discovery analysis can be allowed in the context of a Fourth Amend… |
| 25-6444 |
Rashid Muhammad Abdullah v. City of Plant City, Florida, et al. |
Florida |
2025-12-30 |
Pending |
IFP |
collateral-estoppel double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment warrantless-seizure |
The doctrine of collateral estoppel or the Double Jeopardy Clause precludes a municipality from re-litigating factual determinations resolved in the p… |
| 25-760 |
Hamdi A. Mohamud v. Heather Weyker, St. Paul Police Officer |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-12-29 |
Pending |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
bivens-action cross-deputization fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity section-1983 state-action state-action-doctrine |
1. Whether a local police officer wielding both state and federal authority can act under color of state law for purposes of 42 U.S.C. 1983.
2. If no… |
| 25A745 |
Abiel Brathwaite v. Anthony Georgiades, Police Officer, Maryland Transportation Authority, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-12-23 |
Application |
|
circuit-split false-arrest fourth-amendment pro-se probable-cause section-1983 |
Question not identified. |
| 25A747 |
Justin Page v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2025-12-23 |
Application |
|
caniglia-v-strom community-caretaking emergency-aid fourth-amendment search-and-seizure warrant-requirement |
Is there a so-called "community caretaking" exception to the warrant requirement that operates distinctly from the emergency aid exception? |
| 25-738 |
Nick Kosmalski v. Sherrell King |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-12-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
excessive-force fourth-amendment handcuffing qualified-immunity reasonableness-standard traffic-stop |
Whether the Sixth Circuit's three-factor tight handcuffing test, a brightline rule as stated and as applied in this case to deny qualified immunity, f… |
| 25A734 |
Frank Thompson v. Carl Wilson, Commissioner, Maine's Department of Marine Resources |
First Circuit |
2025-12-22 |
Application |
|
carpenter-precedent closely-regulated-industry digital-surveillance fourth-amendment gps-tracking warrantless-search |
Whether continuous, warrantless GPS tracking of commercial fishing vessels constitutes an unreasonable search under the Fourth Amendment's 'closely re… |
| 25-705 |
Carter Page v. James B. Comey, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2025-12-18 |
Pending |
Amici (2) |
accrual-of-claims fbi-misconduct fourth-amendment government-liability inspector-general-report surveillance-warrant |
The Federal Bureau of Investigation obtained four warrants from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to surveil Petitioner Dr. Carter Page. But… |
| 25-709 |
West Virginia v. Michael Keith Allman |
West Virginia |
2025-12-18 |
Pending |
|
custodial-arrest evidence-preservation fourth-amendment officer-safety search-incident-to-arrest warrantless-search |
Whether the State must show that an arrestee could access a weapon or destructible evidence from a bag the arrestee was carrying immediately before ar… |
| 25-711 |
Deborah Cooney v. San Diego Gas & Electric, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-12-18 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment free-speech privacy smart-grid |
We live in a fast-paced society where technological innovations make possible the most unthinkable forms of trespass. Never before have policy-makers … |
| 25-6359 |
Travis Tuggle v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-12-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
effective-assistance-of-counsel fourth-amendment plain-view-doctrine sixth-amendment technological-advances unreasonable-search |
1. Whether the petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to the effective assistance of counsel was infringed upon when counsel failed to argue that, in orde… |
| 25-6373 |
Latonia Smith v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-12-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cell-phone-privacy electronic-evidence fourth-amendment riley-precedent search-and-seizure warrant-particularity |
In Riley v. California, 573 U.S. 373 (2014), this Court established that cell phones require enhanced Fourth Amendment privacy protections. The questi… |
| 25A696 |
Samantha Lee-Ann Sealey v. Arturo Mancias, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-12-15 |
Application |
|
bodyworn-camera excessive-force fourth-amendment qualified-immunity seizure use-of-force |
Whether the use of force against a handcuffed arrestee during a foot chase constitutes an objectively unreasonable seizure in violation of the Fourth … |
| 25-6348 |
Mounir Mrabet v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-12-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
consent fourth-amendment government-action probable-cause search-and-seizure warrantless-search |
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| 25-687 |
Richard Eugene Bryant, aka Ritshard Anu Bey v. Mark S. Braunlich, Judge, 38th Circuit Court of Michigan, Monroe County, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-12-12 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
color-of-law constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment jurisdiction probable-cause |
1. What is the nature and the cause of action for Mark Braunlich to issue a warrant on June 11, 2019, and to issue a license suspension on February 13… |
| 25A686 |
Demetrius Green v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2025-12-11 |
Application |
|
fourth-amendment law-enforcement pole-camera privacy search-and-seizure surveillance |
Whether the use of a long-term pole camera surveilling the back door of a private residence constitutes a Fourth Amendment search requiring a warrant |
| 25A687 |
Fort Bend Independent School District v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas |
Texas |
2025-12-11 |
Application |
|
cell-phone-logs constitutional-privacy fourth-amendment government-employees privacy telephone-records |
Whether the Fourth Amendment and the Telephone Records and Privacy Act prohibit compelled disclosure of government employees' personal cell phone call… |
| 25-6326 |
Eric Lebron Burney v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-12-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-substance fourth-amendment law-enforcement marijuana probable-cause search-and-seizure |
By April of 2019 both the state of Tennessee and the federal government excluded low-THC (delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol) marijuana from the definition … |
| 25A672 |
Michael Sharpe v. Connecticut |
Connecticut |
2025-12-09 |
Application |
|
dna-collection forensic-genealogy fourth-amendment privacy-expectation shed-dna warrantless-search |
Whether the warrantless collection, extraction, and forensic analysis of a person's shed DNA from discarded personal items constitutes an unreasonable… |
| 25-6312 |
Fred Baskin v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2025-12-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arrest evidence-suppression fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure warrantless-search |
I. Whether the Fourt h Amendment is violated and requires
suppression of evidence, when the police conduct a
warrantless search of the arrestee's ba… |
| 25-660 |
Nicole Klum, Estate of Bobby Jo Klum, et al. v. City of Davenport, Iowa, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-12-08 |
Pending |
|
constitutional-rights deadly-force fourth-amendment police-action second-amendment use-of-force |
The decision below contravenes the Second Amendment right to "keep and bear arms," and the Fourth Amendment prohibition "against unreasonable searches… |
| 25-629 |
Billy Puckett v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-12-03 |
Pending |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
constitutional-rights fourth-amendment investigatory-questions police-procedure reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop |
In Rodriguez v. United States, this Court held that a police officer may not extend a traffic stop, absent reasonable suspicion, to conduct a dog snif… |
| 25-637 |
Mark Hanneman, Minneapolis Police Officer, et al. v. Karen Wells, as Co-Trustee for the Next of Kin of Amir Rahkare Locke, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-12-03 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
appellate-jurisdiction deadly-force fourth-amendment no-knock-warrant qualified-immunity use-of-force |
1. When the Respondents' own factual allegations, the facts assumed by the courts, and the undisputedly authentic video footage, show the officer was … |
| 25-623 |
Ronald Smith v. Bexar County, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-12-02 |
Pending |
|
community-caretaking constitutional-seizure fourth-amendment law-enforcement mental-health-detention qualified-immunity |
Under the 4th Amendment, a warrantless emergency mental health detention constitutes a physical seizure. Police often misconstrue ordinary street enco… |
| 25-6265 |
Rodney Hamilton Higgins, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-12-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure drug-trafficking evidence-preservation fourth-amendment probable-cause search-warrant |
1. Whether the Fourth Amendment requires more than a defendant's status as a drug dealer and residential address to establish probable cause for a sea… |
| 25-6242 |
Willie Frank Gordon v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-11-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
fourth-amendment inventory-search investigative-search law-enforcement-procedure probable-cause vehicle-seizure |
1. Sheriff's deputies suspected a driver had drugs, stopped him, and wanted to search his car to find them. Only when their attempt to establish proba… |
| 25-604 |
Drew Craig, et al. v. John Krueger, Individually and as Co-Administrator of the Estate of Jeffery Krueger, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-11-24 |
Pending |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
civil-rights de-novo-review excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity |
This case involves an attempt by several law enforcement officers to detain and arrest Respondents' decedent Jeffery Krueger on July 1, 2019. On that … |
| 25-6204 |
Brian N. Terry v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2025-11-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-counsel constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment search-and-seizure |
This case involves a serious of important question about fair warning to United States citizens of a collateral and direct Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and F… |
| 25-6207 |
Mark Eugene Benton v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-11-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights effective-counsel fourth-amendment search-and-seizure sixth-amendment vehicle-search |
1) Was the search of the petitioners vehicle, on 12-31-2020, lawful under the 4th Amendment of the United States Constitution, as well as Montana Cnst… |
| 25-6224 |
Latoya K. Benton, Administrator of the Estate of Xzavier D. Hill, Deceased v. Seth W. Layton, Individually and in His Official Capacity as a State Trooper for the State of Virginia, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-11-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
excessive-force fourth-amendment police-conduct qualified-immunity racial-bias summary-judgment |
1. Whether the Fourth Amendment requires courts to apply a holistic, totality-of-the-circumstances analysis to excessive force claims, including all p… |
| 25-594 |
Elizabeth Crockett, et al. v. John Krueger, Individually and as Co-Administrator of the Estate of Jeffery Krueger, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-11-21 |
Pending |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
clearly-established-right excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity reasonable-officer |
On the evening of July 1, 2019, Wagoner County Lieutenant Elizabeth Crockett and Deputy Matthew Lott responded to a call from deputies requesting assi… |
| 25-588 |
Donna Elizabeth Summers v. Montana |
Montana |
2025-11-18 |
Pending |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
constitutional-rights detention fourth-amendment police-questioning seizure traffic-stop |
Whether a driver who is lawfully stopped for a traffic infraction remains seized for Fourth Amendment purposes when the officer concludes the purpose … |
| 25-6145 |
Gabriel Gallegos v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-11-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
fourth-amendment law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion show-of-authority terry-stop vehicle-stop |
When law enforcement makes a show of authority that causes a vehicle to come to a complete stop, however briefly, before fleeing, is that a stop withi… |
| 25-583 |
Rodney Towe v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2025-11-17 |
Denied |
|
criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion terry-stop |
Whether lawful, commonplace conduct that law abiding citizens routinely engage in can establish reasonable suspicion because it occurs near an expecte… |
| 25-6111 |
Dewayne Bulls v. Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-11-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-violation due-process evidence-fabrication fisa-warrant fourth-amendment judicial-scrutiny |
1. Constitutional Validity of FISA Warrants Obtained Through Systematic Perjury and
Evidence Fabrication
Whether this nation will tolerate FISA warra… |
| 25A557 |
United States v. Donte J. Carter |
District of Columbia |
2025-11-13 |
Application |
|
consensual-stop fourth-amendment police-encounter race-consideration reasonable-person seizure |
Whether the Fourth Amendment permits consideration of a suspect's race as a factor in determining whether a reasonable person would have felt seized d… |
| 25-6049 |
Richard Vandale Clowney v. Greenville County, South Carolina, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-11-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement neutral-detached-magistrate search-and-seizure warrant-requirement |
Whether a Magistrate who holds office at the law enforcement center investigating crimes is subject to and why law enforcement on easily passes, i.e. … |
| 25-6051 |
Claude Coleman v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-11-06 |
Pending |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP |
fourth-amendment high-crime-area misdemeanor reasonable-suspicion seizure terry-stop |
The Fourth Amendment protects citizens in public spaces from being seized by law enforcement without reasonable suspicion that they have committed a c… |
| 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 … |
| 25-6032 |
Thomas E. Nidiffer, et al. v. Officer David Lovato, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-11-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
curtilage fourth-amendment knock-and-talk law-enforcement qualified-immunity warrant |
1. Whether a locked gate surrounding the curtilage of a home clearly revokes the implied
social license for law enforcement officers to enter the pro… |
| 25-538 |
City of Los Angeles, California, et al. v. Estate of Daniel Hernandez, By and Through Successors in Interest, Manuel Hernandez, Maria Hernandez, and M. L. H., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-11-03 |
Pending |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse Waived |
body-camera excessive-force fourth-amendment moment-of-threat police-shooting qualified-immunity |
This case arises from a split-second police encounter in which an officer fired six shots in six seconds at a suspect armed with a knife who appeared … |
| 25-5984 |
Richard Vandale Clowney v. Walker Miller, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-10-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-requirement |
Whether A Magistrate Issuing Search Warrants And Arrest Warrants At A Law Enforcement Center In Violation Of The Fourth Amendment Neutral And Detached… |
| 25-5990 |
Tylee Brown v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2025-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
detention fourth-amendment police-encounter reasonable-suspicion terry-stop vehicle-search |
1. Whether a passenger in a vehicle, who briefly leaves the vehicle during a police encounter, but is contemporaneously detained with the vehicle and … |
| 25-5977 |
Dwayne Ernest Wharton v. Texas |
Texas |
2025-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure evidence-admissibility fourth-amendment gps-tracking search-warrant third-party-doctrine |
Does a violation of the Fourth Amendment, as enunciated in this Court's holdings in Carpenter v. United States, 138 U.S. 2206 (2018) and United States… |
| 25A463 |
David Quarles v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-10-23 |
Application |
|
border-search cellphone-search electronic-device fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause |
Whether a warrantless border search of a cellphone at a port of entry violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable searches and sei… |
| 25-493 |
M. Patricia Cantu, et vir v. Austin Police Department, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-10-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
americans-with-disabilities-act fourth-amendment law-enforcement mental-health reasonable-accommodations use-of-force |
1. Whether Title II of the Americans with
Disabilities Act is violated when law enforcement
officers fail to provide reasonable accommodations
to a su… |
| 25-5939 |
Michael Georgie Carson v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2025-10-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance probable-cause search-warrant sixth-amendment |
DOES THE MICHIGAN SUPREME COURT'S DECISION CONFLICT WITH THE U.S. SUPREME COURT'S CASELAW, WHEN THEY OVERTURNED THE MICHIGAN COURT OF APPEALS FINDING … |
| 25A447 |
Billy Puckett v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-10-21 |
Application |
|
de-minimis-extension fourth-amendment investigatory-questioning rodriguez-standard seizure-duration traffic-stop |
Whether a de minimis extension of a traffic stop through unrelated investigatory questioning violates the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on unreasonab… |
| 25-484 |
Aaron Rayshan Wells v. Texas |
Texas |
2025-10-20 |
Pending |
Amici (3)Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
digital-privacy fourth-amendment geofence-warrant law-enforcement-technology location-tracking search-and-seizure |
Fourth Amendment rights vary among circuits
and state high courts, as well as intrajurisdictionally
between Texas federal and Texas state courts,
rega… |
| 25-488 |
Valerie Asato v. Hawaii Government Employees Association, et al. |
Hawaii |
2025-10-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-search duty-of-fair-representation employee-rights fourth-amendment grievance-process labor-law |
1. Whether the Hawaii Government Employees
Association ("HGEA") breached its duty of fair
representation under federal and state labor law by
engag… |
| 25-472 |
Angelic Salgado, as Personal Representative of the Wrongful Death Estate of Jonathan Molina v. Kevin Smith |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-10-17 |
Denied |
|
clearly-established-law excessive-force fourth-amendment police-shooting qualified-immunity use-of-force |
1. Second-volley rule. When an officer shoots a suspect once in the chest, steps back for cover to reload, six to eight seconds pass, and the suspect … |
| 25-5883 |
Leonard James Tate v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-10-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
fourth-amendment hotel-search law-enforcement marijuana-search probable-cause scent-tracking |
Whether a law enforcement officer's untrained and uncorroborated tracking of marijuana odor through a multiunit hotel, without canine assistance or in… |
| 25-454 |
Ismael Bimbow v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-10-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
fourth-amendment independent-source-doctrine probable-cause search-warrant suppression-hearing warrantless-entry |
1. Did the District Court err in refusing to conduct an evidentiary hearing to determine the legality of the warrantless entry into Petitioner's apart… |
| 25-5893 |
Frederick M. Hill v. Angela Stuff, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-10-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim fourth-amendment knock-and-talk procedural-due-process sixth-amendment |
1. Should the "one fair shot" and procedural due process require the court of appeals to
notify a petitioner that an appeal and briefing schedule is … |
| 25A424 |
Adam Kanuszewski, et al. v. Sandip Shah, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-10-14 |
Presumed Complete |
|
fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment genetic-privacy medical-data newborn-screening parental-autonomy |
Whether the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments prohibit a state from indefinitely storing and using newborn genetic material without parental consent |
| 25-5858 |
Robert Peck, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-10-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (6)IFP |
exclusionary-rule felon-in-possession fourth-amendment good-faith-exception marijuana-conviction second-amendment |
Does 18 U. S. C. §922(g)(l) violate the Second Amendment as applied to Petitioner, who was convicted of being a felon in possession of a firearm based… |
| 25-5826 |
Dover Davis, Jr. v. Officer Aaron Swann |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-10-08 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
circuit-court-conflict fourth-amendment malicious-prosecution material-facts section-1983 statute-of-limitations |
1. WHETHER THERE WAS A CONFLICT BETWEEN THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS ' DECISION AND THE NORTHERN DISTRICT COURT OF GEORGIA 'S DECISION REGARD… |
| 25-5814 |
Jaylyn Devell McGhee v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-10-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
constitutional-rights fourth-amendment home-entry implied-license law-enforcement search-and-seizure |
Whether, consistent with the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, law enforcement may exceed the implied license to approach the front door of a… |
| 25-412 |
Rolando Antuain Williamson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-10-06 |
Pending |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
curtilage fourth-amendment law-enforcement privacy-expectation search-and-seizure surveillance |
1. Whether a "search" occurs when the government takes a purposeful, investigative act directed toward an individual's home and curtilage, regardless … |
| 25-399 |
Ronell Moses, Jr. v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2025-10-03 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
criminal-procedure curtilage fourth-amendment law-enforcement property-rights search-and-seizure |
1. Whether a defendant's actual use of an area adjacent to his home is relevant to whether that area is curtilage under the Fourth Amendment, as four … |
| 25-401 |
Alexander Carter, et al. v. Thomas J. Dart, Sheriff, Cook County, Illinois, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-10-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-provisions due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment government-seizure property-rights |
The circuits are divided on whether the Fourth Amendment protects property rights when a person's "papers and effects" remain in government custody af… |
| 25-402 |
Mamadou Diaw v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2025-10-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
fourth-amendment investigative-use location-data privacy-rights third-party-doctrine warrant-requirement |
1. Whether, after Carpenter v. United States, 585 U.S. 296 (2018), the Fourth Amendment permits law enforcement to obtain a single historical location… |
| 25A385 |
Carter Page v. Kash Patel, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2025-10-02 |
Presumed Complete |
|
civil-rights fbi fourth-amendment statute-of-limitations surveillance time-barred |
Whether a plaintiff can pursue civil claims for alleged Fourth Amendment violations arising from purported surveillance misconduct when the claims are… |
| 25-5795 |
Jordan Jysae Pulido v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-10-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
border-search electronic-device fourth-amendment privacy-rights reasonableness search-and-seizure |
What limits does the Fourth Amendment's reasonableness requirement impose on searches of electronic devices performed at the border? |
| 25-5764 |
James Edward King v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2025-09-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
fourth-amendment reasonable-expectation-privacy search-and-seizure standing third-circuit ups-package |
Whether the Third Circuit erred in concluding that King lacked a reasonable expectation of privacy in a package addressed to another person |
| 25-5766 |
Jonathan Valentin v. Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industries |
Third Circuit |
2025-09-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourth-amendment pro-se-litigation |
Whether the First and Fourth Amendment constitutional protections of free speech, due process, and equal protection continue to be denied in a civil r… |
| 25A370 |
Eric Lebron Burney v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-09-30 |
Presumed Complete |
|
cannabis fourth-amendment plain-smell-doctrine probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure |
Whether the 'plain smell doctrine' remains valid for establishing probable cause when cannabis odor no longer necessarily indicates illegal activity |
| 25A360 |
Henry B. Berrocal v. San Antonio Police Department-Headquarters, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-09-29 |
Application |
|
civil-rights eighth-amendment fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment |
Whether the First, Fourth, Fifth, Eighth, and Fourteenth Amendments permit state actors to engage in repeated retaliatory arrests, physical abuse, and… |
| 25-5734 |
Charles Robol v. City of Columbus, Ohio, et al. |
Ohio |
2025-09-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
first-amendment fourth-amendment procedural-due-process public-forum recording-rights viewpoint-discrimination |
Whether a municipality's imposition of overbroad restrictions violates the First Amendment's guarantees of freedom of speech and press, whether a stat… |
| 25-331 |
Patrick Wayman Scullark, Jr. v. Iowa |
Iowa |
2025-09-22 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
arrestee-bag evidence-preservation fourth-amendment officer-safety search-incident-to-arrest warrantless-search |
Whether the Fourth Amendment categorically permits warrantless searches of bags carried by arrestees at the time of arrest but inaccessible to them at… |
| 25-330 |
Eugene Cory Dingle v. James G. McGee, Judge of Dorchester County Family Court, Individually and in His Official Capacity, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-09-19 |
Denied |
|
42-usc-1983 fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment guardian-ad-litem judicial-immunity subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether a state judge who acts in the clear absence of subject-matter jurisdiction may invoke absolute judicial immunity to bar a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 sui… |
| 25-5672 |
Basaaly Saeed Moalin v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-09-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
business-records constitutional-challenge ex-parte-review fourth-amendment metadata-collection surveillance-act |
Whether a United States Court of Appeals may avoid ruling on a constitutional challenge to a statute implicating Fourth Amendment concerns if it deter… |
| 25-5673 |
Daquon Rollo Corrothers v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2025-09-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
curtilage fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant |
Whether the Fourth Amendment protects a citizen from a search of the curtilage surrounding his home when prompted by a prior warrantless search, and w… |
| 25-5646 |
John C. Miller v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2025-09-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights counsel-waiver criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment state-constitution |
Whether the Indiana Supreme Court's decision on March 13, 2025 was in error regarding constitutional protections under Terry v. Ohio |
| 25A295 |
Lesly Pompy v. Lt. Marc Moore, MANTIS, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-09-15 |
Application |
|
bivens-remedy fourth-amendment joint-task-force qualified-immunity warrantless-search westfall-act |
Whether a Bivens remedy remains available for warrantless searches and seizures of property by federal officers in joint task-force operations when al… |
| 25-297 |
Jacob P. Zorn v. Shela M. Linton |
Second Circuit |
2025-09-15 |
Pending |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (7) |
civil-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity specificity |
Whether the Second Circuit's qualified immunity analysis conflicts with this Court's repeated instruction that courts must define rights with specific… |
| 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… |
| 25-5596 |
Ardy Merritt v. Department of Housing and Urban Development, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-09-10 |
Rehearing |
Relisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-interpretation due-process fourth-amendment ninth-circuit-jurisdiction property-rights statutory-definition |
Does the U.S. Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit have the right to redefine words, disregard constitutional and state law statutes, and oversimplify felon… |
| 25A260 |
Donna Elizabeth Summers v. Montana |
Montana |
2025-09-04 |
Presumed Complete |
|
consent fourth-amendment reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure seizure traffic-stop |
Whether a traffic stop participant's consent to continued questioning after the stop's purpose has been completed is valid when the officer's prior co… |
| 25-248 |
District of Columbia v. R.W. |
District of Columbia |
2025-09-03 |
Pending |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) |
fourth-amendment investigative-stop judicial-review law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion totality-of-circumstances |
Whether a court assessing the existence of reasonable suspicion under the Fourth Amendment may exclude a fact known to the officer, or instead must as… |
| 25-241 |
Jason Arthur Aho v. Florida |
Florida |
2025-08-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
evidence-suppression fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment strickland-standard |
Whether the trial court's summary denial of Petitioner's ineffective assistance of counsel claims without an evidentiary hearing violates constitution… |
| 25A242 |
Aaron Rayshan Wells v. Texas |
Texas |
2025-08-29 |
Presumed Complete |
|
digital-privacy fourth-amendment geofence-warrant location-tracking probable-cause search-and-seizure |
Whether geofence warrants violate the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on general warrants by allowing law enforcement to conduct broad, multi-step sear… |
| 25-5468 |
Robert A. Moylan v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2025-08-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confidential-communications criminal-investigation fourth-amendment overbroad-seizure patient-privacy search-warrant |
Whether a search warrant authorizing seizure of a substance abuse counselor's entire patient files and confidential communications without in camera r… |
| 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… |
| 25-5431 |
Jason Cornell Matlock v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2025-08-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
drug-investigation fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-inference search-warrant surveillance |
Whether a brief, unverified proximity of a drug dealer to a citizen's residence, without any observed interaction, constitutes sufficient probable cau… |
| 25-212 |
Anh Tuyet Thai v. Los Angeles County, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-08-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
ada-accommodation disability-rights due-process federal-immunity fourth-amendment search-and-seizure |
Did police officers employed by the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office act under color of federal law and are they immune from suits for eq… |
| 25-5413 |
Raymond Ronald Jennings v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
fourth-amendment good-faith-exception informant-credibility probable-cause reckless-disregard search-warrant |
Did the officer omit from his probable cause affidavit information concerning the two informant's credibility that could infer reckless disregard for … |
| 25-5406 |
Malgum Whiteside, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-08-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure evidence-suppression fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-warrant |
Whether the district court improperly denied suppression of evidence and whether the appellate court improperly affirmed the district court's denial b… |
| 25-194 |
Dianna E. Webb v. City of Westminster, California, et al. |
California |
2025-08-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
fourth-amendment health-and-safety-code probable-cause search-and-seizure standing warrant-requirement |
Whether forcible and unauthorized entry pursuant to Cal. Health & Safety Code § 17980.7 violates Fourth Amendment search protections and requires a wa… |
| 25-182 |
Curtis Levar Wells, Jr. v. Javier Fuentes, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-08-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights community-caretaker consent-search fourth-amendment reasonable-suspicion seizure |
Whether law enforcement officers can infer consent to searches and seizures without objective indicia, and whether the 'community caretaker exception'… |
| 25-186 |
Alejandro Estevis v. Ignacio Cantu, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-08-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment police-shooting qualified-immunity use-of-force |
Whether Officers Ignacio Cantu and Eduardo Guajardo should be denied qualified immunity before trial for shooting six times at Alejandro Estevis while… |
| 25-179 |
Officer Phillip Reinink, in His Individual and Official Capacity v. Sean Hart, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-08-14 |
Pending |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity seizure use-of-force |
Whether an officer's intended level of force and mistaken use of force impacts Fourth Amendment reasonableness and qualified immunity analysis in exce… |
| 25A184 |
Ronald Smith v. Bexar County, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-08-14 |
Presumed Complete |
|
fourth-amendment mental-health-detention probable-cause seizure traffic-stop warrantless-search |
Whether law enforcement may conduct a warrantless emergency mental health detention during a traffic stop based solely on subjective observations of '… |
| 25-5304 |
Jonathan David Loggins v. Ronny Albert, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-08-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment implied-consent rule-15b summary-judgment |
Whether the lower courts' refusal to recognize implied consent for a fully litigated excessive force claim conflicts with controlling precedents of th… |
| 25A169 |
Kristi Noem, Secretary, Department of Homeland Security, et al. v. Pedro Vasquez Perdomo, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-08-07 |
Presumed Complete |
Amici (2) |
fourth-amendment illegal-aliens immigration-enforcement investigative-stops reasonable-suspicion totality-of-circumstances |
Whether the Fourth Amendment permits investigative stops of suspected illegal immigrants based on reasonable suspicion in a high-density immigration a… |
| 25-5273 |
Jordan Padilla v. New Mexico |
New Mexico |
2025-08-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-requirement |
Whether law enforcement officials violated Petitioner's Right to Due Process when they seized his personal tablet device and held it for 19 days due t… |
| 25A148 |
Harry Barnett v. City of Chicago, Illinois, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-08-05 |
Presumed Complete |
|
fourth-amendment malicious-prosecution probable-cause property-seizure section-1983 warrantless-arrest |
Whether a police officer's warrantless arrest based on probable cause arising from a good faith belief that property was stolen constitutes a valid Fo… |
| 25-112 |
Okello T. Chatrie v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-07-30 |
Granted |
Amici (2)Relisted (2) |
cell-phone-privacy exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment geofence-warrant law-enforcement-search probable-cause |
Whether the execution of a geofence warrant by law enforcement seeking cell phone location data without a particularized warrant violates the Fourth A… |
| 25-105 |
Brian Beland and Denae Beland v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-07-29 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
constitutional-rights criminal-investigation fifth-amendment fourth-amendment irs-procedure tax-audit |
Is a taxpayer's Fourth and/or Fifth Amendment Constitutional Rights violated when the IRS civil revenue agent conducts a criminal investigation under … |
| 25-5229 |
David Loren Waldeck v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-07-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
fourth-amendment heien-standard judicial-gloss law-enforcement objective-reasonableness statutory-interpretation |
Whether a reviewing court is permitted to insert a 'judicial gloss' in construing an unambiguous statute when determining the objective reasonableness… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| 25-71 |
Matthew Farney, et al. v. Michael Rose, as Personal Representative for the Estate of Bradley Rose and on Behalf of all Statutory Beneficiaries of Bradley Rose, Deceased |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-07-21 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
deadly-force excessive-force fourth-amendment police-encounter qualified-immunity summary-judgment |
Did the Ninth Circuit err in defining the qualified immunity right at issue too broadly by holding this was an 'obvious' case? |
| 25-5127 |
John W. Biddle v. Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-07-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment identification-procedures prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment |
Whether multiple constitutional violations, including due process, prosecutorial misconduct, and ineffective assistance of counsel, warrant Supreme Co… |
| 25A63 |
District of Columbia v. R.W. |
District of Columbia |
2025-07-16 |
Presumed Complete |
|
fourth-amendment investigative-stop probable-cause reasonable-suspicion terry-stop totality-of-circumstances |
Whether a reviewing court may consider all known facts, including a radio dispatch, when assessing the totality of circumstances for reasonable suspic… |
| 25-5115 |
Gregory Kurzajczyk v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-07-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment probation-search supervised-release suspicionless-search |
Whether a probation officer's suspicionless search of a defendant's residence on supervised release violates the Fourth Amendment |
| 25A55 |
Dawn Eagle Feather Floyd v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-07-14 |
Presumed Complete |
|
drug-offenses fourth-amendment probable-cause search-warrant standing suppression-motion |
Whether the Fourth Amendment permits law enforcement to conduct a warrantless search of a vehicle based on independent probable cause derived from the… |
| 25-5077 |
In Re Deryl Nelson |
|
2025-07-10 |
Dismissed |
Relisted (3)IFP |
arrest-warrant complaint-validity fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance judicial-hearing probable-cause |
Did the state appeals court err in finding probable cause for an arrest warrant issued without a sworn complaint or judicial finding of probable cause… |
| 25-5080 |
Kevin Coles v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2025-07-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-warrant bodily-injury criminal-investigation fourth-amendment jury-testimony police-report |
Whether an administrative warrant used as a subterfuge for criminal investigation violates Fourth Amendment protections and whether reading police rep… |
| 25-5047 |
Michael Francis v. United States |
First Circuit |
2025-07-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
fourth-amendment informant-reliability judicial-integrity law-enforcement-misconduct probable-cause search-warrant |
Were Petitioner's Fourth Amendment rights violated when an FBI Agent obtained a search warrant for Petitioner's car by deliberately withholding inform… |
| 25-5057 |
John Doe v. Mark Glass, Commissioner, Florida Department of Law Enforcement |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-07-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-code constitutional-violation due-process expungement-statute fourth-amendment pseudonym-protection |
Whether a US District Court violates due process by denying a plaintiff the use of a pseudonym after state expungement of an arrest record and by excl… |
| 25-10 |
Rodney Dale Harmon v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-07-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
certificate-of-appealability civil-criminal-context fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel search-and-seizure |
Whether the District Court or the Court of Appeals should have granted a certificate of appealability when the issue in habeas is the ineffectiveness … |
| 25-5010 |
Timothy Lynn Allen v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-07-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-procedure fourth-amendment suppression-motion terry-stop vehicle-search |
Did the lower courts err in finding that the search of petitioner's vehicle was justified under Terry v. Ohio, and does the Fifth Circuit's opinion co… |
| 25-5020 |
Dan L. Bozeman v. James R. Schiebner, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-07-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance probable-cause stone-v-powell warrantless-arrest |
Whether a defendant is considered to have received a full and fair consideration of a 4th Amendment claim under Stone v. Powell when trial and appella… |
| 25-5002 |
Juan Carlos Garridoaguilar v. California |
California |
2025-07-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof criminal-procedure fourth-amendment search-and-seizure traffic-stop warrantless-search |
Whether the California Court of Appeal improperly shifted the burden of justifying a warrantless search from the State to the defendant |
| 25A3 |
Milton Green v. Christopher Tanner, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-07-01 |
Presumed Complete |
|
deadly-force excessive-force fourth-amendment qualified-immunity reasonable-officer second-amendment |
Whether the Fourth Amendment permits an officer to use deadly force against an individual merely possessing a firearm without considering the totality… |
| 24-7513 |
Tracy A. Roberson v. Brian Eller, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-06-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa federal-review fourth-amendment habeas-corpus statutory-construction stone-v-powell |
Whether the Antiterrorism and Death Penalty Act of 1996 (AEDPA) expressly overruled Stone v. Powell and allows state prisoners to litigate Fourth Amen… |
| 24-1310 |
David Engstrom, et al. v. James W. Denby |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-06-25 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
constitutional-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment property-damage qualified-immunity warrant-execution |
Did the Ninth Circuit err in applying the Graham v. Connor reasonableness standard for excessive force to a destruction of property claim during warra… |
| 24-7500 |
Ramon Carlos Hernandez v. Texas |
Texas |
2025-06-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
cell-phone-search fourth-amendment law-enforcement-search particularity-requirement privacy-interest warrant-limitation |
Does the Fourth Amendment's particularity requirement place any limitations on the search of a cell phone beyond requiring that a search warrant limit… |
| 24-7488 |
Richard W. Kelley v. Maine |
Maine |
2025-06-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
fourth-amendment government-surveillance gps-tracking personal-property privacy-interest vehicle-search |
Does a regular passenger in a vehicle being GPS tracked by the Government have a Fourth Amendment privacy interest in his movements and the vehicle, w… |
| 24-7465 |
Nikky Nicole Lujan v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-06-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
fourth-amendment investigative-detention law-enforcement-questioning probable-cause reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop |
Whether reasonable suspicion exists when an officer relies on a driver's allegedly suspicious answer to an itinerary question without further inquiry,… |
| 24-7466 |
Patrick Joseph Duncan, Jr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-06-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure state-law |
Whether federal courts may use state law definitions to narrow Fourth Amendment protections during law enforcement stops |
| 24-7445 |
In Re James Michael Fayed |
|
2025-06-17 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-3142 bail-revocation case-of-first-impression false-imprisonment fourth-amendment fruit-of-poisonous-tree |
Whether 18 USC§ 3142 is binding on lower courts and whether a district court's deliberate disobedience of mandatory bail provisions constitutes false … |
| 24-7430 |
Trenton Jared Powell v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-06-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cellphone-search criminal-procedure digital-privacy evidence-preservation fourth-amendment warrant-requirement |
Can the police hold a defendant's cellphone seized incident to his arrest until necessary forensic software is developed based upon evidence that the … |
| 24-7374 |
Chayce Aaron Anderson v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2025-06-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights fourth-amendment particularity-clause search-and-seizure stare-decisis warrantless-search |
Whether considerations of stare decisis impact the constitutional protections against warrantless searches under the Fourth Amendment's Particularity … |
| 24-1244 |
David A. McMaster, Jr. v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2025-06-05 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
emergency-aid-exception fourth-amendment law-enforcement-search probable-cause protective-sweep-doctrine warrantless-entry |
Whether it is an improper expansion of the 'emergency aid exception' and/or 'protective sweep doctrine' to authorize a warrantless entry into a home w… |
| 24-7320 |
Luis Raul Vicente Fonseca v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-05-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
covid-19-tolling fifth-amendment fourth-amendment judicial-emergency sixth-amendment speedy-trial |
Whether a district court can toll the speedy trial period during the COVID-19 pandemic without invoking specific judicial emergency provisions |
| 24-7322 |
Samuel Lee Smith, Jr. v. A. Rodriguez |
Florida |
2025-05-29 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
color-of-law fourth-amendment injunction procedural-due-process rights-deprivation trial-court-error |
Did the trial court commit reversible error in dismissing the petition for an injunction to prevent stalking? Did the court violate procedural due pro… |
| 24A1160 |
Mohamed Mohamed Mohamud, Issa Doreh, and Ahmed Nasir Taalil Mohamud v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-05-28 |
Presumed Complete |
|
criminal-procedure fisa foreign-intelligence fourth-amendment metadata-collection surveillance |
Whether the collection of telephony metadata of millions of Americans pursuant to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) constitutes a viola… |
| 24-7288 |
Quaid Akeem Cornell v. Roberto A. Arias, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-05-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
fourth-amendment group-detention ineffective-assistance investigative-stop reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure |
May police officers detain and search all members of a group on grounds that the behavior of one person was suspicious, and is trial counsel constitut… |
| 24-7293 |
Alexander Soto v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2025-05-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arizona-v-gant criminal-procedure drug-trafficking fourth-amendment search-incident-to-arrest warrant-requirement |
Whether the search-incident-to-arrest exception from Arizona v. Gant applies to searches of containers in buildings or only in automobiles |
| 24A1119 |
Curtis Levar Wells, Jr. v. Javier Fuentes, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-05-20 |
Presumed Complete |
|
consent fourth-amendment inventory-search probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure |
Whether the Fourth Amendment permits warrantless searches based on purported consent when the totality of circumstances suggests the consent was not v… |
| 24-7237 |
Jamarr Smith, Thomas Iroko Ayodele, and Gilbert McThunel, II v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-05-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure digital-surveillance fourth-amendment general-warrant geofence-warrant good-faith-doctrine |
Whether the good-faith doctrine applies to digital-age general warrants |
| 24-7228 |
Eric Corder v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-05-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
consent curtilage evidence-gathering fourth-amendment illegal-entry implied-license |
Whether government agents have an implied license to enter the curtilage of a fenced and gated home to gather evidence, and whether voluntary consent … |
| 24-7229 |
DeAndre Jackson v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2025-05-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop |
Whether the Third Circuit's ruling that an officer's mere suspicion of a suspect's dangerousness absent any additional facts supports an arrest rather… |
| 24-7235 |
Timmy Orlando Collier v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2025-05-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment jurisdictional-defect |
Did the district court commit a jurisdictional defect by not following Michigan's law and standards, and did the court of appeals and magistrate judge… |
| 24-7213 |
Edward Magruder v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2025-05-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure fourth-amendment probable-cause search-incident-to-arrest warrantless-search |
Whether the Fourth Amendment's 'search incident to arrest' exception permits a warrantless search anytime agents had probable cause to believe that a … |
| 24-7219 |
Martin Devalois v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-05-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
drug-dog fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-stop |
Does a law enforcement officer violate the Fourth Amendment when he unnecessarily prolongs a traffic stop to conduct a drug dog sniff after completing… |
| 24-7184 |
Tricia Liu v. Louie Angel David Feria |
California |
2025-05-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment police-misconduct restraining-order warrantless-entry |
Whether the warrantless entry by El Monte Police Department officers into Petitioner's property violated the Fourth Amendment, and whether the restrai… |
| 24A1089 |
Brian Beland and Denae Beland v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-05-12 |
Presumed Complete |
|
civil-audit criminal-investigation fifth-amendment firm-indication-of-fraud fourth-amendment IRS-examination |
Whether the IRS violates a taxpayer's Fourth and Fifth Amendment rights by continuing a civil tax audit after developing a firm indication of fraud wi… |
| 24-7160 |
Prentiss Jackson v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-05-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights federal-law fourth-amendment marijuana-search state-law vehicle-search |
Whether it is constitutional to search a vehicle for the odor of marijuana alone in a state that has legalized marijuana, whether Illinois odorless co… |
| 24A1073 |
Anh Tuyet Thai v. Los Angeles County, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-05-06 |
Presumed Complete |
|
disability-benefits due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement search-and-seizure social-security |
Whether law enforcement may conduct warrantless, forcible home searches of Social Security disability applicants without violating their Fourth Amendm… |
| 24-7135 |
Mario Keeream Jackson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-05-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cellular-data criminal-procedure evidence-law fourth-amendment motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure |
Whether the district court improperly denied a motion to suppress cellular phone data and records obtained through an allegedly unlawful search |
| 24-1124 |
Christopher Thomas v. Tracy Pachote |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-05-01 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
fourth-amendment officer-assistance qualified-immunity split-second-decision supreme-court-precedent use-of-force |
Whether an officer can use force to assist another officer under the Fourth Amendment when making a split-second decision with incomplete information,… |
| 24-1122 |
Robin Root v. Jeremy Howard, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-04-30 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split fifth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus miranda-warning supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Michigan Court of Appeals misapplied Federal precedent in admitting post-Miranda statements under Elstad despite Seibert, and whether the … |
| 24-1099 |
Kyle Smith, et al. v. Rochelle Scott, Individually, and as Co-Special Administrator of the Estate of Roy Anthony Scott, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-04-22 |
Pending |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (13) |
bodily-pressure fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity restraint use-of-force |
Viewing the facts from the officers' perspective at the time, did the officers act reasonably under the Fourth Amendment by using bodyweight pressure … |
| 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… |
| 24-7027 |
Charles House v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-04-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law fourth-amendment law-enforcement privacy-rights search-and-seizure surveillance |
Whether the installation of a pole camera monitoring a residence for over 13 months violated the Fourth Amendment right to privacy and whether a zoom … |
| 24-7021 |
Moises Garcia v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2025-04-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split fourth-amendment investigative-detention law-enforcement presumptively-lawful reasonable-suspicion |
May the police conduct an investigative detention after observing a presumptively lawful act without additional information to suggest that criminal a… |
| 24-7028 |
Jeffrey Bowers v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2025-04-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights fourth-amendment identification-procedure lineup-suppression probable-cause sixth-amendment |
Whether the suppression of identification was warranted due to lack of timely probable cause determination and improper lineup procedure |
| 24-7002 |
In Re Clifford L. Noll |
|
2025-04-16 |
Rehearing |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
debt-collection due-process federal-jurisdiction fifth-amendment fourth-amendment property-seizure |
Whether the unwarranted seizure of real properties and personal savings by the United States violated the petitioner's Fourth and Fifth Amendment righ… |
| 24-7005 |
Alsham M. Laster v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2025-04-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure evidence-seizure fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause warrantless-search |
Whether the warrantless seizure of a phone during a murder investigation violated the Fourth Amendment when police lacked probable cause, failed to li… |
| 24-6998 |
Eric Ellis v. City of White Settlement, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
fourth-amendment passenger-arrest probable-cause traffic-stop unreasonable-seizure warrantless-seizure |
Whether the warrantless seizure of a suspect's children without probable cause during a traffic stop violates the Fourth Amendment; Whether an arrest … |
| 24-6978 |
Adam Douglas Sherwood v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-04-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
fourth-amendment investigative-detention probable-cause terry-stop vehicle-search warrantless-search |
Whether a police officer's stop of a white Silverado pickup truck 35 minutes after a gunshots-fired incident, based on a dispatch alert, constitutes a… |
| 24-6983 |
Markanthony Deleon Sapalasan v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-04-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
detention fourth-amendment inventory-search law-enforcement property-retention search-and-seizure |
Does it violate the Fourth Amendment to retain personal property of a person who is not going to be incarcerated and to search the property long after… |
| 24-6987 |
Cornelius Mayberry v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-04-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arrest-procedure fourth-amendment informant-testimony probable-cause search-and-seizure warrantless-search |
Does a warrantless search and seizure of a closed container violate the Fourth Amendment absent clear evidence of intent to abandon, and does a warran… |
| 24-6962 |
Prince L. Spellman v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-04-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
fourth-amendment prosecutorial-misconduct reasonable-suspicion standing suppression-hearing terry-stop |
Whether the Court of Appeals properly determined reasonable suspicion, evaluated prosecutorial misconduct, and applied Fourth Amendment standards in a… |
| 24-1051 |
Michael Nissen v. Javier Ambler, Sr., Individually and on Behalf of All Wrongful Death Beneficiaries of Javier Ambler, II, the Estate of Javier Ambler, II, and as Next Friend of J. R. A., minor child, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-04-04 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
deadly-force excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity use-of-force |
Whether a fact question on the 'deadliness' of force can impose a heightened deadly force standard that constrains the Fourth Amendment's objective te… |
| 24-6927 |
Bryant Cobb v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2025-04-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights excessive-bail fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment motion-to-suppress |
Whether the Ohio Court of Appeals' affirmation of the denial of Petitioner's motion to suppress violates the Excessive Bail Clause and Fourth Amendmen… |
| 24-6929 |
Michael James Carson v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-04-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
custodial-interrogation due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment illegal-seizure probable-cause |
Did the lower courts erroneously fail to acknowledge and apply the correct laws and facts surrounding Petitioner's custodial interrogation, and did po… |
| 24-1047 |
Ethel "Laverne" McVae, Individually and on Behalf of the Estate of Marcus McVae, Deceased, et al. v. Jesse Perez |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-04-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
deadly-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity totality-of-circumstances use-of-force |
Whether it is clearly established under the Fourth Amendment that a law enforcement officer may not use deadly force against an unarmed, fleeing perso… |
| 24-6903 |
John Sheldon Pickens, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-04-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment independent-source-doctrine investigatory-stop warrantless-search |
Does an unlawful flee that would not have happened but for the police's violation of the Fourth Amendment trigger the independent source exception to … |
| 24-1000 |
In Re Michael Prete |
|
2025-03-20 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment first-amendment fourth-amendment sixth-amendment |
Did the R.I. Judiciary violate multiple constitutional rights through retaliatory actions, improper evidence handling, and procedural misconduct? |
| 24-6790 |
Saul Douglas Briggs v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-03-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause search-warrant sixth-circuit |
Whether the Sixth Circuit correctly applied the good faith exception to a search warrant that allegedly lacked probable cause and nexus |
| 24-988 |
Jorge Vasquez v. Superior Court of California, Tulare County, et al. |
California |
2025-03-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception law-enforcement probable-cause search-warrant |
Can law enforcement's failure to state any facts to establish probable cause be excused as 'good faith' under the Fourth Amendment? |
| 24-6773 |
Jerry Jeron Daniels v. Pennsylvania Parole Board |
Pennsylvania |
2025-03-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment parole-board sixth-amendment |
Whether the Pennsylvania courts erred in denying the petitioner's appeal of the Pennsylvania Parole Board's decision and violating his constitutional … |
| 24-6747 |
Juventino L. Plancarte v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cbd-legalization constitutional-rights drug-sniffing-dogs fourth-amendment privacy-expectation warrantless-search |
Whether a warrantless sniff by a dog trained to reliably alert to legal possessions constitutes a search under the Fourth Amendment |
| 24-962 |
Autumn Adams v. Kevin Gugliano, Individually and in His Official Capacity as an Officer of the Lincoln County Sheriff's Department, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-03-07 |
Denied |
|
bodily-injury civil-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment official-immunity police-misconduct |
Whether officers who pull a compliant citizen to the ground causing serious injury violate the Fourth Amendment and whether such malicious actions are… |
| 24-6715 |
Robert Keshaun Turner v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-03-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-belief search-incident-to-arrest vehicle-search warrant-exception |
Whether the Fourth Circuit's application of the vehicle search incident-to-arrest exception to the warrant requirement resolved the meaning of 'reason… |
| 24-6698 |
Joseph Smith v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2025-03-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-challenge cross-section-challenge duren-test fourth-amendment jury-selection systemic-exclusion |
What is the proper test to determine a cross-section challenge under the Duren second prong, and how to resolve if intertwined within the 'systemic ex… |
| 24A850 |
Dieudruch Emmanuel v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-03-04 |
Presumed Complete |
|
controlled-substance-distribution fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment sixth-amendment spousal-privilege |
Whether the admission of privileged spousal communications and erroneous role-in-offense determinations in a drug distribution prosecution violated th… |
| 24-919 |
Mike Miller v. Dillon Rock |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-02-26 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-canine qualified-immunity use-of-force |
Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in denying qualified immunity to a police canine officer for the duration of a canine bite during an arrest of an arme… |
| 24-922 |
James Harper v. Michael Faulkender, Acting Commissioner of Internal Revenue Service, et al. |
First Circuit |
2025-02-26 |
Denied |
Amici (12)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
cryptocurrency-records fourth-amendment privacy-rights surveillance-tracking third-party-doctrine warrantless-search |
Does the Fourth Amendment permit warrantless searches of customer records held by third-party service providers if the records are contractually owned… |
| 24-6637 |
Roger Moss v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-02-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure drug-trafficking fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-warrant |
Does probable cause to believe a person is engaged in drug trafficking per se establish probable cause to search their home? If not, is the affiant's … |
| 24-6597 |
Steven Matthew Boas v. Jason Graves, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-02-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-liberties constitutional-rights emergency-powers fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause |
Whether probable cause exists during a stay at home order when an officer observes a person exiting a grocery store and video records police activity,… |
| 24-6593 |
Juan Guerrero v. United States |
First Circuit |
2025-02-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-review fourth-amendment officer-safety protective-sweep suppression-ruling vehicle-search |
Whether the First Circuit erred in reversing the District Court's suppression ruling by holding that an officer's actual fear for their safety is not … |
| 24-892 |
Alejandro Martinez v. City of Rosenberg, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-02-19 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split constitutional-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment injury-threshold police-misconduct |
Is an otherwise unreasonable use of excessive force permitted under the Fourth Amendment so long as it results in no, or only minor, injuries? |
| 24-6548 |
Kynnedi'Rae Joan Charles v. Officer Gary Wayne Chambers, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-02-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-protections due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment law-enforcement |
Whether law enforcement's involvement in a private vehicle repossession potentially violates constitutional protections under the Fourth and Fourteent… |
| 24-863 |
Wanda L. Edwards v. South Dakota |
South Dakota |
2025-02-12 |
Denied |
|
fourth-amendment passenger-rights probable-cause search-warrant traffic-stop vehicle-search |
Whether officers must have probable cause to search purses held or worn by passengers during traffic stops |
| 24-6537 |
Shaborn Washington v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-02-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-and-seizure warrantless-search |
Whether it was error for the Eleventh Circuit to uphold the district court's order denying Petitioner's Motion to Suppress items obtained through an u… |
| 24-6511 |
Ian Mitcham v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2025-02-10 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure dna-profile fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery law-enforcement search-and-seizure |
Does inevitable discovery require an independent alternative investigation that is in progress at the time of the illegal search? |
| 24-6499 |
Michael J. Baniel v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
fourth-amendment narcotics-investigation probable-cause reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop warrantless-search |
Whether Trooper Colton Derrick unreasonably extended a traffic stop by focusing on a narcotics investigation without reasonable suspicion or probable … |
| 24-847 |
Ladonies P. Strong v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2025-02-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
data-seizure dominion-and-control fourth-amendment military-justice property-interference search-and-seizure |
Whether a different test is required for the seizure of data contained on a device than the test laid out in United States v. Jacobsen |
| 24-6470 |
Alan E. Sanchez v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-02-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights court-procedure deliberate-falsity fourth-amendment judicial-review law-enforcement-testimony |
Whether a district court and appellate court can declare deliberate false testimony of law enforcement a mistake and ignore it when analyzing a defend… |
| 24-6467 |
Ronnie Robinson v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-02-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cell-phone-search constitutional-rights fourth-amendment probation-search reasonable-suspicion warrantless-search |
Whether a warrantless search of a probationer's cell phone and residence by a probation officer without reasonable suspicion violates Fourth Amendment… |
| 24-6443 |
Davion Brown v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2025-02-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
fourth-amendment franks-hearing government-misconduct judicial-review search-and-seizure warrant-falsity |
Whether the Second Circuit erred in denying Petitioner a Franks hearing when confronted with evidence of government representatives lying to four succ… |
| 24-821 |
Richard L. Lewis v. Brian Emig, Warden, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-02-03 |
Denied |
|
appellate-counsel constitutional-challenge direct-appeal evidence-suppression fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance |
Whether Mr. Lewis's state court appellate counsel was ineffective for failing to present obvious and significant constitutional challenges to the admi… |
| 24-823 |
Benjamin Benfer v. City of Baytown, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-02-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment police-force qualified-immunity |
Whether the Fourth Amendment can countenance an extended bite by a police attack dog where no adequate warning was given, and the suspect was unarmed … |
| 24A752 |
Kyle Smith, et al. v. Rochelle Scott, Individually, and as Co-Special Administrator of the Estate of Roy Anthony Scott, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-01-31 |
Presumed Complete |
|
civil-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity use-of-force |
Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals correctly applied constitutional standards in reviewing a law enforcement use of force claim involving pote… |
| 24-6423 |
Davonte Laron Chaney v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-01-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
affidavit false-statements fourth-amendment materiality probable-cause search-warrant |
Whether a search warrant affidavit establishes probable cause when the affiant made materially false statements |
| 24-6412 |
Joey Lamont Brunson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-01-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception wiretap-order |
Whether the good faith exception to the Fourth Amendment exclusionary rule applies to Title III wiretap orders that are insufficient on their face, an… |
| 24-6400 |
Tac Tran v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split fourth-amendment guest-rights home-entry search-and-seizure standing |
Whether a guest who has substantial connections to a home and its residents has Fourth Amendment standing to challenge a search of the home that occur… |
| 24-802 |
Aleksandr J. Stoyanov v. Howard County, Maryland, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-01-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment fraud-upon-court malicious-prosecution section-1983 |
Whether the Court of Appeals abused its discretion by using Ashcroft to improperly affirm the district court's dismissal order of a §1983 malicious pr… |
| 24A735 |
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 |
2025-01-27 |
Presumed Complete |
|
excessive-force fourth-amendment high-speed-pursuit qualified-immunity seizure use-of-force |
Whether a law enforcement officer's use of force during a high-speed pursuit constitutes an unreasonable seizure in violation of the Fourth Amendment |
| 24-6357 |
Montrese Antoine Snuggs v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-01-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure fourth-amendment probation-condition search-and-seizure suspicionless-search warrantless-search |
Whether the Fourth Amendment authorizes warrantless, suspicionless searches of probationers as part of a condition of probation |
| 24-6295 |
Rashawn Tyriq Perkins v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cell-phone fourth-amendment location-data particularity-requirement reasonable-reliance search-warrant |
Whether the court of appeals correctly determined that a search warrant for collection of real time location data from Petitioner's cell device over a… |
| 24-6281 |
Zodiac Azucenas v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-01-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
digital-privacy fourth-amendment government-intrusion messenger-communications physical-intrusion warrantless-search |
Whether the Government's warrantless review of private written communications on Facebook's Messenger application constitutes a physical intrusion in … |
| 24-6257 |
Willie Cory Godbolt v. Mississippi |
Mississippi |
2025-01-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility fourth-amendment search-and-seizure |
Whether a criminal defendant's constitutional rights were violated by the admission of evidence obtained through an allegedly improper search and seiz… |
| 24-6245 |
Brad A. Smith v. United States |
First Circuit |
2025-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
fifth-amendment fourth-amendment immigration-law interrogation-rights knock-and-talk sixth-amendment |
Did authorities violate the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments during a 'knock-and-talk' interrogation by entering a secured gate, demanding identifi… |
| 24A668 |
Juventino L. Plancarte v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-01-08 |
Presumed Complete |
|
drug-sniffing-k9 fourth-amendment investigative-devices probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-stop |
Whether the Fourth Amendment permits law enforcement to use a drug-sniffing K9 to detect possessions without probable cause during a traffic stop |
| 24-6254 |
Ryan Galal VanDyck v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights email-privacy fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance probable-cause warrantless-search |
Did the lower courts err by concluding that trial counsel was strategic to abandon a Fourth Amendment challenge to a warrantless email search, especia… |
| 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 |
| 24A648 |
Richard L. Lewis v. Brian Emig, Warden, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-12-31 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-challenge extraterritorial-surveillance fourth-amendment gps-tracking probable-cause search-warrant |
Whether the Fourth Amendment permits extraterritorial GPS tracking by state law enforcement without explicit statutory authorization or judicial warra… |
| 24-6208 |
Luciano Molina Rios v. Washington |
Washington |
2024-12-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
cell-phone-tracking fourth-amendment privacy-rights probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-requirement |
Whether the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibits the use of cell phone location data without a warrant to track a suspect's movements |
| 24-677 |
Victor Hill v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-12-26 |
Denied |
|
correctional-officer excessive-force fourth-amendment jail-security pretrial-detainees restraint-chairs |
Whether any broad principle of law gives fair warning that it constitutes 'excessive force' in violation of the Fourth Amendment for a correctional of… |
| 24-681 |
Konstadin Bitzas v. New Jersey |
New Jersey |
2024-12-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
due-process emergency-caretaker fourth-amendment pro-se-representation probable-cause search-warrant |
Whether defects in a search warrant application process, including failure to satisfy the oath requirement, omitting key facts about witnesses' intoxi… |
| 24-6188 |
John Earl Broomfield, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-12-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
911-call anonymous-tip fourth-amendment law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the 911 callers were 'anonymous' and if their identification conflicts with Florida v. J.L. precedent |
| 24A585 |
Trinidad Alvarado v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-12-16 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure evidence-suppression fourth-amendment methamphetamine-possession search-and-seizure |
Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits the admission of evidence obtained through an allegedly illegal search and seizure in a state criminal prosecut… |
| 24A566 |
Ladonies P. Strong v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2024-12-11 |
Presumed Complete |
|
court-martial digital-search electronic-devices fourth-amendment military-justice probable-cause |
Whether the Fourth Amendment permits warrantless digital searches of military personnel's electronic devices during a court-martial proceeding without… |
| 24-6091 |
Pedro Pablo Fuentes v. Steven Harpe, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-12-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability fourth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-review reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop |
Whether the Tenth Circuit unreasonably determined the facts and violated the petitioner's Fourth Amendment rights during a traffic stop |
| 24-6075 |
Lamar Williams v. Alyeska Seafoods, Inc. |
Alaska |
2024-12-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-violations fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment government-funding labor-law |
Whether the plaintiff seeks judicial review of potential constitutional and labor law violations by Alyeska Seafood company and government agencies |
| 24-6080 |
Victor Manuel Ramirez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-12-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights fourth-amendment police-inquiry reasonable-suspicion seizure-duration traffic-stop |
Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in creating a bright-line rule permitting police to lengthen a traffic stop by inquiring about a driver's parole or pr… |
| 24-616 |
Officer Benjamin M. Bauer v. Ethan Daniel Marks |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-12-05 |
GVR |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
fourth-amendment law-enforcement medical-evacuation protest seizure use-of-force |
Whether the use of a less-lethal projectile during a violent protest to repel an attacker and protect officers and civilians constitutes a Fourth Amen… |
| 24A549 |
James Harper v. Daniel I. Werfel, Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, et al. |
First Circuit |
2024-12-05 |
Presumed Complete |
|
administrative-procedure-act cryptocurrency financial-privacy fourth-amendment john-doe-summons third-party-doctrine |
Whether the Fourth Amendment's third-party doctrine permits the IRS to obtain a 'John Doe' summons compelling a cryptocurrency exchange to disclose pr… |
| 24-595 |
William L. Harris v. City of Kent, Washington, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-12-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment stare-decisis |
Whether a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit erred in affirming the dismissal of a case involving alleged violations of Supreme Court precedent an… |
| 24-6068 |
Marlon Maurice Winborn v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-activity fourth-amendment informant-tip law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-inference |
Does the Fourth Amendment require that even a reliable informant provide police with sufficient information to allow an officer to reasonably infer th… |
| 24-577 |
Gilbert Perez v. United States |
First Circuit |
2024-11-25 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
arrest-search criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement luggage-search warrantless-search |
Does the Fourth Amendment prohibit the warrantless search of a backpack, piece of luggage, or other bag carried by an individual at the time of his ar… |
| 24-6024 |
Rudolph Daniel Miffin, Jr. and Jermaine Darnell Johnson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-11-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
automobile-exception fourth-amendment marijuana-decriminalization probable-cause vehicle-search warrantless-search |
Where a state has decriminalized simple possession of marijuana, can state and local police conduct a warrantless search of a vehicle based on the aut… |
| 24-6027 |
In Re Pierre Haobsh |
|
2024-11-25 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus search-and-seizure |
Whether the State of California violated the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment rights of the petitioner through unconstitutional search and seizure prac… |
| 24-6023 |
Leonardo Terrazas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery law-enforcement search-and-seizure |
Whether the Fifth Circuit's application of the inevitable-discovery doctrine conflicts with Supreme Court precedent |
| 24A483 |
Samuel Boima v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-11-15 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-review constitutional-challenge fourth-amendment guilty-plea search-and-seizure suppression-of-evidence |
Whether a federal district court's denial of a motion to suppress evidence obtained through an allegedly unconstitutional search can be reviewed on di… |
| 24-535 |
Gregory Rogers v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-11-13 |
Denied |
|
criminal-procedure expectation-of-privacy fourth-amendment law-enforcement search-and-seizure vehicle-search |
Whether a passenger in a borrowed, lawfully parked vehicle retains a Fourth Amendment expectation of privacy when making truthful statements to law en… |
| 24-5960 |
Christopher Patrick McGowan v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2024-11-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment grand-jury preliminary-hearing probable-cause |
Did the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas violate the petitioner's Fourth, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights through improper judicial proced… |
| 24-5955 |
John C. Coleman v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2024-11-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights dna-collection due-process fourth-amendment probable-cause warrant |
Whether the DNA obtained from a suspect without a warrant and without probable cause violates the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments' due process protec… |
| 24A473 |
Victor Hill v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-11-12 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-violation detainee-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement-misconduct restraint-chairs |
Whether the use of passive restraint chairs on nonresistant detainees for extended periods constitutes excessive force in violation of the Fourth Amen… |
| 24A465 |
Timothy M. Gemelli v. Perry Nicosia, District Attorney, 34th Judicial District Court, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-11-08 |
Presumed Complete |
|
brady-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence fourth-amendment material-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether a prosecutor's failure to disclose potentially exculpatory text messages and cellphone evidence constitutes a Brady violation when the evidenc… |
| 24-521 |
Bethany Farber v. City of Los Angeles, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-11-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment section-1983 substantive-due-process unreasonable-seizures wrongful-detention |
Whether the right against wrongful detention falls under the Fourth Amendment's proscription against unreasonable seizures or the Fourteenth Amendment… |
| 24-519 |
Eunice Bisong Nkongho v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-11-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
border-search criminal-investigation electronic-media fourth-amendment law-enforcement search-warrant |
Whether the border exception to the Fourth Amendment allows warrantless seizure and search of electronic media for criminal investigation purposes, an… |
| 24A456 |
In Re Mawule Tepe |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-11-06 |
Presumed Complete |
|
administrative-seizure constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment tax-refund |
Whether the Internal Revenue Service's seizure of a taxpayer's refund without prior judicial authorization violates due process under the Fourth and F… |
| 24-5888 |
Terrion Deondre Herman v. R. Brown |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-11-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
fourth-amendment government-surveillance privacy-rights reasonable-expectation search-and-seizure warrant-requirement |
Whether the government's use of a tracking device to monitor an individual's movements in a private apartment complex without a warrant violates Fourt… |
| 24-5890 |
Ushery Stewart v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-11-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split drug-dealer fourth-amendment good-faith-exception search-and-seizure warrant-requirement |
Whether the Fourth Amendment permits a warrantless search of a residence based solely on a person's status as a known drug dealer and whether Leon's g… |
| 24-484 |
Michigan v. David Allan Lucynski |
Michigan |
2024-10-31 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
evidence-suppression fourth-amendment legal-mistake police-conduct probable-cause reasonable-standard |
Whether all unreasonable mistakes of law by police constitute deliberate or reckless conduct requiring evidence suppression |
| 24-5870 |
Paul Curtis Pemberton v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-10-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
evidence-collection exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception law-enforcement warrantless-arrest |
Whether the good-faith exception to the exclusionary rule can be extended to evidence collected from a warrantless arrest |
| 24-5864 |
Antwone Miguel Sanders v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-10-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process fourth-amendment leon-exception nexus probable-cause search-warrant |
Whether the search warrant affidavit failed to establish the requisite nexus for searching a private residence and whether the Leon good-faith excepti… |
| 24-473 |
Karen Jimerson, et al. v. Mike Lewis |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-10-29 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Relisted (4) |
circuit-split constitutional-rights fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity search-warrant |
Whether Maryland v. Garrison clearly established that officers violate the Fourth Amendment when they search the wrong house without checking the addr… |
| 24-5830 |
Derek Tyler Horton v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2024-10-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights fourth-amendment law-enforcement pretextual-arrest probable-cause warrant-execution |
Whether a police officer's reason for acting should factor into the Fourth Amendment inquiry and whether an arrest can be considered lawful when circu… |
| 24-438 |
Benjamin S. Goldberg v. Ralph Northam, former Governor of Virginia, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-10-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights covid-19 emergency-orders fourth-amendment mask-mandate state-action |
Whether COVID-19 emergency orders requiring masking violated the Fourth Amendment rights of a petitioner when enforced by state officials |
| 24-5771 |
Kyle Christopher Zoellner v. City of Arcata, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-10-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence-tampering fourth-amendment probable-cause sixth-amendment |
Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in affirming the district court's judgment regarding probable cause for arrest and the constitutional implications of … |
| 24-5773 |
Sedric Q. Sutton v. Charlton Smith, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-10-17 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-violation drug-possession fourth-amendment illegal-seizure search-warrant summary-judgment |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in granting summary judgment denying damages for illegal search and seizure when Sutton allegedly failed to create a g… |
| 24-424 |
Raymond N. Bailey, Jr. v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2024-10-16 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
criminal-supervision fourth-amendment probable-cause residency-verification search-and-seizure warrantless-search |
Whether a warrantless search violates the Fourth Amendment where government lacks probable cause to believe the place searched is the person's actual … |
| 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… |
| 24-5757 |
Damian Cortez v. United States |
First Circuit |
2024-10-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split fourth-amendment franks-hearing offer-of-proof probable-cause search-warrant |
Whether a circuit split exists regarding the standard for presenting an offer of proof under Franks v. Delaware and the Fourth Amendment requirements … |
| 24-5738 |
Corloyd Anderson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-10-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
affiant-misconduct bad-faith criminal-procedure fourth-amendment probable-cause warrant-clause |
Does the Warrant Clause require a new trial when newly-discovered evidence establishes that a law enforcement affiant concealed prior felonious conduc… |
| 24-5726 |
William Hudson v. Brian Emig, Warden, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-10-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
digital-search fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment strickland-test warrant-particularity |
Whether digital searches of entire computer contents violate the Fourth Amendment's particularity requirement and whether ineffective assistance of co… |
| 24-372 |
William Robert Taft v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2024-10-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-procedure fourth-amendment probable-cause protective-sweep unreasonable-search warrant-requirement |
Whether the Colorado Court of Appeals reversibly erred by expanding the protective sweep exception to the Fourth Amendment warrant requirement beyond … |
| 24A314 |
Robert Darrel Batson v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-10-02 |
Presumed Complete |
|
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claims fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance state-court-review |
Whether a state prisoner can obtain federal habeas relief under 28 U.S.C. § 2254(d) when state appellate courts have already adjudicated his ineffecti… |
| 24-5687 |
Solomon Odubajo v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
fourth-amendment reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure source-state terry-stop warrantless-search |
Whether a single factor of a parcel's state of origin is sufficient to establish reasonable suspicion for seizure and whether a warrantless search of … |
| 24-353 |
Elelake James Jefferson, Jr. v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2024-09-30 |
Denied |
|
consent-doctrine fourth-amendment schneckloth-standard subjective-intent totality-of-circumstances warrantless-search |
Whether a court should consider a defendant's subjective intent when assessing consent to a warrantless search under the totality of the circumstances… |
| 24-5660 |
In Re Pakuja Crystal Vang |
|
2024-09-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights disability-discrimination due-process federal-jurisdiction fourth-amendment judicial-misconduct |
Whether the Fourth Circuit improperly dismissed the petitioner's constitutional claims involving civil rights violations and procedural misconduct |
| 24-5620 |
Salvador Salas, Jr. v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-09-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
carpenter-v-united-states container-search digital-privacy fourth-amendment riley-v-california search-and-seizure |
Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits application of the 'container search' doctrine to digital storage devices |
| 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… |
| 24-5577 |
Victor Javier Grandia Gonzalez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-09-19 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5)IFP |
common-law-rule constitutional-protection fourth-amendment misdemeanor-offense officer-presence warrantless-arrest |
Whether a warrantless arrest for a misdemeanor offense violates the Fourth Amendment where the offense did not occur in the presence of an officer |
| 24A276 |
Manuel Enrique Yates v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-09-18 |
Presumed Complete |
|
confrontation-clause fourth-amendment pro-se search-and-seizure sixth-amendment venue |
Whether the Sixth Amendment's Confrontation Clause and Venue Clause, and the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on unreasonable searches and seizures, wer… |
| 24-302 |
Marcos Mendez v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-09-17 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
border-search cell-phone-search electronic-privacy fourth-amendment suspicionless-search warrantless-search |
Whether the Government may conduct a warrantless and suspicionless search of electronic contents of a person's cell phone at the border |
| 24A268 |
Marino Scafidi v. Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-09-17 |
Presumed Complete |
|
exculpatory-evidence fourth-amendment malicious-prosecution probable-cause summary-judgment warrantless-search |
Whether the Fourth Amendment requires law enforcement to immediately release a suspect from custody when probable cause dissipates due to newly discov… |
| 24-5540 |
Mykel Lee McMillion v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-09-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure firearm-possession fourth-amendment open-carry warrantless-seizure |
Whether the possession of a firearm in an open-carry state, combined with other wholly innocent factors, is sufficient to justify a warrantless seizur… |
| 24-271 |
Jerry Arnold Westrom v. Minnesota |
Minnesota |
2024-09-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
confrontation-clause effective-assistance-of-counsel fourth-amendment reasonable-expectation-of-privacy shed-dna sixth-amendment |
Whether society recognizes a reasonable expectation of privacy in shed DNA under the Fourth Amendment and whether scientific testimony violates confro… |
| 24-5501 |
Victor Manuel Campos-Ayala v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-09-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
controlled-substances-act due-process fourth-amendment miranda-warnings traffic-stop witness-deportation |
Whether law enforcement agents must read Miranda warnings during an investigative traffic stop prior to formal arrest, whether possession with intent … |
| 24-5505 |
David Brian Larche, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-09-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-suspicion terry-stop traffic-stop warrantless-detention |
Whether possession of cash alone constitutes reasonable suspicion to prolong a warrantless detention after a completed traffic stop |
| 24-5473 |
James Williams v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-09-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-requirement |
Question not identified. |
| 24A238 |
Gregory Rogers v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-09-04 |
Presumed Complete |
|
criminal-procedure expectation-of-privacy fourth-amendment probable-cause vehicle-search warrantless-search |
Whether a passenger in a borrowed vehicle who has the owner's permission to use the car retains a Fourth Amendment privacy interest even when not driv… |
| 24-230 |
Kathleen Wright-Gottshall, et al. v. New Jersey, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-08-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bodily-integrity fourth-amendment government-employment medical-testing mootness qualified-immunity |
Whether mandated weekly Covid-19 medical testing for government employees violates Fourth Amendment rights and whether such testing is a clearly estab… |
| 24-5396 |
Pedro Pablo Fuentes v. Steven Harpe |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-08-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
collective-knowledge-doctrine detention fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-stop |
Whether law enforcement can detain a suspect and conduct a K-9 search after issuing a traffic citation without additional probable cause or consent |
| 24-5397 |
Bruce Sanford v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-08-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights fourth-amendment freedom-of-movement law-enforcement probable-cause seizure |
Whether a citizen is seized within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment when law enforcement impedes the citizen's freedom of movement? |
| 24-5381 |
Nathan Cooper v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-08-23 |
Denied |
Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights fourth-amendment police-search probable-cause stop-and-frisk terry-stop |
Whether the Court should overrule the frisk holding of Terry v. Ohio, which allows police officers to search people absent probable cause to arrest |
| 24A201 |
Peter K. Navarro v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2024-08-23 |
Presumed Complete |
|
act-of-production fifth-amendment fourth-amendment presidential-records-act self-incrimination white-house-records |
Whether the Presidential Records Act and the Fourth Amendment permit compelled production of presidential records from a former White House official's… |
| 24-199 |
Aldo Ortega v. Tanya Ford, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-08-22 |
Denied |
|
due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fourth-amendment psychological-detention warrant-clause |
Whether a warrant issued by the Department of Corrections for allegedly violating a non-existent mandatory supervised release agreement violates the F… |
| 24-5365 |
Troy Steven Richter v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-08-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-investigation erotica first-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech ineffective-assistance |
Does the First Amendment protect against criminal investigation initiation for materials deemed erotica and not violating criminal statutes? |
| 24-172 |
Marques A. Johnson v. James Dunn |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-08-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arrest circuit-split constitutional-rights fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity |
Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits arresting a passenger in a car not suspected of any wrongdoing solely for failing to immediately provide identi… |
| 24-5332 |
Armando Daniel Calderon v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-08-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement property-rights reasonable-suspicion vehicle-seizure |
Does an officer violate a driver's Fourth Amendment property rights by continuing to seize a vehicle after the driver is in custody without independen… |
| 24-152 |
Michael Pina v. Estate of Jacob Dominguez |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-08-15 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) |
armed-robbery excessive-force fourth-amendment investigative-stop police-use-of-force qualified-immunity |
Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in finding a Fourth Amendment violation when police fatally shot a suspect who failed to comply with commands during a… |
| 24-5321 |
Terry M. Peterson, Jr. v. Wisconsin |
Wisconsin |
2024-08-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
bodily-integrity fourth-amendment medical-procedure probable-cause search-and-seizure warrantless-search |
Whether a warrantless search of a suspect's body during a medical procedure violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable searches |
| 24-5300 |
Shakeen Davis, Jamal Lockley, and Dante D. Bailey v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-08-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bad-faith fourth-amendment probable-cause search-warrants warrant-clause wiretap-orders |
Does the Warrant Clause require a new trial when newly discovered evidence establishes that an affiant who applied for wiretap orders and search warra… |
| 24A166 |
Tidera Harris v. Gregory Harvey |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-08-12 |
Presumed Complete |
|
deadly-force excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity use-of-force |
Whether a law enforcement officer can assert qualified immunity when using deadly force against an unarmed suspect who does not pose an immediate thre… |
| 24-5278 |
Mark Manuel Angeles Marino v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-08-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
fifth-amendment fourth-amendment probable-cause search-warrant self-incrimination sentencing-hearing |
Whether a defendant's Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination was violated by drawing an adverse inference from silence at a sentencing h… |
| 24A157 |
United States v. Landon R. Mayo |
District of Columbia |
2024-08-08 |
Presumed Complete |
|
fourth-amendment high-crime-area investigatory-stop reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-stop |
Whether a police officer's encounter with an individual in a high-crime area, involving suspicious waistband movements and subsequent flight, constitu… |
| 24-5226 |
Terry Dwayne Jones v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-08-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof fourth-amendment law-enforcement pacing probable-cause search-and-seizure speed-estimation traffic-stop warrantless-search |
Whether an officer's invocation of 'pacing' as a basis for a traffic stop, without any ability to show how he was trained to use such a technique or w… |
| 24-116 |
Daniel A. Madero v. Owen McGuinness |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-08-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment material-fact probable-cause summary-judgment tolan |
Whether the denial of Mr. Madero's appeal to Respondent's motion for summary judgment was in error, under this Court's ruling in Tolan, as there was a… |
| 24-5185 |
George Gaio Mano v. Janet Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-07-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
10th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 9th-amendment bank-secrecy bank-secrecy-act constitutional-privacy data-collection foreign-bank-account-report fourth-amendment privacy privacy-rights |
Does the US government's mass collection of private banking data violate the 4th, 5th, 9th, and 10th Amendments? |
| 24-5197 |
Curtis Mitchell Paul v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-07-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-investigation empirical-evidence fourth-amendment officer-mistake probable-cause reasonable-suspicion seizure terry-stop terry-v-ohio totality-of-the-circumstances |
Whether a police officer violates the Fourth Amendment when he seizes for criminal investigation a pedestrian walking in the vicinity of a recent robb… |
| 24-5174 |
Michael D. Carver v. City of Kalamazoo, Michigan, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-07-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
absolute-immunity fabricated-evidence false-arrest fourth-amendment franks-doctrine investigative-conduct malicious-prosecution probable-cause qualified-immunity |
Whether Franks applies to material omissions, and whether probable cause is vitiated for a particular offense where the omitted information is exculpa… |
| 24-89 |
Cory Johnson v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-07-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment-search-and-seizure digital-evidence digital-privacy fourth-amendment gps metadata metadata-search probable-cause riley-precedent riley-v-california warrant-requirements warrant-scope |
Does Riley v. California prohibit the Government from searching privacy protected GPS information in the metadata of a digital video labeled contraban… |
| 24-5150 |
Toyrieon Sessions v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-07-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
Due-Process fourth-amendment law-enforcement mobile-device Mobile-Devices Probable-Cause Riley-v-California search-and-seizure Seizure warrant-requirement Warrantless-Search |
Fourth-Amendment |
| 24-5136 |
John Michael Murphy v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment constitutional-violation contraband fourth-amendment pat-down plain-touch-doctrine probable-cause search-and-seizure warrantless-search |
Whether the plain-touch doctrine allows deputies to remove an unknown object from under a person's clothing when they do not believe it is a weapon or… |
| 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 |
| 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… |
| 24-70 |
Ilya Kovalchuk v. City of Decherd, Tennessee |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-07-23 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights discovery-standard due-process fourth-amendment monell-claim monell-liability municipal-liability plausibility-standard section-1983 twombly-iqbal |
Whether the Sixth Circuit's rejection of the 'plausibility' of Petitioner's Monell claim is erroneous, given its departure from the Twombly standard a… |
| 24-72 |
Bruce L. Hay v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-07-23 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
curtilage curtilage-search founding-era-expectations fourth-amendment home home-privacy law-enforcement-surveillance mosaic-theory reasonable-expectation-of-privacy warrantless-surveillance |
Whether the Government's warrantless, longterm video camera surveillance of an individual's home and curtilage constitutes a 'search' for Fourth Amend… |
| 24A72 |
Raymond N. Bailey, Jr. v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2024-07-22 |
Presumed Complete |
|
fourth-amendment probable-cause probation-condition reasonable-suspicion search-waiver warrantless-search |
Whether the Fourth Amendment requires probable cause, rather than reasonable suspicion, to conduct a warrantless search of a probationer's residence u… |
| 24A74 |
Curtrina Martin, Individually and as Parent and Next Friend of G.W., a Minor, et al. v. United States, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-07-22 |
Presumed Complete |
|
discretionary-function federal-tort-claims-act fourth-amendment qualified-immunity search-warrant supremacy-clause |
Whether the Supremacy Clause and the discretionary function exception of the Federal Tort Claims Act can immunize federal law enforcement from liabili… |
| 24-5115 |
Jima Brown v. New York |
New York |
2024-07-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment investigative-suspicion law-enforcement privacy probable-cause search-and-seizure warrantless-search |
Question not identified |
| 24-5107 |
Myron Motley v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-07-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment fourth-amendment jurisdictional-split law-enforcement medical-records prescription-data prescription-drugs privacy privacy-expectation search-and-seizure |
Whether patients hold a reasonable expectation of privacy under the Fourth Amendment in prescription medication records |
| 24-59 |
Stephen Lynch Murray v. Phil Archer, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-07-18 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
civil-procedure civil-rights color-of-law confrontation due-process fourth-amendment free-speech political-speech speech-retaliation standing witness-confrontation |
When there is speech infringement with arrest, must there be a venue for confrontation and evidence the state did not provide as due, before a federal… |
| 24A55 |
Karen Jimerson, et al. v. Mike Lewis |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-17 |
Presumed Complete |
|
clearly-established-law fourth-amendment qualified-immunity reasonable-efforts search-warrant wrong-house-raid |
Whether an officer violates clearly established Fourth Amendment law when executing a search warrant at the wrong residence without taking reasonable … |
| 24A59 |
Kathleen Wright-Gottshall, et al. v. New Jersey, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-07-17 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-search covid-19 fourth-amendment government-mandate medical-testing qualified-immunity |
Whether government-mandated COVID-19 medical testing of public workers constitutes an unreasonable search under the Fourth Amendment and whether quali… |
| 24-5092 |
Moises Orlando Zelaya-Veliz, Jose Eliezar Molina-Veliz, Luis Alberto Gonzales, Gilberto Morales, and Jonathan Rafael Zelaya-Veliz v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-07-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
digital-privacy facebook-data fourth-amendment government-scrutiny probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant social-media temporal-limitation warrant |
Does the Fourth Amendment prohibit the issuance of apparent 'all-data' warrants for Facebook accounts without any temporal limitation or for a period … |
| 24-5074 |
Charles Brian O'Neill v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-07-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith good-faith-exception law-enforcement probable-cause search-warrant suppression |
Do the deficiencies in the search warrants and their supporting affidavits merit good faith protection from the exclusionary rule? |
| 24-5062 |
Amanda Reynolds v. City of Sandy, Utah |
Utah |
2024-07-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
birchfield-v-north-dakota constitutional-violation due-process exclusionary-rule fifth-amendment first-amendment fourth-amendment implied-consent miranda-rights sixth-amendment standing-mootness-public-interest-doctrine |
Does Petitioner have standing to challenge the constitutionality of Utah's Implied Consent Statute? |
| 24A34 |
David Brian Larche, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-07-11 |
Presumed Complete |
|
fourth-amendment investigatory-detention reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-stop traffic-stop |
Whether law enforcement may extend a traffic stop and conduct a search based on mere speculation about criminal activity, contrary to the reasonable s… |
| 24-5056 |
Tyrone Stafford v. Arnold S. Zwicke, Executive Sheriff, Guadalupe County, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-07-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement malicious-prosecution police-misconduct qualified-immunity use-of-force |
Question not identified. |
| 24-15 |
Paulette Smith, Individually and as Successor in Interest to Albert Dorsey, Deceased v. Edward Agdeppa |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-07-09 |
Denied |
|
clearly-established excessive-force fourth-amendment police-shooting qualified-immunity section-1983 summary-judgment use-of-force |
In a § 1983 action arising out of fatal police shooting involving disputed allegations of Fourth Amendment violations, did the Ninth Circuit err in gr… |
| 24-5015 |
Eduardo Alvarez, Jr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-07-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arrest-warrant attenuation-doctrine criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment illegal-stop search-and-seizure standing utah-v-strieff |
Whether an officer's discovery of someone else's outstanding arrest warrant necessarily attenuates the illegality of a defendant's own detention under… |
| 24A9 |
Nathan Cooper v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-07-08 |
Presumed Complete |
|
armed-and-dangerous criminal-activity fourth-amendment reasonable-suspicion stop-and-frisk terry-stop |
Whether a Terry stop-and-frisk is constitutional when the officer lacks objectively reasonable suspicion of criminal activity or that the suspect is a… |
| 23-1355 |
Kris V. Zocco v. Wisconsin |
Wisconsin |
2024-06-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
cell-phone-search criminal-procedure enumerated-crimes evidence evidence-seizure fourth-amendment particularity-requirement search-and-seizure search-warrant |
Does a warrant to search the entire contents of a cell phone for unspecified 'evidence' of enumerated crimes violate the Fourth Amendment's requiremen… |
| 23-7805 |
In Re Enrique Medina |
|
2024-06-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-court constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment jurisdiction search-and-seizure sixth-amendment warrantless-search |
Whether the petitioner's right to speedy trial was violated |
| 23-7824 |
Kwuan Montrell Baker v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-06-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-balancing law-enforcement pretextual-stop probable-cause reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop whren-v-united-states |
Whether an admittedly pretextual traffic stop based on reasonable suspicion, rather than probable cause, violates the Fourth Amendment |
| 23-7827 |
Gianni Montay Minners v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-06-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment fourth-amendment gang-affiliation high-crime-area investigative-detention law-enforcement prior-gun-possession probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure |
Is an investigative detention reasonable when there are insufficient facts to conclude the individual is a gang member or the area is a high crime are… |
| 23-7829 |
Brandon Roberts v. Wexford Health Sources, Inc., et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-06-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment prisoner-rights statute-of-limitations strip-searches wrongful-death |
Can a prisoner state a claim for denial of access to the courts if prison officials impeded their ability to litigate a pending wrongful death suit? |
| 23-7831 |
In Re Olamide Olatayo Bello |
|
2024-06-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment search-and-seizure search-warrant |
Whether a search warrant and seizure violate the petitioner's Fourth, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights |
| 23-1343 |
Darwin Quinones-Pimentel, et al. v. Nicholas W. Cannon, et al. |
First Circuit |
2024-06-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bivens-action civil-rights constitutional-tort federal-agents fourth-amendment frank-v-delaware monetary-damages search-warrant |
Whether a Bivens action can be maintained against federal agents and actors when a search warrant is obtained in violation of the doctrine established… |
| 23-7795 |
Marc Pierre Hall, aka Marc Valeriano, aka Fella v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-06-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the sentencing court had discretion to correct or perpetuate constitutional errors in the defendant's sentence |
| 23-7773 |
Christopher Marcel Esqueda v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-06-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
consent Florida-v-Jardines fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search implied-consent implied-license jardines-precedent law-enforcement property-based-test property-rights search search-and-seizure secret-recording undercover-agent |
Fourth-Amendment-search |
| 23-7766 |
Charles Edward Luckett v. Robert Neuschmid, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-06-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-v-maryland burden-of-proof criminal-procedure due-process evidence exclusionary-rule fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus sixth-amendment witness |
Whether the exclusion of evidence related to Luckett's brother's detention inside the crime scene perimeter violated Luckett's Sixth and Fourteenth Am… |
| 23-7748 |
Jacob W. Barron v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-06-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
compliance-check criminal-procedure fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-expectation-of-privacy law-enforcement privacy-expectation probable-cause probation probation-search warrantless-search |
Did the warrantless search of Mr. Barron's home that was not related to monitoring his compliance with his probation offend his Fourth Amendment expec… |
| 23-7734 |
Reshod Jamar Everett v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-06-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-rights law-enforcement maryland-v-buie probable-cause protective-sweep reasonable-belief warrantless-search |
fourth-amendment |
| 23-1311 |
Charles W. Washington v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2024-06-14 |
Denied |
|
affidavit drug-activity fourth-amendment oral-testimony probable-cause search-warrant sgro-precedent time-delay warrant-application |
Whether the mandates announced in Sgro v. United States were violated in the issuance of the search warrant |
| 23-7713 |
Calvin K. Wilson v. Florida |
Florida |
2024-06-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
exclusionary-rule false-statements fourth-amendment franks-v-delaware judicial-integrity law-enforcement probable-cause search-warrant |
Whether the Fourth Amendment exclusionary rule requires suppression of evidence obtained through a search warrant that was based in part on false stat… |
| 23-7714 |
Derek Gerrish v. United States |
First Circuit |
2024-06-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bail bail-conditions circuit-split constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment individualized-suspicion law-enforcement-searches punishment search-and-seizure |
Does a bail condition that allows searches by law enforcement officers without probable cause or reasonable suspicion qualify as punishment for purpos… |
| 23-1297 |
Michael Roane v. Tina Ray |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-06-12 |
Denied |
|
clearly-established-law fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-seizure objective-reasonableness personal-property qualified-immunity self-defense summary-judgment unreasonable-seizure |
Whether Roane's act had to be the 'necessary' or 'unavoidable' act, rather than within a range of objective reasonableness, to be considered an act of… |
| 23-7677 |
Daniela Bowman v. Cordelia Friedman |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-06-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
compulsory-production due-process due-process-clause equal-protection equal-protection-clause evidentiary-hearing fourth-amendment judicial-review motion-to-dismiss oklahoma-press-publishing-co-v-walling statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Tenth Circuit's ruling rejecting a person's right to a due process evidentiary hearing conflicts with the Due Process and Equal Protection… |
| 23A1100 |
Moises Orlando Zelaya-Veliz, Jose Eliezar Molina-Veliz, Luis Alberto Gonzales, Gilberto Morales, and Jonathan Rafael Zelaya-Veliz v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-06-10 |
Presumed Complete |
|
digital-warrant exclusionary-rule facebook-data fourth-amendment particularity-requirement search-and-seizure |
Whether warrants for digital platform account data that lack temporal limitations and seek comprehensive account information violate the Fourth Amendm… |
| 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? |
| 23-7636 |
Russell Davis v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-06-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure sworn-testimony warrant-affidavit |
Does the Leon good-faith exception apply to salvage a barebones affidavit? |
| 23-1254 |
Stephen Ollar, et al. v. District of Columbia, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2024-05-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bodily-integrity evidence-fabrication fabricated-evidence fifth-amendment fourth-amendment medical-procedure parental-consent parental-rights seizure state-action |
Whether the Fourth Amendment assures parents that, painful-and-medically-unnecessary-procedures-of-their-child-will-not-be-undertaken-for-investigativ… |
| 23A1075 |
Bruce L. Hay v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-05-31 |
Presumed Complete |
|
curtilage fourth-amendment pole-camera reasonable-expectation-of-privacy surveillance warrantless-search |
Whether long-term, warrantless pole camera surveillance of a person's home and curtilage constitutes an unreasonable search under the Fourth Amendment |
| 23-1255 |
Dephne Nguyen Wright v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-30 |
Denied |
|
certificate-of-appealability federal-habeas fourth-amendment habeas-corpus harmless-error ineffective-assistance-of-counsel probable-cause search-warrant |
Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and district court applied too demanding of a standard governing issuance of a certificate of … |
| 23-7580 |
Joseph Moraga v. Texas |
Texas |
2024-05-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment advisory-opinion contemporaneous-to-arrest custodial-arrest fourth-amendment possession probable-cause reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-incident-to-arrest warrantless-search |
Whether the warrantless search of luggage stored in a motel closet was valid as incident to arrest |
| 23A1061 |
Michael D. Cohen v. Donald J. Trump, former President of the United States, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-05-29 |
Presumed Complete |
|
bivens-action constitutional-rights deterrence fourth-amendment home-confinement retaliation |
Whether a Bivens remedy is available for a government official's retaliatory revocation of home confinement in violation of a prisoner's constitutiona… |
| 23-7562 |
Ricky Escobedo v. Katherine R. Gutierrez, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-28 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment color-of-law constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment law-enforcement search-and-seizure traffic-stop |
Whether petitioner's motorvehicle traffic stop by a third-party (State - Local) under federal color of law was the result of a denial of his Fourth Am… |
| 23-7572 |
Jerry A. Smith v. John Galipeau |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-05-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment search-and-seizure standing |
Whether the lower court erred in its application of the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable searches and seizures |
| 23-1239 |
Janice Hughes Barnes, Individually and as Representative of the Estate of Ashtian Barnes, Deceased v. Roberto Felix, Jr., et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-24 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (36)Response Waived |
circuit-split civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment graham-v-connor moment-of-threat-doctrine police-use-of-force totality-of-the-circumstances |
Whether courts should apply the moment of the threat doctrine when evaluating an excessive-force claim under the Fourth-Amendment |
| 23-1242 |
Taurean Jerome Weber v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-05-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
digital-property digital-trespass exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception government-intrusion search terms-of-service trespass warrantless-search |
Did the Court of Appeals err when it determined Instagram's boilerplate Terms of Service delineated Petitioner's Fourth Amendment rights and held no s… |
| 23A1041 |
Charles Brian O'Neill v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-05-22 |
Presumed Complete |
|
exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception material-misrepresentation probable-cause search-warrant |
Whether the good faith exception to the Exclusionary Rule under U.S. v. Leon impermissibly erodes Fourth Amendment protections when applied to search … |
| 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… |
| 23-7511 |
Rodney Johnson v. Tom McGinley, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Coal Township, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-05-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure |
Whether the issuing authority failed to comply with the rules of court to exclude the judge's signed order of the AEE and deny a writ of probable caus… |
| 23A1023 |
Marques A. Johnson v. Chris Nocco, in His Official Capacity as Sheriff of Pasco County, Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-05-17 |
Presumed Complete |
|
fourth-amendment identification law-enforcement passenger-rights qualified-immunity traffic-stop |
Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits arresting a passenger in a vehicle for refusing to identify themselves when no reasonable suspicion of criminal… |
| 23A1026 |
Cynthia Ballenger v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2024-05-17 |
Presumed Complete |
|
capitol-building disruptive-conduct fourth-amendment january-6 restricted-area statutory-interpretation |
Whether entering or remaining in a Capitol building foyer during the January 6 events constitutes a violation of federal restricted area statutes when… |
| 23-7413 |
Adonis Marquis Perry v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-05-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cell-phone cell-phone-privacy consent constitutional-rights fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation law-enforcement privacy search-and-seizure third-party-consent warrantless-search |
Whether a third party's personal use and physical possession of Petitioner's cell phone transfer authority to the third party to consent to law enforc… |
| 23-7416 |
Christopher J. Pratt v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-05-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment circuit-court-split circuit-split fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant staleness standard-of-review |
Did the Second Court of Appeals err when they failed to apply their own standards under United States v. Raymonda, 780 F.3d 105 (2nd Cir. 2015), when … |
| 23-7385 |
Jacob Paul Bermel v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-05-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
consent electronic-device failure-to-object fourth-amendment implied-consent minor-consent search search-and-seizure warrantless-search |
Whether the failure to object to law enforcement search establishes implied consent to search for purposes of the Fourth Amendment? |
| 23A975 |
Kwuan Montrell Baker v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-05-02 |
Presumed Complete |
|
criminal-procedure evidence-suppression fourth-amendment reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop |
Whether the Fourth Amendment permits the warrantless search of a vehicle during a traffic stop based on an officer's alleged reasonable suspicion of c… |
| 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 |
| 23-7321 |
Bentley Streett v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-04-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception inevitable-discovery probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant warrant-defect warrant-requirement |
Whether the good-faith exception applies to save evidence obtained through an unconstitutional warrant because, hypothetically, if the magistrate had … |
| 23-7323 |
Damon Todd Carey v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2024-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
exclusionary-rule expert-testimony fourth-amendment good-faith good-faith-doctrine independent-source inevitable-discovery probable-cause warrant-requirement |
Whether the 'inevitable discovery' doctrine requires the alternative theory to be active during the illegal search, and whether illegally obtained evi… |
| 23-1158 |
Ryan Morrison v. Alvaro Ramos, Individually and in His Official Capacity, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-04-24 |
Denied |
|
42-usc-1983 civil-rights fourth-amendment home-privacy privacy-rights qualified-immunity search-and-seizure section-1983 unreasonable-search |
Whether a federal court can find that officers were entitled to qualified immunity for a civil rights claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 due to no clearly e… |
| 23-7289 |
Robert A. Horse v. South Dakota |
South Dakota |
2024-04-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment cell-phone-data civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment search-and-seizure third-party third-party-doctrine warrantless-search |
Whether the warrantless search and seizure of a third party's (Google's) cell phone location data violated the Petitioner's Fourth Amendment rights |
| 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 … |
| 23-7275 |
Charles Gary Singletary, III v. Terrie Wallace, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-04-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
cell-phone-data constitutional-provisions due-process fourth-amendment jurisdiction legal-procedure privacy search-and-seizure standing supreme-court writ |
Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment |
| 23-1114 |
Charles R. Hays v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-04-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
automobile-exception contraband criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement passenger probable-cause search search-and-seizure |
Whether law enforcement has probable cause under the Fourth Amendment's automobile exception to search a driver's vehicle based on a passenger's perso… |
| 23-1116 |
Daniel Creger v. Andrew Tucker, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-04-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment civil-rights fourth-amendment malicious-prosecution material-misrepresentation probable-cause section-1983 warrant-affidavit |
Whether state law citations showing lack of evidence for criminal charges is sufficient to establish lack of probable cause for a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 mal… |
| 23-7224 |
Quentin Freeman v. Daniel Deas |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment inmate-rights prison-conditions prisoner-rights summary-judgment whitley-standard |
Whether the decision below should be summarily reversed because the Fourth Circuit misapplied the Whitley factors by viewing the evidence in the light… |
| 23-7234 |
Orlando Bell v. United States District Court for the District of Columbia |
District of Columbia |
2024-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment impartiality-standard judicial-bias judicial-recusal recusal witness witness-conflict |
Whether a reasonable and informed observer would question the judge's impartiality when the judge allowed an AUSA who became a witness in the proceedi… |
| 23-7215 |
David Hueston v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-04-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attorney-client-privilege evidentiary-weight fourth-amendment franks-hearing franks-v-delaware officer-affiant probable-cause prosecutorial-consultation prosecutorial-discretion search-and-seizure search-warrant |
Whether a reviewing court may place substantial evidentiary weight on an officer-affiant's consultation with a prosecuting attorney before seeking and… |
| 23-1107 |
Joan Ghougoian, et al. v. Lamarr Monson |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-04-11 |
Denied |
|
4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-standard devenpeck fourth-amendment malicious-prosecution manuel pre-trial-detention probable-cause section-1983 |
Whether the Fourth Amendment's objective standard applies to all claims arising thereunder, such that there is no violation so long as probable cause … |
| 23-7168 |
Robert J. Plato, Jr. v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2024-04-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment airport-screening civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment privacy search-and-seizure standing tsa-procedures unreasonable-search |
Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits the warrantless seizure of a person's cell phone data from a third-party service provider |
| 23-1082 |
Atticus Sliter-Matias v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2024-04-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
compulsory-process due-process entrapment evidence-tampering fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure witness-disclosure |
Whether the admission in evidence of 161 eBay & e to PayPal accounts seized and modified by them with + . so, information obtained from Postal Inspect… |
| 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? |
| 23-7117 |
Robert Swint v. Supreme Court of the United States, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2024-04-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cell-phone-data constitutional-law due-process fourth-amendment privacy search-and-seizure |
Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable … |
| 23-7121 |
Basilio Hernandez v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2024-04-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
docket-procedure docket-sheet exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant warrant-requirement |
Did the court err in finding that the good-faith-exception to the exclusionary-rule applied? |
| 23-7102 |
Jeremy Lee Koons v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-03-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment gps-tracking law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure vehicle-search warrantless-search |
Whether the warrantless placement of a GPS tracking device on a vehicle and the subsequent warrantless search of that vehicle violates the Fourth Amen… |
| 23-7087 |
Natasha Bates, aka Tasha Bates v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2024-03-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment 6th-amendment criminal-procedure evidence fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel probable-cause search-warrant sixth-amendment |
Did the trial court commit reversible error by failing to grant Petitioner's post conviction relief due to introduction of evidence from a warrantless… |
| 23A863 |
Janice Hughes Barnes, Individually and as Representative of the Estate of Ashtian Barnes, Deceased v. Roberto Felix, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-26 |
Presumed Complete |
|
deadly-force fourth-amendment graham-standard reasonableness-test traffic-stop use-of-force |
Whether the Fifth Circuit's narrow standard for evaluating the reasonableness of an officer's use of deadly force under the Fourth Amendment impermiss… |
| 23-7065 |
Michael Adam Carmody v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-03-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cell-site-location fourth-amendment home-surveillance ip-address ip-address-records privacy privacy-interest property property-rights search warrantless-search |
Whether the warrantless seizure of a person's historical IP address records, which includes their conduct within their homes, violates an individual's… |
| 23-7069 |
Jesse R. Redmond, Jr. v. District of Columbia |
District of Columbia |
2024-03-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment constitutional-rights court-of-appeals criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment jurisdiction precedent rule-4 rule-4a |
Whether the District of Columbia Court of Appeals fails to apply the law in the precedent set by the United States Supreme Court pursuant to Criminal … |
| 23-6990 |
Kristopher Dean Putnam v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-03-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cell-phone cell-phone-search exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause search-warrant |
Does the Fourth Amendment permit the issuance of a search warrant for a cell phone absent case-specific facts connecting the alleged crime and the pho… |
| 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? |
| 23A831 |
Bentley Streett v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-03-11 |
Presumed Complete |
|
circuit-split exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery search-warrant warrant-requirement |
Whether the inevitable discovery doctrine under the Fourth Amendment permits suppression of evidence to be excused based on a hypothetical warrant tha… |
| 23-6916 |
Rufaro Christopher Smith v. Jacob Beasley, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-03-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
border-search civil-procedure civil-rights due-process electronic-privacy fourth-amendment georgia-constitution probable-cause search-and-seizure standing takings warrant-exception |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred in concluding that Petitioner's claims were constitutionally barred by the Eleventh Amendment |
| 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? |
| 23-6897 |
Pedro Armando Nava v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-03-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure industrial-hemp marijuana-odor medical-marijuana odor-of-marijuana probable-cause vehicle-search warrantless-search |
Whether the Fourth Amendment permits a warrantless search based on marijuana odor in a state with legal medical marijuana and hemp |
| 23-6909 |
Arnold D. Holland v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-03-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search search-and-seizure supervised-release totality-of-circumstances |
Whether the Fourth Amendment applies to the act of searching or the initial decision to search, based on an objective standard considering the totalit… |
| 23-976 |
Jeremy Henning v. Donald V. Snowden |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-03-06 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
bivens-remedy civil-rights civil-rights-action due-process excessive-force federal-law-enforcement fourth-amendment implied-damages judicial-immunity warrant-execution warrants |
Whether the court of appeals erred in allowing a Bivens remedy in this case, where the claim arises from an arrest made outside the home, in a place o… |
| 23A810 |
Arthur Lopez v. Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District, et al. |
California |
2024-03-04 |
Presumed Complete |
|
border-search electronic-devices fourth-amendment privacy-rights probable-cause warrantless-search |
Whether the Fourth Amendment permits warrantless searches of electronic devices at the border without individualized suspicion of criminal activity |
| 23-950 |
Michael J. Lindell, et al. v. United States, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-02-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment cell-phone-seizure civil-rights electronic-data fourth-amendment free-speech legal-precedent preliminary-injunction retaliation seizure warrant-particularity |
Whether a preliminary injunction may be granted if it requests the ultimate relief sought in the litigation |
| 23A802 |
Raj G. Shekar v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2024-02-29 |
Presumed Complete |
|
conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights discretionary-review fourth-amendment judicial-bias prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether the Fourth Amendment bars state court proceedings tainted by alleged judicial bias and prosecutorial misconduct when a judge and prosecutor ha… |
| 23-6838 |
Danny Lee Warner, Jr. v. Montana |
Montana |
2024-02-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attorney-client-privilege due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment presumption-of-prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment warrantless-search |
Are unsworn assertions sufficient to overcome clear and convincing evidence of illegal search and seizure? |
| 23-931 |
J. W., et al. v. Elvin Paley |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-02-27 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
14th-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment school-official school-seizure seizure student-rights |
Whether a claim that a school official has used excessive force against a student that meets the definition of a Fourth Amendment seizure should be ev… |
| 23-907 |
Pablo Pastrana v. New York |
New York |
2024-02-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
brown-vs-texas constitutional-law fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-roadblocks probable-cause reasonable-suspicion roadblock search-and-seizure |
Whether a vehicular roadblock satisfies the standard for a reasonable search and seizure under the Fourth Amendment |
| 23-893 |
Jonathan Walker v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2024-02-21 |
Denied |
|
4th-amendment algorithm digital-privacy fourth-amendment law-enforcement law-enforcement-search private-company probable-cause search-and-seizure technology-search warrant-requirement |
Does the Fourth Amendment require a warrant to open a digital file flagged by a private company's algorithm as potentially illegal? |
| 23-6796 |
Yanier N. Tellez, aka Yanier Tellez-Crespo v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-02-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment consent consent-search fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure seizure-of-evidence traffic-stop wallet-search warrantless-search |
Was the District Court's denial of Petitioner's Motion to Suppress a result of clear error in determining the facts relative to consent for search ver… |
| 23-885 |
Mark Wayne Gaddy v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2024-02-16 |
Denied |
|
anonymous-phone-call anonymous-tip community-caretaking fourth-amendment reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop |
Whether the decision of the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals is an unwarranted extension of the community caretaking function of Cady, and also in d… |
| 23-872 |
Josh Patrick v. LaRhonda Dunlap Perez |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-02-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity taser taser-use |
Is there variance among federal judicial circuits regarding how they apply Fourth Amendment law in excessive force cases involving taser use? |
| 23-869 |
Tyler Land v. Donald L. Edenfield, in His Official Capacity as Sheriff of Jackson County, Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-02-13 |
Denied |
|
4th-amendment affidavit criminal-arrest fourth-amendment intentional-misstatements law-enforcement probable-cause reckless-misstatements search-and-seizure warrant |
When is evidence of mere presence in a car with an alleged drug dealer sufficient for probable cause to arrest the driver? |
| 23-860 |
Brandon Holtan, et al. v. Mark Edward Nieters |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-02-09 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment free-speech law-enforcement probable-cause qualified-immunity unlawful-assembly warrantless-arrest |
Whether probable cause existed to arrest for unlawful assembly |
| 23-6715 |
Re'Shaun Lamonte Wilborne v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-02-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure evidence exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery inventory-search probable-cause search-and-seizure |
Whether the inventory search doctrine can be invoked on slight evidence when no written inventory search policy was produced and the police officer's … |
| 23-6705 |
Lamar Lovett v. Texas |
Texas |
2024-02-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
cell-phone-data civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment privacy search-and-seizure |
Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable … |
| 23-6688 |
Christian Alejandro Estrella v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement parole parole-search police-authority probable-cause search-and-seizure suspicionless-search suspicionless-seizure |
Does probable cause to believe that a person is on parole suffice for a suspicionless seizure and search or is knowledge of parole status required? |
| 23-826 |
Antony Junior Harris, aka Anthony Harris v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-01-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
alias-name alias-shipping contraband-detection fourth-amendment law-enforcement-procedure private-shipping-facility reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure standing |
Does an individual possess a reasonable expectation of privacy in a package shipped under an alias name, such that the individual has standing to asse… |
| 23-6609 |
Kevin McCall v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-01-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment cloud-search electronic-media exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception particularity probable-cause search-warrant |
Whether the good faith exception to the exclusionary rule can save a cloud search warrant unsupported by probable cause and devoid of particularity |
| 23-6601 |
Quentin John Fishburne v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-01-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment criminal-conviction due-process exclusionary-rule firearm-possession fourth-amendment motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-checkpoint traffic-stop |
Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in failing to reverse the trial court's order denying the Petitioner's Motion to Suppress the discov… |
| 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… |
| 23-6580 |
Charles Ramon, III, aka Charles Roger Ramon v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2024-01-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
evidence fourth-amendment privacy-expectation probation probation-conditions reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure supervised-release warrantless-search |
Whether the Fourth Amendment required U.S. Probation to conform its conduct to the text of the release condition imposed on Petitioner |
| 23-802 |
William Bembury v. Kentucky |
Kentucky |
2024-01-25 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
backpack criminal-procedure evidence-seizure fourth-amendment luggage probable-cause purse search-incident-to-arrest warrant-requirement |
Does the exception to the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement for searches incident to arrest permit a warrantless search of a backpack, purse, lug… |
| 23-793 |
Isidro Javier Armenta v. California |
California |
2024-01-24 |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment automated-enforcement automated-traffic-enforcement confrontation-clause due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment sixth-amendment |
Whether the Sixth Amendment Confrontation Clause holding in Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts extends to automated traffic enforcement system schemes |
| 23A679 |
Jeremy Henning v. Donald V. Snowden |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-01-23 |
Presumed Complete |
|
bivens-remedy damages-action excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement new-context |
Whether a Fourth Amendment excessive-force claim against a federal law enforcement officer in a public setting constitutes a 'new Bivens context' that… |
| 23-6550 |
Xavier Howell v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-01-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
drug-trafficking fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-protections probable-cause terry-stop terry-v-ohio vehicle-search vehicle-stop warrantless-search warrantless-stop |
Whether a Warrantless Stop of a Vehicle, Based Solely on Proximity to a Motel Known for Drug Trafficking, in the Absence of any Actual Violation of th… |
| 23-6523 |
Mark David Galloway v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-01-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion seizure terry-stop |
Whether the Ninth Circuit has unjustifiably expanded the Terry exception to the probable cause requirement by creating a new category of exempt seizur… |
| 23A669 |
Kenneth Allen Washington v. Deputy Rayl, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-01-22 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement misconduct video-evidence |
Whether a law enforcement officer's alleged manipulation of video evidence to misrepresent an incident constitutes a violation of a criminal defendant… |
| 23A676 |
Kevin McCall v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-01-22 |
Presumed Complete |
|
cloud-storage digital-privacy fourth-amendment good-faith-exception search-and-seizure warrant-requirement |
Whether the Fourth Amendment permits warrantless searches of an entire digital cloud storage account based on a good faith exception to the warrant re… |
| 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… |
| 23A655 |
Kristopher Dean Putnam v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-01-17 |
Presumed Complete |
|
cell-phone-search exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause search-warrant |
Whether the Fourth Amendment requires suppression of evidence obtained through a search warrant that lacks probable cause and particularity, despite t… |
| 23-759 |
Gary Eugene Maddox, Jr. v. Maryland Parole Commission, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-01-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
affidavit civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment parole perjury privacy privacy-violation tracking-without-permission |
Did chairman David R Blumberg unlawfully and knowingly commit perjury? |
| 23-6455 |
Darrel R. Fisher v. United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-01-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-usc-1981 42-usc-1982 4th-amendment civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-protections due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement property-rights trespass warrantless-search |
Whether the police officer's warrantless trespassing on the petitioner's private property was justified, and whether the petitioner's subsequent reque… |
| 23-6448 |
Stephen Dudley Brunson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment arrest drug-interdiction fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery law-enforcement pretext probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-stop |
Whether officers may cure an unlawfully prolonged traffic stop by arresting the motorist for the traffic violation or claiming inevitable discovery ba… |
| 23-6430 |
Nicholas Dwayne Jones v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ex-parte fifth-amendment fourth-amendment search-warrant truthfulness |
Does a defendant in a criminal proceeding still retain the right under the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment to challenge the truthfulness of statements… |
| 23-6434 |
Pascal Gedeon v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania |
Third Circuit |
2024-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment judicial-discretion mandamus pretrial-motions speedy-trial-act vagueness |
Whether delays resulting from pretrial motions can be excluded under the Speedy Trial Act |
| 23-6404 |
Jamar Hunter v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2024-01-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court-review constitutional-law constitutional-violation criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment search-and-seizure suppression-of-evidence |
Was the Third Circuit's reversal of Petitioner's suppression of physical evidence in violation of the Fourth Amendment of the United States Constituti… |
| 23A612 |
Thurmond Allen v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2024-01-03 |
Presumed Complete |
|
firearm-possession fourth-amendment hearsay-evidence probable-cause search-warrant warrantless-search |
Whether the Fourth Amendment permits the warrantless search of an apartment based on a neighbor's hearsay statement about an overheard gun reference |
| 23A608 |
J. W., et al. v. Elvin Paley, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-01-02 |
Presumed Complete |
|
circuit-split constitutional-standard excessive-force fourth-amendment graham-v-connor school-officials |
Whether the Fourth Amendment governs excessive force claims by students against school officials, resolving a circuit split on the appropriate constit… |
| 23-6355 |
Allan Leslie Sinanan, Jr. v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2023-12-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
article-1-section-8 criminal-procedure drug-buys dunaway-v-new-york fourth-amendment probable-cause strickland-standard terry-stop terry-v-ohio warrantless-arrest |
Whether the Pennsylvania judiciary's application of the Strickland/Pierce standard was unreasonable |
| 23-6356 |
Mohammad Sharifi v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2023-12-27 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
actual-innocent armed-evidence constitutional-search criminal-procedure direct-evidence due-process evidence-admissibility forensic-evidence fourth-amendment police-misconduct reasonable-doubt trial-judge |
Question not identified |
| 23-6353 |
Robert John Virnig v. Minnesota |
Minnesota |
2023-12-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment agency exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment government-informant home-office probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-requirement warrantless-search |
Did the District Court err in ruling that the government informant was not acting as an agent of the government when, without a warrant or an exceptio… |
| 23-6319 |
Lacarl Dow v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-12-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment franks-hearing probable-cause suppression-of-evidence warrant-application |
Did the affiant officer intentionally or recklessly make false or misleading statements or omissions in support of the warrant |
| 23-6264 |
Ignacio Salcido, Jr. v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-12-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cell-phones data-collection digital-privacy fourth-amendment privacy search-and-seizure |
Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment |
| 23-644 |
City of Charlotte, North Carolina, et al. v. Azucena Zamorano Aleman, Individually and as Administrator of the Estate of Rubin Galindo Chavez |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-12-14 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights deadly-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement precedent qualified-immunity use-of-force |
Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in the process it used to find a 'clearly established' Fourth Amendment right |
| 23-6213 |
Robert Poliero, aka Charlie v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-12-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cell-phone-data civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment privacy search-and-seizure |
Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable … |
| 23-6210 |
Andrew Pierson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-12-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split exclusionary-rule foreign-searches fourth-amendment joint-venture judicial-conscience national-importance shocks-the-judicial-conscience |
Whether exceptions exist for the Fourth Amendment exclusionary rule for foreign searches and seizures |
| 23-613 |
Luis Soto Soto, et al. v. Yashira Quiles Carrasquillo |
Puerto Rico |
2023-12-07 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment search-and-seizure |
Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable searches and seizures |
| 23-6193 |
Steven Vincent Smith v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-12-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
brady-material criminal-procedure evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception search-and-seizure suppression-of-evidence void-ab-initio warrant-validity warrantless-search |
Does the determination that a warrant is void ab initio, rendering the resultant search of the Petitioner's residence warrantless (and thus unreasonab… |
| 23-6158 |
Derrick Hunt v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment child-pornography criminal-procedure evidence fourth-amendment motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant |
Did the District Court abuse its discretion in denying Defendant's motion to suppress the search of his computer? |
| 23-597 |
Robin Mayfield, et al. v. Butler Snow, L.L.P., et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-12-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights comparator-evidence first-amendment fourth-amendment probable-cause retaliatory-arrest warrant-based-arrest |
Whether the Nieves probable cause exception requires identifying comparator arrests |
| 23-6159 |
Eddie James King v. Doctor Aikens, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-12-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment medical-care search-and-seizure standing |
Whether the plaintiff's deliberate indifference claim is valid |
| 23-6132 |
Chamone Ranell Russell v. Stark County Job and Family Services, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-11-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure |
Whether the lower court erred in its application of the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on unreasonable searches and seizures |
| 23-541 |
Michael Donnellon, Deputy, et al. v. John Jordan |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-11-20 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
arrest civil-rights excessive-force first-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech law-enforcement probable-cause qualified-immunity |
Whether the Tenth Circuit's use of Hill's First Amendment analysis negated the objective Fourth Amendment standard of Maryland v. Pringle |
| 23-6066 |
Kirk Lamar Williams v. Washington |
Washington |
2023-11-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure discovery-violations due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel probable-cause prosecutorial-misconduct search-and-seizure speedy-trial |
Whether the State of Washington violated the petitioner's constitutional rights, including due process and effective assistance of counsel |
| 23-530 |
Terrence R. Yoast v. Pottstown Borough, Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-11-17 |
Denied |
|
excessive-bail false-arrest false-imprisonment fourth-amendment heck-doctrine malicious-prosecution probable-cause qualified-immunity section-1983 warrantless-arrest warrantless-entry |
Fourth-Amendment-in-presence-requirement |
| 23-6045 |
Perry Wayne Suggs, Jr. v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-11-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment general-warrant good-faith-exception home-search particularity-requirement search-and-seizure warrant-particularity |
When a warrant plainly violates the Fourth Amendment's particularity requirement by authorizing an unbridled, general search of a home, does the good-… |
| 23A446 |
Jonathan Walker v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2023-11-17 |
Presumed Complete |
|
digital-privacy fourth-amendment hash-value-match private-search-doctrine search-and-seizure warrant-requirement |
Whether law enforcement's warrantless viewing of an unopened digital file reported by a private platform through an automated hash value match constit… |
| 23-520 |
Titus Thompson v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-11-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
fourth-amendment illinois-v-gates informant-reliability oath probable-cause totality-of-circumstances warrant warrant-issuance |
Whether the 'totality of the circumstances' standard for evaluating informant reliability has been undermined |
| 23-6032 |
James William Thomas, III v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-11-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment common-law-presumption-of-ownership fourth-amendment property-seizure reasonable-expectation-of-privacy reasonable-expectation-privacy search-and-seizure search-warrant standing trespassory-test |
Whether a defendant has standing to challenge the search of property seized from his residence |
| 23-6034 |
Alfredo Sanchez Barboza v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2023-11-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment contraband exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery inventory-search probable-cause standardized-protocol subjective-motivation |
Whether the inevitable discovery doctrine validates the prior illegal seizure of a controlled substance and drug paraphernalia when the police officer… |
| 23-6006 |
Delando Johnson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-11-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
drug-investigation fourth-amendment good-faith-exception leon-exception nexus nexus-requirement probable-cause residential-search search-warrant |
Whether an application for a warrant to search a home for drugs must contain objective evidence of a nexus between the evidence sought and the residen… |
| 23-499 |
Jesus Leonardo Esquivel-Carrizales v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-11-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment companion-suspicion criminal-activity drug-crime fourth-amendment investigative-stop law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop |
Whether an investigative stop under the Fourth Amendment is reasonable based solely on an individual's interaction with a suspected criminal companion |
| 23-5993 |
Jose Miguel Montemayor v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review chapman-v-california constitutional-error defendant's-guilt fourth-amendment harmless-error independent-evidence judicial-standard prejudicial-effect suppression-error |
Whether an appeals court can conclude that a Fourth Amendment error is harmless beyond a reasonable doubt without juxtaposing the error's prejudicial … |
| 23-5982 |
Garnet Small v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-11-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
equal-protection fourth-amendment law-enforcement pretextual-stop probable-cause racial-profiling reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop traffic-stops whren-v-united-states |
Whether this Court's decision in Whren v. United States, 517 U.S. 806 (1996), should be overruled |
| 23-5985 |
Russell Wayne Bullock v. Pete Bludworth, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-11-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
cell-phone-data digital-privacy fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence privacy search-and-seizure |
Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable … |
| 23-5988 |
Robert Benjamin Stout v. Sergeant Johnson, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-11-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights driver's-license due-process fourth-amendment license-checkpoint obstruction-of-justice probable-cause reasonable-suspicion roadway-safety |
Are police permitted to conduct driver's license checkpoints without reasonable suspicion? |
| 23-5953 |
Michael Muthee Munywe v. Julie Dier, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-11-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-misconduct probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure |
Whether the district court's decision was erroneous |
| 23-5955 |
Kyle Maurice Parks v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourth-amendment government-attorney government-misconduct illegal-evidence search-and-seizure warrantless-search |
Can an attorney for the government go outside the jurisdictional process and ask a friend to search an office without a warrant and not violate the IV… |
| 23-5952 |
Semaj Lemar Williams v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-11-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment detention evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop |
Did the district court improperly deny suppression and did the appellate court improperly affirm the district court? |
| 23-5921 |
Vahe Sarkiss v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-10-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment child-pornography civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment interstate-commerce reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure supervised-release |
Whether Petitioner's Fourth Amendment rights were violated due to lack of reasonable suspicion for search |
| 23-5922 |
Maxwell Chibueze Ezenwa v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process eighth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct statute-of-limitations warrantless-arrest |
Whether the warrantless arrest, statute of limitation, double jeopardy, Eighth Amendment violation, and Fourteenth Amendment violation were properly a… |
| 23-442 |
Anthony Prescott v. K. Johnson, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-27 |
Denied |
|
42-usc-1983 4th-amendment conspiracy cruel-and-unusual-punishment food-contamination food-service fourth-amendment intentional-tort official-capacity-claim prisoner-rights public-entity use-of-force |
Does involuntary exposure to non-medical substances constitute unreasonable force? |
| 23-446 |
Junjie Li v. Rhode Island |
Rhode Island |
2023-10-27 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
4th-amendment civil-rights decriminalization drug-enforcement fourth-amendment marijuana-odor probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop |
Whether the slight odor of marijuana creates reasonable suspicion to prolong a traffic stop |
| 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… |
| 23-440 |
S. B., on Behalf of Her Minor Daughter, S. B. v. Jefferson Parish School Board, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-26 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
14th-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-scrutiny corporal-punishment due-process excessive-force fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment section-1983 |
Is unconstitutionally excessive corporal punishment by a public-school employee cognizable under § 1983? |
| 23-5862 |
Benancio Castaneda v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
acceptance-of-responsibility canine-sniff drug-investigation fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop vehicle-search |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in its rulings on the continued detention and canine search |
| 23A368 |
Adrian Martinez v. Sean Jenneiahn, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-10-24 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-canine qualified-immunity |
Whether the use of a police canine to bite a motionless, unarmed suspect in a closed storage closet constitutes excessive force in violation of the Fo… |
| 23-5840 |
Alvaro Castillo, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
border-search cell-phone-search cell-phones constitutional-rights customs-and-border-protection digital-privacy fourth-amendment search-and-seizure u.s-border warrantless-search |
Whether the Fourth Amendment permits warrantless search of cell phone at U.S. border |
| 23-5797 |
In Re Deryl Dude Nelson |
|
2023-10-18 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
arrest-warrant complaint complaint-validity fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance judicial-finding judicial-hearing probable-cause statutory-requirement |
Did the state appeals court err in finding the complaint met the statutory requirement absent a judicial finding of probable cause? |
| 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… |
| 23-5809 |
Bryce Jackson v. Tony Golick, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-10-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
5th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment government-liability probable-cause search-and-seizure standing |
Can a person file a civil suit against the government for the violation of the 5th Amendment's due process clause? |
| 23-5826 |
Mary Ann German v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2023-10-17 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure davis-good-faith-exception exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception judicial-precedent police-conduct retroactivity |
Whether the police get a grace period under the Davis good faith exception after a decision of this Court makes a state statute unconstitutional under… |
| 23-396 |
Bowe Marvin v. David Holcomb, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-10-16 |
Denied |
|
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment in-home-arrest law-enforcement-conduct probable-cause warrantless-arrest |
Whether there is a felony-exception to requiring probable-cause for in-home-arrests without-a-warrant |
| 23-5793 |
Phillip Serapio Baca v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-10-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment brendlin-precedent circuit-split civil-rights exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment passenger-rights search-and-seizure standing traffic-stop vehicle-detention |
Whether a passenger in a vehicle subject to a traffic stop may contest the legality of his detention |
| 23-5795 |
Benjamin D. Morrow v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-1746 civil-procedure declaration declaration-requirements fourth-amendment oath-clause oath-or-affirmation perjury perjury-standard statutory-interpretation u.s.c.-section-1746 |
Whether 28 U.S.C. § 1746 requires an affirmative statement that the declaration's contents are true under penalty of perjury |
| 23-5784 |
Aaron Lee Porter v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-10-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abandonment-doctrine clear-error de-novo-review fourth-amendment question-of-fact question-of-law search-and-seizure standard-of-review |
Is a finding that an object has been abandoned within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment a question of law subject to de novo review, or a purely fac… |
| 23-5775 |
Suvad Dardagan v. Charles Truitt, Warden |
Illinois |
2023-10-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
affirmation charging-instrument executive-branch fourth-amendment judicial-determination oath probable-cause warrant warrant-requirement |
Whether in the absence of a judicial determination of probable cause the executive branch of the state government lacks a legal authority to seek a ch… |
| 23-377 |
Chris Dutra, et al. v. Kim Jackson |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-10-11 |
Denied |
|
circuit-court-precedent clearly-established-law excessive-force fourth-amendment ninth-circuit police-conduct qualified-immunity supreme-court-precedent |
Whether this Court's precedents are the only source of clearly established law for purposes of qualified immunity |
| 23-5743 |
Xzavione Taylor v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-10-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-investigation exit-order fourth-amendment pennsylvania-v-mimms police-detention reasonable-suspicion rodriguez-v-united-states traffic-stop vehicle-search |
Whether a police officer detours from the lawful mission of a traffic stop by ordering that the driver of a car exit the vehicle for the sole purpose … |
| 23-5724 |
Taylor Scott Meece v. Wyoming |
Wyoming |
2023-10-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment judicial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment supreme-court-procedure |
Did the Wyoming Supreme Court abuse its discretion in affirming the conviction and sentence? |
| 23-5681 |
Justin Weible v. Kevin Provost, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-10-02 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
arbitrary-or-capricious civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement legal-malpractice license-revocation procedural-due-process unlawful-procedure |
Question not identified |
| 23-336 |
Keith Allen Kiefer v. Isanti County, Minnesota |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-09-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment mens-rea postconviction-incarceration section-1983 unreasonable-seizure |
Whether the analytical home for § 1983 unreasonable seizure claims involving only postconviction incarceration for 'violating' an inapplicable law is … |
| 23-5676 |
Terry Wayne King, II v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-09-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment criminal-procedure employer-property employment fourth-amendment incarceration privacy privacy-expectation search-and-seizure transportation trucking-industry |
Does a person have a legitimate expectation of privacy in a tractor trailer truck cab that serves as his home while he is on the road working for an e… |
| 23-324 |
Gerald L. Ferreyra, et al. v. Nathaniel Hicks |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-09-28 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
bivens circuit-split federal-officers fourth-amendment qualified-immunity search-and-seizure |
Whether a Bivens cause of action exists for Fourth Amendment claims against federal officers operating under a different legal mandate or not involvin… |
| 23-327 |
John Canada v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-09-28 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review clear-error fourth-amendment motion-to-suppress ornelas-standard ornelas-v-united-states probable-cause standard-of-review suppression-hearing |
Whether the review of the evidence in a suppression-hearing record 'in the light most favorable to the government' conflicts with Ornelas's standard o… |
| 23A275 |
Timothy Ray Jones, Jr. v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2023-09-28 |
Presumed Complete |
|
capital-case due-process eighth-amendment fourth-amendment illegal-roadblock insanity-verdict |
Whether the Eighth Amendment and Due Process Clause require a trial court in a capital case to instruct the jury on the effect of a not guilty by reas… |
| 23-302 |
Bryce Watkins v. Brian Wunderlich, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-09-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
co-occupant-rights consent consent-search domestic-violence express-refusal fourth-amendment home-entry shared-dwelling warrantless-search |
Whether the Fourth Amendment permits the police to enter a shared dwelling solely based on consent, when a physically present resident recently has ex… |
| 23-272 |
Winterville Police Department, et al. v. Dijon Sharpe |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-09-20 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (2) |
first-amendment fourth-amendment livestreaming reasonable-time-place-manner seizure traffic-stop |
Should the constitutionality of a law enforcement officer's restriction of livestreaming by an occupant of a seized vehicle during a lawfully initiate… |
| 23-5582 |
Juan Manuel Reyes v. Washington County, Oregon, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-09-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment accrual-of-discovery civil-rights constitutional-rights constructive-notice due-process fourth-amendment governmental-action section-1983 statute-of-limitations |
Does a Fourth Amendment or any other United States Constitutional Amendment violation have a federal expiration date or time limitation other than the… |
| 23-5585 |
Scott David Creech v. Tim Shoop, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-09-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fourth-amendment franks-v-delaware habeas-corpus rule-60-motion statute-of-limitations stone-v-powell |
Can a 60(b)(6) motion be considered a 60(b)(3) claim if it does not assert relief from judgment due to fraud, misrepresentation, or misconduct by an o… |
| 23-221 |
Andrew H. Zoellick v. Wisconsin |
Wisconsin |
2023-09-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment jurisprudential-definition mitigating-factors probable-cause reasonable-suspicion totality-of-circumstances totality-of-the-circumstances |
Whether the absence of any jurisprudential definition of the term 'totality' has led to the degradation of the Fourth Amendment totality of the circum… |
| 23-215 |
John F. Marchisotto v. Ocean County Prosecutor's Office |
New Jersey |
2023-09-07 |
Denied |
|
2nd-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment procedural-due-process red-flag-laws retaliation second-amendment |
Constitutionality-of-Red-Flag-Laws |
| 23-206 |
Jerry Lynn Burns v. Iowa |
Iowa |
2023-09-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights criminal-procedure dna-collection fourth-amendment privacy-rights probable-cause search-and-seizure warrantless-search |
Does the State's warrantless search of a person's unavoidably shed DNA violate the Fourth Amendment where the individual has never been arrested or co… |
| 23-5526 |
Adelfo Rodriguez-Mendez v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-09-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne-standard constitutional-violation criminal-procedure drug-attribution evidence fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment post-conviction-sentencing sentencing sixth-amendment |
Whether attributing drugs post-conviction in an amount greater than what is charged in an indictment and greater than what the jury found is in violat… |
| 23-199 |
George Anibowei v. Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-09-01 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
attorney-client-privilege border-search cellphone-privacy cellphone-search circuit-conflict fourth-amendment preliminary-injunction warrantless-search |
Whether the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable searches and seizures entitles petitioner to a preliminary injunction against additiona… |
| 23-5507 |
Carlos Green v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-09-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure evidentiary-hearing fourth-amendment leasehold-transfer motion-to-suppress privacy-interest probable-cause real-estate search-and-seizure |
Whether the Trial Court Erred and Violated Petitioner's Fourth Amendment Rights |
| 23-5490 |
Franklin Paul Eller, Jr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-08-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation probable-cause search-warrant severance-doctrine warrant-overbreadth |
Is severance of any overbroad warrant a permissible exception to the exclusionary rule |
| 23-5477 |
James Thomas Butler, II v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-08-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
consent consent-search digital-evidence due-process forensic-extraction fourth-amendment law-enforcement-procedure search-and-seizure smartphone smartphone-privacy |
Does consent to 'take a look' at a smartphone extend to a full forensic extraction? |
| 23-5481 |
Festus Okwudili Ohan v. Armando B. Fontoura, Sheriff, Essex County, New Jersey, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-08-30 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights digital-privacy due-process excessive-force false-arrest fourth-amendment law-enforcement malicious-prosecution probable-cause retaliation traffic-stop warrantless-search |
Which legal issues were raised in the SCOTUS petition? |
| 23A193 |
Alvaro Castillo, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-30 |
Presumed Complete |
|
border-search-doctrine cell-phone-search electronic-devices fourth-amendment riley-v-california warrant-requirement |
Whether the Fourth Amendment warrant requirement applies to suspicionless searches of electronic devices, including cell phones, at the international … |
| 23-188 |
Robert Dayon Dumas v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-08-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
credibility fifth-amendment fourth-amendment miranda-rights probable-cause search-and-seizure vehicle-search warrantless-search |
Did the district court err in finding no Fourth or Fifth Amendment violation based upon the court's credibility determination on Deputy Denbo? |
| 23-5473 |
Arnez J. Salazar v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arizona-v-gant closed-container fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reaching-distance search-incident-to-arrest secured-arrestee vehicle-search warrantless-search |
Whether the Fourth Amendment permits a warrantless search incident to arrest when the arrestee is secured and not within reaching distance of a closed… |
| 23-5475 |
Elmer Wayne Zahn v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
color-of-authority exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment gross-negligence police-misconduct probable-cause reckless-disregard warrant-database warrant-system |
Does police misconduct in maintaining an inaccurate warrant database violate the Fourth Amendment? |
| 23-5458 |
Kimeo Delmar Conley v. Jason Wells, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-08-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment burden-of-proof constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourth-amendment jury-instructions sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
When Criminal statute has [8] elements on its face (wis stat) (144.051) to be Proved beyond a Reasonable doubt and the state only tries to prove [3] e… |
| 23-5422 |
Herman Robinson v. Donita McIntosh, Superintendent, Clinton Correctional Facility |
Second Circuit |
2023-08-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourth-amendment illegal-evidence police-procedure search-and-seizure |
Did the Schenectady County Police Department violate Petitioner's Fourth Amendment right against illegal search and seizure? |
| 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… |
| 23-5429 |
Tywan Sykes v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-08-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
18-usc-2251 4th-amendment child-exploitation civil-rights fourth-amendment governmental-entity internet-service-provider private-search-doctrine recidivist-enhancement standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children is a Governmental Entity |
| 23A167 |
Erik Carrasco v. Terry Henkell |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-24 |
Presumed Complete |
|
affidavit exculpatory-information fourth-amendment omission qualified-immunity search-warrant |
Whether a law enforcement officer violates the Fourth Amendment by submitting an affidavit for a search warrant that omits material exculpatory inform… |
| 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? |
| 23-5378 |
Frank J. Capozzi v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-08-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-violation fourth-amendment franks-hearing fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court miscarriage-of-justice probable-cause search-warrant |
Was the State search warrant obtained based on fraudulent, deceptive, misleading, and omitted statements |
| 23A133 |
Gerald L. Ferreyra, et al. v. Nathaniel Hicks |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-08-15 |
Presumed Complete |
|
bivens-action circuit-split damages-remedy fourth-amendment qualified-immunity warrantless-search |
Whether a Bivens action is available to remedy Fourth Amendment violations occurring outside the context of a warrantless home search or against offic… |
| 23-5339 |
Jean Buteau Remarque v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-08-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arbitrary-enforcement civil-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fourth-amendment probable-cause section-2252A speedy-trial statutory-interpretation |
whether-an-unprecedented-legal-theory-of-receipt-is-unconstitutional |
| 23-5302 |
Larry Rederick v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-08-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights eighth-circuit fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-stop traffic-stops unreasonable-search |
Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals Decision Authorizes Unreasonably Prolonged Traffic Stops and Unreasonable Searching of a Separate Vehicle … |
| 23-5305 |
John Vaughn v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
2023-08-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
automobile-exception commercial-trains confrontation-clause fourth-amendment plain-smell-exception probable-cause search-and-seizure sixth-amendment warrant-requirement |
Does the automobile exception to the warrant requirement of the Fourth Amendment apply to commercial trains? |
| 23-5251 |
Mark Edwin Guida v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment cell-phone-evidence criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment illegal-search probable-cause search-and-seizure suppression-of-evidence warrant-requirement |
Was evidence presented at a trial for murder subject to the exclusionary rule, where said evidence was the result of an illegal search of the defendan… |
| 23A94 |
Michael Boresky v. Jeremy Graber |
Third Circuit |
2023-08-01 |
Presumed Complete |
|
bivens-claim collateral-order-doctrine false-arrest fourth-amendment qualified-immunity separation-of-powers |
Whether the collateral order doctrine permits immediate appellate review of district court rulings denying motions to dismiss based on the non-cogniza… |
| 23-5247 |
In Re David Jackson |
|
2023-07-31 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
and post-conviction proceedings trial 14th-amendment 4th-amendment arrest-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression fifth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel post-conviction-relief probable-cause retaliation search-and-seizure self-incrimination trial-procedure |
Whether the warrantless search and seizure of February 14, 1991 violated the 4th and 14th Amendment rights |
| 23-5241 |
Lenroy McLean v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2023-07-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law civil-rights constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment judicial-conflict legal-precedent standing |
Whether there is a conflict between Kimmelman v Morrison and Ex-Parte Milligan on the Fourth Amendment as a trial right in criminal prosecution |
| 23-85 |
James Giehl v. Bank of America |
Florida |
2023-07-28 |
Denied |
|
18-U.S.C.-Sec.-242 4th-amendment civil-case civil-rights color-of-law foreclosure-process fourth-amendment judicial-misconduct void-decision void-decisions |
Do Florida Judges have the ability to depart from a person's 4th-Amendment-Rights and violate the 'color-of-law-18-U.S.C.-Sec.-242 code to avoid corre… |
| 23-5208 |
Jason Boudreau v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-07-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment fourth-amendment plea-agreement search-and-seizure search-condition sentencing sentencing-enhancement |
Whether the District Court's decision to subject the Petitioner to a lifetime suspicionless search condition that lacks any limitations at all violate… |
| 23-5185 |
Yolanda Howard v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-07-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment investigative-detention law-enforcement-procedure probable-cause reasonable-suspicion rodriguez-v-united-states traffic-stop |
Did the Maine State Trooper's hunch that 'there were a lot of drugs inthis car' based solely on his initial encounter with Ms. Howard justify delaying… |
| 23A62 |
Michael Carey v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-07-24 |
Presumed Complete |
|
exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment plain-text statutory-interpretation suppression-provision wiretap-act |
Whether the Wiretap Act's mandatory suppression provision in 18 U.S.C. § 2515 permits judicial creation of exceptions based on analogies to Fourth Ame… |
| 23-50 |
Jascha Chiaverini, et al. v. City of Napoleon, Ohio, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-07-20 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (9)Relisted (2) |
42-usc-1983 any-crime-rule charge-specific-rule circuit-split criminal-charges fourth-amendment malicious-prosecution probable-cause section-1983 |
Whether Fourth Amendment malicious prosecution claims are governed by the charge-specific rule or the any-crime rule |
| 23-5158 |
Martice Deshawn Wallace v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-07-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus suppression-of-evidence witness-testimony |
Whether the suppression of a witness' testimony violates the defendant's due process rights under the Fourteenth Amendment |
| 23-5144 |
In Re Donald Lynn Martin |
|
2023-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
cell-phone-data fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence privacy reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure |
Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable … |
| 23-5112 |
Kashif M. Robertson v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2023-07-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-rights law-enforcement-procedure motor-vehicle-code probable-cause reasonable-suspicion seizure-duration traffic-stop unrelated-questioning |
Whether the State Court's of Pennsylvania Committed Reversible Error |
| 23-45 |
Ethan R. Shields v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2023-07-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
abuse-of-discretion digital-forensics fourth-amendment military-justice reasonableness search-and-seizure |
Whether the Tenth Circuit framework for assessing the reasonableness of digital forensic searches under the Fourth Amendment is appropriate |
| 23-5078 |
Kendrick Ramon Page v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-07-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment criminal-procedure fourth-amendment minimization minimization-requirement motion-to-suppress necessity probable-cause theory-of-defense-instruction wiretap wiretap-evidence |
Whether the 8th Circuit erred in affirming the denial of wiretap evidence and the refusal to provide a theory of defense instruction |
| 23A31 |
Winterville Police Department, et al. v. Dijon Sharpe |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-07-13 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-interpretation first-amendment fourth-amendment law-enforcement livestreaming traffic-stop |
Whether the constitutionality of a policy prohibiting livestreaming during a lawful traffic stop should be analyzed under the First Amendment or the F… |
| 23-36 |
Liam C. Lattin v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2023-07-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
case-by-case case-by-case-analysis categorical deterrence evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment social-cost suppression |
Whether the social cost of suppression is determined on a case-by-case basis or has been resolved categorically by this Court's Fourth Amendment juris… |
| 23-37 |
Kyle Cardenas v. Josiah Saladen, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-07-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity section-1983 unlawful-arrest |
Regularizing qualified immunity |
| 23-5022 |
Ruben Ramirez-Rivera v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
drug-sniff fourth-amendment fruit-of-poisonous-tree law-enforcement motion-to-suppress probable-cause traffic-stop |
Whether Mr. Ramirez-River's Fourth-Amendment-rights were violated when his motion-to-suppress was denied? |
| 22-7889 |
Tyree Lawson v. Randy Irwin, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Forest, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-06-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process exculpatory-evidence fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction-relief right-to-counsel rule-60b stone-v-powell |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when the state court failed to properly consider exculpatory evidence and denied his clai… |
| 22-7877 |
Corey Coggins v. Murray Tatum, Warden |
Georgia |
2023-06-27 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel joint-defense-agreement sixth-amendment strickland-standard strickland-v-washington trial-strategy |
Is it ineffective assistance of counsel for a court-appointed attorney to enter into a joint defense agreement without client consent, waiving 4th Ame… |
| 22-7881 |
Leroy Henry Jr. v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-06-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
anonymous-informant exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith good-faith-doctrine probable-cause search-and-seizure united-states-v-leon warrant-requirement |
Whether United States v. Leon, 468 U.S. 897 (1984) was wrongly decided |
| 22-7853 |
Carlos Miguel Concepcion-Guliam v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-06-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arrest criminal-procedure detention fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure search-warrant |
Whether the Fourth Amendment permits law enforcement to detain and arrest an individual without observing any criminal conduct, based solely on an ass… |
| 22-1226 |
Idaho v. Kirby Anthony Dorff |
Idaho |
2023-06-21 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
4th-amendment constitutional-protection drug-detection drug-detection-dog fourth-amendment governmental-conduct law-enforcement lawfully-stopped-car physical-intrusion search search-and-seizure |
Does a drug-detection dog's physical intrusion on a lawfully stopped car constitute an unreasonable search? |
| 22-7781 |
Donell Jamar Hines v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-06-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment curtilage fourth-amendment good-faith-exception jardines-precedent k9-sniff search-and-seizure warrant-requirement warrantless-search |
Whether the Leon good faith exception should allow admission of evidence obtained as a result of two unconstitutional searches, in violation of Jardin… |
| 22-7726 |
Gary Leon Webster v. John Thurston, Arkansas Secretary of State |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-06-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure |
Whether the petitioner's Fourth Amendment rights were violated |
| 22-7691 |
Jace Emerson Fesler v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-06-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment citizen-rights civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment free-speech law-enforcement police-procedure reasonable-suspicion terry-stop |
Does a citizen's noncompliance with an unlawful order from law enforcement create reasonable suspicion to conduct a Terry frisk? |
| 22-1151 |
City of Arlington, Texas v. De'On Crane, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-30 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
arrest-warrant fourth-amendment municipal-liability qualified-immunity reasonable-officer-standard traffic-stop use-of-force whren-v-united-states |
Where a suspect with an outstanding felony arrest warrant refuses repeated commands to turn off his car and exit the vehicle, would a reasonable offic… |
| 22-1155 |
Douglas E. Wilcox v. Maine |
Maine |
2023-05-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-provision constitutional-rights field-sobriety-test fourth-amendment law-enforcement lower-courts probable-cause search sobriety-test |
Whether a field sobriety test is a search for which the Fourth Amendment requires probable cause |
| 22-7656 |
In Re Brad Edmonds |
|
2023-05-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment gps-tracking habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-negotiations privacy search-and-seizure standing |
Whether the warrantless installation and use of a GPS tracking device on a vehicle violates the Fourth Amendment |
| 22-7643 |
Nathaniel R. Webb v. Director Butler, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-05-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights communication-monitoring constitutional-rights due-process family-law fourth-amendment incarceration marriage privacy-violation spousal-communication unauthorized-access |
Did the defendants violate the U.S. Constitutional protections related to marital relationships by imposing a blanket ban on spousal communication for… |
| 22-1145 |
David Sosa v. Martin County, Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-05-24 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment legal-detention overdetention search-and-seizure warrant-validity |
Does Baker's right against overdetention require a reasonable analysis or only protect against mistaken overdetention for longer than three days? |
| 22-7627 |
Denis Grushko v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-05-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arrest-warrant circuit-split eleventh-circuit fourth-amendment home-entry law-enforcement payton-v-new-york probable-cause |
Whether the 'reason to believe' standard in Payton v. New York, 445 U.S. 573 (1980) requires a showing of probable cause that a suspect is within the … |
| 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… |
| 22-7603 |
James Snyder v. Aaron Krieger, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-05-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
border-search civil-procedure civil-rights due-process electronic-privacy fourth-amendment judicial-misconduct prison-conditions probable-cause search-and-seizure standing warrantless-search |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated |
| 22-7592 |
Grace Woodham v. Tucker Scheffer |
New Hampshire |
2023-05-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-of-discretion civil-rights digital-privacy due-process electronic-communications equal-protection fourth-amendment free-speech probable-cause search-and-seizure standing warrantless-search |
Whether the New Hampshire Supreme Court violated the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution by denying the petitioner's appeal to continue their app… |
| 22-7597 |
In Re Frank Michael Monte |
|
2023-05-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment government-overreach property-rights search-and-seizure |
Whether the government's warrantless seizure and indefinite retention of a person's personal property violates the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on u… |
| 22-7554 |
Samuel Terraye Windom v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-05-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
controlled-buy drug-evidence fourth-amendment informant nexus nexus-requirement probable-cause search-warrant |
Whether a controlled drug transaction that takes place away from a suspect's home is sufficient to establish a nexus between the offense and the suspe… |
| 22-7544 |
Eliu Elixander Lorenzana-Cordon v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2023-05-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights fourth-amendment indefinite-retention personal-property unreasonable-searches-and-seizures warrantless-seizure |
Whether the government's warrantless seizure and indefinite retention of a person's personal property violates the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on u… |
| 22-7514 |
Joshua Brown v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-05-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment color-discrepancy fourth-amendment high-crime-area probable-cause reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop vehicle-registration |
Whether an officer has reasonable suspicion to stop a vehicle based solely on a discrepancy between the vehicle's apparent color and the color listed … |
| 22-7520 |
Levaughn Collins v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-05-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment appellate-review criminal-procedure fifth-amendment fourth-amendment motion-to-suppress statutory-interpretation suppression-of-evidence wiretap-evidence wiretapping |
Whether the District Court erred in denying Mr. Collins' Motions to Suppress Wire Tap evidence |
| 22-7502 |
Anthony Gilbert-Brown v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-05-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment police-conduct seizure sentencing-guidelines standing supreme-court-review use-of-force |
Whether Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming Gilbert-Brown was seized |
| 22-7474 |
Quinton Markis Cuthbertson, aka Quinton Marquis Cuthbertson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-05-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
due-process fourth-amendment police-misconduct police-provocation spoliation subterfuge suppression-hearing unreasonable-seizure |
Do police violate a person's Fourth Amendment rights against unreasonable seizure when they provoke, through subterfuge and intimidation, a person to … |
| 22-7440 |
Robert Christopher England v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-05-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment computer-forensics computer-search digital-evidence exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-requirement |
Whether the district court erred in denying the defendant's motion to suppress evidence obtained from the search of his computer |
| 22-1064 |
Dephne Nguyen Wright v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-05-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance probable-cause search-warrant stale-evidence stale-information |
Whether the Texas courts' misapplication of this Court's precedent concerning 'stale' search warrants requires a remand for reconsideration of petitio… |
| 22-7401 |
Brandon Quane Hudson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-04-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment criminal-procedure drug-trafficking fourth-amendment good-faith-exception magisterial-review magistrate-review probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant |
Whether the Leon good-faith exception applies to a search warrant that lacked sufficient probable cause to support a search |
| 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? |
| 22-7370 |
Donte Lamont Dingle v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure de-novo-review discovery-rule-16 fourth-amendment franks-v-delaware franks-violation jencks-material probable-cause search-warrant standard-of-review |
Whether the Fourth Circuit's decision conflicts with prior decisions of this Court and another United States Court of Appeals, including its own, on t… |
| 22-7371 |
Ryan William Buchheim v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability eighth-circuit fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel rodriguez-standard rodriguez-v-united-states traffic-stop |
Whether the district court abused its discretion in denying an evidentiary hearing on ineffective-assistance-of-counsel and unlawful-traffic-stop clai… |
| 22-7379 |
Igor Grushko v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement loss-calculation probable-cause reasonableness reasonableness-standard search-and-seizure search-warrant sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the police entering a residence to execute a search warrant must possess probable cause that the person they are seeking is inside the residen… |
| 22-1031 |
Constance Westfall v. Jose Luna, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-25 |
Denied |
|
4th-amendment coercive-interrogation consent curtilage fourth-amendment knock-and-talk search seizure warrant warrantless-search |
Whether the 'knock-and-talk' exception to the Fourth Amendment's protection against unlawful entry onto a person's property permits police officers to… |
| 22-1018 |
Jeffrey L. Moeser v. Wisconsin |
Wisconsin |
2023-04-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-protection federal-courts-of-appeals fourth-amendment general-warrants individual-liberty law-enforcement oath-affirmation oath-or-affirmation probable-cause warrant-requirement |
Whether a sheriff who indisputably did not make an oral or written oath or affirmation to anyone and who falsely signed a preprinted affidavit stating… |
| 22-7340 |
Damorius D. Gaines v. Geoffrey Benedict Eaton, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-04-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment 6th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel search-warrant |
Did the South Carolina courts err in denying relief on petitioner's claims that his constitutional rights were violated? |
| 22-7283 |
Ronald O. LaTray v. Pete Bludworth, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-04-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment habeas-corpus state-courts stone-v-powell |
What constitutes a full and fair opportunity to litigate a United States Constitutional Fourth Amendment violation complaint invoking the exclusionary… |
| 22-1003 |
Mucio Ramirez v. Christopher Martin |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-14 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment graham-standard graham-v-connor police-brutality police-misconduct qualified-immunity reasonable-force use-of-force |
Whether Petitioner's initial non-compliance followed by surrender permitted Respondent to reject the then-existing circumstances and slam Petitioner's… |
| 22-7269 |
Melchor Karl T. Limpin v. Robert B. C. McSeveney, Judge, United States Immigration Court, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-04-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourth-amendment immigration immigration-law probable-cause warrant-clause |
Whether the statute 8 U.S.C. § 1226(a) is constitutionally impermissible under the Fourth and Fifth Amendment equal protection clause |
| 22-7264 |
Corey Shamon McKinney v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-04-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure drug-possession evidence-suppression fourth-amendment franks-v-delaware probable-cause search-warrant standing |
Whether an illegal search and seizure took place |
| 22-7253 |
Ilse Ivon Solis v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-04-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights detention-duration fourth-amendment law-enforcement motion-to-suppress reasonable-suspicion rodriguez-v-united-states scope-of-justification traffic-stop |
Did the officer's inquiries unjustifiably prolong the traffic stop without reasonable suspicion? |
| 22-978 |
Jackie Jackson v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2023-04-10 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
4th-amendment contraband criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement lower-court-conflict police-conduct precedent probable-cause search search-and-seizure vehicle-search |
Whether a police search of a car occurred 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… |
| 22-7162 |
In Re Anthony Dewayne Lee Turner |
|
2023-03-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment probable-cause warrantless-arrest |
Whether the petitioner's Fourth Amendment rights were violated when he was arrested without a warrant and probable cause |
| 22-943 |
Andre Verdun, et al. v. City of San Diego, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-03-28 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-search fourth-amendment parking-enforcement precompliance-review probable-cause public-health-safety search-and-seizure warrant-requirement warrantless-searches |
Whether tire-chalking falls outside the administrative-search exception to the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement |
| 22-7122 |
Quintel West v. Fredeane Artis, Acting Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-03-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel expert-testimony fourth-amendment probable-cause prosecutorial-misconduct reckless-driving sixth-amendment warrantless-arrest |
Whether the petitioner's warrantless arrest was consistent with the Fourth Amendment? |
| 22-7097 |
Monta Olander Jordan v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-03-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception gps-tracking leon-exception probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant |
Whether The Court Of Appeals Misapplied United States v. Leon |
| 22-933 |
Jean Henderson, as Next Friend and Guardian of Christopher Henderson v. Harris County, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment police-misconduct qualified-immunity section-1983 unreasonable-force |
Does qualified immunity shield an officer who uses unreasonable force against a fleeing misdemeanor suspect who complies with an officer's order to st… |
| 22-6995 |
Matthew Patrick Langenberg v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-03-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment apparent-authority cell-phone cell-phone-privacy consent consent-search fourth-amendment privacy riley-precedent search warrantless warrantless-search |
Whether an employer has 'apparent authority' to consent to a complete search, including a forensic examination, of an employee's cell phone based upon… |
| 22-862 |
Brooklyn Zavion Johnson v. West Virginia |
West Virginia |
2023-03-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment consent-to-search due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment juvenile-rights probable-cause search-and-seizure warrantless-entry warrantless-search |
Whether Petitioner's 4th amendment right against unreasonable search and seizure was violated |
| 22-848 |
James Douglas Fox v. Mark Campbell, et ux. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-03-08 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
county-of-sacramento-v-lewis excessive-force fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment graham-v-connor law-enforcement qualified-immunity seizure self-defense unreasonable-force |
Whether the Fourth Amendment standard for evaluating unreasonable force claims or the Fourteenth Amendment standard applies when law enforcement shoot… |
| 22-6949 |
Christopher Maurice McDowell v. Carlton W. Reeves |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-03-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
cell-phone-data fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence privacy reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure |
Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable … |
| 22-6948 |
Robert E. Spiker v. Robert E. Erskines, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-03-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
cell-phone-data constitutional-claims deliberate-indifference digital-privacy federal-jurisdiction fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence habeas-corpus medical-care prisoner-rights privacy search-and-seizure |
Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable … |
| 22-6867 |
Rickie Markiece Atkinson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-02-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act breaking-and-entering burglary categorical-approach constitutional-interpretation fourth-amendment sixth-amendment violent-felony |
Whether North Carolina breaking or entering is categorically broader than generic burglary and cannot be a violent felony under the Armed Career Crimi… |
| 22-6870 |
Victor Rodriquez Kessel v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-02-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process evidentiary-issues fair-trial fourth-amendment judicial-misconduct jury-tampering language-barrier miranda-rights prosecutorial-misconduct |
Did the unethical and arbitrary act/action of the US Attorney of passing out candy in the midst of the petitioner's trial to the empaneled jury comple… |
| 22-6872 |
Gustavo Guzman v. California |
California |
2023-02-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-conduct fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence government-informant home-surveillance reasonable-suspicion warrantless-entry |
Whether the Fourth Amendment permits a government informant's warrantless entry into a home to monitor, transmit, or record statements without reasona… |
| 22-6832 |
James L. Mahaffey v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2023-02-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
cell-phones criminal-procedure digital-evidence fourth-amendment privacy search-and-seizure |
Whether the government's warrantless search of a person's cell phone violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable searches and seiz… |
| 22-6810 |
Jason Jarvis v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-02-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution defendant-rights due-process evidence evidentiary-rules fourth-amendment legal-standing prosecutorial-misconduct search-and-seizure suppressed-evidence |
Whether suppressed evidence or evidence not belonging to the defendant can be used against the defendant to prosecute him? |
| 22-776 |
Courtney Drake v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2023-02-17 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
blood-draw blood-test breath-test due-process dui fourth-amendment implied-consent self-incrimination warrantless-search |
Whether the government can use a motorist's refusal of a warrantless blood test as evidence of guilt |
| 22-6802 |
Luis Miguel Sierra-Ayala v. United States |
First Circuit |
2023-02-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment consensual-search consent exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree illegal-seizure police-misconduct reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure |
Should evidence obtained during an illegal police seizure be suppressed where the rights-violating officer testifies that the person in his custody co… |
| 22-766 |
Edward Pinkney v. Berrien County, Michigan, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-02-15 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights criminal-proceedings due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment probable-cause section-1983 unlawful-prosecution |
Whether Petitioner's § 1983 claim based on his prosecution, pretrial-criminal-proceedings, trial, conviction, and incarceration for an act the law doe… |
| 22-768 |
Angie Waller, et al. v. Richard Hoeppner, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-02-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights-act fourth-amendment graham-v-connor municipal-liability reasonableness reasonableness-standard search-and-seizure tennessee-v-garner totality-of-circumstances totality-of-the-circumstances |
Does the Fifth Circuit's 'narrowed' test of reasonableness of a search or seizure under the Fourth Amendment conflict with the Supreme Court's decisio… |
| 22-6769 |
Thomas L. Fast v. Florida |
Florida |
2023-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment free-speech material-support metadata-collection national-security-agency privacy-rights standing surveillance terrorism usa-patriot-act |
Whether the petitioner's conviction for providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization under 18 U.S.C. § 2339B violates the First Amen… |
| 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… |
| 22-6777 |
Fharis Denane Smith v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-02-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
cell-phone circuit-split digital-privacy fourth-amendment good-faith law-enforcement-procedure probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant warrant-requirement |
Question Presented |
| 22-6766 |
Michael A. Weis v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2023-02-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
cell-phone cell-phone-privacy civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment search-and-seizure warrantless-search |
Did the Illinois courts violate Petitioner's fourth Amendment right to be free from illegal search and seizure when the police seized his cell phone f… |
| 22-747 |
Tracy Renee Pennington v. West Virginia |
West Virginia |
2023-02-09 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Relisted (2) |
arrest-warrant circuit-split fourth-amendment fourth-circuit home-entry law-enforcement payton-v-new-york probable-cause |
When the police have an arrest warrant for a person, can they enter a home without probable cause that the person resides there and is present within? |
| 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… |
| 22-732 |
Kaeun Kim v. Michael Saccento, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2023-02-06 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights due-process fabricated-evidence fabrication-of-evidence fourth-amendment malicious-prosecution standing state-actors unreasonable-arrest |
Does an individual's Fourth Amendment right to free-from-unreasonable-arrest-and-detention continue beyond legal-process to allow a malicious-prosecut… |
| 22-728 |
Daniel Cameron Wilkey, et al. v. William Eugene Klaver |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-02-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights clearly-established-law clearly-established-right fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct qualified-immunity reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop |
Whether the Sixth Circuit defined the right at too high a level of generality |
| 22-706 |
Timothy Howard Spriggs v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-01-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance private-property residence rv search sentencing-guidelines utilities warrantless-search |
Whether the Fourth Amendment permits the warrantless search of an immobile RV |
| 22-6625 |
Ledger Lynn Hammonds, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
fourth-amendment fourth-circuit franks-hearing franks-v-delaware judicial-review material-omissions preliminary-showing probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-challenge |
Whether the proper test for determining a preliminary showing for a Franks hearing has been met when analyzing material omissions, and whether the Fou… |
| 22-6623 |
Jarmell Raymond Mayweather v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-01-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment franks-violation informant-falsification prosecutorial-misconduct search-warrant |
Whether the government omission of evidence that was contrast affiant's Search Warrant Application (SWA) statements constituted a Brady and Franks vio… |
| 22-679 |
NYC C.L.A.S.H., Inc., et al. v. Marcia L. Fudge, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2023-01-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
agency-authority constitutional-avoidance due-process federalism fourth-amendment housing-regulation public-housing smoking-ban spending-clause |
Whether HUD lacks authority to adopt or enforce its smoking ban as a means to ensure 'safe and habitable' public housing |
| 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… |
| 22-6580 |
Daniel J. Campbell v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2023-01-19 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment cell-phone digital-devices digital-privacy fourth-amendment probation probation-search reasonable-suspicion search search-conditions state-supervision |
Is a search reasonable under the 4th Amendment when a probation officer lacks required reasonable suspicion and violates state law to search a probati… |
| 22-6552 |
Sergio Guerrero v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-01-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
ammunition-possession bill-of-rights fourth-amendment lawful-materials probable-cause reasonable-suspicion second-amendment warrantless-arrest |
Whether the Ninth Circuit's decision is consistent with this Court's precedents on the Fourth Amendment's probable cause standard when suspicion is ba… |
| 22-6523 |
Alfonzo Johnlouis v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-01-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
fourth-amendment government-action government-actor mail-carrier postal-service search-and-seizure standing unreasonable-search unreasonable-searches warrantless-search |
Is the warrantless search of a First Class sealed mail Priority package by a United States Postal Service mail carrier during the course and scope of … |
| 22-640 |
David Wellington v. Fernando Daza, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2023-01-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
1st-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights content-seizure first-amendment fourth-amendment overbreadth qualified-immunity search-warrant tax-code |
Is a search warrant that authorizes a search for violations of the entire federal tax code (26 U.S.C. §7201), plus any other numerous codes and laws f… |
| 22-625 |
W.A. Griffin v. Blue Cross Blue Shield Healthcare Plan of Georgia, Inc., et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-01-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure |
Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on unreasonable searches and seizures |
| 22-6473 |
Michael Dewayne Dennis v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-01-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment privacy privacy-rights reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search sentencing-disparities surveillance warrantless-search |
whether-long-term-police-use-of-a-surveillance-camera-is-a-fourth-amendment-search |
| 22-609 |
Carsten Igor Rosenow, aka Carlos Senta v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-01-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split electronic-communication electronic-communications fourth-amendment government-action privacy private-search search-and-seizure statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Ninth Circuit's rigid multi-pronged test for determining government action in relation to electronic communication service providers compo… |
| 22-6442 |
Brennan Thomas Baker v. Wyoming |
Wyoming |
2023-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion cell-phone-recording criminal-evidence criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-abuse-of-discretion fourth-amendment legal-admissibility surveillance surveillance-footage witness-testimony |
Did the district court abuse its discretion in admitting the state's cell phone recording of surveillance footage? |
| 22-6449 |
Carl Anthony Wilson v. Texas |
Texas |
2023-01-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence blood-draw conflict-of-interest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel search-warrant unreasonable-search-and-seizure |
Whether the warrantless blood draw violated the Fourth Amendment |
| 22-6441 |
James D. Dayvault v. Kansas |
Kansas |
2023-01-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights consensual-encounter custody detention due-process family-law fourth-amendment law-enforcement photography reasonable-person reasonable-person-standard seizure |
Did the Kansas Court of Appeals err when it affirmed the trial court's denying custody for the purposes of Ananda, and did the court err by applying t… |
| 22-603 |
Jevarreo Kelley-Lomax v. City of Chicago, Illinois |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-12-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bailee-duty bailment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment pre-trial-detention property-rights property-seizure |
Whether the refusal to return lawfully seized property implicates the Fourth Amendment |
| 22-6430 |
Alex Bugno v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2022-12-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment good-faith-exception particularity search-warrant seizure |
Are search warrants that fail to include command sections authorizing the seizure of particular items facially and fatally defective, requiring suppre… |
| 22-6433 |
Ricky Escobedo v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attorney-client-privilege conflict-of-interest fifth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment |
Violation of attorney-client privilege and right to effective assistance of counsel |
| 22-6378 |
Angela Dee Garges v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-12-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
dwelling-search fourth-amendment law-enforcement maryland-v-buie probable-cause protective-sweep reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure |
Whether the Eighth Circuit Court's determination that law enforcement officers may search an entire dwelling without probable cause or reasonable susp… |
| 22-563 |
Randall Greer, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Christopher Greer, Deceased v. James Haman, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-12-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
deadly-force fourth-amendment graham-v-connor jury-instruction law-enforcement probable-cause self-defense tennessee-v-garner use-of-force |
Whether a jury should be instructed on the core principle that a law enforcement officer's use of deadly force in self-defense is not constitutionally… |
| 22-549 |
Raymond J. Liddy v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-12-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
digital-privacy electronic-evidence fourth-amendment internet-subscriber-information law-enforcement-search personal-data search-and-seizure subscriber-information warrant-requirement |
Does Internet subscriber information constitute a digital 'paper' or 'effect' under the Fourth Amendment? |
| 22-6312 |
Kristian Jones v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-12-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment circuit-split constitutional-law criminal-procedure fourth-amendment hotel-guest hotel-guest-rights privacy reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure standing |
Whether there is a reasonable expectation of privacy in the hotel room of a non-registered guest |
| 22-6305 |
Kaleb L. Basey v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-12-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment campbell-ewald civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process fourth-amendment government-liability property-rights property-seizure rule-41g standing |
Whether a person seeking return of illegally-seized property under Fed. R. Crim. P. Rule 41(g) has an absolute right to reject the government's offer … |
| 22-6287 |
Ashley Y. (Yoo Hyang) Kim v. Public Schools of Brookline, et al. |
First Circuit |
2022-12-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-law discrimination due-process employment fourth-amendment legal-representation privacy-rights school-search student-surveillance termination |
Whether the petitioner's termination from employment was unlawful due to discrimination based on nationality, age, gender status, and lack of legal re… |
| 22-6293 |
Dkyle Jamal Bridges v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment automobile-exception confrontation-clause confrontation-right fourth-amendment franks-hearing plain-view sentencing-factors sex-trafficking testimonial-hearsay |
Did the automobile exception to the Fourth Amendment justify the warrantless search of Petitioner's vehicle? |
| 22-6284 |
Bryan M. Espinoza v. Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2022-12-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bell-v-hood bivens-action bivens-doctrine constitutional-rights davis-v-passman federal-tort-claims-act fourth-amendment obstruction-of-justice whistleblower-protection whistleblower-protection-act |
What is the proper cause of action under Bivens for a violation of the Fourth Amendment? |
| 22-6286 |
John Yang v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-12-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-activity fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop vehicle-seizure |
Whether the Fourth Amendment permits a police officer to seize a vehicle and its occupants based on limited information |
| 22-6240 |
Robert Dale Hines v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-tampering fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-negotiations sixth-amendment trial-counsel |
Whether the Court violated the petitioner's constitutional rights, including due process and effective assistance of counsel |
| 22-6225 |
Jerome Kieffer v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-12-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-procedure criminal-law due-process federal-jurisdiction fourth-amendment imprisonment-rights religious-land-use rluipa sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation void-for-vagueness |
Whether the unconstitutionally vague language struck down by the Court in 18 U.S.C. 1030 applies to 18 U.S.C. 2232(a)(1) |
| 22-513 |
Hyrum James Geddes v. Weber County, Utah, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-12-02 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights detention-facility due-process excessive-force fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment objective-reasonableness section-1983 |
Whether the test of objective reasonableness for excessive force claims under the Fourteenth Amendment is the same as the test under the Fourth Amendm… |
| 22-6210 |
Aaron Michael Crick v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-12-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing downward-variance fourth-amendment fourth-circuit judicial-discretion motion-denial reversible-error sentencing |
Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred by denying Mr. Crick's meritorious argument that the district court committed reversible error by de… |
| 22-6187 |
Demetrio Lifrieri v. James Stinson |
Second Circuit |
2022-12-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fair-trial fourth-amendment murder-prosecution police-search unlawful-evidence unlawful-search |
Was petitioner's right to a fair trial compromised by the admission of the unlawfully obtained evidence? |
| 22-6163 |
Noel Brown v. New York |
New York |
2022-11-29 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miranda-rights probable-cause speedy-trial |
Question not identified |
| 22-6169 |
Shane Alan Nault v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-11-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment fourth-amendment investigatory-stop rodriguez-standard rodriguez-v-united-states search-and-seizure seizure-scope terry-stop traffic-stop |
Whether seizing an individual seated in a parked car in a private parking lot should be analyzed in the context of a 'traffic stop' under Rodriguez, o… |
| 22-6148 |
Larry James Bradley v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-11-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights commerce-clause due-process enemy-combatant equal-protection fourth-amendment jurisdiction presidential-authority standing statutory-interpretation suspension-clause |
Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the relevant civil rights statutes and constitutional provisions |
| 22-481 |
Daphne Moore v. United States |
First Circuit |
2022-11-22 |
Denied |
Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
curtilage fourth-amendment home home-curtilage police-technology reasonable-expectation-of-privacy reasonable-expectation-privacy search search-and-seizure surveillance surveillance-camera |
Whether long-term police use of a surveillance camera targeted at a person's home and curtilage is a Fourth Amendment search |
| 22-486 |
Texas v. John Wesley Baldwin |
Texas |
2022-11-22 |
Denied |
|
4th-amendment cell-phone cell-phone-search criminal-conspiracy fourth-amendment illinois-v-gates organized-crime probable-cause riley-standard riley-v-california search-warrant warrant-requirements |
Whether an officer's uncorroborated belief that co-conspirators who planned a crime over multiple days used their cell phones to do so is a 'bare conc… |
| 22-6142 |
Taj Collier v. Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
aedpa constitutional-rights criminal-appeals criminal-appeals-reform-act fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment strickland-standard |
Whether the Florida courts of appeals provide for evidentiary hearings to determine Strickland's mixed question of law and fact |
| 22-478 |
David M. Greco v. Matthew J. Platkin, Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-11-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process erpo-act fourth-amendment standing state-court-proceedings younger-abstention |
Whether the fact that the challenged portions of New Jersey's ERPO Act are flagrantly and patently violative of the Fourth Amendment bars the Federal … |
| 22-6127 |
In Re Harry Sur Green, III, et ux. |
|
2022-11-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
cell-phone-data fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence privacy reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure |
Whether the government's warrantless seizure of a person's cell phone location data violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable se… |
| 22-6075 |
Raheem Davis, aka Raheen Davis v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-11-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cell-phone-data constitutional-law fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence privacy search-and-seizure |
Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable … |
| 22-6053 |
Charles Skaggs, Jr. v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-11-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
border-search border-searches electronic-device electronic-devices fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-suspicion warrant-requirement warrantless-search |
Does the Fourth Amendment require warrants for border searches of electronic devices? |
| 22-6012 |
Paige Davis v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-11-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
attenuation-doctrine brown-v-illinois evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree illegal-search search-and-seizure utah-v-strieff |
Is it error to apply the attenuation test articulated in Brown v. Illinois to determine whether evidence discovered during an illegal search should be… |
| 22-6026 |
Robert C. Stryker v. Wisconsin |
Wisconsin |
2022-11-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
computer-evidence computer-files criminal-procedure evidence fourth-amendment search-and-seizure social-worker-patient-privilege social-worker-privilege state-court-review warrantless-search |
Were the petitioner's Fourth Amendment rights violated when the contents of computer files held in evidence against him were revealed in warrantless s… |
| 22-6014 |
Herbert G. Green v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-11-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment evidence-admission exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree illegal-search independent-source-doctrine police-procedure search-warrant |
Does the independent source doctrine permit the admission of evidence found during an illegal search of a home if police later obtained a search warra… |
| 22-6024 |
Orentha James Pea v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-11-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
consent consent-search criminal-procedure fernandez-rule fernandez-v-california fourth-amendment physical-presence randolph-exception randolph-v-california search-and-seizure warrantless-search |
Whether the Fourth Amendment requires the objecting party to be physically present on the premises at the time of the search for the objection to be v… |
| 22-6007 |
Jerry Word v. John Christiansen, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-11-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing fourth-amendment fraud-upon-court fraud-upon-the-court ineffective-assistance-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct remand search-and-seizure standing |
Whether lower courts may reject a claim of fraud upon the court without addressing the issue or remanding the case |
| 22-5996 |
Ricky D. Runner v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-11-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
anonymous-informant cbd-oil fourth-amendment law-enforcement-search plain-view-doctrine probable-cause stem-pipe warrantless-search |
Whether the district court violated Ricky Runner's rights under the Fourth Amendment |
| 22-5968 |
Grant Manaku v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-11-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement rule-41 search-warrant warrant-service |
Did the agents deliberately violate the federal rule of criminal procedure—Rule 41(f)(1)(C)—that requires agents to serve a warrant when that warrant … |
| 22-5925 |
Christopher Santillanes Ceja v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-10-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment criminal-investigation drug-trafficking fourth-amendment investigative-duration law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop |
Was the traffic stop of Mr. Ceja unreasonably prolonged? |
| 22-5898 |
Daren W. Phillips v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-10-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights fourth-amendment government-search physical-trespass privacy privacy-expectation property-rights search-and-seizure search-warrant trespass |
Whether a wholly privacy-based exception to the Fourth Amendment's search warrant requirement can apply to exempt the government's search when it is a… |
| 22-377 |
Steven Elmer Hinds v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-10-24 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-amendments due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourth-amendment policing-for-profit sixth-amendment |
Is Texas Penal Code (T.P.C.) § 42.105 repugnant to the 1st, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 13th and 14th Amendments to the Constitution? |
| 22-378 |
Steven Elmer Hinds v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-10-24 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
4th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment policing-for-profit sixth-amendment state-prosecution |
Is Texas Penal Code (T.P.C.) § 42.105 repugnant to the 1st, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 13th and 14th Amendments to the Constitution? |
| 22-5896 |
Douglas Marshall Jackson v. Mark S. Inch, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-10-24 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights court-order fourth-amendment government-demand unreasonable-searches unreasonable-seizures |
Whether a government-imposed and implemented demand for a 'court order' violates the Fourth Amendment's prohibition against unreasonable searches and … |
| 22-5846 |
Michael Pacelli v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-10-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance jurisdiction search-and-seizure statute-of-limitations warrantless-search |
Can a law enforcement agency seize evidence or record private phone calls without a warrant, and then use the gathered evidence against a defendant? |
| 22-5858 |
Heather Nicole Trogdon v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-10-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment criminal-procedure eighth-circuit evidence fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery inventory-search policy probable-cause |
Does the inevitable discovery doctrine apply when it is based on the expectation that an inventory search of an arrestee's backpack will occur at the … |
| 22-5863 |
Arlandis Shy v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-10-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment 6th-amendment apprendi-v-new-jersey due-process fair-trial fourth-amendment jury-instruction probable-cause search-warrant sixth-amendment unreasonable-search |
Whether the district court clearly erred by failing to properly instruct the jury, in violation of Apprendi v. New Jersey, and by admitting Defendant … |
| 22-354 |
Lorenzo Shelton v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-10-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
cell-phone-search circuit-split fourth-amendment law-enforcement parolee parolee-search privacy privacy-protection residence search standing |
Whether the Fourth Amendment's privacy protections prevent law enforcement from searching places where a parolee has standing but are not unambiguousl… |
| 22-355 |
Kathy Lynn Carter v. Department of Defense |
Federal Circuit |
2022-10-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-procedure agency-action cell-phone-data due-process fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence merit-system privacy reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure telework-agreement unexcused-leave |
Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on unreasonable sear… |
| 22-5806 |
Jessica Lynne Gould v. Isaiah Ben Johnson |
Missouri |
2022-10-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment child's-passport due-process fourth-amendment international-travel parental-rights passport-restriction state-court-authority state-courts warrantless-seizure |
Does the 4th Amendment protect parents against the warrantless seizure of their child's passport by state courts |
| 22-5809 |
Sirron Moralez v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-10-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights container fourth-amendment law-enforcement-conduct probable-cause search-and-seizure seizure totality-of-the-circumstances traffic-stop vehicle-search |
Does an empty container with 'THC' on the cover justify an extended detention in a traffic stop and support the seizure of the driver and search of th… |
| 22-5821 |
Felipe Noriega, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-10-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure seizure traffic-stop |
Whether the Fourth Amendment allows a police officer to extend a concluded traffic stop based on minimal, if any, suspicious factors |
| 22-5774 |
Dajuan L. Banks v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2022-10-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
court-of-record evidence-forgery forged-document fourth-amendment judicial-record record res-judicata search-warrant |
Are the rights protected under the Fourth Amendment offended where a search warrant affidavit and warrant were not entered on the record? |
| 22-5735 |
Thomas A. Scott v. Lonnie Oliver, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Albion, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-10-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment judicial-integrity judicial-review manifest-injustice sixth-amendment |
Does the judgement of sentence represent a manifest injustice warranting the supervisory powers of this honorable court as it shakes societys confiden… |
| 22-5741 |
Anthony Delano Hylton, Jr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-history criminal-procedure detention-duration fourth-amendment law-enforcement-inquiry prolonged-detention rodriguez-precedent rodriguez-v-united-states traffic-stop |
Does This Court's Decision in Rodriguez v. United States permit any criminal history inquiry at any traffic stop no matter how long the inquiry takes? |
| 22-5744 |
Warne Keahi Young v. Hawaii Island Humane Society, et al. |
Hawaii |
2022-10-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
animal-seizure collateral-estoppel fourth-amendment hawaii-state-court intentional-infliction-of-emotional-distress law-enforcement negligence reasonableness reasonableness-standard search-and-seizure |
Is the standard of reasonableness under the Fourth Amendment the same as the standard of reasonableness under negligence such that a finding of reason… |
| 22-5745 |
Deron Devaughn Mahone v. Georgia, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-10-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment material-omission probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure search-warrant warrant-application |
Whether a reasonable officer would have known that Officer Stewart's warrant affidavit failed to establish probable cause and that he should not have … |
| 22-5726 |
Veronica Gonzalez-Carmona v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-09-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
credibility drug-interdiction fourth-amendment law-enforcement officer-testimony rodriguez-precedent rodriguez-v-united-states safety-valve-relief traffic-stop |
whether-officer's-interspersed-drug-interdiction-questions-extend-traffic-stop |
| 22-5684 |
Victor Gavillan Martinez v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-09-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 4th-amendment 6th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment warrantless-search |
Whether Petitioner's Fourth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendment Rights to the United States Constitution Require this Court to vacate Petitioner's convic… |
| 22-5697 |
Robert Capelli v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-09-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-law criminal-procedure fourth-amendment private-plane search search-and-seizure vehicle-exception warrant-requirement |
Whether the vehicle exception to the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement applies to the search of a private plane |
| 22-275 |
Benjamin Braam, et al. v. Kevin A. Carr, Secretary, Wisconsin Department of Corrections |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-09-23 |
Denied |
|
criminal-justice fourth-amendment gps-tracking lifetime-monitoring post-supervision sex-offender sex-offenders special-needs special-needs-doctrine totality-of-the-circumstances |
Whether the Wisconsin Department of Corrections' program categorically requiring lifetime GPS tracking of individuals who have been convicted of certa… |
| 22-5653 |
Deryl Dude Nelson v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2022-09-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-hearing fourth-amendment fraud judicial-misconduct probable-cause standing state-court-procedure warrant-fraud |
Did the state court err in not conducting an evidentiary hearing for petitioner's fraud upon the court and Fourth Amendment issue? |
| 22-5620 |
Ebrahim Kalatehe v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-09-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure criminal-procedure due-process evidence-collection fourth-amendment judicial-review pen-register standing third-party-doctrine waiver |
Whether the government may use information obtained through a pen register against an individual over whom the government did not obtain a pen registe… |
| 22-5583 |
John Doe v. Harris County, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-09-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure |
Whether the lower court erred in its application of the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on unreasonable searches and seizures |
| 22-244 |
Stephen A. Tanner v. Idaho Department of Fish and Game, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-09-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
executive-branch fourth-amendment game-check-stations roadblocks separation-of-powers wildlife-management |
Whether the Director and Officers of the State of Idaho Department of Fish and Game violate the Separation of Powers doctrine |
| 22-233 |
Paul Chretien v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-09-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
child-pornography fourth-amendment google-cloud probable-cause search-warrant stale-evidence staleness |
Whether the Fourth Amendment allows a finding of probable cause for a search warrant for child pornography in a private home based solely, and without… |
| 22-236 |
Jake J. McGovern v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
2022-09-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
cell-phone cell-phone-search exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception overbroad probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-scope |
Is a warrant to search a cell phone overbroad, in violation of the Fourth Amendment, if it authorizes the search of evidence on the phone in addition … |
| 22-207 |
Volodymyr Kvashuk v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-09-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
and injection of vague 'cybercrime' concepts automatic justification of law enforcement invasi cybercrime electronic-devices electronic-search fourth-amendment home-invasion home-search law-enforcement nexus nexus-analysis search-and-seizure unfounded-presumptions |
Whether the Ninth Circuit's analytical approach in weighing 'the nature of cybercrime' into its assessment of nexus to search one's home violates the … |
| 22-5508 |
Hanford Chiu v. United States |
First Circuit |
2022-09-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence federal-rules-of-evidence fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause search-warrant |
Whether a faulty search warrant that was executed without probable cause and without a good faith exception violates Fourth Amendment protections |
| 22-5510 |
Ronald Lebed, Sr. v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-09-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct search-and-seizure sixth-amendment |
Whether the Fifth District Court of Appeal violated the petitioner's Fourth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment rights |
| 22-167 |
Daniel J. Van Linn v. Wisconsin |
Wisconsin |
2022-08-23 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
circuit-split evidence-admissibility exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment independent-source objective-inquiry reasonable-officer subjective-inquiry |
Whether a court seeking to determine if a source of evidence is 'genuinely independent' for purposes of the 'independent source' exception to the excl… |
| 22-5373 |
Berenice Del Angel v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-08-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-limits fourth-amendment law-enforcement rodriguez scope-of-detention seizure traffic-stop warrantless-detention |
Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits a police officer from continuing his warrantless detention of a motorist after the officer has announced that h… |
| 22-5286 |
Jesse James Palato v. Dwayne Hamilton, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-08-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment anonymous-messages anonymous-messaging certificate-of-appealability fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure social-media |
probable-cause,anonymous-messages,social-media,4th-amendment,search-and-seizure,certificate-of-appealability |
| 22-5298 |
Seth Anthony Johnson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-08-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cell-phone-privacy fourth-amendment homeland-security homeland-security-search privacy-interest probation-condition probation-officer search-condition supervised-release warrantless-search |
Whether the Ninth Circuit improperly ruled that Mr. Johnson's supervised release search condition substantially diminished his weighty privacy interes… |
| 22-5282 |
Cory Mingo v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-08-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment 6th-amendment cell-site-location-information criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance probable-cause search-and-seizure sixth-amendment warrantless-search |
Whether the Petitioner was deprived of the effective counsel |
| 22-5250 |
Ella W. Horn v. Experis US Inc. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-08-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cell-site-location-information fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-privacy fourth-amendment-reasonableness fourth-amendment-standing warrantless-search |
Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's historical cell-site location information violates the Fourth Amendment's prohib… |
| 22-87 |
Arthur O. Armstrong v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-07-29 |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment standing |
Whether respondents acted in a conspiracy to deprive the appellant of liberty and property without due process |
| 22-5213 |
Clifford Lavern Stokes v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-07-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment attenuation-doctrine civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment intervening-circumstance reasonable-suspicion rodriguez-standard search-and-seizure traffic-stop warrant-check |
Whether a warrant check of a passenger that extends a valid traffic stop is a per se 'fishing expedition' under the attenuation doctrine |
| 22-5205 |
Layla Coriz v. New Mexico |
New Mexico |
2022-07-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
cell-phone-data due-process fourth-amendment privacy search-and-seizure standing |
Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable … |
| 22-5207 |
Brandon L. Cooper v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-07-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-v-maryland due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel |
Whether the lower court's decision was based on an unreasonable application of clearly established federal law |
| 22-5083 |
William Wellington Hooper, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-07-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process eighth-amendment fair-trial fourth-amendment search-and-seizure sentencing |
Were Mr. Hooper's cell phones seized in violation of his Fourth Amendment right against unreasonable search and seizure? |
| 22-5080 |
Jacky Cardale Mayfield v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2022-07-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
confidential-witness due-process Fourth-Amendment Fourth-Amendment-search In-camera-hearing ineffective-counsel Probable-cause search-warrant Shackling Witness-testimony |
Fourth-Amendment,Fourth-Amendment-search,Probable-cause,Witness-testimony,In-camera-hearing,Shackling,Eyewitness-identification,Ineffective-assistance… |
| 22-5065 |
O. L. v. Liliana Jara, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-07-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cell-phone-search consent digital-duplication fourth-amendment possessory-interest privacy search-and-seizure seizure |
When a crime victim's cell phone is searched, what is the scope of consent? |
| 22-13 |
Nicholas James Imhoff v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-07-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-suspicion rental-car search-and-seizure traffic-stop vehicle-search |
Whether a person driving a rental car is sufficient factual basis during a routine traffic stop to create reasonable suspicion to perform a vehicle se… |
| 22-5022 |
Ronald Wayne Thrasher v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-07-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights confidential-informant due-process fourth-amendment probable-cause search-warrant self-corroboration warrant-particularity |
When probable cause is based on a confidential informant, is it sufficient for law enforcement to establish the informant's reliability by the informa… |
| 22-5016 |
Christopher Lee Bryant v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-07-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
corroboration criminal-procedure fourth-amendment police-investigation probable-cause recently-arrested-person search-and-seizure warrant warrant-requirement |
Does the Fourth Amendment require police officers to corroborate information obtained from a recently arrested person, whom officers did not know unti… |
| 22-8 |
Anthony Momphard, Jr., Individually and in His Official Capacity as a Deputy Sheriff of the Macon County Sheriff's Department, et al. v. Melissa B. Knibbs, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Michael Scott Knibbs |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-07-01 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights deadly-force due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-use-of-force qualified-immunity use-of-force |
Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in finding that a reasonable officer in Deputy Momphard's position would not have perceived a danger that justified l… |
| 22-5013 |
In Re Megan Kyte |
|
2022-06-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment due-process false-arrest fourth-amendment habeas-corpus malicious-prosecution search-and-seizure sixth-amendment unreasonable-search |
Was petitioner denied her Fourth Amendment right to a pro se habeas corpus |
| 21-8260 |
Tracy Garrett v. Warden, FCC Coleman-USP II |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-06-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment appellate-review certiorari-standard circuit-split consent constitutional-violation federal-question fourth-amendment search-and-seizure supervisory-power warrantless-search |
Whether the 11th Circuit erred in declining to entertain a 4th Amendment violation issue |
| 21-8238 |
James Seeley v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-06-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2252a constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment proportionality sentencing-commission sentencing-guidelines sixth-amendment statutory-authority statutory-interpretation |
What is the correct United States Sentencing Guideline for a conviction under 18 U.S.C. 2252A? |
| 21-8210 |
Ralph William Lee, III v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2022-06-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights confidential-documents constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment right-to-counsel unreasonable-seizure waiver warrantless-search |
Did the lower court violate Maryland Rule 4-215 and Appellant's constitutional rights by failing to ensure that he knowingly and voluntarily waived hi… |
| 21-8197 |
Michael James Bosman v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-06-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alternatives criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement-conduct police-conduct precedent probable-cause reasonableness reasonableness-standard search-and-seizure seizure |
Did the Tenth Circuit misapply this Court's precedent, and wrongly reject Mr. Bosman's Fourth-Amendment-claim, when it dismissed the availability of a… |
| 21-8200 |
Daniel Louis Jackson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-06-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance kimmelman-v-morrison privacy-rights probable-cause search-and-seizure standing strickland-v-washington warrant-particularity |
whether-counsel-provided-ineffective-assistance-for-failing-to-file-a-meritorious-motion-to-suppress |
| 21-8202 |
Eric Watkins v. Officer Shields, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-06-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights digital-search due-process fourth-amendment government-action probable-cause property-rights search-and-seizure takings territorial-jurisdiction warrant-authority |
Whether the government's seizure of a person's property without just compensation violates the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment |
| 21-8177 |
Marlin Larice Joseph v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-06-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-safeguards cruel-and-unusual-punishment death-penalty due-process eighth-amendment fourth-amendment geographic-arbitrariness sixth-amendment standards-of-decency |
Does the death penalty violate the Eighth Amendment? |
| 21-8179 |
Terrance Washington v. Eric Tice, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Somerset, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-06-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-requirement |
Whether petitioners' Fourth Amendment rights were violated when they were arrested without a warrant and subjected to a warrantless search and seizure |
| 21-8150 |
Lorenzo Shelton v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-06-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment cell-phone cell-phone-privacy exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment parole parole-conditions reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure warrantless-search |
Whether the lower courts erred in allowing the Petitioner's cell phone to be searched just because he was on State parole |
| 21-8154 |
Anthony Brian Williamson v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-06-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bulk-data-collection fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence fourth-amendment-protections surveillance-techniques unreasonable-searches-and-seizures |
Whether the FBI's use of bulk data collection and surveillance techniques violates the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable searches an… |
| 21-8134 |
Jacquere Doran v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-06-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure district-court fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-procedure waiver |
Whether the District Court Erred in Ruling that Petitioner Waived an Ineffective Assistance of Counsel Claim Based on a Fourth Amendment Violation? |
| 21-1559 |
Sharon Powell, as Executrix of the Estate of William David Powell, et al. v. Jennifer Snook, as Executrix for the Estate of Patrick Snook |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-06-14 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-rights deadly-force due-process fair-notice fourth-amendment qualified-immunity totality-of-the-circumstances use-of-force |
When the unconstitutionality of an officer's conduct is obvious, must the court, in addressing the 'clearly established law' prong of a qualified immu… |
| 21-8115 |
Latoya Nicole Carter v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2022-06-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights fourth-amendment home-entry law-enforcement search-and-seizure trespass unlawful-arrest use-of-force |
Whether the Fourth Amendment forbids a law enforcement officer from trespassing into a resident's home by shoving his foot into the doorway through th… |
| 21-1540 |
Nita Gordon, Personal Representative of the Estate of Antonio Gordon v. Keith Bierenga |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-06-08 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
42-usc-1983 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-violation excessive-force fourth-amendment police-misconduct police-use-of-force precedent qualified-immunity section-1983 |
Whether qualified immunity protects government officials when no prior precedent exists recognizing the unconstitutionality of a fact pattern exactly … |
| 21-8081 |
Moses Clark v. California |
California |
2022-06-07 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus plea-agreement preliminary-hearing prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether the state court violated the defendant's Fourth Amendment rights by bringing the defendant before the magistrate within 48 hours after arrest |
| 21-8069 |
Billy Wayne Lewis v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-06-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment appellate-review circuit-split constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure fourth-amendment rodriguez-precedent rodriguez-v-united-states search-and-seizure supreme-court-guidance unreasonable-search |
Has the Tenth Court of Appeals of the State of Texas made a decision in this instant case that is in direct conflict with this Court's decision and gu… |
| 21-8049 |
Thomas Tate Tunstall v. Hope Daigle, fka Hope D. Theriot |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-06-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
11th-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process eleventh-amendment equal-protection ex-parte-young fourth-amendment section-1983 statute-of-limitations |
Whether the doctrine of Ex parte Young allows a federal court to exercise jurisdiction over a claim seeking return of illegally seized property |
| 21-1522 |
Wayne Torcivia v. Suffolk County, New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2022-06-03 |
Denied |
Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights constitutional-rights fourth-amendment home-entry qualified-immunity special-needs-exception state-actors warrant-requirement |
Whether a 'special-needs exception' allows warrantless entry into a home |
| 21-1525 |
Antonio Daron Futrell v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2022-06-03 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
abandonment abandonment-exception cell-phone-privacy cell-phones digital-data digital-privacy fourth-amendment riley-precedent riley-v-california search-and-seizure warrantless-search |
Whether the abandonment exception to the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement allows the Government to conduct warrantless searches of the digital d… |
| 21-8033 |
Jesus Francisco Fernandez v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-06-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-rules federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fourth-amendment good-cause plain-error plain-error-review pretrial-motions |
When a defendant raises a derivative theory on appeal that was not raised in a timely suppression motion in district court |
| 21-8037 |
Larry Blakney v. South Carolina Law Enforcement Division, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-06-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process electronic-privacy fourth-amendment privacy probable-cause search-and-seizure standing traffic-stop warrantless-search |
Whether the court erred in allowing the warrantless surveillance and search of the petitioner's cell, which violated his Fourth Amendment rights |
| 21-8038 |
Alberic Nault v. California |
California |
2022-06-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
blood-draw breath-test fourth-amendment medical-condition probable-cause search-and-seizure unconscious warrant-requirement warrantless-search |
Whether the Fourth Amendment always permits a warrantless blood draw without consideration of the totality of the circumstances |
| 21-8018 |
Ramon Ortiz Perez v. Giselle Matteson, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-06-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
court-appointed-counsel criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment habeas-corpus in-forma-pauperis ninth-circuit search-and-seizure standing supreme-court-rules writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in affirming the district court's denial of petitioner's motion to suppress evidence obtained in violation of the Four… |
| 21-7982 |
In Re Mo Savoy Hicks |
|
2022-05-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-innocence deceptive-testimony excited-testimony excited-utterance forensic-evidence forensic-exposition fourth-amendment legal-relief miscarriage-of-justice perjury |
Does the novel issue, Forensic Exposition, demonstrate deceptive testimony and establish actual innocence? |
| 21-7954 |
Jordan Monroe v. United States |
First Circuit |
2022-05-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights district-court-discretion exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment prima-facie-showing probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant warrant-validity |
Is the warrant herein an invalid search and seizure warrant? |
| 21-7973 |
In Re Roberto Villarreal |
|
2022-05-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment habeas-corpus liberty-interest marijuana-criminalization |
Whether the Supreme Court will grant a writ of habeas corpus to review the denial of a certificate of appealability for habeas relief |
| 21-1482 |
Dequantey Maurice Williams v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-05-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment criminal-procedure evidence fourth-amendment law-enforcement motion-to-suppress plain-view-doctrine probable-cause search-and-seizure vehicle-search |
Whether the United States District Court For The Middle District Of North Carolina Erred in Denying Mr. Williams's Motion to Supress evidence related … |
| 21-1486 |
Nancy Catherine Powers v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2022-05-25 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
fourth-amendment premises-warrant probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant totality-of-the-circumstances unreasonable-search visitor visitor-rights warrantless-search |
Whether the search of a purse in the possession of a visitor present at a residence during the execution of a premises warrant violates the Fourth Ame… |
| 21-1465 |
Austin Channing McGraw v. Kentucky |
Kentucky |
2022-05-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment self-incrimination warrantless-search |
Whether the government can advise a jury that a Defendant invoked his right against self-incrimination, and refused a consensual, warrantless search o… |
| 21-7934 |
Robert Cash Scheuerman v. Kansas |
Kansas |
2022-05-20 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment fourth-amendment passenger-rights privacy probable-cause search-and-seizure standing vehicle-search |
Whether passengers are categorically unable to challenge the search of a car in which they are the riding unless they can show an ownership or possess… |
| 21-7919 |
Raul Ambriz-Villa, Jr. v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-05-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment police-questioning search-and-seizure traffic-stop |
Does the Fourth Amendment limit police questioning during a traffic stop? |
| 21-7899 |
Francis Paul Sicola v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-05-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure |
Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable searches and seizures |
| 21-7889 |
Zahkuan Bailey-Sweeting, aka Zahkuan Sweeting-Bailey v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2022-05-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 4th-amendment fourth-amendment individualized-suspicion pat-frisk police-hunch police-stop reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop unreasonable-search |
Did the pat-frisk of Mr. Bailey-Sweeting violate his right to be free from unreasonable searches under the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment? |
| 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 … |
| 21-7865 |
Kra Deangelo Brooks v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-05-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review district-court eighth-circuit evidence-law fourth-amendment independent-source judicial-procedure murray-v-united-states national-importance search-warrant |
Whether an appeals court may 'implicitly find' an 'independent source' absent evidence and findings at the district court level |
| 21-7820 |
Darron Thomas v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-05-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction fourth-amendment judicial-misconduct judicial-recusal mandamus-petition probable-cause standing |
Whether the lower courts erred in denying the petitioner's request for a writ of mandamus to recuse a judge who engaged in wrongful, excessive, inappr… |
| 21-7821 |
Mandrail Jamar Woodberry v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-05-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law digital-privacy due-process fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining probable-cause sentencing unreasonable-search warrantless-search |
whether-possession-of-a-firearm-beyond-the-five-year-post-release-period-is-a-crime |
| 21-7808 |
John Edward McIntyre v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-interdiction criminal-procedure equal-protection fourth-amendment high-crime-neighborhood high-crime-neighborhoods law-enforcement probable-cause racial-profiling targeted-enforcement traffic-stop |
Whether the holding in Whren v. United States should be overruled in cases where a traffic stop is the result of a targeted criminal interdiction oper… |
| 21-7812 |
Delton Eugene Warren v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-05-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split fourth-amendment judicial-officer judicial-signature original-public-meaning search-warrant starr-v-united-states warrant-clause |
Whether search warrants must be signed by the issuing judicial officer |
| 21-1422 |
Brett Ferris v. Chrystal Scism, Individually and as Administratrix of the Estate of Joshua Scism |
Second Circuit |
2022-05-05 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
2nd-amendment civil-rights deadly-force due-process fourth-amendment lethal-force police-procedure qualified-immunity self-defense standing use-of-force |
Does the doctrine of qualified immunity shield a police officer from suit |
| 21-7779 |
Gilberto Juarez v. California |
California |
2022-05-04 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
cell-phone-data digital-privacy fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence privacy search-and-seizure |
Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable … |
| 21-7764 |
Kelvin Jones v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2022-05-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
anonymous-complaints fourth-amendment marijuana-evidence marijuana-use probable-cause search-warrant trash-pull |
Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits the search of a home pursuant to a search warrant based solely on anonymous complaints of short-term traffic an… |
| 21-1396 |
Dustin Dillard, et al. v. Vicki Timpa, Individually and as Representative of the Estate of Anthony Timpa, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 4th-amendment bystander-liability civil-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement-liability mental-health-intervention qualified-immunity section-1983 |
Whether the Fifth Circuit misapplied the Court's qualified-immunity jurisprudence |
| 21-7734 |
Bruce Mitchell Nicholson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-04-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonableness search-warrant time-limit |
Does a violation of a time-limit prescribed in a search warrant render a search unreasonable under the Fourth Amendment? |
| 21-7724 |
Anthony Fields v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2022-04-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment court-of-appeals evidence-suppression Faretta-v-California fourth-amendment Koon-v-United-States legal-error precedent-interpretation self-representation traffic-stop |
Whether the court of appeals' decision affirming the denial of Petitioner's request to exercise his right to self-representation while ignoring comple… |
| 21-7732 |
Oji Konata Markham v. Vicki Janssen, Warden |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-04-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-violation court-of-appeals due-process fair-trial fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance prejudice probable-cause sixth-amendment warrantless-arrest |
Whether the court of appeals properly assessed prejudice when it considered the Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963) violation |
| 21-7699 |
Eugene Nicholson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-exclusionary-rule good-faith-exception motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant |
Whether the good-faith exception to the exclusionary rule applies when the affidavit supporting a search warrant fails to establish a nexus between th… |
| 21-7681 |
Oniel McKenzie v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-04-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
canine-sniff curtilage fourth-amendment law-enforcement privacy-interest privacy-interests search search-and-seizure storage-unit |
Whether a warrantless canine sniff of the exterior of a private storage unit to detect contraband inside the unit constitutes a search in violation of… |
| 21-7685 |
Carlos Delgado, aka Los v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-04-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confidential-informant fourth-amendment franks-hearing law-enforcement probable-cause reckless-disregard roviaro-v-united-states search-and-seizure warrant-affidavit |
Did the DEA task force agent act with reckless disregard for the truth when omitting material information that militated against a finding of probable… |
| 21-1371 |
Patricia Morrison v. Quest Diagnostics Inc., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-04-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-procedures administrative-procedures-act civil-rights dna-act dna-evidence due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment hiv-testing innocence-protection-act |
Whether a petitioner from an estate may seek access to HIV/DNA testing on newly discovered, preserved, biological exculpatory evidence belonging to a … |
| 21-7677 |
Kyle Maurice Parks v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-04-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause constitutional-violation criminal-conviction due-process fabricated-evidence fourth-amendment human-trafficking illegal-search probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant |
Whether the petitioner's Fourth Amendment rights were violated by an illegal search and seizure without a warrant and probable cause affidavit |
| 21-7665 |
Robert Daniel Solove v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-04-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cell-phone-records cell-site-location comprehensive-chronicle fourth-amendment government-access ip-address ip-address-tracking privacy-rights search search-and-seizure user-movement |
Whether the government conducts a search under the Fourth Amendment when it accesses historical IP address records for a mobile app that provide a com… |
| 21-7639 |
Elizabeth Carley v. Dwight Neven, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-04-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-interpretation constitutional-law effective-assistance-of-counsel fourth-amendment search-and-seizure sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the Fourth Amendment search and seizure issues and Sixth Amendment effective assistance of counsel issues were correctly interpreted, or contr… |
| 21-7597 |
Clifford Idris Bell v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-04-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confidential-informant criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement personal-residence probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant warrant |
Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits the issuance of a warrant and the subsequent search of a personal residence based solely on a confidential info… |
| 21-7585 |
Jayson McNeil v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-04-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure traffic-stop |
Did the Trial Court err in denial of the Petitioner's Motion to Suppress evidence from a traffic stop and resulting search and seizure that was uncons… |
| 21-1344 |
Christin Campbell-Martin and Adam Scott Leiva v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-04-11 |
Denied |
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and established the arrestee's identity secured the arrestee in a police car 4th-amendment arrest-search criminal-procedure established-identity false-identification fourth-amendment incident-to-arrest police-procedure probable-cause search-and-seizure search-incident-to-arrest secured-arrestee vehicle-search |
Whether police may search a vehicle incident to arrest when the officers have arrested a recent occupant for providing false identification, secured t… |
| 21-7574 |
Danyel Black v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-04-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act controlled-substances criminal-procedure fourth-amendment prior-conviction probation-search sentencing-enhancement warrantless-search |
Whether a Florida controlled substances offense can qualify as a predicate 'serious drug offense' under the Armed Career Criminal Act |
| 21-7577 |
Nicholas N. Kerr v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-04-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
automobile-exception carroll collins-v-virginia constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment search-and-seizure |
Whether Petitioner's Fourth, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendment Rights to the United States Constitution Require this Court to vacate Petitioner's convic… |
| 21-7556 |
Jeffrey L. G. Johnson, et al. v. Stephen R. Clark, Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-04-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-proceedings civil-rights constitutional-rights damages due-process federal-claim federal-damages fourth-amendment governmental-privilege search-and-seizure |
Does violation of an individual's Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable search and seizure give rise to a federal claim for damages |
| 21-7564 |
Armstead Kieffer v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-vagueness due-process federal-jurisdiction fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech patent sixth-amendment standing takings |
Whether the unconstitutionally vague language, struck down by the Court in 185 OG, violates 35 USC 112(b) |
| 21-1330 |
Arthur O. Armstrong v. City of Conyers, Georgia |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-04-06 |
Denied |
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civil-rights due-process equal-protection equal-protection-clause false-reports fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment official-discrimination racial-profiling search-and-seizure warrantless-search |
Whether respondent violated the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments |
| 21-1318 |
Gregory Bogomol v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-04-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-2255 evidentiary-hearing federal-procedure fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel knock-and-talk motion-to-suppress warrantless-search |
What is the proper standard for determining when a federal habeas petitioner is entitled to an evidentiary hearing under 28 U.S.C. § 2255? |
| 21-7502 |
William Dallas Elmore v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-03-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights conflict-among-courts constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement personal-property property-seizure seizure unreasonable-search |
Does the Fourth Amendment prohibit an unreasonable and ongoing seizure of personal property? |
| 21-7508 |
Draven Greene v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-03-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment caretaker-exception constitutional-rights criminal-evidence evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment police-misconduct search-and-seizure vehicle-search warrantless-search |
Whether the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution extends to occupied vehicles |
| 21-7431 |
William Nobles v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-03-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-infirmity exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception law-enforcement-misconduct magistrate-review probable-cause warrant-requirement warrant-validity |
Whether the good-faith exception should apply when law enforcement officers bury a crucial fact that they knew or should have known would reveal a war… |
| 21-7416 |
Trevor Dawson Ewers v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2022-03-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights concerted-action constitutional-rights fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment pretextual-stop reasonable-suspicion seizure traffic-stop |
Where officers work together in concerted action to 'produce' reasonable suspicion when there is none to affect a traffic stop with the sole purpose o… |
| 21-7417 |
James Ray Davis v. Christopher Morledge, Judge, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-03-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
cell-phone-data civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment privacy search-and-seizure |
Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable … |
| 21-7410 |
In Re Eduardo Pineda |
|
2022-03-17 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-liberty due-process ex-parte-watkins fifth-amendment fourth-amendment gonzales-v-raich habeas-corpus liberty marijuana marijuana-prohibition |
Whether the federal prohibition on the cultivation, possession, and consumption of marijuana violates the petitioner's constitutional rights, includin… |
| 21-7387 |
Henry E. Wood v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-03-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment cellphone circuit-split fourth-amendment law-enforcement mobile-phone parolee parolee-rights search-and-seizure warrant-requirement warrantless-search |
Whether the Seventh Circuit's decision allowing law enforcement officers to conduct a warrantless search of a parolee's mobile phone upon arrest has c… |
| 21-1251 |
Eric Ibarguen v. New York |
New York |
2022-03-16 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
circuit-split constitutional-rights fourth-amendment home-invasion home-privacy law-enforcement privacy-rights search-and-seizure social-guests unreasonable-search |
Whether social guests are entitled to Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable searches of the home they are visiting |
| 21-7339 |
Robert Donald Gordon v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-jurisdiction constitutional-limits due-process federal-state-powers fifth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-counsel jurisdiction procedural-default standing |
Did the courts act outside of their jurisdictions? |
| 21-7341 |
Jerry Fruit v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
clearly-established-federal-law clearly-established-law direct-appeal fourth-amendment full-and-fair-litigation habeas-corpus stone-v-powell trial-litigation |
Whether habeas corpus petitioners have been afforded the opportunity for full and fair litigation of their Fourth Amendment claim |
| 21-7344 |
Edwin Calligan v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
anticipatory-warrant contraband fourth-amendment judicial-review probable-cause search-warrant triggering-event |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit decision conflicts with United States v. Grubbs |
| 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… |
| 21-7287 |
Ivan Cruz-Rivera v. United States |
First Circuit |
2022-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment criminal-procedure fourth-amendment informant informant-tip law-enforcement police-officer probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure |
Whether it is not necessary to evaluate the basis of knowledge underlying an informant's tip if the informant is a police officer |
| 21-7313 |
Domonick Deshay Wright v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-misconduct probable-cause qualified-immunity reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop |
Whether the lower courts have sanctioned a dangerous expansion of qualified immunity that shields police officers from liability for violating clearly… |
| 21-1216 |
Yan Ping Xu v. Suffolk County, New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2022-03-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment frivolous frivolous-claim privacy-invasion rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine standing state-court-order warrantless-seizure |
Whether the appeal has been properly dismissed because it 'lacks an arguable basis either in law or in fact' Neitzke v. Williams, 490 U.S. 319, 325 (1… |
| 21-7298 |
Dennis Allen Conte, III v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2022-03-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure standing |
Did the lower courts violate Mr. Conte's constitutional rights, including his Fourth Amendment rights? |
| 21-7277 |
Sadeen Jones v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2022-03-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
carpenter-v-united-states cell-site-location-information criminal-procedure fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery initial-illegal-search probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant warrant-requirement |
Is this matter so identical to Carpenter v. United States that like that case, this Petition for WRIT OF CERTIORARI should be reviewed, and granted re… |
| 21-7279 |
Charlie Foster v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-03-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law detention due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-stop |
Whether a law enforcement officer may extend a traffic stop by asking for a driver's license and registration after confirming no traffic violation oc… |
| 21-7274 |
Kaleb L. Basey v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-03-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2703 digital-privacy electronic-communications email-preservation fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-jurists search-and-seizure warrantless-search |
Whether reasonable jurists could disagree with the district court's decision that the initial and continuous, nine-month warrantless preservation of B… |
| 21-1204 |
City of Chico, California, et al. v. Estate of Tyler S. Rushing, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-03-03 |
Denied |
|
arrest-procedure civil-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct qualified-immunity use-of-force |
Does the Fourth Amendment prevent law enforcement officers from deploying a Taser to safely arrest a suspect who violently attacked the officers but w… |
| 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? |
| 21-1181 |
Lyndsey Ballinger, et al. v. City of Oakland, California |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-02-28 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
dolan-v-city-of-tigard due-process fourth-amendment nollan-v-california-coastal-commission property-rights seizure state-action takings tenant-rights unconstitutional-conditions |
Whether the unconstitutional conditions tests in Nollan v. California Coastal Commission and Dolan v. City of Tigard apply to an ordinance that requir… |
| 21-1190 |
Ramon Rios, III v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-02-28 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
4th-amendment arrest fourth-amendment home-search law-enforcement plain-view-doctrine protective-sweep surveillance warrantless-search |
Does the Fourth Amendment prohibit a warrantless protective sweep of a home following the arrest of a resident outside his home under surveillance? |
| 21-1179 |
Eric Lund v. Jeffrey Datzman, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-02-25 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment harmless-error heck-v-humphrey |
Whether the Heck v. Humphrey bar on § 1983 suits is categorically inapplicable when a convicted individual brings a Fourth Amendment claim seeking dam… |
| 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… |
| 21-7201 |
Michael Dewayne Jones v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2022-02-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure federal-enclave fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment state-jurisdiction |
Did the State of Oklahoma violate Petitioner's Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment rights when they prosecuted this Petitioner's crime which happened on a… |
| 21-1165 |
Janhoi Cole v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-02-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment investigation officer-conduct rodriguez-rule rodriguez-v-united-states traffic-stop unrelated-crimes |
Whether the extension of a traffic stop for an officer to ask detailed questions about the driver's travel plans violates the Fourth Amendment |
| 21-7153 |
Arthur Miles v. United States |
First Circuit |
2022-02-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights fourth-amendment inception-of-stop law-enforcement narrow-shoulder probable-cause reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop weather-conditions |
Can facts observed or learned by a police officer after he decided to initiate a traffic stop, which traffic stop was delayed a short distance only ba… |
| 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… |
| 21-1125 |
Matthew Schantz v. Benny Deloach |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-02-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment civil-rights deadly-force fourth-amendment objective-reasonableness police-pursuit qualified-immunity summary-judgment traffic-stop use-of-force |
Does the Fourth Amendment allow police to use deadly force to prevent the escape of a joyriding motorcyclist? |
| 21-7104 |
Jeffrey Ryan Simmermaker v. Cedar County Sheriff's Department, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-02-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights confidential-informant due-process fourth-amendment heck-bar heck-barr probable-cause search-warrant section-1983 standing |
Did the court err in its HECK BARR determination? |
| 21-7095 |
Paul Anthony Darrah v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-02-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
enterprise enterprise-existence first-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech jury-instruction jury-instructions necessity-requirement rico-conspiracy title-iii-wiretap wiretap-authorization |
Should the jury have been allowed to convict on the hypothetical existence of a RICO enterprise? |
| 21-7100 |
Alkiohn Dunkins v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2022-02-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
cellsite-information constitutional-protections criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement privacy privacy-rights search-and-seizure standing |
Whether the lower courts erred by denying the petitioner's motion to suppress cell-site information |
| 21-7101 |
Martavis Shawn Demar James v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-02-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cell-site-location-information fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search fourth-amendment-seizure reasonable-expectation-of-privacy standing |
Whether the Fourth Amendment protects an individual's reasonable expectation of privacy in the historical cell site location information of their cell… |
| 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? |
| 21-1099 |
Thomas Clayton Steres v. Kevin Curran, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-02-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
cell-phone-search certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining right-to-counsel sixth-amendment |
Whether Thomas Steres received ineffective assistance of counsel |
| 21-1091 |
Edwin Espejo v. Washington |
Washington |
2022-02-07 |
Denied |
|
clear-and-present-danger community-care-exception community-caretaking domestic-violence due-process fourth-amendment police-entry reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure |
Does the community care exception to the fourth amendment allow police officers to remain in a person's home when they have determined that there is n… |
| 21-1092 |
Aaron Evan Perry v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2022-02-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment agency-law civil-rights constitutional-protections constitutional-rights fourth-amendment loss-prevention private-enforcement private-search public-interest state-action state-action-doctrine |
Whether the distinction between state and private actors has blurred in retail crime investigations |
| 21-7016 |
Tony Gonzalez v. Rhode Island |
Rhode Island |
2022-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion brady-violation cellphone-search criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment jury-selection jury-venire motion-to-suppress sixth-amendment standing |
Did the trial Justice err, when the Jury Venire challenge, had been inappropriately addressed, concerning a proper sixth Amendment challenge? And Tria… |
| 21-7024 |
Edgar Manuel Sierra-Serrano v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process exceptions fourth-amendment judicial-review probable-cause search-and-seizure standard-of-review warrantless-search |
Has the progeny of 'probable-cause' and the innovations of 'exceptions' to the Fourth-Amendment concerning the justification to advance in a warrantle… |
| 21-7038 |
Jeremy William Lillich v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure detention fourth-amendment identification reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-stop warrant-execution |
Did the lower courts depart from the accepted course of judicial proceedings by allowing detention based on dispelled reasonable suspicion? |
| 21-7004 |
Adam L. Ware v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
affidavit-deficiency civil-procedure deterrence exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception recurring-negligence standing systemic-negligence |
Should the good-faith exception apply when an affiant has been repeatedly warned not to submit deficient affidavits? |
| 21-6994 |
Fernando Lara v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-01-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cell-phone exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment privacy probable-cause search-and-seizure |
Whether the result of an alleged search of Petitioner's cell phone violated his Fourth Amendment rights |
| 21-6961 |
Mauro C. Palacio v. Justin Caraway, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-01-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admission fifth-amendment fourth-amendment judicial-discretion procedural-error |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred in holding that the petitioner abandoned, through failure to brief, a separate claim that he is subject to an illeg… |
| 21-6939 |
Clarence Tramiel Beard v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
detention fourth-amendment investigatory-detention law-enforcement-procedure mail mail-seizure package-transportation reasonable-suspicion transportation united-states-v-place |
whether-the-investigatory-detention-and-subsequent-transportation-of-an-item-seized-from-the-mail-intrudes-on-a-possessory-interest-protected-by-the-f… |
| 21-1032 |
Jason T. Berry v. Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al. |
First Circuit |
2022-01-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
4th-amendment cell-phone-intrusion civil-procedure en-banc-review evidence exceptional-importance fbi-abuses fourth-amendment mandate-recall pro-se pro-se-litigation standing |
Whether additional evidence of claims occurring while a judgment is pending and immediately after case closure merit recall of a mandate |
| 21-6890 |
Robert William Moats v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-01-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights consensual-encounter consent constitutional-rights criminal-procedure detention fourth-amendment police-detention probable-cause search-and-seizure |
Whether the majority opinion of the United States Fourth Circuit of Appeals, which held that the defendant had a consensual encounter with police and … |
| 21-6912 |
Jamar Jones v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-01-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review cell-phone-data constitutional-rights counsel-performance criminal-procedure fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence ineffective-assistance plea-withdrawal privacy reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure |
Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable … |
| 21-6913 |
Timothy Dewayne Littlejohn v. Sergeant Bowman, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-01-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
cell-phone-data complaint-amendment digital-privacy district-court-discretion fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence judicial-error leave-to-amend privacy pro-se-pleading procedural-due-process search-and-seizure |
Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable … |
| 21-6904 |
Michel Thomas v. Stafflink, Inc., dba Link Staffing Services, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-01-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause qualified-immunity reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure |
Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable searches and seizures |
| 21-6885 |
Miguel Gonzalez Segovia v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2022-01-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment evidence-suppression evidentiary-hearing exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment pretrial-motion probable-cause search-and-seizure vehicle-stop |
Whether the Court erred when it denied Mr. Gonzalez Segovia's pretrial motion to suppress evidence seized pursuant to the vehicle stop |
| 21-6899 |
John B. Alberts v. Grady Perry, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-01-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
automobile-exception container criminal-procedure fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel laptop-computer laptop-evidence private-property search-and-seizure |
Whether Trial Counsel was Ineffective for Failing to Move to Suppress Computer Evidence on the Ground that a Search Pursuant to the Automobile Excepti… |
| 21-1014 |
T. O., a Child, et al. v. Fort Bend Independent School District, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-01-18 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment pedagogical-purpose public-school qualified-immunity school-officials |
Whether a public school student is barred from bringing an excessive-force claim alleging a violation of his federal constitutional rights whenever th… |
| 21-6857 |
Reginald E. Blandford v. New York |
New York |
2022-01-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
drug-sniff founded-suspicion fourth-amendment law-enforcement new-york reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop vehicle-search |
Whether the Fourth Amendment allows police to extend a traffic stop to conduct a drug sniff without reasonable suspicion of criminal activity |
| 21-6867 |
Gwendolyn Thorpe v. OneMain Financial |
Virginia |
2022-01-14 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment attorney-misconduct case-reversal civil-procedure disbarment disciplinary-action due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment procedural-irregularity rule-8 rule-8-violation |
Question not identified |
| 21-6841 |
Ada Maria Benson v. Hemet Police Department |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-01-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment civil-rights civil-rights-violation color-of-law due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment police-misconduct probable-cause |
Whether 42 USC 1983 can protect a law-abiding educated senior-citizen with disabilities from abduction (arrest) without probable-cause or warrant by a… |
| 21-6824 |
Dwight Frederick Barnes v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2022-01-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure fourth-amendment geolocation-warrant good-faith-doctrine nexus search-and-seizure warrant-requirements warrantless-searches |
Can the good faith doctrine allow a police officer to rely on a geolocation warrant that lacks any showing of nexus in the application between the lis… |
| 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 |
| 21-987 |
Owolabi Salis v. Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security |
Second Circuit |
2022-01-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process first-amendment fourth-amendment jurisdiction subject-matter-jurisdiction witness |
Whether facts brought by a witness before a jury and tried by that jury can be reexamined by the same witness before another body who was also a witne… |
| 21-6788 |
Bernard Lindsey v. United States |
First Circuit |
2022-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review cell-phone-search cell-phones drug-crimes drug-investigation fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant warrant-particularity |
Whether the mere presence of two cell phones in the petitioner's home provided sufficient grounds to search their entire contents |
| 21-975 |
Idaho v. Aaron James Howard |
Idaho |
2022-01-06 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
dog fourth-amendment law-enforcement narcotics-detection probable-cause search search-and-seizure seizure vehicle vehicle-search |
When officers lawfully deploy a narcotics-detection dog on the exterior of a vehicle and, without any direction, prompting, or facilitation by officer… |
| 21-976 |
Gregory Thomas Wilson v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-01-06 |
Denied |
|
attorney-client-privilege civil-rights expectation-of-privacy fourth-amendment jail-visitation legal-rights reasonable-expectation-of-privacy sixth-amendment surveillance |
Whether an attorney has a reasonable expectation of privacy when meeting with clients in the jail attorney visitation room |
| 21-6761 |
Patrick Killen, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment mlat mlat-evidence search-warrant sixth-amendment |
Whether this Court should visit the issue of allowing law enforcement to gather information initiated by the United States to use a Mutual Legal Assis… |
| 21-952 |
Lamont Lendell Bagley v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2021-12-29 |
Denied |
|
detention fourth-amendment investigatory-detention protective-search protective-search-exception roadside-encounter terry-stop traffic-stop unoccupied-vehicle vehicle-search warrant-requirement |
Whether the protective search exception to the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement extends to an unoccupied vehicle if the former occupant is detai… |
| 21-947 |
Tettus Davis, et ux. v. Jonathon Hodgkiss |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights fourth-amendment franks-challenge interlocutory-appeal probable-cause qualified-immunity search-warrant section-1983 summary-judgment |
Franks-v-Delaware-violation |
| 21-940 |
Kentucky v. Jared McCarthy |
Kentucky |
2021-12-27 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
blood-test criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission fourth-amendment impaired-driving mandatory-minimum search-and-seizure |
Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits the admission of a defendant's refusal of a blood test in an impaired-driving prosecution |
| 21-941 |
Aldo Daniel Gastelum v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-12-27 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split consensual-search fourth-amendment police-detention probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure state-supreme-court-rulings voluntary-consent |
whether-search-is-consensual |
| 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 |
| 21-6726 |
Mark Jason Davis v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-12-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment drug-detection fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment k9-sniff police-dog private-property probable-cause search search-and-seizure search-warrant |
Whether an open-air sniff conducted by a police K9 on private property without a warrant or probable cause constitutes a search |
| 21-934 |
Lana Weinbach v. The Boeing Company, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-12-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
amendment-interpretation capable-of-ascertainment constitutional-rights due-process eighth-circuit escheat-laws fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment legal-scrutiny ninth-amendment |
Whether the Eighth Circuit exceeded its scope in determining a capable-of-ascertainment criterion, and in so doing, infringed upon constitutional-righ… |
| 21-921 |
Mark A. Witaschek v. District of Columbia |
District of Columbia |
2021-12-22 |
Denied |
|
administrative-summons carpenter-v-united-states digital-privacy fourth-amendment good-faith-exception government-surveillance probable-cause tax-evasion third-party-doctrine |
Whether the Fourth Amendment's third-party doctrine should be overruled, limited, or held inapplicable |
| 21-922 |
James Combs v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2021-12-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
fourth-amendment open-view-doctrine plain-view-doctrine pre-textual-search private-property vehicle-search warrantless-search |
Whether the Fourth Amendment's plain view and/or open view doctrines permit a police officer, uninvited and without a warrant, to enter upon private p… |
| 21-6682 |
Marcus L. Short v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
2021-12-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law fourth-amendment good-faith good-faith-exception judicial-review leon-standard probable-cause search-warrant united-states-v-leon |
Whether a reviewing court should ignore the Fourth Amendment analysis and go directly to a good faith analysis under United States v. Leon when an aff… |
| 21-6683 |
David M. Vines v. City of Black Diamond, Washington, et al. |
Washington |
2021-12-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arrest-without-warrant civil-rights constitutional-rights fourth-amendment free-speech police-misconduct warrantless-arrest warrantless-search whistleblower whistleblower-protection |
Whether the State of Washington and the police have decided an important question of Federal law, namely the Fourth Amendment, e.g. arrest without a W… |
| 21-898 |
Blake Conyers, et al. v. City of Chicago, Illinois |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-12-17 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment inventory-search municipal-policy property-rights property-seizure |
May a municipality, consistent with the Fourth and Fifth Amendments and pursuant to an explicit policy, destroy or sell property seized during the inv… |
| 21-901 |
Casondra Pollreis, on Behalf of Herself and Her Minor Children, W. Y. and S. Y. v. Lamont Marzolf |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-12-17 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response Waived |
children's-rights civil-rights constitutional-protections fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-expansion law-enforcement-conduct probable-cause search-and-seizure terry-v-ohio |
Does the Fourth Amendment permit the search and seizure without probable cause of two compliant children, handcuffed and at gunpoint, even after the c… |
| 21-6646 |
Pedro Alvarado v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-111 18-usc-924 borden-v-united-states consent-search criminal-conviction criminal-law fourth-amendment ruse-search statutory-interpretation violent-crime |
Whether Alvarado's conviction qualifies as a violent crime |
| 21-6599 |
Jeffrey Clinton Michalik v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights custodial-interrogation fifth-amendment fourth-amendment law-enforcement-seizure miranda-warnings seizure |
Does the holding in Torres v. Madrid require Miranda warnings before custodial interrogation? |
| 21-6615 |
Fabian I. Sanchez v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-12-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights detention fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure seizure |
Whether a person may be detained on a hunch after the officer's suspicions have been dispelled |
| 21-6619 |
Jeremiah Y. Nation v. Scott R. Frakes, Director, Nebraska Department of Correctional Services |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-12-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-jurisdiction certificate-of-appealability constitutional-violation evidentiary-hearing fourth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-process legal-review procedural-grounds procedural-review state-court state-court-petition |
Should a Certificate of Appealability be issued on a Fourth Amendment claim in a Habeas Corpus petition where there was a dispute in the U.S. District… |
| 21-6628 |
Frank McNabb v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-12-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment consent-search consent-to-search detention-extension fishing-expedition fourth-amendment official-coercion retroactive-forgiveness traffic-stop warrant-exception |
Whether consent to search retroactively forgives any and all violations by police prior to consent |
| 21-6600 |
Willis Wheeler v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-12-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split fourth-amendment key-insertion law-enforcement multi-unit-dwelling privacy probable-cause reasonable-expectation 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… |
| 21-874 |
Arthur O. Armstrong v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-12-14 |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection equal-protection-clause false-reports fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment official-discrimination search-and-seizure |
Whether respondents acted in a conspiracy to violate petitioner's constitutional rights |
| 21-6558 |
Keith Anthony Rosario v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2021-12-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
apparent-authority consent consent-search fourth-amendment law-enforcement reasonable-belief residence search warrant-requirement |
Does the apparent authority exception to the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement permit a police officer to reasonably believe a seventeen-year-old… |
| 21-6523 |
Edward Soybel v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-12-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
carpenter-v-united-states fourth-amendment internet-protocol ip-address pen-register privacy-expectation probable-cause reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search third-party-doctrine |
Whether the use of a pen register to identify internet protocol (IP) addresses is a Fourth Amendment search requiring a warrant |
| 21-6535 |
Jennifer Smith v. William Paul Nichols, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-12-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment bivens bivens-action civil-rights constitutional-injury due-process extraterritorial-warrant fourth-amendment monell search-and-seizure search-warrant section-1983 |
Does forgery, drug distribution, perjured affidavits, defective extraterritorial search warrants, improper execution of search warrants, coupled with … |
| 21-6546 |
Jorge Delgado-Rivera v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2021-12-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cell-phone-privacy constitutional-rights digital-privacy evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure text-messages |
Does the Fourth Amendment prevent the government from using a person's sent text messages against them when those messages are obtained through an unc… |
| 21-841 |
Michael Smallwood v. William Paul Nichols, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-12-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment government-agency government-liability liberty-interest search-and-seizure standing |
Can state and federal agencies use private entities as agents to commit unlawful search and seizure and deprivation of liberty interest to medical car… |
| 21-835 |
Otha Ray Flowers v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-12-06 |
Denied |
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4th-amendment criminal-procedure fourth-amendment high-crime-area illinois-v-wardlow law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion terry-stop terry-v-ohio |
Whether conduct that is consistent with either lawful or unlawful behavior, and in which law-abiding members of the general public routinely engage, c… |
| 21-6502 |
Bobby Griffin v. Connecticut |
Connecticut |
2021-12-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
coerced-confession coercive-interrogation constitutional-rights due-process exclusionary-rule false-confession fourth-amendment interrogation-tactics probable-cause warrantless-search |
Whether Griffin's constitutional rights were violated by the admission of his statement to police and the rifle and ammunition obtained from his home |
| 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 |
| 21-6436 |
Korey Stewart v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-11-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure speedy-trial |
Whether a reasonable law enforcement officer could have concluded that the evidence provided to the agents of the Drug Enforcement Administration cons… |
| 21-6449 |
Pizarro Thomas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment criminal-conduct criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement-conduct police-policy reasonable-suspicion terry-stop terry-v-ohio warrantless-seizure |
Was there reasonable suspicion for Terry stop? |
| 21-789 |
Casey Benton v. Mary Bradley, as Administrator of the Estate of Troy Robinson, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-11-29 |
Denied |
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clearly-established-law constitutional-rights deadly-force excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity taser-deployment tennessee-v-garner |
Whether a police officer is entitled to qualified immunity for deploying a taser to stop a fleeing person on top of an eight-foot wall |
| 21-770 |
Shelby Hawkins v. Johnny Banks, III |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-11-24 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights eighth-circuit excessive-force fourth-amendment police-conduct probable-cause qualified-immunity reasonable-force use-of-force |
Whether the use of force was reasonable |
| 21-6377 |
Anthony Harris v. J. Philip Morgan, Warden, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-11-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus probable-cause search-and-seizure warrantless-search |
Whether the court violated the petitioner's Fourth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment rights under the U.S. Constitution when the court denied the pet… |
| 21-6392 |
Janet Berry v. William Paul Nichols, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-11-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-usc-1983 4th-amendment bivens-claim civil-rights digital-privacy fourth-amendment medical-records search-and-seizure standing state-actors warrantless-search |
Where a BERT is created by the government accompanied with private entities acting as state actors under the color of law, via an invalid warrantless … |
| 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 |
| 21-6364 |
Kenneth R. Friend v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
18-usc-2518 authorization-defect dahda-v-united-states deputy-assistant-attorney-general deputy-attorney-general fourth-amendment good-faith-exception warrant-requirement wiretap-statute |
Does the good-faith-exception apply to wiretap-statute-violations? |
| 21-6368 |
Suzanne Elizabeth Wexler v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment investigative-detention miranda miranda-custody police-authority search-warrant terry-stop |
Whether Fourth Amendment reasonableness concerns have any bearing on a determination of custody under Miranda |
| 21-6370 |
Omil Cotto, aka Omil Gomez, aka Omil Alfredo Gomez v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-11-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment cell-phone-seizure cellphones criminal-procedure fourth-amendment overbreadth probable-cause road-rage search-and-seizure search-warrant warrant warrant-overbreadth |
Whether the search warrant was constitutionally overbroad in authorizing the seizure of 'any cellphones' in the house when officers had no reason to b… |
| 21-752 |
Rex Hammond v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-11-19 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
4th-amendment carpenter-v-united-states cell-site-location-information exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception real-time-tracking search warrant-requirement wireless-carrier |
Whether a government agent's direction to a wireless carrier to send a signal to a person's phone, so that the phone reveals the person's precise loca… |
| 21-6290 |
George Steven Burch v. Wisconsin |
Wisconsin |
2021-11-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
consent consent-search data-retention digital-privacy fourth-amendment law-enforcement search-and-seizure smartphone-data warrantless-search |
Whether the Fourth Amendment tolerates the government duplicating, retaining, and warrantlessly searching the entire digital contents of a smartphone … |
| 21-6304 |
Neng Por Yang v. Ann Marie Holland |
Minnesota |
2021-11-16 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
14th-amendment 4th-amendment due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment harassment-restraining-order judicial-jurisdiction pro-se |
Whether the Minnesota Court of Appeals decision to continue the enforcement of a fraudulent and pretentious state harassment restraining order to an i… |
| 21-6305 |
Eric Volk v. State Bar of California |
California |
2021-11-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights digital-evidence disciplinary-proceedings due-process evidence fourth-amendment law-enforcement legal-representation professional-conduct search-and-seizure warrant-requirement |
Can The Spate bar of CAIIFOCWA cJos2 . a Complaint an my BHerreo Ms. Lance Brown, Where rules ef profcfsyone| Condect, dnd ng Ave proces Whrk Ve oat l… |
| 21-715 |
In Re Jody Tremayne Wafer |
|
2021-11-15 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment constitutional-liberty criminal-justice drug-crime drug-policy due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus |
Is the incarceration of the petitioner for a marijuana-related offense a violation of their constitutional rights? |
| 21-6251 |
Jason Wattie Buzzard and Paul William Martin v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-investigation fourth-amendment police-questioning prolonged-detention reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop unlawful-detention |
Whether a police officer conducting a traffic stop unlawfully prolongs that stop, in violation of the Fourth Amendment, by asking the occupants of the… |
| 21-700 |
Keith Smith v. City of Chicago, Illinois, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-11-12 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
42-usc-1983 accrual-rule bail bail-conditions circuit-split civil-rights fourth-amendment legal-procedure pretrial-detention seizure seizure-definition |
Does a claim for wrongful pre-trial detention accrue upon favorable termination or release on bail? |
| 21-6223 |
Aaron Martin Mercado-Gracia v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-11-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment consent fourth-amendment police-questioning race racial-profiling reasonable-person reasonable-person-standard totality-of-circumstances traffic-stop |
Whether the person's race is a factor in determining if a person objectively believed he could refuse an officer's request to answer more questions af… |
| 21-6177 |
Richard Leroy Parker v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-11-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
and whether complying with that order is valid co causation civil-rights consent due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement medical-examiner seizure |
Whether a law enforcement officer's order to 'just kinda stay here' results in a seizure under the Fourth Amendment, and whether complying with that o… |
| 21-6186 |
Faruq Rose v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-11-04 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
circuit-court-of-appeals constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure warrantless-search |
Whether the majority opinion of the United States Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, which held that the petitioner had no reasonable expectation of pri… |
| 21-6150 |
Jacques S. Gholston v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-11-03 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-rights fourth-amendment illinois-v-caballes police-investigation rodriguez-v-united-states time-extension traffic-stop unreasonable-seizure |
Whether a traffic stop unreasonably prolonged beyond the time needed to address the purpose of the stop violates the Fourth Amendment regardless of wh… |
| 21-6154 |
Shawn Ford v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-11-03 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment apparent-authority consent-to-search criminal-procedure fourth-amendment reasonable-belief residence search-and-seizure third-party-consent |
Whether a third party's apparent authority to consent to a search of a criminal suspect's residence requires that the police reasonably believe that t… |
| 21-6158 |
Delilah Colarte v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-11-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment constitutional-limits fourth-amendment passenger-identification rodriguez-limits rodriguez-v-united-states seizure-duration traffic-stop warrant-check |
Whether law enforcement can require passengers to identify themselves during a traffic stop |
| 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 … |
| 21-6143 |
Stephen Cameron Zyszkiewicz v. California |
California |
2021-11-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights controlled-substances-act equal-protection first-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment freedom-of-religion marijuana-prohibition religious-freedom state-federal-conflict |
Whether there is a conflict of state and federal law with regards to marijuana/hashish and/or mescaline |
| 21-6125 |
Roberto Griego Jimenez v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-10-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
corroboration credibility criminal-informant fourth-amendment law-enforcement magistrate-warrant probable-cause quid-pro-quo reliability |
Did the trial court and Texas Court of Appeals err in their Fourth Amendment analysis? |
| 21-6109 |
Jackie Harris v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment judicial-authority probable-cause reasons-for-granting search-warrant statutory-interpretation waiver-of-rights |
when-lower-court-removes-waiver-and-assigns-counsel-for-appeal |
| 21-6117 |
Joshua Drake Howard v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
carpenter-v-united-states fourth-amendment gps-monitoring gps-tracking law-enforcement-monitoring location-data reasonable-expectation-of-privacy reasonable-expectation-privacy united-states-v-jones united-states-v-knotts warrantless-surveillance |
does extended, non-trespassory GPS monitoring that is quantifiably more invasive than a rudimentary beeper qualify as a Fourth Amendment search? |
| 21-617 |
Christopher N. Payne v. Jahal Taslimi, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-10-27 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment inmate-privacy medical-confidentiality penological-interests prejudice privacy qualified-immunity |
Do inmates have a constitutional right to privacy in their HIV status? |
| 21-6086 |
William Keith Watson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-10-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment conflicting-testimony credibility deputy-testimony due-process fourth-amendment stop-and-frisk supervisory-jurisdiction suppression-hearing sworn-deposition testimony |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in affirming the denial of the motion to suppress despite a deputy's conflicting testimony under oath |
| 21-6006 |
Cory Wayne Kilgore v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-10-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment address-connection appellate-review child-pornography criminal-procedure fourth-amendment prior-conviction probable-cause search-warrant |
Did the Tenth Circuit err in holding that the search warrant affidavit provided adequate basis for probable cause? |
| 21-6016 |
Zelda Ware v. City of Atlanta, Georgia, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-10-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity search-warrant state-agency |
Whether a court order directing a state agency to pick up a child is the functional equivalent of a search warrant |
| 21-5959 |
Darwin J. Fifield, Sr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-10-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights coerced-statement counsel-ineffectiveness due-process excessive-force fifth-amendment fourth-amendment involuntary-confession law-enforcement self-representation sixth-amendment |
Whether law enforcement's unprovoked excessive use of force during an arrest should invalidate as coerced by threat or force a Petitioner's later stat… |
| 21-5968 |
Timothy Stemen v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-10-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process evidence fifth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-counsel police-misconduct search-and-seizure self-incrimination |
Did law enforcement violate the petitioner's due process rights under the 14th Amendment regarding the recordings |
| 21-5976 |
Jude Joseph David Lovchik v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2021-10-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split criminal-investigation criminal-procedure dna-evidence dna-testing expectation-of-privacy forensic-evidence fourth-amendment search-and-seizure search-warrant |
Whether the police were required to obtain a search warrant before submitting trash items to a forensic lab to extract DNA and create a DNA profile fo… |
| 21-541 |
Travis Tuggle v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-10-13 |
Denied |
Amici (6) |
curtilage fourth-amendment home home-privacy law-enforcement privacy search search-and-seizure surveillance |
Whether long-term, continuous, and surreptitious video surveillance of a home and its curtilage constitutes a search under the Fourth Amendment |
| 21-532 |
Jacob Matthew Johnson v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-10-12 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
calls-for-service criminal-activity fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion warrantless-search |
Whether three or four unadorned 'calls for service' to an area can constitute a specific and articulable fact significantly associating said area with… |
| 21-533 |
Brad Martin, Individually and as an Employee of the Arizona Department of Public Safety, et al. v. Carlos Castro |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-10-12 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
clearly-established-law fourth-amendment k9-deployment law-enforcement qualified-immunity reasonable-force totality-of-circumstances use-of-force violent-crime |
when-law-enforcement-officer-deploys-k9-to-restrain-fleeing-suspect |
| 21-5924 |
In Re Jose Victor Hernandez-Cuellar |
|
2021-10-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment immigrant-status immigration judicial-misconduct sixth-amendment |
Does a immigrant in the United States of America, whether here legally with visa or illegally, receive Constitutionally guaranteed Rights? |
| 21-514 |
Robert Bello v. Rockland County, New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2021-10-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights due-process firearm-surrender fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment handgun-ownership mental-health property-rights |
Whether the Fourth Amendment is implicated where law enforcement refuses to release firearms surrendered for mental health reasons to a nonprohibited … |
| 21-5898 |
Ernest Gabriel Verdugo v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-10-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abandoned-address criminal-procedure fourth-amendment independent-access law-enforcement motel-room probable-cause residence residence-definition search-and-seizure |
Whether police officers establish probable cause that a motel room is a suspect's 'residence' when they learn that he has abandoned his reported addre… |
| 21-5902 |
Alhakka Campbell v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-10-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
cell-phone-search cell-phones digital-privacy electronic-data-seizure fourth-amendment law-enforcement-search particularity-requirement privacy search-and-seizure warrant-particularity warrant-requirements |
Whether a warrant that authorizes police to seize a smart phone and search it for 'all electronic data' is invalid because it is insufficiently partic… |
| 21-5904 |
Joseph Woods v. Donita McIntosh, Superintendent, Clinton Correctional Facility |
Second Circuit |
2021-10-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure due-process fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct search-and-seizure standing |
Can a court render a decision without first deciding on a question of law or fact requested by the petitioner? |
| 21-5839 |
Antonio Darnell Mays v. Tracy Johnson |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule false-documents false-evidence false-statements fourth-amendment fundamental-question probable-cause search-and-seizure warrantless-search |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals made its decisions on the basis of false statements, documents, and evidence, and whether the petitioner wa… |
| 21-5828 |
Brandon Aaron Thomas v. California |
California |
2021-09-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
apartment-search constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment gang-evidence illegal-search illegal-searches illegal-seizures motion-to-proceed-in-forma-pauperis seizure |
Whether the petitioner's Fourth Amendment rights were violated by a series of illegal searches and seizures that commenced as early as 2013, where all… |
| 21-5834 |
Mechele R. Parker v. Sara LaRosa, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2021-09-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights damages federal-cause-of-action fourth-amendment law-enforcement rico-act unlawful-search unlawful-searches-and-seizures |
What is the U.S. Supreme Court's Ruling On All Members To A Conspiracy? |
| 21-5819 |
Rahem Lipford v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-09-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
curtilage fourth-amendment home-privacy search-and-seizure trash-pull trespass |
Whether a trash pull which took place at Lipford's home, from a location where trash cans were not kept when they were put out for regular collection,… |
| 21-5823 |
Salvador Vasquez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-09-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment marijuana-decriminalization probable-cause search-and-seizure state-law state-marijuana-laws vehicle-search warrantless-search |
When a state has decriminalized marijuana possession and use, does evidence of marijuana use inside a car—combined with nonspecific indications that t… |
| 21-460 |
April Diane Myres v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-09-27 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission fourth-amendment probable-cause self-incrimination warrantless-search |
Whether the Fourth Amendment permits the Government to introduce testimony, based only on the defendant's not consenting to warrantless fingerprinting… |
| 21-5732 |
In Re Artoska Gillispie |
|
2021-09-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment cell-site-location-information fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance misidentification personal-location-information probable-cause suggestive-identification warrant |
has-prejudice-been-shown |
| 21-5768 |
Jeffrey William Forget v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-09-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
drug-interdiction fourth-amendment inventory-search k-9-unit passenger-seat-belt traffic-stop warrantless-search |
Whether the traffic stop was unlawfully extended |
| 21-5760 |
Anthony Auriemma v. Broomfield Municipal Court, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-09-22 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment illegal-searches illegal-trials inhumane-conditions judicial-misconduct retaliation |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights under the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Eleventh, and Fourteenth Amendments were violated thro… |
| 21-5736 |
Brandon Joshua Bailey v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-09-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment gps gps-tracking location-records probable-cause search search-and-seizure vehicle warrant-requirement |
Whether the government conducts a search under the Fourth Amendment when it accesses a vehicle's historical GPS location records |
| 21-5691 |
Juan Guzman Zuniga, Jr. v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule federal-courts fourth-amendment habeas-corpus probable-cause search-and-seizure standing warrantless-search |
Whether the denial of a writ of habeas corpus by the district court was proper |
| 21-5707 |
Jamaal Gittens v. Melissa T. Pavlack, Judge, Court of Common Pleas of Pennsylvania, Lehigh County |
Third Circuit |
2021-09-17 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
cell-phone-data fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence privacy reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure |
Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable … |
| 21-5679 |
Toye Tutis v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-09-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cell-site-simulator criminal-procedure fourth-amendment plea-agreement plea-bargaining privacy privacy-rights search-and-seizure wiretap wiretap-order |
Whether employment of a 'cell-site simulator' constituted a Fourth Amendment violation? |
| 21-410 |
Gregorio Gigliotti and Angelo Gigliotti v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-09-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
4th-amendment 4th-amendment-violation constitutional-standard criminal-investigation criminal-procedure foreign-law-enforcement fourth-amendment joint-investigation law-enforcement wiretapping |
Whether the Fourth Amendment is violated when foreign law enforcement officials engage in wiretapping at the behest of United States officials pursuan… |
| 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… |
| 21-5653 |
In Re Matthew Phillips |
|
2021-09-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure |
Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable searches and seizures |
| 21-5658 |
Elias G. Montalvo v. Isidro Baca, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-09-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-search criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment habeas-corpus jury-instructions lesser-included-offense motion-to-suppress open-murder voluntary-manslaughter |
Did the trial court commit reversible error by failing to instruct the jury on Voluntary Manslaughter as a lesser-included offense of Open Murder? |
| 21-391 |
Paul Alexander, aka David Paul Hayes v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-09-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-conflict circuit-split constitutional-search derivative-evidence exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fourth-circuit harmless-error suppression supreme-court-precedent |
Is the Fourth Circuit in violation of Supreme Court precedent and in conflict with other circuits when, in conducting a harmless error review, it inte… |
| 21-383 |
Wyoming v. William Thomas Mahaffy, V |
Wyoming |
2021-09-09 |
Denied |
|
constitutional-law de-minimis-extension duration-of-stop fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence police-inquiry reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop unrelated-questioning |
Did the Rodriguez Court's rejection of de minimis extensions to traffic stops abrogate or limit Johnson, thereby prohibiting officers from posing any … |
| 21-374 |
Steven Edward Struve v. Iowa |
Iowa |
2021-09-08 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
cellphone-use civil-rights fourth-amendment investigatory-stop law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion texting-while-driving traffic-stop |
Whether police officers have reasonable suspicion under the Fourth Amendment to initiate a traffic stop for briefly holding a cellphone |
| 21-5602 |
Charles E. Garza, Jr. v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
2021-09-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment constitutional-rights expectation-of-privacy fourth-amendment privacy probable-cause residence search-and-seizure vehicle-search warrant warrant-scope |
Whether petitioner had expectation of privacy in parked vehicle |
| 21-5617 |
Akube Wuromoni Ndoromo v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2021-09-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment amendment-protections civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment government-seizure |
Does the Federal Government have the authority to seize individuals' bank accounts? |
| 21-5568 |
Carl Anthony Wilson v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-09-03 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
blood-evidence blood-search constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence fourth-amendment jury-selection prosecutorial-misconduct retroactivity |
Was evidence favorable to the defendant excluded? |
| 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… |
| 21-5544 |
Thomas Charles Scott v. Stuart Sherman, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-09-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel probable-cause search-warrant sixth-amendment |
Were petitioner's rights under the Fourth and Sixth Amendments violated by trial counsel's failure to challenge a search warrant obtained via intentio… |
| 21-5552 |
Brian Green v. Clinton Perry, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-09-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-violation fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel jury-selection procedural-default sixth-amendment warrantless-search warrantless-search-and-seizure |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in holding that no constitutional violations in Green's trial |
| 21-308 |
Tim Sundy v. Friendship Pavilion Acquisition Company, LLC, et al. |
Georgia |
2021-08-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights court-record custody due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment |
Whether the willful refusal and/or failure of a court of record to maintain a complete record is a form of custody, depriving a litigant of due proces… |
| 21-292 |
Robert H. Healy v. Ledura Watkins |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-08-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-jurisdiction civil-rights constitutional-tort due-process fourth-amendment malicious-prosecution section-1983 statute-of-limitations |
Whether malicious prosecution is a cognizable tort for § 1983 suit |
| 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 |
| 21-5528 |
Gabriel Samar Martinez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-08-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
can give rise to reasonable suspicion to justify standing alone 4th-amendment 4th-amendment-jurisprudence anonymous-tip corroboration fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion seizure terry-stop vehicle-stop |
Whether an uncorroborated anonymous tip, standing alone, can give rise to reasonable suspicion to justify a seizure |
| 21-287 |
Benjamin Caleb Trott v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2021-08-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
anonymous-tip drunk-driving fourth-amendment reasonable-suspicion terry-stop vehicle-stop |
Whether the Fourth Amendment permits balancing drunk-driving risk against stop intrusiveness |
| 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… |
| 21-5456 |
Yarlin Garcia v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment criminal-procedure district-court evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment legal-standard motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure standard-of-review |
Whether the District Court erred by denying Mr. Garcia's Motion to Suppress? |
| 21-5467 |
Michael Denton v. Ron Haynes, Warden, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment habeas-corpus search-and-seizure sentencing |
Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in denying Petitioner's request for a certificate of appealability |
| 21-5433 |
Alex White v. California |
California |
2021-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights fourth-amendment law-enforcement mistake-of-law pretext pretext-stop reasonable-mistake traffic-stop vehicle-code vehicle-equipment |
Where police officers admitted that their equipment violation stop of the vehicle in which petitioner was a passenger was a pretext to conduct gang in… |
| 21-5389 |
Juan J. Martinez v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-08-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
admissible-evidence collateral-proceedings constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance probable-cause right-to-counsel search-and-seizure trial-counsel |
Whether the petitioner received ineffective assistance of trial counsel in excluding otherwise admissible evidence? |
| 21-5394 |
Michael Nathaniel Boyd v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-08-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process evidence-suppression false-evidence fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel search-and-seizure search-warrant |
Whether the court should grant certiorari, vacate the circuit's ruling, and demand further consideration in light of Strickland v. Washington and Napu… |
| 21-5379 |
Jerome Mack v. New York |
New York |
2021-08-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
carpenter-precedent carpenter-v-united-states cell-site-location-information fourth-amendment probable-cause suppression warrant warrantless-search |
Does expressing a finding of probable cause in a court order authorizing the acquisition of cell site information effectively make the court order a w… |
| 21-5385 |
Albert M. Kun v. State Bar of California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-08-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure constitutional-rights due-process excessive-fine fifth-amendment fourth-amendment state-bar timbs-standard timbs-v-indiana |
Whether the approximately $40,000 fine assessed by the State Bar is an excessive fine under Timbs v. Indiana 586 U.S.—(2019) for a $460-financial viol… |
| 21-5362 |
Robert Lee Crawford v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-08-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause due-process fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation law-enforcement-misconduct misrepresentation pretextual-stop seizure warrantless-search |
Is the Fourth Amendment violated by a warrantless off-site forced entry search of a gunsafe preceded by a warrantless seizure facilitated by officer m… |
| 21-5364 |
Tyrone Cammon v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-08-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment arrest-warrant civil-rights fourth-amendment minnesota-v-olson payton-v-new-york probable-cause protective-sweep search-and-seizure steagald-v-united-states third-party-residence warrantless-entry |
Whether Steagald v. United States protects an arrestee in a third party's residence |
| 21-5352 |
Vernon D. Nelson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-08-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
border-patrol circuit-split criminal-activity drug-offense fourth-amendment immigration-enforcement law-enforcement-authority search-and-seizure seizure |
Whether a Fourth Amendment violation occurs when Border Patrol agents seize a person solely on suspicion of a drug-related offense, with no suspicion … |
| 21-5360 |
Danta Omar Roberts v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-08-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure direct-appeal fourth-amendment fourth-circuit habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel legal-representation procedural-review standard-of-review trial-counsel |
Whether the Fourth Circuit erred by ruling that the record did not conclusively demonstrate any deficiencies in trial counsel's representation, and Mr… |
| 21-198 |
Anthony W. Knights v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-08-11 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
constitutional-analysis eleventh-circuit fourth-amendment free-to-leave free-to-leave-test race race-consideration reasonable-person reasonable-person-standard seizure |
Whether a court analyzing if a Fourth Amendment seizure has occurred is categorically barred from considering a person's race |
| 21-184 |
Kevin Byrd v. Ray Lamb |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-08-10 |
Denied |
Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
abbasi-standard bivens bivens-action circuit-split civil-rights federal-officer-liability federal-officials fourth-amendment judicial-remedy |
Under Abbasi, may line-level federal officers be sued for violating the Fourth Amendment? |
| 21-187 |
Hamdi Mohamud v. Heather Weyker |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-08-10 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Relisted (2) |
bivens bivens-remedy circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-violation fourth-amendment law-enforcement-overreach qualified-immunity ziglar-v-abbasi |
Whether a constitutional remedy is available against federal officers for individual instances of law enforcement overreach in violation of the Fourth… |
| 21-5323 |
Scott Trader v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-08-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
carpenter-v-united-states cell-phone-records fourth-amendment government-surveillance ip-address privacy privacy-rights search search-and-seizure warrantless-search |
Whether the Government conducts a search under the Fourth Amendment when it accesses historical I.P. address records for a mobile app that provide a c… |
| 21-5338 |
Michael Vincent Moore v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-08-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights dna-evidence due-process evidence-admissibility fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment mistrial probable-cause prosecutorial-misconduct trial-procedure |
Whether the prosecutor's submission of an affidavit for probable cause listing a tan animal hair found in a wicker trunk, when the DNA report received… |
| 21-5325 |
Raul Adrian Torres v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arrestee criminal-procedure fourth-amendment handcuffs law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure search-incident-to-arrest secured |
Whether a search of a backpack or other bag that was being carried by an arrestee is permissible as a search incident to arrest even after officers ha… |
| 21-5328 |
James Robert Dowty v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
crime-scene-search criminal-procedure custody-testimony due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment government-witnesses judicial-bias police-procedure sequestration |
Whether the District Court violated the Fourteenth Amendment right to due process of law |
| 21-175 |
P. Z. v. New Jersey |
New Jersey |
2021-08-06 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
constitutional-rights due-process firearm-possession fourth-amendment heller mcdonald public-safety scrutiny-level second-amendment |
What is the proper level of scrutiny for the Second Amendment right to possess firearms in the home? |
| 21-5321 |
Jerome Kieffer v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-08-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cell-phone-privacy civil-rights constitutional-procedure criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech government-seizure standing |
Whether the unconstitutionally vague language of 18 USC 1001 applies to 18 USC 1343(a)(1) |
| 21-5287 |
Cherosco Brewer v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-08-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights fourth-amendment reasonable-suspicion rodriguez-v-united-states terry-v-ohio traffic-stop |
Whether a traffic stop that is otherwise lawful fails the duration test of Rodriguez v. United States and is unconstitutionally prolonged, even if the… |
| 21-5289 |
Gregory Moore, Individually, and on Behalf of J. M., et al. v. County of Orange, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-08-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
child-seizure civil-rights due-process federal-funds fourth-amendment fraud res-judicata rooker-feldman standing warrant-requirement |
Whether Rooker-Feldman should be uniformly applied across federal districts |
| 21-147 |
Erik Egbert v. Robert Boule |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-08-03 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (21)Relisted (2) |
bivens bivens-doctrine civil-rights constitutional-damages federal-officer-liability first-amendment first-amendment-retaliation fourth-amendment immigration immigration-enforcement reconsider-bivens |
Whether a Bivens cause of action exists for First Amendment retaliation |
| 21-5283 |
Richard Todd Haas v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-08-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
fourth-amendment franks-hearing law-enforcement materiality materiality-analysis probable-cause recklessness search-and-seizure search-warrant |
Did the Fourth Circuit err in refusing to engage in a materiality analysis of the information omitted from the affidavits to determine whether the omi… |
| 21-5265 |
Terry Reed v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-07-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment affidavit criminal-procedure fourth-amendment good-faith-doctrine good-faith-exception probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-exception warrant-requirement |
Whether the good faith exception to the warrant requirement extends so far as to excuse an officer's reliance upon an affidavit he drafted with the on… |
| 21-5223 |
Donnell Bledsoe v. CBS Television Network, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-07-28 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-rights content-moderation copyright-infringement data-collection digital-privacy fair-use fourth-amendment intellectual-property privacy-policy social-media user-consent |
Whether the plaintiff's copyright and other intellectual property rights were violated by the defendants' unauthorized use of the plaintiff's content … |
| 21-5227 |
Sergio Bahena v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2021-07-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review arrest-warrant civil-rights constitutional-law due-process fourth-amendment home-search investigative-alerts search-and-seizure |
Did the Appellate Court of Illinois violate Petitioners Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, by denying his petition due to the differentiation … |
| 21-5224 |
Julian Terence Martin, Jr. v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure |
Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable searches and seizures |
| 21-5163 |
Gregory Scott Stephen v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-07-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography criminal-procedure eighth-circuit fourth-amendment government-agent private-citizen search-and-seizure search-warrant sentencing-guidelines standing |
Was the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit's conclusion that a private citizen can never be established as a government agent absen… |
| 21-5137 |
Samantha Delane Rajapakse v. Credit Acceptance Corporation, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights comprehensive-consumer-credit-reporting-act consumer-protection credit-reporting due-process fair-billing-act fair-credit-reporting fair-credit-reporting-act fourth-amendment magnuson-moss-act repossession sixth-circuit-jurisdiction |
Does the Sixth Circuit have the authority and jurisdiction to astray from the Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court to affirm the District Court judg… |
| 21-42 |
Sylvia Black v. Peace Officer Christine Vitello, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2021-07-13 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment illegal-entry judicial-authorization law-enforcement-misconduct search-and-seizure standing warrant-forgery |
Whether peace officers violated the plaintiffs' Fourth Amendment rights by forging a judge's signature on a warrant to enter the plaintiffs' premises … |
| 21-5078 |
James Michael Johnson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-07-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment government-overreach personal-property search-and-seizure |
Whether the government's warrantless seizure and indefinite retention of a person's personal property violates the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on u… |
| 21-16 |
Robert Paul Magtulis Cledera v. United States, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment bivens civil-rights constitutional-law due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement reasonable-expectation-of-privacy redressability search-and-seizure standing |
Does a Petitioner need to be charged with a crime and arrested for him to have Locus Standi |
| 21-5027 |
Shane LaGrange v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-07-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court constitutional-rights exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure law-enforcement police-conduct reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop |
Whether the Fourth Amendment permits reasonable suspicion for a traffic stop based on facts the officers did not believe created reasonable suspicion |
| 21-5038 |
Donnell Bledsoe v. Stockton Police Department, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-07-07 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process excessive-force exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment police-misconduct qualified-immunity search-and-seizure section-1983 |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment and 42 U.S.C. § 1983 prohibit law enforcement officers from using excessive force against individuals who are handcuf… |
| 21-1 |
Shilo Abell v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-07-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment mandatory-victim-restitution-act marital-property pension-rights |
Whether Congress intended to deprive married spouses of rights to their husband's pensions which are afforded to divorced spouses under Massachusetts … |
| 21-5022 |
Sheron Gabriel Terrell v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
due-process fourth-amendment franks-hearing franks-v-delaware ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel probable-cause suppression-hearing warrant-affidavit |
Did Terrell make a substantial preliminary showing that the omissions made by Affiant from his warrant affidavit were recklessness by the proof of omi… |
| 21-5008 |
Brittany Crownhart v. Anne Magill Collins |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-07-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process federal-procedure fourth-amendment judicial-review property-rights search-and-seizure statutory-interpretation warrantless-search |
Whether the Fourth Amendment was violated by the warrantless search and seizure of the petitioner's property |
| 20-8472 |
Rocky Leandro Orosco v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-07-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-suppress warrantless-search |
Is Mr. Orosco entitled to a hearing to challenge the 'obtainment' of his cell phone? |
| 20-8445 |
Christian Kalen Crawford v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-06-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment blood-draw criminal-procedure detention due-process fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-stop |
Whether law enforcement officers may extend the detention of a driver involved in an accident resulting in the death of another person in order to wai… |
| 20-8418 |
Bruce Harland Butler v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2021-06-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment carpenter-v-united-states cell-site-location-information civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel retroactivity standing |
Whether the lower court's decision was contrary to clearly established United States Supreme Court precedent? |
| 20-8421 |
Braulio Perez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-06-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment 911-call armed-career-criminal body-camera body-camera-footage constitutional-rights'\n'Issue 4 criminal-history criminal-law criminal-procedure criminal-procedure'\n'Issue 2 criminal-procedure'\n'Issue 3 criminal-procedure'\n'Issue 4 enhancement evidence fair-trial fifth-amendment firearm fourth-amendment motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure self-incrimination sentencing sentencing-enhancement statements statutory-interpretation witness witness-testimony |
Issue 1 |
| 20-1796 |
Justin Strolis v. Lucas Heise |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-06-24 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights co-defendant-identification fourth-amendment malicious-prosecution probable-cause qualified-immunity summary-judgment witness-identification |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in applying a presumption of credibility to a co-defendant's identification of the plaintiff in a malicious prosecu… |
| 20-1784 |
Ohio v. Daniel Deuble |
Ohio |
2021-06-23 |
Denied |
|
4th-amendment digital-communication fourth-amendment identity-corroboration law-enforcement law-enforcement-sting probable-cause search-and-seizure social-media |
Whether probable cause existed to detain a person suspected of soliciting sexual activity from a law enforcement officer posing as a minor |
| 20-1788 |
City of New York, New York, et al. v. Jarrett Frost |
Second Circuit |
2021-06-23 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence-fabrication fourth-amendment pretrial-detention probable-cause section-1983 |
Whether a § 1983 plaintiff may pursue a due process-based claim challenging a pretrial detention supported by probable cause, independent of the dispu… |
| 20-8411 |
C. T. v. Orange County Social Services Agency |
California |
2021-06-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment 6th-amendment child-endangerment child-welfare civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment medical-privacy medical-treatment parental-rights sixth-amendment |
Does the act of forcefully administering psychotropic medications to a child before trial violate the IV and VI amendments in the absence of a court o… |
| 20-8383 |
Franklin Antonio Rios v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-06-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-history criminal-history-category drug-conspiracy firearm-charges first-step-act fourth-amendment mandatory-minimum mandatory-minimum-sentences offense-level sentencing-guidelines |
Whether the district court erred in raising the petitioner's criminal-history-category and offense-level to achieve a comparable sentence after the Fi… |
| 20-8352 |
David Alexandre v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-06-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment circuit-split criminal-activity criminal-procedure fourth-amendment nexus-requirement probable-cause search-warrant supreme-court |
Did the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit erroneously hold the government was not required to establish probable cause to the belie… |
| 20-8366 |
Larry Dean Garrett, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-06-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
coercion confrontation-clause criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule false-statements fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment jury-bias plea-negotiation search-and-seizure sixth-amendment |
Did the district court err by suppressing evidence illegally seized with a warrant obtained by the use of false statements violating Petitioners' Four… |
| 20-8315 |
Joel Barcelona v. M. Escotto Rodriguez, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-06-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights deadly-gas due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement mental-health petitioner use-of-force |
Whether the respondents, M. Rodriguez, et al., used excessive force by using a deadly gas spray to deter petitioner, which violated petitioner's const… |
| 20-8335 |
George A. Christian, Jr. v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2021-06-16 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment search-and-seizure standing |
Whether the lower court erred in its application of the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable searches and seizures |
| 20-1745 |
Richard Sylvester v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-06-16 |
Denied |
|
4th-amendment burden-of-proof community-caretaking fourth-amendment investigatory-motive law-enforcement-procedure police-policy probable-cause subjective-intent totality-of-circumstances vehicle-impound vehicle-impoundment |
whether-vehicle-impound-complies-with-4th-amendment |
| 20-1747 |
Erich Sorenson v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2021-06-16 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response Waived |
4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-protection curtilage due-process fourth-amendment home-privacy law-enforcement search-and-seizure standing warrantless-arrest |
Whether the hallway area immediately adjacent to an apartment, in a private multi-family dwelling that is not open to the public, is part of the curti… |
| 20-1755 |
Dean Hotop, et al. v. City of San Jose, California |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-06-16 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
business-records compelled-disclosure criminal-sanctions due-process fourth-amendment judicial-review landlord landlord-rights search search-and-seizure |
Does City of San Jose Ordinance 30032 require a landlord to produce and transmit business records to the City under threat of criminal sanctions witho… |
| 20-1737 |
Luke Noel Wilson v. California |
California |
2021-06-15 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
electronic-search email email-scanning fourth-amendment google law-enforcement private-search-doctrine search-warrant warrant-requirement |
Does the private search doctrine place Google's automated electronic scan of all email on its system outside the protection of the Fourth Amendment fo… |
| 20-8321 |
William Mixton v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2021-06-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-subpoena carpenter-exception carpenter-v-united-states fourth-amendment katz-standard katz-v-united-states positive-law-model privacy-expectation reasonable-expectation-of-privacy third-party-doctrine |
Should the third-party doctrine be overruled as inconsistent with Katz v. United States? |
| 20-8303 |
Dong Sheng Huang v. Jalea Joechelle Hill, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-06-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights false-imprisonment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment malicious-prosecution section-1983 warrantless-arrest |
Whether fourth amendment and fourteenth amendment claims were dismissed wrongly at Rule 12(b)(6) motion stage |
| 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… |
| 20-8243 |
Spencer Richard Andrews v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2021-06-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment appellate-review consent consent-scope digital-privacy fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel privacy-rights search-and-seizure smartphone smartphone-search |
Did the Michigan court of appeals erroneously expand the defendant's consent to retrieve a telephone number from his smartphone into a consent to sear… |
| 20-1685 |
Scott Fulford, et al. v. George Wingate |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-06-04 |
Denied |
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civil-liability fourth-amendment law-enforcement-training qualified-immunity reasonable-suspicion terry-stop totality-of-circumstances totality-of-the-circumstances |
Whether the Fourth Amendment requires that seemingly innocent factors be eliminated from the totality of the circumstances analysis for a Terry stop, … |
| 20-8212 |
Dany L. Brandao v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-06-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure fourth-amendment home home-search narcotics narcotics-prosecution probable-cause prosecution search search-and-seizure vehicle |
Should the Fourth Amendment prohibit a search of a person's home when all drug sales occurred elsewhere? |
| 20-8179 |
Chad Alan Soderman v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-06-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation investigative-detention police-investigation reasonable-suspicion rodriguez-standard rodriguez-v-united-states supervisory-power traffic-stop |
Whether the Fourth Amendment was violated under Rodriguez v. United States, 575 U.S. 348 (2015) where individual acts by police to investigate a crime… |
| 20-8180 |
Benjamin Ross v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-06-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment 4th-amendment-violation fourth-amendment pretextual-stop probable-cause reasonable-suspicion rodriguez-precedent rodriguez-v-united-states traffic-stop |
Whether the Fourth Amendment requires reasonable, articulable suspicion and probable cause to justify a pretextual traffic stop? |
| 20-1668 |
City of Tahlequah, Oklahoma, et al. v. Austin P. Bond, as Special Administrator of the Estate of Dominic F. Rollice, Deceased |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-06-01 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (6)Relisted (4) |
deadly-force fourth-amendment intoxicated-individual officer-safety police-conduct qualified-immunity seizure use-of-force |
Whether use-of-force that is reasonable can nonetheless violate the Fourth-Amendment |
| 20-1670 |
William J. Golz v. Marcia L. Fudge, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-06-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
deed-of-trust equitable-estoppel federal-housing-administration fha-loan forcible-entry foreclosure fourth-amendment housing-law mortgage-foreclosure standing |
Whether a Federal Housing Administration (FHA) loan is an important national policy which gives license to a lender's forcible entry and seizure of an… |
| 20-8160 |
Tamaran Edward Bontemps v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-stop reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-stop terry-v-ohio |
Whether a sweatshirt bulge alone gives an objectively reasonable and particularized suspicion to stop a person under Terry v. Ohio |
| 20-8165 |
Mitchell N. Nicholas v. Territory of the Virgin Islands |
Third Circuit |
2021-05-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process exclusionary-rule federal-investigation fourth-amendment grand-jury miscarriage-of-justice standing unreasonable-searches |
Whether the federal courts have jurisdiction to issue grand jury subpoenas when the petitioner was never the subject of a federal investigation |
| 20-8156 |
Ricardo Renteria v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-rights fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion specific-facts statute-violation traffic-stop |
Whether reasonable suspicion to support a traffic stop under the Fourth Amendment requires a showing of specific facts that the suspect violated the r… |
| 20-1646 |
Steven K. Stanley v. Angel Quiros, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Correction |
Connecticut |
2021-05-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment criminal-procedure evidence fourth-amendment habeas-corpus phone-number-obfuscation privacy privacy-expectation res-judicata search-and-seizure |
Does the intentional use of the *67 feature create a justifiable expectation of privacy? |
| 20-8127 |
Guillermo Martinez-Torres v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-05-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment admissibility-of-evidence burden-of-proof circuit-split evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment illegal-search suppression-of-evidence |
Does the defendant have the burden to prove the violation was the 'but for' cause of the subsequent discovery of contraband or is it the prosecution's… |
| 20-8129 |
Joseph Miller v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-05-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation certificate-of-appealability constitutional-right constitutional-rights direct-appeal evidentiary-hearing fifth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel slack-v-mcdaniel |
Whether an attorney's failure to advise a client of the adverse ramifications of raising certain claims on direct appeal constitutes a substantial den… |
| 20-8110 |
Lawrence Edward Jackson, Jr. v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2021-05-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection excessive-fines fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure takings wrongful-conviction |
Whether the imposition of mandatory fees on the basis of a wrongful conviction violates the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments |
| 20-8112 |
Richard Knider Jackson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-05-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
due-process fourth-amendment indefinite-retention personal-property search-and-seizure warrantless-seizure |
Whether the government's warrantless seizure and indefinite retention of a person's personal property violates the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on u… |
| 20-8083 |
Derrick Baer v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-05-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation franks-hearing law-enforcement-delay search-and-seizure supreme-court-precedent |
Whether the decision of the Third Circuit denying petitioner's request for a Franks hearing conflicts with the United States Supreme Court's decision … |
| 20-8089 |
Emem Ufot Udoh v. Minnesota Department of Human Services, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-05-20 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights davis-v-monroe-county-board due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment haines-v-kerner municipal-liability pro-se-litigation qualified-immunity standing |
Whether pro-se-litigants are held to the same legal standards as counseled-litigants |
| 20-1628 |
Daniel Tekle v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-05-20 |
Denied |
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4th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure void-judgment warrantless-search |
Question not identified |
| 20-1629 |
George Wingate v. Scott Fulford, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-05-20 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-arrest due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-misconduct qualified-immunity standing |
Whether the Court should permit the qualified immunity defense to extend to a court-invented, hypothetical and demonstrably counter-factual justificat… |
| 20-1607 |
Michigan v. Anthony Michael Owen |
Michigan |
2021-05-19 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment heien-standard legal-uncertainty police-conduct reasonable-mistake-of-law speed-limit traffic-stop |
Should this Court resolve a split on whether Heien v. North Carolina applies to situations where the law is clear but the circumstances make applying … |
| 20-8057 |
Raymond Idemudia Aigbekaen v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-05-18 |
Rehearing |
Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
border-search civil-rights electronic-devices electronic-privacy forensic-examination fourth-amendment reasonable-suspicion warrantless-search |
Whether a warrantless forensic search at a border by agent of the United States of electronic cell phones and computers, lacking a reasonable suspicio… |
| 20-8065 |
Arthur Greaves v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-05-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment miranda-doctrine miranda-warning new-york-v-quarles private-property public-safety-exception search-and-seizure |
Does the public safety exception to the Miranda doctrine as set forth in New York v. Quarles, apply to private property, simply based on allegations t… |
| 20-8027 |
Anthony G. Bryant v. Executive Office for United States Attorneys |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-05-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure fourth-amendment search-and-seizure standing |
Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable searches and seizures |
| 20-8029 |
Steven D. Warren, Jr. v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2021-05-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation civil-rights drug-trafficking due-process fourth-amendment nexus probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant warrant warrant-application |
Whether a search warrant application that fails to provide any particularized nexus between an individual's alleged drug trafficking activity and the … |
| 20-8030 |
Reginald Tremaine Wilson v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2021-05-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-asset-forfeiture civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourth-amendment property-rights seizure sentencing standing |
Whether the court can compare Wilson's vagueness on an element to suggest possession with intent to sell and deliver |
| 20-8014 |
Kelvin Baez v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-05-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process evidence-admission exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery inevitable-discovery-doctrine police-procedure search-and-seizure unlawful-search warrant-requirement |
Did the Court of Appeals err in expanding the inevitable-discovery doctrine to affirm the admission of evidence obtained during an unlawful search? |
| 20-7996 |
Roland Leroy Reese-Bey v. Juan Guerrero, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment jurisdiction right-to-travel summary-judgment traffic-stop |
Where jurisdiction was questioned and never established, in an arrest and prosecution resulting from an alleged and unwarranted traffic stop with viol… |
| 20-7979 |
Talmadge Adib Talib v. Juan Guerrero, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment jurisdiction jurisdiction-challenge summary-judgment |
Where jurisdiction was never established, in an arrest and prosecution resulting from an alleged and unwarranted traffic stop with violations of right… |
| 20-1551 |
Arthur O. Armstrong v. North Carolina, et al. |
North Carolina |
2021-05-10 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights conspiracy due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment land-encroachment land-use property-rights takings |
Whether respondents transgressed the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments |
| 20-1558 |
Vinay Yadav v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-05-10 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights conspiracy-against-civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence-tampering fourth-amendment ninth-amendment sixth-amendment thirteenth-amendment |
Whether COA/Texas-courts contravene the U.S. Constitution and Federal laws |
| 20-1539 |
Daniel Rivas-Villegas v. Ramon Cortesluna |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-05-05 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (1)Relisted (3) |
civil-rights constitutional-violation excessive-force fourth-amendment graham-v-connor law-enforcement ninth-circuit plumhoff-v-rickard qualified-immunity supreme-court-precedent |
Did the Ninth Circuit depart from this Court's decisions in Graham v. Connor and Plumhoff v. Rickard in denying qualified immunity to petitioner based… |
| 20-7914 |
Danny Ray Williams v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-05-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment cell-phone cell-phone-search consent consent-search custodial-interrogation digital-privacy forensic-evidence forensic-search fourth-amendment search-and-seizure |
Whether an officer must expressly state that he is seeking consent for a forensic, not just a manual, search of a cell phone |
| 20-7896 |
John Matthew Gayden, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-04-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
actual-prejudice criminal-investigation due-process fourth-amendment pre-indictment-delay prescription-drug-monitoring prescription-drug-monitoring-program search-and-seizure warrant-requirement warrantless-search |
Whether the Fourth Amendment permits a law enforcement officer to search the Florida Prescription Drug Monitoring Program without a warrant |
| 20-1505 |
Zainab Merchant, et al. v. Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. |
First Circuit |
2021-04-28 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
border-search border-searches digital-contraband electronic-device electronic-devices fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-suspicion warrant-requirement |
Does the Fourth Amendment require that searches of electronic devices at the U.S. border be conducted pursuant to a warrant based on probable cause, o… |
| 20-7821 |
In Re John A. Toth |
|
2021-04-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-counsel standing unlawful-detention |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims alleging violations of their constitutional rights |
| 20-7827 |
Glen D. Plourde v. Stephen C. Bellavia |
Maine |
2021-04-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment equal-protection fifth-amendment fourth-amendment judicial-bias police-misconduct torture |
Whether the petitioner's Fifth Amendment rights to substantive and procedural due process were infringed upon due to the father-son relationship betwe… |
| 20-7799 |
Susan W. Vaughan v. Shannon Foltz, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-04-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process familial-association family-law fourth-amendment liberty-deprivation qualified-immunity standing state-statute |
Is Troxel v Granville correctly applied to a case that has nothing to do with grandparents' visitation requests, but is used, nevertheless, as grounds… |
| 20-1471 |
Jonathan Lozada, Deputy Sheriff, in His Individual Capacity v. Dudley Teel, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Susan Teel |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-04-20 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment graham-factors law-enforcement obvious-factual-clarity-rule qualified-immunity use-of-force |
Whether the Graham factors apply to a law enforcement officer's use of force during a call for service that does not involve commission of a crime |
| 20-1441 |
George Beecher v. New Jersey |
New Jersey |
2021-04-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment fourth-amendment patient-privacy patient-records prescription-monitoring privacy-expectation reasonable-expectation-of-privacy reasonable-search state-pdmp-laws third-party-doctrine |
Did the New Jersey Supreme Court err in adopting a ruling that a defendant prescriber does not have a reasonable expectation of privacy in patient pre… |
| 20-1442 |
Andrew Stoveken v. New Jersey |
New Jersey |
2021-04-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
fourth-amendment prescription-records privacy-rights state-database statutory-mandate third-party-doctrine warrant-requirement |
Does the Third Party Doctrine exempt pharmacy prescription records contained in a State-run database from the warrant requirement of the Fourth Amendm… |
| 20-1443 |
Candace Aguilera, aka Candace Sgaggio v. City of Colorado Springs, Colorado, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-04-15 |
Denied |
|
4th-amendment civil-rights fourth-amendment free-exercise implied-license indigenous-rights private-property search-and-seizure spiritual-property standing |
How long can government agents stay on private spiritual property after implied license is revoked? |
| 20-1445 |
Nathan Ray Foreman v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-04-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
affidavit computer-evidence criminal-procedure evidence-seizure fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure surveillance-equipment warrant-application |
Whether the decision of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals constitutes an unreasonable application of this Court's clearly established precedent, by … |
| 20-1438 |
Tina Cates v. Bruce D. Stroud, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-04-14 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights constitutional-law courts-of-appeals due-process fourth-amendment legal-doctrine precedent qualified-immunity search-and-seizure standing |
Whether the unanimous conclusion of multiple other courts of appeals suffices to clearly establish the law for purposes of qualified immunity |
| 20-7716 |
Milton Mosley v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-04-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-stop terry-v-ohio |
Whether the lower courts' finding that suspicion of criminal activity was not 'specific, individualized, and reasonable' is contrary to Terry v. Ohio |
| 20-7703 |
Gary Lamont Robinson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-04-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-court-procedure criminal-sentencing district-court fourth-amendment fourth-circuit individualized-assessment judicial-discretion procedural-reasonableness sentencing-review |
Whether the Fourth Circuit's decision is in conflict with the Court's decision in Gall v. United States |
| 20-7704 |
Daghrib Shaheed, et al. v. Stephan Kroski, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2021-04-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment civil-entry-order civil-rights family-court fourth-amendment law-enforcement-procedure new-york-state probable-cause qualified-immunity search-warrant |
Is a civil New York State Family Court Investigation Entry Order the equivalent of a search warrant? |
| 20-7651 |
Gonzalo Curiel v. California |
California |
2021-04-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery inevitable-discovery-rule police-misconduct probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-requirement warrantless-search |
Whether the prosecution must prove that the alleged alternative police conduct was an ongoing legitimate investigation simultaneously occurring at the… |
| 20-7626 |
Robert Frank Miller v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2021-04-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review appellate-standards criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-discretion probable-cause waiver |
Whether certiorari should be granted to clarify that probable cause must be based on actual facts, rather than mere assumptions interposed by the cour… |
| 20-7643 |
Nafis Antuan Faison v. John E. Wetzel, Secretary, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2021-04-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
28-usc-2254 arrest-warrant constitutional-standard expectation-of-privacy fourth-amendment habeas habeas-corpus minnesota-v-olson probable-cause standing third-party-residence |
Whether the federal court impermissibly added an element to the expectation-of-privacy standard for a third-party overnight guest, in violation of 28 … |
| 20-7612 |
Michael D. Johnson v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2021-03-31 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response WaivedIFP |
actual-suspicion circuit-split criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement objective-standard reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-frisk terry-stop |
May a court uphold a Terry frisk where the frisking officer did not actually suspect that the detainee was armed and dangerous? |
| 20-1362 |
Davdrin Goffin v. Robbie K. Ashcraft, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-03-30 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights deadly-force excessive-force fourth-amendment police-shooting probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure tennessee-v-garner use-of-force |
Is an officer entitled to qualified immunity for shooting an unarmed fleeing suspect? |
| 20-1366 |
Jesus Gomez-Arzate v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-03-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment attenuation civil-rights consensual-encounter consent consent-to-search due-process fourth-amendment standing traffic-detention unlawful-extension |
Whether a continued contact can be deemed a 'consensual encounter' emanating immediately from a period of unlawfully extended detention |
| 20-1358 |
Arthur O. Armstrong v. United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-03-26 |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-violation deprivation-of-liberty detention due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment |
Whether appellees acted in a conspiracy to deprive appellant of liberty or property without due process of law |
| 20-7574 |
Robert K. Rymer v. United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-03-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
6th-amendment brady-violation civil-rights confrontation-clause due-process fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment |
Whether Rymer's state trial violated his right to effective assistance of counsel and due process under the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments |
| 20-7550 |
John Roosevelt Baccus v. South Carolina Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-03-24 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment search-and-seizure standing |
Whether the court below erred in dismissing Petitioner's claims without adjudicating the merits |
| 20-1336 |
Denis Quinette v. Dilmus Reed, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-03-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process fourth-amendment inmate-abuse qualified-immunity supervisory-liability |
Whether jail command supervisors are entitled to qualified immunity for repeated supervisory failures resulting in a foreseeable, inevitable, and unco… |
| 20-1340 |
Amanuel Gebrengus Atsemet v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-03-24 |
Denied |
|
circuit-court-split constitutional-right-to-travel constitutional-rights fourth-amendment license-plate-profiling marijuana-legalization reasonable-suspicion right-to-travel totality-of-circumstances |
When applying the 'totality of the circumstances' test for reasonable suspicion in a state that has criminalized marijuana, does the consideration of … |
| 20-1324 |
Charles McManemy v. Bruce Tierney, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-03-23 |
Dismissed |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-procedure civil-rights clearly-established-law due-process eighth-circuit excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement-conduct qualified-immunity standing |
Is the test for clearly established law being properly applied within the Eighth Circuit? |
| 20-7538 |
Frankie Lewis Jones v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2021-03-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment interstate-agreement personal-detention probable-cause search-and-seizure sentencing statute-of-limitations warrantless-search |
Does FH petitioner receive dismissal on a conviction and sentence for violation of interstate agreement on detainers |
| 20-7542 |
Calvin Lewis Carter, III v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2021-03-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
court-procedure criminal-procedure defendant-rights evidentiary-rulings fourth-amendment judicial-interpretation legal-challenge privacy procedural-rules search seizure standing |
Whether the petitioner's observation of 'by' char' from outside a residential building violates the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on unreasonable sea… |
| 20-7524 |
Mathew Ryan Byrd v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-03-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process federal-sentencing fourth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-review parolee probationer search-and-seizure |
Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits the warrantless search and seizure of a person's home and personal effects based solely on the person's status … |
| 20-1319 |
Victor Manuel Solorzano v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-03-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment judicial-integrity judicial-review plain-error search-and-seizure unreasonable-search |
whether-the-fifth-circuit-court-of-appeals-erred-in-its-plain-error-analysis |
| 20-1299 |
Eric S. Clark v. City of Williamsburg, Kansas |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-03-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
castle curtilage fourth-amendment general-warrant home implied-license law-enforcement physical-intrusion search search-and-seizure warrant-requirement |
Should the court adopt the original meaning of the Fourth Amendment by holding that a search of a home(castle) is unreasonable when the implied licens… |
| 20-7503 |
Mark Randall Jones v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-03-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation gut-feeling mail-chute post-office warrantless-search warrantless-seizure |
Whether the Warrantless Seizure of Packages from the Mail Chute at the U.S. Post Office Based on Nothing More than a 'Gut Feeling' Violates the Fourth… |
| 20-7512 |
Forrest R. Cox, III v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
2021-03-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
case-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure federal-statute fourth-amendment good-faith-doctrine immutable-evidence independent-source-doctrine search-warrant |
Whether the Nebraska Supreme Court erred in applying the good-faith doctrine to a search warrant executed after the federal statute and relevant case … |
| 20-7464 |
Stephen D. Long v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2021-03-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment anonymous-informant criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause search-warrant standing totality-of-the-circumstances |
Can a search warrant issue for a private residence based solely on the uncorroborated statement of an anonymous citizen informant? |
| 20-7482 |
Lavellous Purcell v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-03-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
electronic-data-privacy federal-rules-of-evidence fourth-amendment general-warrants internet-privacy interstate-commerce mann-act particularity-requirement probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant |
Whether a search warrant ordering Facebook to hand over the defendant's entire account to law enforcement for review, without limiting either Facebook… |
| 20-1280 |
Joseph Cotropia v. Mary Chapman |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-03-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-law fair-warning fourth-amendment government-immunity per-se-unreasonable probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure warrantless-search warrantless-searches |
Whether the presumption that warrantless searches are per se unreasonable is so obvious a violation of the Fourth Amendment that the presumption gives… |
| 20-7444 |
Toddrey Bruce v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-03-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
anonymous-911-call circuit-split fourth-amendment high-crime-area law-enforcement navarette-v-california probable-cause reasonable-suspicion second-amendment traffic-stop |
Whether the 'absence of additional suspicious conduct' can dispel reasonable suspicion of unlawful gun use |
| 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? |
| 20-7436 |
Frederick Dale Knight v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-expectation-privacy search-and-seizure traffic-stop |
Does a noncriminal traffic stop and subsequent observation through the window of a stopped vehicle revealing a cylindrical brown object give rise to p… |
| 20-7415 |
Keith Griffin v. New York |
New York |
2021-03-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment curtilage fishing-expedition fourth-amendment home-privacy implied-license probable-cause search-and-seizure standing warrantless-search |
Whether police can search the curtilage of a home without evidence of a crime |
| 20-7416 |
James Lee Herman, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-03-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment driving-under-the-influence exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery inevitable-discovery-doctrine probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-stop |
Whether police officers who violated a driver's Fourth Amendment rights had probable cause to arrest the driver for driving under the influence and wo… |
| 20-7384 |
Samuel Rasheen Rymond Toliver v. K. Adner |
Second Circuit |
2021-03-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
1st-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights court-of-appeals due-process exhaustion-of-remedies first-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech solitary-confinement |
Was the treatment of the Petitioner on 5/30/17, being forced into Solitary Confinement for asserting his U.S.C.A. Const. First Amendment Unconstitutio… |
| 20-1247 |
Gerald Dix v. Edelman Financial Services, LLC, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-03-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eviction eviction-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct police-seizure seizure |
Whether the Fourth Amendment protects a person and property from seizure by police using force and threats to arrest to effect an eviction in contrave… |
| 20-7355 |
Cleophus Reed, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-03-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure |
Whether the lower court erred in its application of the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable searches and seizures |
| 20-7356 |
Eron Michael Spivey v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-03-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
custodial-interrogation exclusionary-rule fifth-amendment fourth-amendment involuntary-detention law-enforcement-questioning probable-cause wong-sun wong-sun-doctrine |
Do authorities violate the Fourth Amendment when they involuntarily detain, in back of a patrol car for three hours, then at the police station for tw… |
| 20-7329 |
Justin L. Knight v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
2021-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-conviction criminal-procedure evidence-suppression fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment investigative-stop reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop |
Whether the police had reasonable suspicion for an investigative stop |
| 20-7319 |
Jamaa I. Johnson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-03-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cell-phone-data fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence privacy reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure |
Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable … |
| 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'… |
| 20-1204 |
Mark Ringland v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-03-02 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
digital-evidence electronic-privacy fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence reasonable-expectation search search-and-seizure trespass united-states-v-jacobsen |
Whether compelling someone's emails from his or her electronic service provider and opening them is a trespass, and therefore a 'search,' under the Fo… |
| 20-1198 |
Jerry Wiltz v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-03-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment abandonment abandonment-doctrine cell-phone cell-phone-privacy civil-rights fourth-amendment privacy privacy-rights search-and-seizure standing warrant-requirement |
Whether a person can abandon their privacy right to an item by merely leaving it behind without evidence of intentional abandonment |
| 20-1202 |
William J. Miller v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-03-01 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
email-privacy fourth-amendment government-intrusion government-search private-actor property-based property-rights reasonable-expectation search search-and-seizure |
Whether the property-based approach to the Fourth Amendment applies to the government's warrantless search of email attachments compelled from a priva… |
| 20-7265 |
Jonathan Lindsey v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2021-03-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
curtilage dwelling-search fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-rights narcotics-detection reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure warrantless-search |
Whether the government's warrantless use of a narcotics detection dog on a dwelling without curtilage violates the resident's Fourth Amendment right a… |
| 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 |
| 20-7268 |
Jason P. Briscoe v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-02-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure fourth-amendment police-discretion pretextual-stop pretextual-stops probable-cause traffic-violation whren-v-united-states |
Whether this Court's decision in Whren v. United States, 517 U.S. 806 (1996), which permits pretextual traffic stops so long as the police have probab… |
| 20-7272 |
Tyslen J. Baker v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-02-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arrest-warrant civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure |
Does a police officer violate a defendant's Fourth Amendment rights by executing an arrest warrant consisting of bare bones allegations lacking in pro… |
| 20-1189 |
Brian E. Hardin v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2021-02-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant vehicle-search |
Whether law-enforcement officers violate the Fourth Amendment by searching a person's vehicle when the person drives that vehicle up to his house whil… |
| 20-1181 |
Kyle Stephen Thompson v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2021-02-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
de-novo-review evidentiary-hearing fourth-amendment franks-hearing franks-v-delaware materiality-prong probable-cause search-warrant standard-of-review |
When a court considers a request for a Franks hearing by excising the challenged statements in the warrant application, does the court review the rema… |
| 20-1166 |
Jorel Shophar, et ux. v. United States, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-02-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment 4th-amendment child-welfare child-welfare-act constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment seizure state-seizures |
Is the 1974 Child Welfare Act of Child Protective Services violating U.S. Citizens Constitutional Rights |
| 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… |
| 20-7241 |
Rene Gosselin v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2021-02-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-defendant evidence-law fourth-amendment medical-records privacy privacy-rights standing third-party-doctrine |
Does a criminal defendant have a Fourth Amendment right of privacy in his medical provider's records, such that the Third Party Doctrine does not appl… |
| 20-7210 |
Tesfa Connell v. New York |
New York |
2021-02-23 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment 4th-amendment-warrant-requirement community-caretaking fourth-amendment impoundment inventory-search law-enforcement-discretion standardized-criteria vehicle-impoundment vehicle-search warrant-requirement |
Whether the Fourth Amendment mandates that standardized criteria govern an officer's antecedent decision to impound a legally and safely parked car |
| 20-7189 |
Bernard Thomas v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-02-22 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
brief-filing counsel-assignment criminal-justice-act criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule federal-defenders fourth-amendment harmless-error local-rule search-and-seizure standing |
Whether the district court erred in denying the defendant's motion to suppress evidence obtained in violation of the Fourth Amendment |
| 20-7208 |
Bruce Harold Hendler v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split detention exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment search-and-seizure supervisory-powers |
Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirming the denial of a motion to suppress a detention and seizure … |
| 20-7187 |
Haseeb Malik v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment constitutional-rights fourth-amendment law-enforcement marijuana-legalization probable-cause search-and-seizure state-law-enforcement vehicle-search |
Does the Fourth Amendment prohibit local state law enforcement from searching a vehicle to look for a personal use amount of marijuana in states where… |
| 20-7119 |
Javier Alejandro Moline-Borroto v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-02-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment checkpoint-seizure civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment investigatory-encounter prolonged-detention reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-stop terry-v-ohio |
Whether the lower courts erred by finding that the officer had reasonable suspicion to transform a suspicionless checkpoint seizure into a prolonged i… |
| 20-7097 |
Alree B. Sweat, III v. City of Las Cruces, New Mexico, et al. |
New Mexico |
2021-02-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-law fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-suppress post-conviction-relief property-rights search-and-seizure takings |
Whether the New Mexico Supreme Court erred in denying petitioner's motion for post-conviction relief based on ineffective assistance of counsel |
| 20-7074 |
Jimmy Lee Nave, Jr. v. Frank Vanihel, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-02-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel probable-cause warrantless-arrest witness-identification |
Did the District Court err by relying on evidence received after Mr. Nave's warrantless arrest to determine the veracity of statements made by the aff… |
| 20-7095 |
Gary S. Colldock v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
dark-web drug-trafficking fourth-amendment probable-cause search-warrant staleness |
Whether the information in the application for the warrant to place the GPS device on Colldock's vehicle was 'stale' |
| 20-7078 |
Brandon Cordell Bennett v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-02-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment criminal-procedure evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment judicial-review material-omission materiality probable-cause search-warrant |
WHETHER OMITTED INFORMATION FROM A SEARCH WARRANT APPLICATION MUST NEGATE OR CONTRADICT ALLEGED FACTS SUPPORTING PROBABLE CAUSE IN ORDER TO BE MATERIA… |
| 20-1079 |
Richard E. Boggs v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-02-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights federal-procedure fifth-amendment fourth-amendment internal-revenue-enforcement irs-authority judicial-review |
Does 26 U.S.C. §7608 establish the relevant requisite authority of IRS agents? |
| 20-1082 |
Raymond Gardner v. Matthew T. Mglej |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-02-08 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-rights fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search identification identification-statute law-enforcement qualified-immunity terry-stop |
Whether it was clearly established in 2011 that an arrest under Utah Code Section 76-8-301.5() for refusal to hand over an identification document vio… |
| 20-1067 |
Maria M. Rosas v. Advocate Health and Hospitals Corporation, dba Advocate Christ Medical Center, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-02-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights damages disability equitable-tolling fourth-amendment section-1983 statute-of-limitations |
Whether the statute of limitations on a § 1983 claim seeking damages under the Fourth Amendment for deprivation of liberty can be equitably tolled whe… |
| 20-1053 |
Ronald Dewayne Pitts v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2021-02-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
affidavit credibility-reliability due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment judicial-scrutiny probable-cause search-warrant undisclosed-sources |
Whether a Search Warrant Affidavit that failed to set forth probable cause can survive meaningful scrutiny |
| 20-1060 |
Jose Oliva v. Mario Nivar, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-02-03 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
bivens bivens-remedy civil-rights constitutional-remedy constitutional-violation federal-police fourth-amendment law-enforcement search-and-seizure |
Whether claims against federal police for Fourth Amendment violations committed during standard law enforcement operations fall within an established … |
| 20-7002 |
Ryan C. Lander v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2021-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment free-speech government-seizure plea-bargaining search-and-seizure warrantless-search |
Is it constitutional to prosecute citizens for cybercrime under the interstate-commerce clause |
| 20-7003 |
Justin Anthony Kudla v. Minnesota |
Minnesota |
2021-02-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment criminal-activity criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-intrusion reasonable-suspicion terry-stop terry-v-ohio traffic-stop |
Did the district court error by denying the suppression motion? |
| 20-6989 |
Rodney Louis Sims v. Kimberly A. Seibel, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-01-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cell-phone-data criminal-appeal due-process evidence-admissibility fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence ninth-circuit privacy prosecutorial-conduct reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure witness-testimony |
Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on unreasonable sear… |
| 20-6990 |
Allyn Akeem Smith v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2021-01-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment Batson-challenge cell-site-location-information csli exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception jury-selection search-and-seizure standing |
Does the good faith exception to the exclusionary rule obviate an illegal seizure of CSLI? |
| 20-1043 |
United States v. Miguel Angel Cano |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-01-29 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
border-crime border-related-crimes border-search digital-contraband digital-evidence electronic-device fourth-amendment physical-smuggling warrant-exception |
Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in concluding that the scope of a search of an electronic device under the border-search exception to the Fourth Amend… |
| 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… |
| 20-6960 |
DeAndre McMichaels v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2021-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment 4th-amendment concealed-carry fourth-amendment law-enforcement public-carry reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-stop terry-v-ohio |
Whether an officer's belief that a person is armed allows the officer to infer for purposes of a Terry search that the person is 'presently dangerous'… |
| 20-6968 |
Kenton Lance Light v. Texas |
Texas |
2021-01-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
abandonment automobile-exception evidence fourth-amendment methamphetamine probable-cause search-and-seizure |
Whether the Fourth Amendment was violated when police searched a container on the basis that Petitioner abandoned the item without any evidence that P… |
| 20-6983 |
Demarcus Cole v. Kevin Myers, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cellular-phone-evidence certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure fourth-amendment habeas-corpus illegal-evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-suppress trial-counsel |
Did the Court of Appeals err in denying a Certificate of Appealability on trial counsel was ineffective, when counsel failed to file a pre-trial Motio… |
| 20-1006 |
City of Hayward, California, et al. v. Jessie Lee Jetmore Stoddard-Nunez |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-01-27 |
Denied |
Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment qualified-immunity section-1983 seizure use-of-force |
Whether an accelerating fleeing driver's sudden turn deprives a threatened shooting officer of qualified-immunity |
| 20-1005 |
Sara Dees v. San Diego County, California |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 child-seizure civil-rights due-process family-law fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment liberty-interest parental-rights section-1983 |
Is a parent's Fourteenth Amendment liberty interest in the care, custody, control, and management of their child violated when government authorities … |
| 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 |
| 20-995 |
Anthony Vetri v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment aiding-and-abetting cellphone-data cellphone-privacy criminal-procedure digital-privacy evidence-search fourth-amendment particularity probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-requirements |
Whether the Fourth Amendment requires more stringent privacy considerations in authorizing a warrant for the seizure of a cellphone and the manner its… |
| 20-996 |
Raymond Marling v. Frank Vanihel, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment circuit-split closed-container fourth-amendment incriminating-evidence inventory-search officer-discretion standardized-criteria warrantless-search |
Does a police department's policy sufficiently limit officer discretion during an inventory search if it enables an officer to choose to open a closed… |
| 20-6937 |
Darris Altony Newsome v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mistrial parole |
Whether the court erred in dismissing the petitioner's writ of habeas corpus as unauthorized and successive |
| 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… |
| 20-6905 |
Christopher Payton May-Shaw v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-01-22 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
curtilage fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence pole-camera reasonable-expectation-of-privacy surveillance warrantless-search |
Was the warrantless long-term surveillance of the parking lot and carport adjacent to Petitioner's apartment building through the use of a pole camera… |
| 20-6898 |
Lewis Anderson v. California |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-01-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-petition fourth-amendment habeas-corpus search-and-seizure standing suppress-writ-of-habeas-corpus |
Whether the district court erred in dismissing petitioner's federal petition for writ of habeas corpus based on a time bar procedure that commands the… |
| 20-6901 |
Antonio Sierra v. Jack Daneri, et al. |
Pennsylvania |
2021-01-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment habeas-corpus rules-of-court standing state-court-error unreasonable-seizure |
Whether petitioner sufficiently asserted federal rights in the case being heard by state courts who defeated by rules of court, in error, petitioner's… |
| 20-951 |
Mary Stewart, as Administrator of the Estate of Luke O. Stewart, Sr., Deceased v. City of Euclid, Ohio, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-01-15 |
Denied |
Amici (6) |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-violation deliberate-indifference fourth-amendment municipal-liability qualified-immunity section-1983 |
Where a municipal employee has violated the Constitution, must a plaintiff point to 'clearly established law' (such as would overcome a defense of qua… |
| 20-6827 |
Abdul Majid v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-01-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review deference-to-lower-court fourth-amendment marijuana-legalization motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-and-seizure standard-of-review vehicle-search warrantless-search |
Whether the Court of Appeals can override the District Court's factual findings and expand the scope of a warrantless search |
| 20-6863 |
Tommy Findley v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-01-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split federal-court-review first-amendment fourth-amendment internet-access probable-cause state-law-application supervised-release warrant-application warrant-probable-cause |
Whether a federal court is required to apply controlling state law in determining whether facts omitted from a warrant application vitiate probable ca… |
| 20-6873 |
Joshua Harrell v. California |
California |
2021-01-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment seizure unreasonable-search unreasonable-seizure |
Whether the unreasonable search and seizure prejudicially violated the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution? |
| 20-6839 |
Henry Alexander Townsend v. Jeri Taylor, Superintendent, Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-01-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
absent-homeowner common-authority fourth-amendment search-and-seizure third-party-consent warrant-requirement |
Whether the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on unreasonable searches and seizures requires the government to obtain a warrant before conducting a searc… |
| 20-6813 |
Manuel Diaz v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment child-pornography circuit-split fourth-amendment probable-cause search-warrant warrantless-arrest |
Whether an officer has probable cause to obtain a search warrant or to make a warrantless arrest for the offense of possession of child pornography ba… |
| 20-6814 |
Rodney Johnson v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2021-01-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment family-home fourth-amendment parolee-search parolees police-misconduct privacy-rights samson-precedent search suspicionless-search warrantless-search |
Whether Illinois has lowered the bar of reasonableness for the search of parolees beyond this Court's holding in Samson v. California, 547 U.S. 843 (2… |
| 20-919 |
Richard Spinnenweber, et al. v. Dan Williams |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-01-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arrest civil-rights criminal-arrest criminal-procedure district-court due-process fourth-amendment judicial-determination law-enforcement legal-standard probable-cause |
Whether the district court erred in holding that there was probable cause to believe the plaintiffs had committed the crime for which they were arrest… |
| 20-896 |
Teresa M. Graham v. Shannon L. Barnette, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-01-07 |
GVR |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split community-caretaking fourth-amendment home-entry home-search qualified-immunity search-and-seizure warrant-requirement |
whether-the-community-caretaking-exception-extends-to-the-home |
| 20-6771 |
Oristel Soto-Peguero v. United States |
First Circuit |
2021-01-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment criminal-procedure evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree good-faith-exception illegal-search independent-source-doctrine search-and-seizure warrant-application |
Whether the court erred when it denied Petitioner's motion to suppress evidence discovered during an illegal search |
| 20-6774 |
Craig B. Snoddy v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-01-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment colorado-v-bertine fourth-amendment inventory-search investigative-search search-and-seizure south-dakota-v-opperman supreme-court-precedent vehicle-search warrantless-search |
Whether the court of appeals' decision not to suppress evidence found in a warrantless vehicle search conflicts with Supreme Court precedent on invent… |
| 20-6753 |
Andre Martel Winn v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split civil-rights due-process electronic-device-search electronic-devices fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery search-and-seizure supervisory-powers warrant warrant-validity |
Whether the Ninth Circuit's application of the inevitable-discovery-exception |
| 20-6763 |
Arnold Maurice Mathis v. Zulaika Zoe Vizcarrondo |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-01-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
compensatory-damages false-arrest fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment qualified-immunity statute-of-limitations warrantless-search |
Whether the Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit correctly dismissed Petitioners Counts ILand IIL of the Original Complaint for false arrest on t… |
| 20-6740 |
Darnell Lewis Peak v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2020-12-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment impoundment inventory-search pennsylvania-law police-procedure private-property vehicle-impoundment |
Whether the inventory search was illegal under 75 Pa.C.S. § 6309(a) as no public interest was threatened |
| 20-870 |
John W. Orem, et ux. v. Matthew Gillmore, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-12-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights fourth-amendment medical-privacy probable-cause qualified-immunity search search-and-seizure |
Whether the Respondent State Trooper's lack of probable cause to search was sufficiently clear, when all reasonable inferences are made in Petitioner'… |
| 20-6721 |
Monwell Dwight Booth v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-12-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights district-court fourth-amendment legal-standard search-and-seizure standard-of-review |
Whether the court erred in affirming the district court's decision that petitioner's Fourth Amendment rights were not violated? |
| 20-6733 |
John Christopher Ferguson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment affidavit exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception jurisdiction jurisdictional-limits law-enforcement search-warrant warrant-affidavit |
Whether the good faith exception to the exclusionary rule applies where law enforcement knew or should have known the affidavit would lead to a mistak… |
| 20-6725 |
Larry Durant v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2020-12-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation cell-phone-data criminal-sexual-conduct digital-privacy fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence judicial-instruction jury-coercion privacy search-and-seizure sixth-amendment trial-procedure |
Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable … |
| 20-6701 |
Benjamin Pedraza, III v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2020-12-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cell-phone-data constitutional-rights criminal-procedure eighth-amendment fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment law-enforcement-procedure privacy-expectation search-and-seizure warrantless-search |
Whether a third party has expectation of privacy in cell-phone data obtained without a warrant |
| 20-6704 |
Agustin Calderon v. Texas |
Texas |
2020-12-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
cell-phone-data digital-privacy fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence privacy search-and-seizure |
Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable … |
| 20-6693 |
Tarcisio Valencia-Barragan v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-12-22 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
attenuation-doctrine flight fourth-amendment illegal-stop police-authority seizure |
Whether a suspect's flight alone, after submitting to police authority, is sufficient to establish attenuation from an illegal stop and seizure to pur… |
| 20-840 |
Kenneth Knowles v. Officer Jason Michael Hart |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-12-22 |
Denied |
|
2nd-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights deadly-force due-process fourth-amendment police-entry second-amendment self-defense standing use-of-force |
Does the Fourth Amendment authorize the use of deadly force against a citizen exercising her Second Amendment right to wear a holstered, licensed hand… |
| 20-825 |
Christopher Brewer v. Teresa Hooks, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-12-18 |
Denied |
|
4th-amendment causal-connection fourth-amendment informant informant-testimony probable-cause qualified-immunity search-warrant section-1983 |
Whether probable cause or arguable probable cause exists to seek a search warrant where an officer relies upon an informant who turns himself in, admi… |
| 20-823 |
Robert Lee Crider v. Texas |
Texas |
2020-12-17 |
Denied |
|
blood-extraction bodily-intrusion chemical-analysis fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation search search-and-seizure warrant warrant-scope |
Whether a Fourth Amendment violation occurs when the government extracts a blood sample by compelled intrusion into a person's body and then chemicall… |
| 20-6648 |
Gezo Goeong Edwards, aka Gezo Edwards, aka Zo v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2020-12-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment habeas-corpus privacy search-and-seizure standing state-court-conviction |
Whether the government's warrantless acquisition of cell-site location information violates the Fourth Amendment |
| 20-785 |
Eboni Nicole Baldwin v. Latoisha Dorsey |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-12-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights deliberate-indifference due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment medical-care medical-care-delay pre-gerstein-arrestee state-actor-liability |
How many hours of delayed mental health care is reasonable before a state actor can be held liable for deliberately indifferent or objectively unreaso… |
| 20-6580 |
Joseph W. Peeples, III v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-12-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arrest civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure detention due-process evidence-admissibility fourth-amendment search-and-seizure travel warrantless-search |
Whether the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments, along with the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, allow any person suspected of a crime to freely trav… |
| 20-6588 |
Kenneth Scott Gordon v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-12-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
adversarial-testing appellate-procedure certificate-of-appealability criminal-defense effective-assistance-of-counsel fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel meaningful-adversarial-testing prosecutions-case sixth-amendment |
Should a certificate of appealability issue due to ineffective assistance of appellate counsel? |
| 20-6591 |
Jose Delores Vanegas v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-12-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights conviction due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment judicial-discretion prosecutorial-misconduct remand |
whether-the-trial-court-abused-its-discretion |
| 20-6544 |
Randall S. Overton v. Matt Macauley, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-12-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cell-phone-data fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence privacy reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure |
Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable … |
| 20-6551 |
Andy Williams v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-12-07 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure fourth-amendment inventory-search probable-cause reasonable-suspicion rehaif-v-united-states warrantless-search |
Was the second warrantless search of the car -which followed the completed inventory search and was prompted by an officer's later-developed suspicion… |
| 20-6495 |
Michael Alford v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-12-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment government-seizure personal-property property-return property-rights riley-v-california search-and-seizure |
Whether the court erred in refusing to return personal property |
| 20-6472 |
Raquel Cortez v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-12-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment border-patrol civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop |
Whether the same rule applies when an officer extends a traffic stop to allow border patrol agents to arrive without reasonable suspicion or other law… |
| 20-6475 |
Samer Walid Abdalla v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-11-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
fourth-amendment judicial-authorization law-enforcement neutral-magistrate particularity probable-cause residence search-warrant warrant-specificity |
Whether the Fourth Amendment was violated when officers executed a search warrant that authorized the search of a different residence in a different t… |
| 20-6480 |
Maurice Freeman v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-11-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment bailey-v-united-states detention fourth-amendment immediate-vicinity michigan-v-summers police-authority premises-search probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure search-warrant |
Does the rule of Michigan v. Summers extend to individuals on a public street near the residence? |
| 20-6444 |
Ronnie Eugene Fuston v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2020-11-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
cell-site-location-information fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause state-statute statutory-interpretation warrant-requirement |
Whether the state appellate court erroneously applied the good-faith-exception to the warrant-requirement despite a state-statute requiring a finding … |
| 20-6445 |
Cristofer Jose Gallegos-Espinal v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment cell-phone cell-phone-search consent consent-form forensic-search fourth-amendment government-surveillance perpetuity riley-precedent riley-v-california |
Whether verbal consent to 'look through' a cell phone, followed by written consent on an outmoded pre-Riley consent form, permits the government to pe… |
| 20-6467 |
Craig Howard v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-11-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment co-tenant co-tenant-consent consent-to-search detention fernandez fourth-amendment law-enforcement physical-presence randolph reasonable-search search-and-seizure |
Does the lawful detention of an objecting co-tenant in a squad car on the premises to be searched make him absent such that another co-tenant may cons… |
| 20-6453 |
Marcos Alejandro Gonzalez Flores v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-11-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process fourth-amendment search-and-seizure suppression-hearing suppression-motion witness-testimony |
Whether the Sixth Amendment's Confrontation Clause, the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause, or some other authority guarantees a criminal defendant … |
| 20-6454 |
Mark David Zimmerman v. Texas |
Texas |
2020-11-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment constitutional-law constitutional-rights fourth-amendment fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree k-9-search probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop |
Whether the lower court erred in denying Petitioner's motion to suppress evidence obtained during a traffic stop under the Fourth Amendment search-and… |
| 20-733 |
Terrill A. Rickmon, Sr. v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-11-25 |
Denied |
|
4th-amendment circuit-split due-process emergency-exception fourth-amendment individualized-suspicion reasonable-suspicion terry-stop terry-v-ohio |
Does the sound of gunshots create an emergency so that the 'individualized suspicion' required by Terry attaches to anyone near the shots? |
| 20-6421 |
In Re Timothy J. Richards |
|
2020-11-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment government-overreach property-rights search-and-seizure |
Whether the government's warrantless seizure and indefinite retention of a person's personal property violates the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on u… |
| 20-6404 |
Henry T. Liggins v. Bob Vashaw, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-11-23 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review legal-standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated due to the alleged misconduct of the court and prosecution during his criminal trial |
| 20-6400 |
Kenneth Lamont Sanders v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-11-20 |
GVR |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP |
child-welfare civil-rights community-caretaker community-caretaker-exception domestic-intervention domestic-violence fourth-amendment law-enforcement-procedure warrantless-entry welfare-check |
Whether the community caretaker exception to the Fourth Amendment allowed warrantless entry |
| 20-6343 |
Ashley Fernandes v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2020-11-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment criminal-procedure digital-devices digital-search-warrant electronic-evidence evidence fourth-amendment general-warrants probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant |
Whether a search warrant can authorize an unlimited search of all of a suspect's digital devices based on an affidavit describing the type of crime be… |
| 20-6300 |
Bryan Mitchell Lietzau v. Arizona |
Arizona |
2020-11-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
cell-phone cell-phone-privacy fourth-amendment privacy-rights probation probation-search reasonable-suspicion search warrantless-search |
Does the Fourth Amendment require reasonable suspicion for a probation officer to conduct a warrantless search of a probationer's person or property? |
| 20-6309 |
Emilio Urena-Villa v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-claim constitutional-law counsel-performance criminal-procedure fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel kimmelman-v-morrison motion-to-suppress strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Whether appointed counsel was ineffective for failure to file viable motion to suppress pursuant to Fourth Amendment claim |
| 20-6315 |
Darris Altony Newsome v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-11-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-charges criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fair-trial fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel probable-cause sixth-amendment victim-testimony witness-testimony |
Whether the petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel was violated due to trial counsel's conduct involving dishonesty tha… |
| 20-6320 |
Dianne Michele Carter v. Thomas Pellicane, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bench-warrant civil-procedure constitution constitutional-supremacy due-process fourth-amendment religious-establishment separation-of-powers service-of-process standing superior-law |
Whether the Constitution or an ordinary act of the legislature governs the case |
| 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… |
| 20-645 |
Standing Akimbo, LLC, et al. v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-11-12 |
Denied |
Relisted (13) |
16th-amendment 4th-amendment controlled-substances-act fifth-amendment fourth-amendment preemption self-incrimination state-rights supremacy-clause tax-law |
Does Colorado's state-legal cannabis sales violate the Controlled Substances Act? |
| 20-653 |
Henry Hamilton v. City of Hayti, Missouri, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-11-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
arrest-warrant arrest-warrants discretionary-authority fourth-amendment gerstein-v-pugh judicial-immunity municipal-court probable-cause quasi-judicial-immunity |
Did the court clerk unconstitutionally exercise a judicial function under the Fourth Amendment and Gerstein v. Pugh |
| 20-6262 |
Daniel Twian Brown v. Steven Johnson, Administrator, New Jersey State Prison, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-11-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-counsel warrantless-arrest |
Whether the Third Circuit Court of Appeals Erred in Denying Petitioner a Certificate of Appealability |
| 20-6265 |
Alfredo Aguilar Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment border-search cell-phone cell-phone-privacy forensic-examination fourth-amendment privacy riley-precedent riley-v-california warrant warrantless-search |
Whether a warrantless forensic search of a cell phone at a border port of entry is an unreasonable search |
| 20-636 |
Shase Howse v. Thomas Hodous, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-11-10 |
Denied |
|
and strike him in the neck when he poses no threa and whether a Fourth Amendment malicious prosecut tackle him circuit-split civil-rights excessive-force false-arrest fourth-amendment malicious-prosecution qualified-immunity unlawful-arrest |
Whether the law is clearly established that an officer cannot arrest a person whom the officer has no reason to believe committed a crime, tackle him … |
| 20-595 |
Dennis Lemma, Sheriff, Seminole County, Florida v. Seana Barnett |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-11-05 |
Denied |
|
4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-reasonableness detention detention-duration due-process dui dui-arrest fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause |
Is it constitutionally unreasonable for a jail to detain for eight hours any driver arrested with probable cause for driving under the influence of al… |
| 20-6236 |
Fuad Ndibalema v. Mark A. Levine |
Vermont |
2020-11-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
adequate-remedy civil-procedure constitutional-law declaratory-relief due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment legal-remedy property-rights |
Whether the Existence of another Adequate Remedy does preclude a Judgment for Declaratory Relief |
| 20-6238 |
Demon O'Neil Parker v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-11-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion cell-site-location-information constitutional-review criminal-sentencing first-step-act fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation reasonable-expectation-of-privacy rehabilitation search-and-seizure sentence-reduction standing |
Whether the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on unreasonable searches and seizures applies to the government's acquisition of historical cell-site locat… |
| 20-6216 |
Michael E. Torres v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-11-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act arrest criminal-procedure drug-conviction fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-seizure investigative-detention probable-cause reasonable-suspicion |
Did the Third Circuit err in viewing the police conduct as no more than a brief investigative detention and thus justified by reasonable suspicion ins… |
| 20-585 |
Greg Vasquez, et al. v. Maritza Amador, Individually and as Representative of the Estate of Gilbert Flores and as Next Friend of Minor R. M. F., et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-11-03 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights deadly-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-intervention police-use-of-force qualified-immunity reasonableness-standard suicide-by-cop use-of-force |
Reasonableness-of-force-under-4th-Amendment |
| 20-6194 |
Brian E. Vodicka v. Michael B. Tobolowsky, Executor of the Estate of Ira E. Tobolowsky, et al. |
Texas |
2020-11-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment carpenter-v-united-states cell-phone-data civil-rights digital-privacy due-process fourth-amendment mandamus-petition riley-v-california search-and-seizure supreme-court-precedent warrantless-search |
Whether the warrantless search and seizure of a cell phone's digital contents and location information by a private citizen debt collector violates th… |
| 20-578 |
Sergeant Gary Hedger, et al. v. Ronald Graves |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-11-02 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (7) |
deadly-force fourth-amendment homicidal-suspect law-enforcement perceived-threat qualified-immunity taser-deployment use-of-force violent-suspect |
Did the Sixth Circuit misapply or disregard this Court's precedent by holding that a law enforcement officer violates the Fourth Amendment and clearly… |
| 20-580 |
Barry Damon Mallatere v. Town of Boone, North Carolina |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-11-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 ashcroft-v-iqbal civil-rights fourth-amendment malicious-prosecution monell-v-dept-of-soc-servs municipal-liability policymaker-liability |
Did the Fourth Circuit err in upholding the district court's dismissal of the Petitioner's claim for violation of 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in finding that the… |
| 20-6181 |
Hasan Shareef v. Captain Moore, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-11-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
cell-phone-data constitutional-law fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence privacy search-and-seizure |
Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable … |
| 20-564 |
Rodney Carlisle, Jr. v. Kentucky |
Kentucky |
2020-10-30 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split criminal-history-check fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-requirements law-enforcement officer-safety probable-cause traffic-stop |
Whether the Fourth Amendment permits law enforcement to prolong every traffic stop by performing a criminal history check, or whether the Fourth Amend… |
| 20-576 |
Sharon Darlene Lopez v. California |
California |
2020-10-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
blood-draw civil-rights consent constitutional-rights driving-privilege due-process fourth-amendment implied-consent search warrantless-search |
Can the State of California condition driving upon its public highways upon a motorist's agreement to surrender Fourth Amendment rights for purposes o… |
| 20-6172 |
Yulian Manuel Villavicencio, aka Cristian Rodriguez v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-10-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment due-process fourth-amendment interdiction probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search traffic-stop vehicle-search |
Whether payment of $630 for a SUV rental in the defendant's home state of Florida to go to North Carolina for a visit, the inability to recall the spe… |
| 20-6175 |
Rico Walker v. Vance Laughlin, Warden |
Georgia |
2020-10-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment indictment-sufficiency ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge notice-of-charges void-conviction |
Can Petitioner be convicted of a crime where the Indictment fails to allege the essential elements of the crime charged? |
| 20-6161 |
Joey Lamont Brunson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-10-29 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment legal-insufficiency statutory-interpretation suppression-of-evidence surveillance-law wiretap-order wiretapping |
Whether a wiretap order that fails to specify the name of the person who authorized the application for such order is insufficient on its face, thereb… |
| 20-552 |
Jeremiah Paige Rice v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2020-10-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment free-speech healthcare medical-cannabis probable-cause search-and-seizure warrantless-search |
Whether the detectable odor of burnt cannabis alone, without any other indicators, is sufficient for law enforcement to form probable cause to subject… |
| 20-6149 |
Jose Sanchez v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-stop unreasonable-search |
Whether an unlawful search of a vehicle performed by law enforcement after an improperly conducted dog sniff constitutes an unreasonable extension of … |
| 20-6150 |
Andres Keyon Roman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment collective-knowledge due-process fourth-amendment narcotics reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure substantive-due-process vehicle-search warrantless-search |
Whether the District Court denied the Petitioner's constitutional right to substantive due process under the Fourth Amendment in this narcotics case b… |
| 20-6139 |
Pedro Alvarado v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2020-10-27 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment property-rights search-and-seizure takings |
Whether the government's seizure of a person's property without a warrant or probable cause violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreaso… |
| 20-6142 |
Steven Spain v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2020-10-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment gun-rights law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion second-amendment terry-v-ohio |
In a state that allows residents to carry a firearm in public, is it reasonable under the Fourth Amendment to stop and arrest someone for carrying a f… |
| 20-6132 |
Mose B. Coffee v. Wisconsin |
Wisconsin |
2020-10-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
categorical-approach crime-of-arrest fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-incident-to-arrest vehicle-search warrant-requirement |
Does Gant's exception to the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement permit searches on probable-cause, reasonable-suspicion or a categorical-approach … |
| 20-529 |
Richard E. Boggs v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-10-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment administrative-law administrative-procedure civil-rights enforcement-scope fifth-amendment fourth-amendment internal-revenue-enforcement irs-authority judicial-review standing |
Does 26 U.S.C. §7608 establish the relevant requisite authority of IRS agents? |
| 20-6090 |
Reginald Ferguson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-10-21 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights consensual-encounter consent criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion testimony |
Can a court determine that an encounter was initially consensual when the officer testified that he did not remember how it was initiated, nor is it c… |
| 20-518 |
Darrius Marcel Mastin v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-10-20 |
Denied |
|
arrest-warrant bystander-detention constitutional-law fourth-amendment law-enforcement-authority michigan-v-summers police-powers probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure |
Whether Michigan v. Summers authorizes detaining a bystander without individualized suspicion |
| 20-526 |
Jason M. Blackburn v. United States |
Armed Forces |
2020-10-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment child-pornography criminal-procedure digital-evidence fourth-amendment good-faith-exception military-justice probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred in holding the good faith exception applied to the search and seizure of Petitioner's computer? |
| 20-6086 |
Brittan Kettles v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-10-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cell-phone-data digital-privacy fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence privacy search-and-seizure |
Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable … |
| 20-6068 |
Willie Gross, Jr. v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cell-phone-data fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence privacy reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure |
Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable … |
| 20-6073 |
Desmond Littlejohn v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-10-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c certiorari-review civil-rights crimes-of-violence criminal-procedure due-process federal-criminal-law fourth-amendment ninth-circuit sentencing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits the government from using a person's prior convictions for a crime of violence as a basis to enhance the senten… |
| 20-498 |
Sonia Garcia, et vir v. Wesley Blevins, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-rights deadly-force fourth-amendment qualified-immunity stare-decisis unpublished-decisions unpublished-opinions |
Whether a person holding a gun has a Fourth Amendment right to be free from deadly force |
| 20-6055 |
Terrill Bernard Weatherspoon v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-10-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment companion-rule fourth-amendment law-enforcement officer-safety pat-down-search reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-stop terry-v-ohio |
Must an officer have a reasonable suspicion that a companion of an arrestee is armed and dangerous, independently of a reasonable suspicion that the a… |
| 20-6012 |
Allen Young v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-10-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-defect discovery-violations due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment indictment-defects insufficient-evidence perjury prosecutorial-misconduct search-and-seizure |
Question not identified |
| 20-477 |
Shanika Day, et al. v. Franklin Wooten, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-10-13 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
asphyxiation civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement positional-asphyxiation qualified-immunity section-1983 |
Does an arrestee have a clearly established right to have his difficulty breathing considered by officers in their handcuff and adverse body position,… |
| 20-5991 |
Mayra Yurivia Reyes v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment canine-sniff detention-extension drug-enforcement fourth-amendment law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop |
Whether Reyes' 4th Amendment Rights were violated |
| 20-456 |
Michael Elder v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-10-08 |
Denied |
|
4th-amendment civil-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment judicial-procedure official-misconduct party-presentation search-and-seizure supervisee-rights supervisee-search suspicionless-search |
Whether the Second Circuit violated the party presentation principle |
| 20-5960 |
Joe Hernandez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-10-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arrest-warrant constitutional-rights fourth-amendment law-enforcement maryland-v-buie probable-cause protective-sweep search-and-seizure standard-procedure |
Does a protective sweep of person's entire residence by law enforcement officers pursuant to 'standard procedure' upon their entry when serving an arr… |
| 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 |
| 20-5918 |
Leonard F. Locke, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-10-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights defense-counsel due-process fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel police-misconduct probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-stop warrantless-search |
Question not identified |
| 20-5911 |
Josh Albritton v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-10-05 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure |
Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable searches and seizures |
| 20-412 |
Mark Stanford Katzman v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2020-10-01 |
Denied |
|
digital-privacy digital-trespass fourth-amendment police-impersonation reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure standing standing-to-challenge trespass |
Whether the Fourth Amendment permits the police to undetectably impersonate the owner of a phone via text message, and arrest another person by means … |
| 20-5850 |
Aaron Keith Avery v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arbitrary-questioning border-patrol civil-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment immigration-checkpoint martinez-fuerte programmatic-purpose united-states-v-martinez-fuerte |
Does the Border Patrol's unfettered and arbitrary questioning of those stopped at an immigration checkpoint to ferret out crime go beyond the limited … |
| 20-5860 |
Miguel Antonio Wooten v. Warren L. Montgomery, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-09-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
county-of-riverside-v-mclaughlin criminal-procedure due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourth-amendment habeas-corpus probable-cause sixth-amendment |
Whether petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to effective assistance of counsel was violated |
| 20-411 |
Traize T. Wash v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2020-09-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment automobile-exception civil-rights fourth-amendment law-enforcement pretextual-stop probable-cause racial-profiling reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure whren-v-united-states |
Whether a police officer's subjective intent should be considered in the context of a Fourth Amendment analysis involving a pretextual stop and unreas… |
| 20-5829 |
Jerry Fruit v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-09-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement officer-safety probable-cause rodriguez-precedent search-and-seizure traffic-stop |
Whether police may delay a traffic stop, in the interest of officer safety, absent probable cause, in order to conduct a search? |
| 20-5843 |
Courtney C. Brown v. Wisconsin |
Wisconsin |
2020-09-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment constitutional-rights fourth-amendment police-authority reasonable-suspicion rodriguez-v-us search search-and-seizure totality-of-circumstances traffic-stop |
Should the Court reverse Pennsylvania v. Mimms? |
| 20-5822 |
Eric Terrell Spears v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2020-09-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement-bias police-brutality police-interaction race racial-profiling seizure seizure-doctrine |
Whether a court must take into account a Black person's race when determining whether they are seized under the Fourth Amendment |
| 20-5814 |
Anthony Kinta Webb v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-09-25 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment jury-selection probable-cause public-trial search-and-seizure |
Whether the Sixth Amendment right to a public trial applies to jury selection proceedings |
| 20-5789 |
Gerard Nguedi v. Brian Caulfield, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2020-09-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-misconduct qualified-immunity |
Are police officers entitled to qualified immunity even if they use substantial force against non-threatening suspected misdemeanants? |
| 20-5794 |
Scott T. Wilbert v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-09-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review criminal-procedure fourth-amendment franks-hearing probable-cause search-and-seizure second-circuit suppression-motion |
Should certiorari be granted due to improper affirmation of Fourth Amendment suppression motion denial? |
| 20-5749 |
Elijah Hart v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-09-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-infirmity fourth-amendment good-faith-exception law-enforcement law-enforcement-disclosure magistrate-judge magistrate-review warrant warrant-application |
Whether the good-faith exception should apply when law enforcement officers technically disclose a crucial fact that would reveal a warrant's constitu… |
| 20-5718 |
Raheim Abdullah Trice v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-09-16 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
apartment-building covert-surveillance fourth-amendment law-enforcement privacy-rights reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure surveillance unlawful-search warrant-requirement warrantless-search |
Whether a law enforcement official entering an unlocked apartment building, without permission and without a warrant, placing a 'covert camera' disgui… |
| 20-5727 |
Martez LaJuan Edwards v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-09-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-suppression fourth-amendment jury probable-cause search-and-seizure standing |
Question not identified |
| 20-5690 |
Darrick Michael Loff v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-09-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence-tampering false-arrest fourth-amendment law-enforcement malicious-prosecution probable-cause property-seizure search-and-seizure warrantless-search |
Whether the arresting officer had permission to enter and search the appellant's family property, and whether it was legal for the officer to accept a… |
| 20-5637 |
Limmia Page v. New York |
New York |
2020-09-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
citizen-arrest citizen's-arrest civil-rights color-of-law customs-and-border-patrol federal-preemption fourth-amendment law-enforcement search-and-seizure unreasonable-search vehicle-stop |
Whether a citizen loses the right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures because an on-duty federal agent acting under color of law makes … |
| 20-5601 |
Eric Wayne Grinder v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-09-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split computer-search computer-searches digital-evidence fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-rights particularity-requirement search-and-seizure search-warrant |
Does the conflict of the particularity required for computer searches between the Fourth and Tenth Circuits diminish Fourth Amendment rights? |
| 20-5606 |
Keith A. Brown v. Alberto Ramirez |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-09-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment incompetent-defendant motion-to-suppress suppression-of-evidence |
When the state fails to carry its burden of proof in a motion to suppress hearing, is the remedy suppression of the evidence or can the state have a s… |
| 20-283 |
Austin J. Bass v. Patrick M. Greve, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-09-03 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6) |
4th-amendment arrest arrest-justification civil-rights criminal-intent due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement-discretion probable-cause qualified-immunity |
Whether Officer Bass had probable cause to arrest under the Fourth Amendment |
| 20-5568 |
Alex Alberto Castro v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-09-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment appellate-review criminal-procedure evidence-law exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure suppression-of-evidence wiretap-suppression wiretaps |
Whether the Court of Appeals erred in affirming the District Court's Order denying the defense motion to suppress wiretaps |
| 20-5589 |
Wali Ross v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-09-03 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
arrest-warrant fourth-amendment hotel-eviction hotel-room payton possessory-interest probable-cause reasonable-belief search-and-seizure |
Whether officers must have probable cause to believe a suspect is present to justify entry into a hotel room to execute an arrest warrant |
| 20-5571 |
Angel C. Pacheco v. Maine |
Maine |
2020-09-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
any-persons-present collective-searches criminal-procedure drug-trafficking fourth-amendment probable-cause search-warrant warrant-standard |
Whether the Fourth Amendment requires probable cause that each person present will possess evidence of a crime, or only that the collective searches o… |
| 20-253 |
Christopher Castagna, et al. v. Harry Jean, et al. |
First Circuit |
2020-09-01 |
Denied |
|
community-caretaking fourth-amendment home-sanctity police-intrusion qualified-immunity sanctity-of-home search-and-seizure warrantless-entry |
Whether the community caretaking exception to the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement applies to warrantless, unconsented-to entries by police offi… |
| 20-5555 |
Franklin C. Edwards v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2020-09-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment investigatory-stop kansas-v-glover law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop vehicle-search |
Whether the traffic stop was lawful where the police had no idea who the driver was but knew the registered owner of the vehicle was neither involved … |
| 20-5523 |
Brian Jury v. David W. Gray, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-08-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
certificate-of-appealability circuit-court civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claims due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus standing statutory-procedure |
Whether the district court's assessment of the petitioner's constitutional claims was debatable or wrong, and whether the habeas corpus petition claim… |
| 20-5476 |
Derek Tyler Horton v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2020-08-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights duty-to-investigate fourth-amendment law-enforcement lawful-arrest pretext pretextual-arrest probable-cause warrant-validity |
Whether a police officer's reason for acting should factor into the Fourth Amendment inquiry |
| 20-5482 |
Marvin Arido Sorro v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-08-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process federal-law fourth-amendment judicial-proceedings jurisdictional-challenge procedural-rights standing |
Did the United States District Court deprived the petitioner access to the courts and to state a claim? |
| 20-5494 |
Ernest Ray Snow v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2020-08-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment appellate-review criminal-procedure evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception search-warrant standard-of-review |
Does United State v. Leon, 468 U.S. 897 (1984), permit an appellate standard of review that requires an appellant to raise and rebut the applicability… |
| 20-202 |
Robert Massie v. Basilea Mena |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-08-21 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights clearly-established-law detention excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct qualified-immunity use-of-force |
Whether Officer Massie's actions constituted excessive force in violation of the Fourth Amendment |
| 20-5431 |
Walter Ackerman v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-08-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure civil-procedure due-process fourth-amendment good-faith-exception law-of-the-case waiver warrantless-search |
Did the Tenth Circuit err under the law-of-the-case doctrine when it permitted the government to raise in a second appeal a claim the government waive… |
| 20-5405 |
Jaroderick Hardy v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure fourth-amendment high-crime-area investigative-stop law-enforcement probable-cause proximity reasonable-suspicion terry-stop |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit's reasonable-suspicion determination can be reconciled with Terry-v-Ohio |
| 20-183 |
Billy D. Stair, III v. Charles Jackson |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-08-19 |
Denied |
|
excessive-force fourth-amendment graham-v-connor law-enforcement plumhoff-v-rickard qualified-immunity reasonableness-standard totality-of-the-circumstances use-of-force |
Did the Eighth Circuit depart from this Court's decisions in Graham v. Connor and Plumhoff v. Rickard in denying qualified immunity to petitioner base… |
| 20-190 |
Daniel Sohn, et ux. v. Mariposa County, California, et al. |
California |
2020-08-19 |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights civil-rights-statute constitutional-violation fourth-amendment government-entity property-rights subdivision-map-act |
Where a government entity enters and takes real and personal property of its citizens under color of law based on an intentional misinterpretation of … |
| 20-5390 |
Michael Betts v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-08-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment police-investigation police-powers reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop warrantless-search |
Whether a police officer inquiring about drugs without reasonable suspicion unconstitutionally broadens a traffic investigation |
| 20-5392 |
Jermaine Tyrone Jones v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-08-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
completed-misdemeanor criminal-procedure fourth-amendment investigatory-stop misdemeanor reasonable-suspicion vehicle-stop |
Is reasonable suspicion of a completed misdemeanor sufficient under the Fourth Amendment to justify an investigatory stop of a vehicle when there is n… |
| 20-5400 |
Gary Allen Kachina v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-08-18 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
civil-rights exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure |
Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable searches and seizures |
| 20-5381 |
Lawrence F. Curtin v. Kimberly Cortez |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-08-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
eighth-amendment fifth-amendment first-amendment florida fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment judicial-qualification-commission petition redress-of-grievances sixth-amendment state-court-judge |
First Amendment right to petition Florida's Judicial Qualification Commission, the government, in writing, for a redress of grievances about state cou… |
| 20-157 |
Edward A. Caniglia v. Robert F. Strom, et al. |
First Circuit |
2020-08-13 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (15)Relisted (2) |
community-caretaking constitutional-law fourth-amendment home home-search law-enforcement privacy-rights search-and-seizure warrant-requirement |
Whether the 'community caretaking' exception to the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement extends to the home |
| 20-5338 |
Ibrahim McCants v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-08-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
anonymous-tip corroboration domestic-violence fourth-amendment police-response probable-cause reasonable-suspicion stop-and-frisk |
Does an anonymous tip providing minimal physical and location descriptors and alleging ongoing domestic violence that is not corroborated when police … |
| 20-5339 |
Leandre R. Jennings, III v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
2020-08-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment fourth-amendment good-faith good-faith-exception illinois-v-krull judicial-approval judicial-review law-enforcement probable-cause search-warrant united-states-v-leon |
Whether the reviewing court must use the test set forth in United States v. Leon or the test set forth in Illinois v. Krull to determine if good faith… |
| 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 |
| 20-134 |
Abilio Hernandez, et al. v. Jason Boles, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-08-07 |
Denied |
|
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law due-process fourth-amendment jury-deference jury-instructions standard-of-review traffic-stop warrant-check |
Should a federal appellate court grant deference to a jury's conclusions of law about constitutional issues in a civil rights lawsuit? |
| 20-5303 |
Lawrence A. Dibble v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2020-08-07 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception judicial-review law-enforcement magistrate oral-testimony probable-cause search-warrant |
Whether a court may consider unrecorded, oral information provided to a magistrate when evaluating the reasonableness of an officer's belief in the ex… |
| 20-5285 |
Melvin Lee Jones v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-08-06 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment circuit-court-split criminal-procedure drug-enforcement fourth-amendment locked-containers marijuana-odor probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant |
Scope of search warrant based on marijuana odor |
| 20-5290 |
Eric J. Perez, aka Ignacio Valdez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-08-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment electronic-communications fourth-amendment government-agency law-enforcement seizures stored-communications-act warrant-requirement warrantless-search warrantless-searches |
Whether subsection (f) of the Stored Communications Act is unconstitutional |
| 20-5262 |
Stephen Henderson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-08-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment carpenter-v-united-states cell-site-tracking fourth-amendment habeas-corpus retroactive-application retroactivity search-and-seizure supreme-court-precedent title-28-usc-2253 united-states-v-jones warrantless-search |
Should this Court's decision in United States v. Jones and Carpenter v. United States be applied retroactively under Title 28 U.S.C. § 2253 |
| 20-5273 |
Andrew Hargett, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-08-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arrest civil-rights criminal-procedure evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure |
Whether the Fourth Amendment exclusionary rule required suppression of evidence |
| 20-5279 |
William Dale Wooden v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-08-05 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure standing warrantless-entry warrantless-search |
Did the warrantless entry and search of petitioner's home violate his Fourth Amendment right to be free from illegal search and seizure? |
| 20-5257 |
Jimmy McLain Moore v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-08-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fourth-amendment law-enforcement right-to-confrontation sixth-amendment witness-communication |
Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals failed to decide an important Federal Question regarding the right of a Defendant to confront witnesses aga… |
| 20-104 |
Brian Smith v. Washington |
Washington |
2020-07-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
blood-draw breath-test excessive-force force fourth-amendment medical-consent needle-phobia search-and-seizure warrant |
Fourth-Amendment |
| 20-5215 |
Jessica Lang v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
2020-07-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
automobile automobile-exception civil-rights fourth-amendment law-enforcement passenger passenger-rights probable-cause search search-and-seizure |
Whether police officers violate the Fourth Amendment when they search a passenger's purse, while on her lap, inside an automobile where probable cause… |
| 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… |
| 20-83 |
Jacob Jones, et al. v. Wayne Duke Kalbaugh |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-07-29 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights clearly-established-law excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement objective-reasonableness police-conduct qualified-immunity tenth-circuit |
Did the Tenth Circuit improperly focus on the knowledge and intentions of the suspect, rather than the facts knowable to the officers, in reversing th… |
| 20-91 |
Joseph H. Martin v. Department of Homeland Security |
Federal Circuit |
2020-07-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-employee-rights first-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech hotel-privacy labor-management-relations standing union-speech |
Whether the 4th amendment protects speech in a rented hotel room |
| 20-5187 |
Thomas Lee Brennan v. Josh Stein, Attorney General of North Carolina |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-07-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-suppress post-conviction-relief procedural-default reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop |
Whether the trial court erred in denying the defendant's motion for appropriate relief based on ineffective assistance of counsel for failing to file … |
| 20-5195 |
Gilbert Carrasco v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-07-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment 4th-amendment-violation border-patrol contraband-search fourth-amendment immigration-checkpoint immigration-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure suspicion-less-stops unreasonable-search |
Whether the Border Patrol's use of internal immigration checkpoints to search for contraband, weapons, and undocumented immigrants violates the Fourth… |
| 20-5159 |
Kristopher Lee Roybal v. Minnesota |
Minnesota |
2020-07-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-process fourth-amendment inventory-search misrepresentation ncic-search procedural-due-process procedural-review vehicle-impoundment |
Is impoundment of a vehicle unreasonable under the Fourth Amendment? |
| 20-5133 |
Steven Baxter v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-07-22 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
border-search customs customs-border fourth-amendment suspicion-less-search unincorporated-territory united-states-virgin-islands warrant-requirement warrantless-search |
Does the border-search exception to the Fourth Amendment allow routine, suspicion-less searches at internal/domestic customs borders? |
| 20-5139 |
Algere Jones v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-07-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule federal-district-court fourth-amendment search-and-seizure standing supervised-release |
Can a federal district court bar the use of the Exclusionary Rule during the petitioner's violation of supervised release hearing? |
| 20-50 |
Monica Voss v. Gregory G. Goode |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-21 |
Denied |
|
4th-amendment appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights clearly-established-right due-process fourth-amendment qualified-immunity section-1983 standing sua-sponte |
Whether an appellate court may impute third-party actions to a § 1983 claimant as the basis for qualified immunity |
| 20-25 |
Isidoro Rodriguez v. Virginia State Bar Disciplinary Board |
Virginia |
2020-07-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
cell-phone-data digital-privacy fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence privacy search-and-seizure |
Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable … |
| 20-5062 |
Paul Byrd v. Florida |
Florida |
2020-07-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement ruse-checkpoint search-and-seizure |
Whether a 'ruse checkpoint' that focuses on those who attempt to avoid the checkpoint violates the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution |
| 20-5074 |
Robert Banks, III v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-07-15 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights fourth-amendment law-enforcement-discretion pretextual-stop racial-profiling search-and-seizure unreasonable-detention unreasonable-seizure whren-v-united-states |
Should Whren v. United States be overruled to protect against racial profiling and discrimination? |
| 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… |
| 20-5044 |
Ilya Liviz v. Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2020-07-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attorney-obligations compelled-speech constitutional-procedure first-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech government-compulsion search-and-seizure speech-rights subpoena subpoena-law warrant-requirement |
Can the Government compel speech without a warrant, nor a subpoena? |
| 19-8925 |
Robert T. Lundberg v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-07-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
aedpa expectation-of-privacy fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel katz-expectation-of-privacy katz-v-united-states police-interrogation strickland-standard strickland-v-washington |
Should the decision in Lundberg v. State be entitled to deference under AEDPA? |
| 19-8926 |
Roberto Clemente Govea v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-07-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-split circuit-split fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause reasonably-trained-officer reasonably-well-trained-officer search-and-seizure search-warrant supreme-court-review |
Whether the good-faith exception of Leon v. United States applies to the search warrant for the defendant's home |
| 19-1470 |
Samuel A. Gurrola v. Walgreen Company |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-07-08 |
Rehearing |
Relisted (2) |
14th-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment monopoly monopoly-power obstruction-of-justice property-rights res-judicata |
Can the world's largest pharmacy chain influence a State to fabricate evidence to achieve its monopoly goals, abridge plaintiffs rights and steal plai… |
| 19-1468 |
Brian Anthony Wiley v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2020-07-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
campsite-privacy civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement-conduct privacy private-property probable-cause search-and-seizure vehicle-search warrantless-search |
Whether the Fourth Amendment permits warrantless entry and search of a rented campsite |
| 19-8913 |
Wasfi Abbassi v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-07-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
false-information fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation miranda-rights probable-cause search-warrant stale-information terry-stop |
Whether the Ninth Circuit's upholding of a search warrant based almost exclusively on false, misleading and stale information violated the Fourth Amen… |
| 19-8841 |
Gregory Moore v. Orange County, California, et al. |
California |
2020-07-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment government-liability rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine |
Should the United States Supreme Court overturn a state case where serious United States Constitutional human rights have been violated by government … |
| 19-1454 |
Naray Palaniappan v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-07-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
computer-search fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-particularity-requirement good-faith-exception jurisdiction jurisdiction-limitation particularity-requirement search-warrant warrant-application warrant-incorporation |
Where a warrant application requested authorization to search computers 'wherever located' but the warrant itself omitted that language, can governmen… |
| 19-8871 |
Joshua Adam Schulte v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2020-07-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment habeas-corpus probable-cause search-and-seizure standing |
Does an administrative court order that unconstitutionally ends a case warrant appellate review? |
| 19-8822 |
Eddie Montero v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-06-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment search-and-seizure |
Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable searches and seizures |
| 19-1423 |
George Vortman v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-06-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction magistrate-judge search-and-seizure void-ab-initio warrant-validity |
Does the Leon good faith exception to the exclusionary rule apply when the police search and seize property pursuant to a warrant that is void ab init… |
| 19-1429 |
David Pena, III v. Texas |
Texas |
2020-06-26 |
Denied |
|
4th-amendment automobile-exception criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-4th-amendment-search-and-seizur exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fruit-of-poisonous-tree fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree miranda-rights probable-cause search-and-seizure |
Whether Texas' Third Court of Appeals erred in finding that the items found in the trunk of petitioner's car did not constitute fruit of the poisonous… |
| 19-1414 |
United States v. Joshua James Cooley |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-06-24 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (13)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) |
civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction fourth-amendment indian-law indian-tribe-authority law-enforcement-authority non-indian non-indian-rights public-lands public-right-of-way reservation reservation-jurisdiction search-and-seizure state-and-federal-law tribal-law-enforcement |
Whether the lower courts erred in suppressing evidence |
| 19-8754 |
Francisco Armando Martinez v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-06-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review circuit-split consensual-encounter district-court fourth-amendment law-enforcement motion-to-suppress reasonable-suspicion standard-of-review suppression |
Whether an appellate court must uphold the ruling of the district court if there is any reasonable view of the evidence to support it where the distri… |
| 19-8697 |
Shiron Deshane Davis v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2020-06-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-law criminal-procedure evidence exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment judicial-review legal-jurisdiction search-and-seizure standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the lower court erred in its application of the Fourth Amendment's exclusionary rule |
| 19-8747 |
Robert Neil Coronado v. Amanda Stinson, Warden, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-06-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-suppression fourth-amendment judicial-integrity search-and-seizure standing statutory-provisions |
Was a procedural due process violation committed by the Court of Appeals in failing to grant a rehearing on the probability of admission of evidence o… |
| 19-8749 |
Paul Anthony Crayton v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-06-18 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law cell-phone-data civil-rights constitutional-law fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence judicial-review legal-procedure privacy reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure statutory-interpretation |
Whether the government's warrantless search and seizure of a person's cell phone location data violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unre… |
| 19-8722 |
Margaret Morris-Calderon v. The James Randi Educational Foundation |
California |
2020-06-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment search-and-seizure |
Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable searches and seizures |
| 19-1379 |
Andrew McKinley v. Christopher Lee-Murray Bey |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-06-16 |
Dismissed |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights equal-protection fourth-amendment investigation investigatory-detention law-enforcement pre-contact qualified-immunity race race-discrimination |
Does the Equal Protection clause require an officer who initiated a pre-contact investigation for non-race related reasons to break off the investigat… |
| 19-1374 |
Arturo Fernando Shaw Gutierrez v. California |
California |
2020-06-15 |
Denied |
Relisted (3) |
electronic-communications electronic-privacy exceptions-to-warrantless-searches fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-protection-electronic-communicati law-enforcement-search miller-doctrine privacy-rights reasonable-expectation-of-privacy stored-communications-act suppression warrant-requirement warrantless-searches |
Does the Fourth Amendment protect individuals who send or receive stored electronic communications (emails) as provided under federal law through the … |
| 19-8715 |
Timothy Robert Treffinger v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-06-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
curtilage effective-assistance-of-counsel fourth-amendment knock-and-talk law-enforcement privacy-expectation reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure |
Do law enforcement officers have an implied license to conduct a 'knock and talk' in the curtilage of a home? |
| 19-8678 |
Robert Michael Fall v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-06-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment multiplicitous-counts reasonable-doubt search-and-seizure standing |
Did the District Court and Court of Appeals rely on inapplicable exceptions to the exclusionary rule, violating Mr. Fall's Fourth Amendment rights? |
| 19-8676 |
Fatou Small v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2020-06-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
fourth-amendment informant-tip probable-cause reasonable-suspicion totality-of-the-circumstances traffic-offense vehicle-stop |
Whether a vehicle stop was performed in violation of Petitioner's Fourth Amendment rights |
| 19-8651 |
Kevin Remillard v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2020-06-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment motion-to-suppress personal-papers probable-cause search-warrant warrantless-search welfare-check |
Does the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment require a search warrant or probable cause to seize and search personal papers during a welfare check? |
| 19-8654 |
Richard Senese, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-06-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
article-iii article-three due-process equal-protection exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception judicial-precedent panel-rule stare-decisis |
Question not identified |
| 19-1352 |
Western Oilfields Supply Company, dba Rain for Rent v. Eugene Scalia, Secretary of Labor, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2020-06-09 |
Denied |
|
administrative-inspection due-process fourth-amendment mine-safety mine-safety-and-health-act msha msha-inspector walkaround-rights warrantless-inspection |
Whether it violates the Due Process Clause for an MSHA inspector arbitrarily to refuse a mine operator an opportunity to accompany the inspector on hi… |
| 19-8596 |
Ryan Galal VanDyck v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-06-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
digital-surveillance fourth-amendment internet-privacy internet-protocol-address online-privacy probable-cause subscriber-information third-party-doctrine |
Does the Fourth Amendment require a warrant to obtain subscriber information associated with an IP address? |
| 19-8594 |
Justin Harrington Darrell v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-06-03 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment high-crime-area illinois-v-wardlow officer-safety reasonable-suspicion seizure terry-stop terry-v-ohio |
Whether 'officer safety' can justify the Terry stop |
| 19-1327 |
Kris V. Zocco v. Wisconsin |
Wisconsin |
2020-06-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
cell-phone-search cell-phone-searches cell-phones evidence evidence-search fourth-amendment general-warrant general-warrants particularity-requirement personal-computers probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-requirement |
Is the Fourth Amendment's ban on general warrants violated by a warrant broadly authorizing search of the 'contents' of a cell phone for unspecified '… |
| 19-1309 |
Kari Janae Phipps v. Idaho |
Idaho |
2020-05-21 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
4th-amendment detention detention-authority fourth-amendment michigan-v-summers probation probation-search reasonable-suspicion residence-check search-and-seizure search-warrant summers-doctrine |
Whether the 'limited authority to detain' during the execution of a judicially approved search warrant for contraband, Michigan v. Summers, 452 U.S. 6… |
| 19-8509 |
Joaquin Gonzales v. California |
California |
2020-05-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alpr automated-license-plate-reader evidence-standard fourth-amendment license-plate physical-movements reasonable-expectation-of-privacy reasonable-expectation-privacy search-and-seizure warrantless-search |
Did a detective's warrantless search of an ALPR database for images and locations of Petitioner's license plate violate petitioner's Fourth Amendment … |
| 19-8511 |
Herbert W. Morrison, Jr. v. Andrew J. Hale |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-05-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights civil-rights-action collateral-estoppel fourth-amendment heck-doctrine Heck-v-Humphrey illegal-search-and-seizure qualified-immunity section-1983 |
Whether 42 U.S.C. §1983 civil-rights claims based on 4th-amendment illegal-search-and-seizure are barred under Heck-v-Humphrey, collateral-estoppel, o… |
| 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 |
| 19-8494 |
Michael Lustig v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-05-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fruit-of-poisonous-tree fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree illegal-search search-and-seizure standing |
Whether failure to suppress evidence resulting from an illegal search amounted to a violation of Petitioner's Fourth Amendment rights |
| 19-8486 |
Quincy Tremayne Bloodworth v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-05-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights fourth-amendment law-enforcement marijuana-legalization police-encounter probable-cause search-and-seizure standard-of-review unreasonable-seizures |
Are minott ties and pool people in America provided adequate protection from unreasonable Searches and Seizures? |
| 19-1289 |
George Andrew Benavides v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-05-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process military-operations. torture treason civil-rights constitutional-protections due-process espionage-act espionage-act-1917 fourth-amendment military-operations military-privacy surveillance-rights torture treason |
Whether the United States Navy/USN had legal consent to spy on the petitioner while serving in the United States Marine Corps/USMC during the Gulf War… |
| 19-1286 |
In Re Nina Shahin |
|
2020-05-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process standing takings criminal-procedure fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-application fourth-amendment-interpretation search-and-seizure unreasonable-search |
Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable searches and seizures |
| 19-8437 |
Joh-ner Taylor Wilson v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2020-05-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights due-process fabricated-evidence false-arrest fourth-amendment perjured-testimony probable-cause warrantless-arrest wrongful-conviction |
Whether Wilson's warrantless arrest and detention without probable cause violates the Fourth Amendment |
| 19-8418 |
Rupert Stamps v. Detective Paris Capalupo, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-05-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
affidavit exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause search-warrant standing |
Did the Lower Court err or abuse its discretion when ruling that Officer Rollins did not violate Appellant's rights under the Fourth Amendment to be f… |
| 19-8423 |
Christopher Gies v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2020-05-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
fourth-amendment good-faith good-faith-doctrine probable-cause probation-search reasonable-suspicion statutory-compliance warrantless-search warrants-clause |
Does a warrantless probation search conducted outside the scope of an authorizing state regulation and not authorized by a condition of probation, and… |
| 19-8401 |
Roderick Delon Lewis v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-05-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
collins-v-virginia curtilage fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-suspicion terry-stop terry-v-ohio warrant |
Whether an officer's intrusion into the curtilage of a residence implicated Fourth-Amendment-protections, requiring probable-cause rather than reasona… |
| 19-1266 |
H. B., a Minor, Individually and as Successor in Interest to Michelle Lee Shirley, By and Through His Guardian ad Litem, Ronnie Shirley v. City of Torrance, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-05-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment civil-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment objective-reasonableness police-conduct qualified-immunity scott-v-harris summary-judgment use-of-force |
In a 42 USC § 1983 action where videos capturing the claimed use of excessive force are open to multiple interpretations as to whether the use of leth… |
| 19-8393 |
Joshua Tucker v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-05-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause probation probation-rights search-and-seizure warrantless-searches |
Whether a probationer has a right to be free from warrantless searches and seizures conducted by law enforcement officials without reason or purpose p… |
| 19-8370 |
Cynthia Fisher v. Walgreen Co. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-04-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure fourth-amendment search-and-seizure standing |
Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable searches and seizures |
| 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… |
| 19-1243 |
Arthur O. Armstrong v. Wilson County, North Carolina, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-04-22 |
Denied |
|
access-to-courts civil-rights constitutional-rights court-access due-process equal-protection federal-procedure fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment frivolous-complaint official-discrimination standing |
Whether trial court deprived petitioner of constitutional rights |
| 19-8318 |
William Whiteley v. John Willis, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-04-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
automobile-exception certificate-of-appealability criminal-procedure evidence-law exculpatory-evidence eyewitness fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel search-and-seizure warrantless-search |
Whether petitioner is entitled to a certificate of appealability on his claim that the warrantless search of his automobile's glove compartment violat… |
| 19-8309 |
Cynthia Fisher v. Frontline National |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-04-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure fourth-amendment search-and-seizure standing |
Whether the lower court erred in its interpretation and application of the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable searches and seizures |
| 19-8298 |
David M. Kissi v. United States District Court for the District of Maryland |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-04-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fbi fbi-warrant fourth-amendment hearsay hearsay-evidence miranda-rights search-and-seizure |
Whether the trial court overlooked evidence that the FBI had Petitioner arrested and searched his home with writs that were inadmissible because they … |
| 19-8281 |
Luqman Abdullah v. New Jersey |
New Jersey |
2020-04-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment delayed-notification federalism fourth-amendment new-jersey patriot-act separation-of-powers sneak-and-peek surveillance-procedure tenth-amendment |
Whether the enhanced surveillance procedure under Section 213 of the U.S. Patriot Act is presumptively unconstitutional |
| 19-8273 |
Deonday Evans v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-04-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-922 18-usc-924 commerce-clause commerce-nexus criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule federalism federalism-principles fourth-amendment search-warrant sentencing-guidelines standing |
Whether federalism principles require reinterpretation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g) and 18 U.S.C. § 924 to require a more meaningful commerce nexus |
| 19-8278 |
In Re Levar Lee Anthony Spence |
|
2020-04-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-violation due-process exculpatory-evidence fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment sixth-amendment spoliation spoliation-of-evidence writ-of-mandamus |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit properly refused review and hearing of Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment,… |
| 19-1221 |
Derrick Lucius Williams, Jr. v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-04-16 |
Denied |
|
border-search circuit-split customs digital-device forensic-search fourth-amendment reasonable-suspicion warrant-exception |
Whether government agents need reasonable suspicion to conduct a warrantless forensic search of a digital device at the border |
| 19-8246 |
Gregory Thomas v. Tom Corbett, et al. |
Pennsylvania |
2020-04-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
cellmate-discrimination civil-rights conjugal-visit due-process fourth-amendment institutionalized-persons-act prison-policy privacy property-rights religious-exercise religious-land-use search-and-seizure |
Whether the government's warrantless search of a person's home and seizure of their personal property violates the Fourth Amendment's protection again… |
| 19-8249 |
Rodney Jackson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-04-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bell-v-wolfish constitutional-rights detention fourth-amendment handcuffed-individual minor-offense public-search search-and-seizure strip-search unreasonable-search |
Whether a public strip search of a handcuffed, detained individual suspected of a minor offense violates one's Fourth Amendment right to be free from … |
| 19-8250 |
Michael Thomas Gaussiran v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-04-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop unreasonable-searches unreasonable-searches-and-seizures vehicle-search |
Whether the Fourth Amendment's Right To Be Free From Unreasonable Searches And Seizures Requires Reversal When There Is No Evidence To Support Reasona… |
| 19-8227 |
Joshua Dwayne Carrier v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2020-04-09 |
Rehearing |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
4-year-old-transaction 4th-amendment 4th-amendment-violation constitutional-rights double-jeopardy expert-testimony fourth-amendment probable-cause search-warrant stale-information |
Was the search warrant for Mr. Carrier's home and computers relying on a single transaction from four years earlier based upon stale information and l… |
| 19-8230 |
Alexander Kates v. New York |
New York |
2020-04-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts due-process fourth-amendment illegal-seizure ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-agreement property-return prosecutorial-misconduct retroactivity |
Whether a plea agreement to return illegally seized property in exchange for a guilty plea, induced by the prosecutor, is breached when the prosecutio… |
| 19-8226 |
Randy Phipps v. Rick Raemisch, Executive Director, Colorado Department of Corrections, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-04-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-claims due-process fair-presentation fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pro-se-petition |
Whether federal constitutional claims were fairly presented under federal law |
| 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.? |
| 19-8201 |
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… |
| 19-8204 |
Arnold Eugene Fox, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-04-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-tampering fourth-amendment free-speech ineffective-counsel prosecutorial-misconduct search-warrant standing statutory-interpretation |
Does federal statute 18 U.S.C. § 2422(b) have an unconstitutionally vague residual clause? |
| 19-8194 |
Jonathan Crupi v. New York |
New York |
2020-04-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights data-collection digital-privacy electronic-devices exploratory-searches fourth-amendment particularity particularity-doctrine search-and-seizure |
Should the Carpenter decision on CSLI extend to digital devices? |
| 19-8178 |
Alexander Nathan Norris v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-04-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
electronic-privacy fourth-amendment home-privacy kyllo-v-united-states law-enforcement-surveillance reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search sense-enhancing-technology technology warrantless-search |
Whether a law enforcement officer's warrantless use of Moocherhunter software and a directional antenna to locate a computer in petitioner's apartment… |
| 19-8131 |
Dwayne B. Sheron v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-03-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-powers probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure vehicle-search warrantless-search |
Whether a police officer can utter the 'magic words' 'I smelled an odor of marihuana' to justify a warrantless search based on a 'hunch' |
| 19-8147 |
Romulo Murillo-Morales v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-03-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-requirement |
Whether the petitioner's conviction is valid given the warrantless search and seizure in violation of the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments? |
| 19-8120 |
Jarvis Rodrick Thomas v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-03-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process equal-protection false-statements fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment liberty-interest |
Was it unreasonable to be seized in violation of the Fourth Amendment and re-arrested for the same offense to deprive the Petitioner of his Fourteenth… |
| 19-8104 |
Juan Gonzalez-Arias v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-03-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure drug-trafficking fourth-amendment home-search nexus probable-cause right-to-counsel search-warrant sixth-amendment |
Was there sufficient evidence of probable cause to establish a nexus between Mr. Gonzalez-Arias's drug trafficking activity and his home to justify se… |
| 19-8087 |
Sharla Jenkins v. Helen Forbes Fields, as Administrator of the Estate of Elase Jenkins |
Ohio |
2020-03-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-rights privacy seizure warrantless-search |
Whether the government's warrantless seizure and indefinite retention of a person's private information violates the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on… |
| 19-8069 |
Eric S. Newton, Jr. v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2020-03-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment cell-phone-search civil-rights constitutional-rights fourth-amendment jurisdiction law-enforcement-misconduct police-misconduct probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant |
Was the Ohio Supreme Court in error when it refused to accept jurisdiction over a matter that, like the instant petition, involves a substantial Const… |
| 19-8077 |
Arnold Anderson v. Gilberto Valenzuela, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure digital-privacy forensic-evidence fourth-amendment property-rights search-and-seizure |
Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits the warrantless seizure of a person's property for the purpose of conducting a forensic search of the property'… |
| 19-1161 |
Justin Hawkins v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2020-03-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion stolen-vehicle traffic-stop vehicle-registration vehicle-search |
Whether a report that a car's color is different from the color listed on the car's registration—without any additional facts—gives a police officer r… |
| 19-1142 |
Kendall R. Carter v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-03-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment administrative-subpoena carpenter-v-united-states civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment internet-privacy internet-subscriber-information ip-address privacy privacy-interest subpoena third-party-doctrine warrant-requirement |
Whether the Fourth Amendment warrant requirement protects a right to privacy in an internet protocol (IP) address and internet subscriber information |
| 19-8014 |
Michael Artis v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-03-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arrest criminal-activity criminal-conspiracy evidence-suppression fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure |
Whether the Fourth Amendment requires suppression of evidence where agents lacked probable cause to arrest two persons absent probable cause of crimin… |
| 19-7983 |
Eric S. Newton, Jr. v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2020-03-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment affidavit cell-phone-search civil-rights constitutional-rights fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-rights law-enforcement-misconduct misidentification police-misconduct probable-cause reckless-disregard search-and-seizure search-warrant standing |
Was the Ohio Supreme Court in error when it refused to accept jurisdiction over a matter involving a violation of the petitioner's Fourth Amendment ri… |
| 19-7968 |
Akube Wuromoni Ndoromo v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2020-03-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment jury-trial seventh-amendment standing takings |
Does the Fourth Amendment protect the right of the people to be secure therein? |
| 19-7906 |
Angello A. D. Osborne v. Peter Georgiades |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-03-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process fabricated-evidence fourth-amendment malicious-prosecution police-misconduct stet unlawful-seizure |
Whether a 'STET' entry in a criminal prosecution precludes a defendant from recovering in a civil rights lawsuit against a police officer for fabricat… |
| 19-7950 |
Daejerron L. Valentine v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
2020-03-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment ambiguity automobile-exception conjunctive consistency criminal-procedure Did the removal of 'or' create ambiguity? disjunctive fourth-amendment Is a defendant entitled to consistent jury instruc jury-instructions jury-trial legislative-history possession probable-cause reasonableness reasonableness-standard scope-of-search search search-and-seizure search-scope statutory-interpretation warrant-requirement warrantless-search |
Did the warrantless search of an automobile exceed the scope of the automobile exception? |
| 19-1112 |
Stephanie Jones v. Jeremy Eder, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-03-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights fourth-amendment interstate-commerce-clause preemption prescription-drugs prescription-medication probable-cause search-and-seizure supremacy-clause warrantless-seizure |
Does the Fourth Amendment, the Supremacy Clause, or the Interstate Commerce Clause prohibit state actors from warrantlessly seizing the People and the… |
| 19-1099 |
City of Bakersfield, California, et al. v. Leslie Laray Crawford |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-03-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment mental-illness negligence objective-reasonableness police-procedure prior-knowledge reasonable-officer use-of-force |
Did the Ninth Circuit err when it held that evidence of prior incidents which indicate that an individual may be mentally ill could be introduced for … |
| 19-1102 |
Dontae Small v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-03-09 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
abandonment-exception carjacking-statute cell-phone cell-phone-privacy cell-phones digital-contents digital-privacy digital-search fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-warrant-requirement mens-rea riley-v-california search-incident-to-arrest |
Whether the Fourth Amendment permits warrantless searches of the digital contents of an abandoned cell phone |
| 19-7881 |
Tavares L. Farrington v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment criminal-behavior criminal-procedure first-hand-witness fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure second-hand-information terry-stop |
Under the Fourth Amendment, a Terry stop and frisk must be supported by reasonable suspicion that a crime has been or will soon be committed. Here, po… |
| 19-7828 |
Ronald Hayward v. Keith J. Foley, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-03-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment box-truck civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause racial-profiling search-and-seizure standing vehicle-search |
Do police officers have probable cause to search a vehicle or box truck without a warrant? |
| 19-1067 |
Neal N. Browder, et al. v. S. R. Nehad, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-28 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights deadly-force due-process emergency-response fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct police-shooting qualified-immunity use-of-force |
Did the Ninth Circuit err in denying qualified immunity to a police officer who responded to a midnight emergency call about a suspect threatening oth… |
| 19-1059 |
Angela Hamm, et vir v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2020-02-26 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
4th-amendment fourth-amendment home-invasion home-search law-enforcement-search privacy privacy-rights probation probation-condition reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure warrantless-search |
Whether police violate the Fourth Amendment when they conduct a suspicionless search of a probationer's home |
| 19-1055 |
Dustin Moss v. United States |
First Circuit |
2020-02-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment civil-procedure criminal-procedure evidence-suppression fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation illegal-search package package-description particularity-requirement probable-cause search-warrant tracking-number |
Whether the search of a package that was solely referenced by its tracking number in the warrant's caption, but was not otherwise described in the war… |
| 19-1057 |
Lori Rodriguez, et al. v. City of San Jose, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-25 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedRelisted (3) |
civil-rights community-caretaking constitutional-rights fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure immediate-threat issue-preclusion ripeness search-and-seizure second-amendment timely-warrant warrant-requirement |
Whether the Fourth Amendment allows an exception to its warrant requirement for so-called 'community caretaking' where the alleged danger to the commu… |
| 19-7758 |
Lin Ouyang v. Achem Industry America, Inc. |
California |
2020-02-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment appeal civil-procedure civil-rights court-appointed-counsel criminal-appeal criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection equal-protection-clause fourth-amendment indigent-defendant indigent-rights misdemeanor-conviction right-to-counsel |
Whether the state court's dismissal of the appeal from misdemeanor conviction, despite the lack of assistance of counsel on appeal, violates the Equal… |
| 19-7716 |
Timmy Wallace v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2020-02-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment database-search fourth-amendment police-database reasonable-suspicion rodriguez-precedent rodriguez-v-united-states search-and-seizure traffic-stop vehicle-identification |
Does Rodriguez v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 1609 (2015) permit a traffic stop to be extended based on a suspicion that had already been dispelled by p… |
| 19-7682 |
Eric Beverly v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-02-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cell-site-location-information criminal-procedure evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant warrant-application |
Whether Petitioner's rights under the Fourth Amendment were violated when the government used misleading information to seek a warrant for evidence it… |
| 19-1027 |
David Caswell v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-02-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
child-pornography computer-search federal-investigation fourth-amendment good-faith good-faith-exception jurisdiction magistrate-jurisdiction network-investigative-technique search-warrant |
Did the FBI act in good-faith when it indicated to a magistrate judge that property to be searched pursuant to a search warrant application was locate… |
| 19-1021 |
Micah Jessop, et al. v. City of Fresno, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-18 |
Denied |
Amici (12)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights constitutional-rights fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-misconduct property-rights property-seizure qualified-immunity search-and-seizure search-warrant seizure |
Whether it is clearly established that the Fourth Amendment prohibits police officers from stealing property listed in a search warrant |
| 19-7667 |
Robert Tremaine Williams v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-02-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment coercion detainment due-process fourth-amendment k-9-search law-enforcement search-and-seizure seizure traffic-stop video-evidence |
Whether the promise to be free to leave after clearance of driver's license, vehicle papers, and warrants with issuance of a warning traffic citation … |
| 19-7628 |
Glen Gary Guyn v. Jason Kent, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-02-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment cause-and-prejudice comity due-process finality fourth-amendment fundamental-injustice incarceration search-and-seizure unreasonable-search unreasonable-search-and-seizure |
Whether Mr. Guyn's Fourth Amendment right against unreasonable searches and seizures was violated |
| 19-7656 |
Michael Huntoon v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment affidavit computer-privacy computer-search fourth-amendment franks-hearing magistrate probable-cause reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure search-warrant |
Whether the lower court can interpret the meaning of words to determine probable cause existed in a search warrant without the false information |
| 19-7657 |
Marion L. Sherrod v. Sidney D. Harkelroad, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-02-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause qualified-immunity seizure seizure-disorder standing warrantless-search |
Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals committed a reversible error in dismissing Mr. Sherrod's pro se claims |
| 19-7631 |
Regina Wolgamott v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment garrison-v-hudson law-enforcement privacy privacy-rights probable-cause residential-search search-and-seizure search-warrant standing |
If when executing a search warrant of a single-family residence, officers discover multiple occupants with their own private rooms, are officers requi… |
| 19-7601 |
Craig K. Garrett v. Joseph Madder, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure digital-privacy due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel law-enforcement probable-cause prosecutorial-misconduct public-defender right-to-counsel search-and-seizure state-attorney |
Can the state of Colorado remove a defendant's right to effective assistance of counsel (trial and appellate) and use of a public defender due to pros… |
| 19-996 |
Lindsay Waters v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2020-02-10 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
civil-rights coercion due-process dui dui-testing fourth-amendment implied-consent search-and-seizure warrantless-search |
Whether the Fourth Amendment permits police to coerce submission to a warrantless blood test |
| 19-7592 |
John D. McAllister v. Timothy Malfitano, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-02-07 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment judicial-integrity jurisdiction jurisdictional-overreach law-enforcement-misconduct probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-falsification |
Whether the Fourth Amendment was violated by the illegal arrest and search of the petitioner without probable cause |
| 19-7605 |
Vincent Kane v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2020-02-07 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment abandonment abandonment-doctrine cell-phone-privacy cell-phones fourth-amendment intent-to-reclaim password-protected property-rights public-place reasonable-expectation search-and-seizure |
Whether the doctrine of abandonment applies to password protected cell phones found in a public place? |
| 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 |
| 19-991 |
Samson Primm v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-02-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment forfeiture forfeiture-case fourth-amendment search-and-seizure standing suppression-hearing |
Whether one who has the requisite standing to move to suppress based on contentions, which if validated show his Fourth Amendment rights were violated… |
| 19-7578 |
Ray Edward Barry v. Patrick Warren, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-02-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-of-discretion binding-over brady-violation circuit-court criminal-procedure dna-testing due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel lost-evidence prosecutorial-misconduct quash-information |
Did The District Court Abused Its Discretion In Binding Over To Circuit Court And The Circuit Court Erred In Refusing To Quash The Information? |
| 19-7581 |
James Ryan Taylor and Steven Vincent Smith v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-02-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment geographic-scope good-faith-exception misrepresentation search-warrant |
Does the good-faith exception to the exclusionary rule apply to evidence seized under an invalid warrant if agents knowingly misrepresented the fact t… |
| 19-7533 |
Allan Leslie Sinanan, Jr. v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2020-02-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-law fourth-amendment law-enforcement search-and-seizure state-court state-court-decision unreasonable-application |
Whether Law Enforcement Authorities engaged in tactics and procedures designed to circumvent Petitioner's Constitutional protected rights guaranteed b… |
| 19-7519 |
Ericka Hernandez-Nunez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-01-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
crime-detection criminal-procedure exculpatory-evidence fourth-amendment holistic-analysis inculpatory-evidence law-enforcement motion-to-suppress reasonable-inference reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure |
Whether the Fourth Amendment requirement of reasonableness requires that a determination of reasonable suspicion be based upon an explicit identificat… |
| 19-7522 |
Dedrick Matthews v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2020-01-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
and whether the admission of blood test results w birchfield-precedent birchfield-v-north-dakota causation causation-analysis criminal-procedure fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure vehicular-homicide vehicular-negligence |
Was defendant's conduct a substantial factor in causing the victim's death or serious bodily injury, when the accident would have occurred without it? |
| 19-7490 |
Omar Ernesto Hernandez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-01-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment appeal conclusory-statements criminal-procedure fourth-amendment human-smuggling investigatory-stop law-enforcement law-enforcement-database reasonable-suspicion |
Whether the district court and Ninth Circuit erred in relying on factually unsupported statements in determining reasonable suspicion for an investiga… |
| 19-7507 |
Tommy Gurule v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-01-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment consent consent-search detention fourth-amendment passenger-rights passengers search-and-seizure traffic-stop vehicle-search |
If the driver of a car consents to its search, may officers frisk non-consenting passengers and detain them for the duration of the search? |
| 19-7477 |
Raul Mejia v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-01-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process expert-testimony fair-trial fourth-amendment franks-hearing search-and-seizure trial-fairness warrant warrant-validity |
Was petitioner's truck illegally searched due to an invalid warrant? Was petitioner improperly denied a Franks hearing? Did Officer Carbajal testify a… |
| 19-7489 |
Paul Edward Duran v. Ralph Diaz, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-01-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
appellate-jurisdiction constitutional-provisions criminal-conviction criminal-procedure empirical-evidence evidence evidence-standard exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment illinois-v-krull judicial-review search-and-seizure standing statutory-provisions united-states-v-leon |
Whether the Circumstances regarding the Fourth Amendment Exclusionary Rule § 2010F not evolved around the obtaining, holding and exclusion of evidence… |
| 19-948 |
Gene Rechtzigel v. Minnesota |
Minnesota |
2020-01-29 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights due-process eighth-amendment fifth-amendment first-amendment fourth-amendment government-action petition-clause sixth-amendment standing |
Did the Government deprive Petitioner the First Amendment Right to petition the Government for a redress of grievances? |
| 19-7448 |
Dennis Rydbom v. Donnie Ames, Superintendent, Mount Olive Correctional Complex |
West Virginia |
2020-01-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
Compulsory-Process Confrontation-Clause due-process Equal-Protection fourteenth-amendment-due-process fourteenth-amendment-equal-protection fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-probable-cause fourth-amendment-warrant-requirement sixth-amendment-compulsory-process sixth-amendment-confrontation state-sovereignty |
Questions Presented |
| 19-7419 |
Timothy Shayne Hardin, Jr. v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals arrest charge civil-rights community-supervision constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-due-process dismissal due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment probable-cause probation revocation search-and-seizure sentencing |
Whether the trial court abused its authority by revoking a community supervision because of a new honest mistake charge which was ultimately dismissed… |
| 19-7432 |
Edwin David Calligan v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2020-01-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights fourth-amendment michigan-v-long officer-safety protective-sweep reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop vehicle-search |
Whether officers can reasonably fear a suspect will retrieve a weapon after being told he is free to go |
| 19-7438 |
Javion Scott v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-01-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment criminal-procedure fourth-amendment griffin-v-wisconsin law-enforcement-action parole post-release-supervision probation probation-supervision search-and-seizure special-needs-search united-states-v-knights warrantless-search |
Whether a warrantless search of a North Carolina post-release supervisee is a special-needs probationary search or a law-enforcement search |
| 19-7439 |
Saddam Samaan Daoud Samaan v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-01-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
carpenter-v-united-states expectation-of-privacy fourth-amendment hotel-guest-registration law-enforcement reasonable-search search-and-seizure third-party-doctrine warrantless-search |
Did Petitioner have a sufficient expectation of privacy in hotel guest registration information that a warrantless demand to the innkeeper for product… |
| 19-7408 |
Daniel Jay Bowman v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-01-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment government-prosecution parallel-construction standing |
Whether the Government's use of 'Parallel Construction' violates 4th-and-5th-amendment-rights |
| 19-928 |
Kenneth Fernandez Johnson, Jr. v. Sadie Darnell, Sheriff, Alachua County, Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-01-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights-statute due-process false-arrest false-imprisonment favorable-termination fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment malicious-prosecution probable-cause |
Whether the Fourth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment rights were violated due to false arrest, false imprisonment, and malicious prosecution under 42… |
| 19-7371 |
Larry Bentley, Jr. v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-01-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conflict-of-interest constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment narcotics-detection prejudice retroactive-application retroactivity search search-and-seizure |
Question not identified |
| 19-7392 |
Demetrius Darrell Davis, aka Meatman v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-01-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment 4th-amendment-search-and-seizure abandonment abandonment-doctrine criminal-procedure disclaimer-of-ownership fourth-amendment incriminating-statement incriminating-statements police-questioning property-rights reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure |
Whether a mere disclaimer of ownership in an effort to avoid making an incriminating statement constitutes abandonment |
| 19-7370 |
Mario Alberto Buenrostro-Lopez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-01-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment anonymous-tip border-patrol border-security civil-rights criminal-activity criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment investigatory-stop reasonable-suspicion vehicle-stop |
Whether an individual's telephone call to law enforcement is sufficient to establish reasonable suspicion for an investigatory stop |
| 19-7373 |
Sanjay Tyagi v. Marc D. Smith, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-01-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-abuse-registry child-seizure due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment interrogation medical-self-defense parental-rights privacy search-and-seizure |
Does seizure, physical examination, privacy and interrogation of minor children at public school without parental consent, exigency, or court order vi… |
| 19-899 |
Shaniz West v. Doug Winfield, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-01-21 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Relisted (6) |
4th-amendment civil-rights consent due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement property-damage property-rights qualified-immunity |
Whether an officer who has consent to 'get inside' a house but instead destroys it from the outside is entitled to qualified immunity in the absence o… |
| 19-7342 |
Ray Turner v. Veronica Cadney, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-01-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
1983-complaint 4th-amendment civil-rights civil-rights-act-1983 dismissal due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment section-1983 standing temporary-restraining-order |
Did the U.S. District Court error by not applying the Fourth Amendment equal protection to the petitioner's case when he applied for a temporary restr… |
| 19-885 |
Jamie Swartz, et ux. v. Heartland Equine Rescue, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-01-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment livestock livestock-seizure post-seizure-hearing pre-seizure-hearing rooker-feldman-doctrine section-1983 seizure subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Did the 7th Circuit err by finding the Rooker-Feldman doctrine applied? |
| 19-7311 |
Alphonso Vernell Frazier, II v. City of Omaha Police Department, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-01-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights color-of-law due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment search-and-seizure section-1983 unreasonable-search unreasonable-search-and-seizure |
Whether the authorities of the Municipal Government of the City of Omaha failed to properly train their officials and employees |
| 19-7282 |
John Anthony Arnold v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2020-01-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment law-enforcement motion-to-suppress ninth-circuit search-warrant standing warrantless-arrest |
Did the Virginia Supreme Court err in upholding petitioner's warrantless arrest? |
| 19-7241 |
William Gene Cox, Jr. v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2020-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-assault civil-rights confidential-informant confidential-informants constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement pretext search-and-seizure unreasonable-search |
Should law enforcement be allowed to utilize armed assaults by confidential informants as pretext for circumventing the Fourth Amendment guarantee aga… |
| 19-860 |
Nikolai Bosyk v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-01-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
child-pornography circuit-split criminal-procedure fourth-amendment ip-address probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant |
Whether the single click of a URL link to child pornography by someone using an individual's IP address can provide probable cause to support a search… |
| 19-7209 |
Jurother Lee Alston, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-4th-amendment-exclusionary-rule evidence-law exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery nix-v-williams search-and-seizure |
What is the scope of the Inevitable Discovery doctrine originally set out in Nix v. Williams, 467 U.S. 431, 444 (1984)? |
| 19-7213 |
Rodney Banks v. California |
California |
2020-01-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment arrest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourth-amendment law-enforcement miranda-rights probable-cause search-and-seizure |
Whether the arresting officer failed to read the petitioner their Miranda rights and used the wrong evidence for deliberation |
| 19-7195 |
Matthew Davonn Weatherspoon v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2020-01-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
cell-phone-tracking civil-rights colorado-statute criminal-law due-process first-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech law-enforcement privacy-rights search-and-seizure sex-trafficking standing statutory-interpretation warrant-requirement |
Whether the Colorado statute on complicity in sex trafficking violates the First Amendment and due process rights of the defendant by criminalizing sp… |
| 19-7164 |
Dominic Howard v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule fifth-circuit fourth-amendment in-forma-pauperis ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review pro-se probable-cause search-and-seizure sentencing standing writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in affirming the district court's denial of Petitioner's motion to suppress evidence obtained in violation of the Four… |
| 19-7170 |
Dante Taylor v. New York |
New York |
2020-01-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-counsel appellate-procedure appellate-review carpenter-v-united-states constitutional-law constitutional-ruling due-process fourth-amendment griffith-v-kentucky ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel retroactive-application retroactivity supremacy-clause supreme-court-precedent |
What is the appropriate appellate protocol for appellate counsel to follow when: (i) the Supreme Court has issued a new constitutional ruling affectin… |
| 19-7171 |
Samuel Turner v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-01-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arrest civil-rights conviction-and-sentence criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-4th-amendment-search-and-seizur drug-possession due-process exculpatory-evidence fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure investigative-reports police-conduct probable-cause search-and-seizure subpoena-duces-tecum supervisory-power |
Whether the lower courts erred by upholding the arrest of Mr. Turner? |
| 19-7173 |
Kenneth Rose v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-01-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
address-discrepancy affidavit criminal-procedure fourth-amendment good-faith-exception ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel material-fact plain-error search-warrant suppression |
Whether appellate counsel was ineffective for failing to raise a plain error of fact material to Leon's third exception, which would have not permitte… |
| 19-7139 |
Daryl Glenn Pawlak v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment circuit-split due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment good-faith outrageous-government-conduct rule-41 search-warrant warrant-violation |
Whether the Fifth Circuit's standard for determining outrageous government conduct violates the Fifth Amendment Due Process clause |
| 19-7129 |
Brian Moore v. New Jersey |
New Jersey |
2019-12-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
consent-form consent-to-search fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-rights motel-room oath-administration probable-cause search-and-seizure state-courts telephonic-warrant warrant-validity |
Whether the Petitioner's Fourth Amendment right was violated where a consent-to-search form indicates it was signed AFTER the search and seizure occur… |
| 19-814 |
Tony Deshawn McCoy v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-12-27 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
armed-and-dangerous fourth-amendment law-enforcement-discretion marijuana-possession probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-stop terry-v-ohio |
Whether officers can presume that a person is 'armed and presently dangerous' simply because the person possesses any amount of marijuana, however sma… |
| 19-7055 |
In Re Charlene Rosa |
|
2019-12-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-v-maryland civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection evidence fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel search-and-seizure strickland-v-washington |
Whether the state court violated the defendant's constitutional rights by denying his claims of ineffective assistance of counsel, denial of due proce… |
| 19-797 |
City of St. Louis, Missouri, et al. v. Mary R. Meier |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-12-23 |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment civil-rights fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment municipal-liability probable-cause section-1983 seizure wanted-bulletin warrantless-seizure |
Whether a municipality can be held liable under 42 U.S.C. §1983 for a warrantless seizure of an automobile based on probable cause |
| 19-800 |
Carlin Robinson, Individually, as Guardian and Next Friend of I. Y., M. Y., and A. Y., and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Veronica Williams, Deceased, et al. v. Daniel A. Lioi, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-12-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split civil-rights deshhaney due-process fourth-amendment police-liability qualified-immunity state-created-danger |
Which of the widely divergent approaches amongst the circuit courts of appeal, if any, appropriately applies the doctrine arising from this Court's pr… |
| 19-7035 |
Michael B. Lowry v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment attenuation-doctrine burden-of-proof criminal-procedure evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment search-and-seizure suppression-of-evidence |
Does the government bear the burden of proving that the attenuation doctrine applies to preclude suppression of evidence after an illegal search or se… |
| 19-794 |
Daniel Macias, et al. v. Raymond Nichols, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-20 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split civil-dispute civil-procedure civil-rights district-of-columbia-v-wesby fourth-amendment law-enforcement ninth-circuit probable-cause qualified-immunity section-1983 wesby |
Whether the Ninth Circuit departed from this Court's qualified immunity decisions |
| 19-7019 |
Alvin Washington v. Justin Boder, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-12-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment procedural-due-process property-rights section-1983 standing takings unlawful-eviction unreasonable-search-and-seizure |
Whether the extraordinary circumstances of a person being lawfully evicted by PFA order by the court one day after his unlawful eviction by state empl… |
| 19-7020 |
Nahach Garay v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment affidavit criminal-procedure fourth-amendment inventory-search law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure training-and-experience warrant warrantless-search |
Whether a purported inventory search that produces no inventory can justify the warrantless search of an automobile |
| 19-7022 |
Jesus D. Cruz v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-12-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment constitutional-violation criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel rehaif-v-united-states search-and-seizure search-warrant sentencing toxicology-report |
Whether Counsel was ineffective for not showing the Petitioner and or verifying to the Petitioner, that the officers never producted a valid search wa… |
| 19-6969 |
Leviticus A. Swift v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2019-12-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment arrest-warrant civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment indictment probable-cause search-and-seizure |
Whether the probable cause for the issuance of an arrest warrant was insufficient to justify the petitioner's arrest? |
| 19-6990 |
King Bush v. Kannika Say |
Michigan |
2019-12-18 |
Denied |
IFP |
benefits civil-rights confidential-informant criminal-procedure due-process false-documents fourth-amendment fraud green-card immigration immigration-fraud law-enforcement marriage money-laundering probable-cause search-and-seizure |
Whether the marriage based on immigration fraud should be voided |
| 19-6998 |
Patrick Kofalt v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-12-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2255-motion conflict-of-interest due-process plea-agreement fourth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-procedure judicial-shell-game nix-v-whiteside plea-agreement sixth-amendment |
Does controlling authority from the Supreme Court in Nix v. Whiteside, 475 US 157 (1986), hold that all ineffective assistance of counsel waivers are … |
| 19-6963 |
Roland A. Prenatt v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-12-17 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
6th-amendment attorney-accountability civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment mental-health probable-cause search-and-seizure sixth-amendment-speedy-trial,due-process,right-to- speedy-trial |
Whether the Sixth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees the accused the right to a speedy trial, and why the judge and attorney can waive this… |
| 19-768 |
Sherard Martin v. Davis Marinez, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-12-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
attorneys-fees civil-damages civil-rights constitutional-rights damages due-process economic-loss exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment illegal-search illegal-stop incarceration police-misconduct standing |
Whether a plaintiff whose fourth amendment rights have been violated may be automatically denied damages for subsequent incarceration, attorneys fees,… |
| 19-6943 |
Sheila Annette Cunningham v. Florida Credit Union |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-12-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
burden-of-proof civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights curtilage discrimination due-process employment equal-protection fourth-amendment investigative-authority law-enforcement search-and-seizure standing summary-judgment |
Whether the Jistia Couvt Cured Mol ding | Heat Curnningham Failes to prvite evidence of racial diSciminaton |
| 19-751 |
Elio Gutierrez v. California |
California |
2019-12-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
blood-alcohol-content blood-draw consent driving-under-the-influence dui-arrest fourth-amendment Fourth-Amendment-search-incident-to-arrest law-enforcement search-exception search-incident-to-arrest |
Is consent voluntary under the Fourth Amendment where a driving under the influence arrestee submits to a blood draw after the arresting officer tells… |
| 19-753 |
Michael Hunter, et al. v. Randy Cole, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-12 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (7) |
civil-rights clearly-established-law deadly-force deadly-weapon due-process dynamic-encounter excessive-force fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment police-use-of-force qualified-immunity shooting-encounter use-of-force |
Whether police officers can use deadly force when a person armed with a firearm moves the weapon toward the officer, even if the officer has not shout… |
| 19-6885 |
Antonio Escobar v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-12-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alleyne-v-united-states criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offenses drug-statute due-process flores-figueroa-v-united-states fourth-amendment mens-rea statutory-interpretation traffic-stop |
Whether the mens rea requirement in 21 U.S.C. § 841(a) applies to drug type and quantity |
| 19-6887 |
In Re Brad K. Edmonds |
|
2019-12-09 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment 4th-circuit carpenter-v-united-states civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment gps-tracking probable-cause retroactivity search search-and-seizure suppression warrantless-search |
Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits warrantless GPS tracking of a vehicle, and whether the retroactive application of the Supreme Court's decision … |
| 19-6841 |
Adam Scott v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-12-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure delayed-sealing evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment sealing statutory-compliance suppression surveillance-law title-iii title-iii-intercept unforeseen-emergency wiretap wiretap-procedure wiretap-suppression |
Should a wiretap that was not sealed until 30 days after interception ended, and 21 days after the order expired, be suppressed where that delay was n… |
| 19-6854 |
In Re Alexander Palomarez |
|
2019-12-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights coercive-interrogation constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment habeas-corpus miranda-rights prisoner-rights standing state-court-review suppression-of-evidence |
Whether the 'prison mailbox rule' announced in Houston v. Lack, 487 U.S. 266, 101 L. Ed. 2d 245, 108 S. Ct. 2379 (1988) should be applied to this case… |
| 19-6859 |
Michael A. Green v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-12-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment abandoned-vehicle community-caretaking criminal-procedure fourth-amendment inventory-search investigatory-motive law-enforcement-motive pretext search-and-seizure tow-policy vehicle-impoundment vehicle-search |
Whether an officer with a motive to search for incriminating evidence may impound a vehicle and inventory its contents in contravention of the standar… |
| 19-6821 |
Tim Sundy v. Friendship Pavilion Acquisition Co., et al. |
Georgia |
2019-12-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 1st-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment takings |
Whether Petitioner Tim Sundy, without a meaningful remedy, has immunity, as provided by the due process clause of the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments … |
| 19-693 |
Peter Balov v. California |
California |
2019-12-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
blood-alcohol-content blood-draw coercion consent dui fourth-amendment officer-authority probable-cause search-and-seizure |
Is a motorist's consent to a blood draw, for purposes of determining blood-alcohol content, voluntary within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment where… |
| 19-694 |
Heather Baker, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Kyle Baker, Deceased v. City of Trenton, Michigan, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-12-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment home-invasion police-conduct police-procedure search-and-seizure second-amendment self-defense standing warrantless-search |
Whether the Second Amendment right to bear arms precludes warrantless home searches based on lawful firearm possession |
| 19-6766 |
Miles Barton Nichols v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure franks-hearing franks-v-delaware informant-credibility law-enforcement-procedure material-omissions probable-cause recklessness search-warrant |
Whether a finding of recklessness should be inferred where omissions are critical to probable cause |
| 19-6739 |
Marshon Simon v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-11-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-career-criminal-act armed-career-criminal-act,violent-felony,elements- attempted-offense canine-search criminal-procedure Does an attempted offense meet the requirements of florida-v-harris fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-protections fourth-amendment,narcotics-detection,canine-search narcotics-detection residual-odor |
Does Florida v. Harris stand for the proposition that narcotics sniffing canines may be trained to alert to residual odor, i.e. the absence of narcoti… |
| 19-6753 |
Benitez Auguarius Moody v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-11-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
affidavit-challenge deliberate-falsehood due-process fourth-amendment franks-v-delaware intentional-falsehoods intentional-falsity probable-cause search-warrant |
Whether the characterization of deliberate falsehoods in a search warrant affidavit as mere imprecision eviscerates the right of a defendant as enunci… |
| 19-682 |
Melanie Kelsay v. Matt Ernst |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-11-26 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment non-compliance police-misconduct qualified-immunity use-of-force |
Are police officers entitled to qualified immunity as a matter of law even if they use substantial force against non-threatening suspected misdemeanan… |
| 19-6698 |
Amon Rweyemamu Mtaza v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-11-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel involuntary-consent plain-view-doctrine probable-cause search-and-seizure sixth-amendment venue-defense wire-fraud |
Whether the petitioner's Fourth Amendment rights were violated by an unlawful arrest, unlawful search and seizure, and involuntary coerced consent |
| 19-6691 |
Robert H. Smith v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2019-11-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment exclusionary-rule fifth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance judicial-review sixth-amendment state-court-conflict strickland-standard |
Whether the Indiana Supreme Court/Court of Appeals has entered a decision in conflict with other decisions previously made in the United States Suprem… |
| 19-649 |
N. E. L., et al. v. Monica Gildner, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-11-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment child-custody civil-rights decisional-law due-process fourth-amendment jurisdiction post-removal-hearing post-seizure-hearing qualified-immunity uccjea |
Were Colorado's UCCJEA requirements detailed enough to defeat qualified immunity in a Fourth Amendment claim arising from the denial of a post-seizure… |
| 19-622 |
Thomas S. Bell v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2019-11-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
blood-test criminal-procedure driving-under-influence driving-under-the-influence due-process evidence evidence-of-guilt fourth-amendment implied-consent search-and-seizure warrantless-search |
Whether a motorist's assertion of his Fourth Amendment right to refuse consent to a warrantless blood test may be used as evidence of guilt for the of… |
| 19-626 |
Robert Huff, et al. v. Michele Choate |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-11-15 |
Denied |
|
4th-amendment civil-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment graham-v-connor pre-seizure-conduct qualified-immunity reckless-creation |
Whether the Tenth Circuit's 'reckless creation' theory, which imposes liability for the creation of the need to use force, should be barred because it… |
| 19-618 |
Jon Eric Shaffer v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2019-11-14 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
constitutional-exemption digital-devices digital-privacy fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search fourth-amendment,private-search-doctrine,digital-p government-search private-search-doctrine property-based-test property-rights united-states-v-jacobsen united-states-v-jones virtual-certainty |
Does the 'virtual certainty' that reopening 'an ordinary cardboard box' will expose nothing beyond the private actor's earlier search, Jacobsen, 466 U… |
| 19-6640 |
Ramelus D. Bradley v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-11-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment circuit-court circuit-court-review civil-rights federal-law federal-law-violation fourth-amendment gps-tracking jones-v-united-states search-and-seizure supreme-court-precedent vehicle-search |
Whether the circuit court erred when it failed to find that the state court had violated federal law and in doing so, violated petitioner Bradley's Fo… |
| 19-6595 |
Raymond Tavelle Holmes v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-11-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
cell-phone civil-procedure civil-procedure-28-usc-636 due-process fair-trial florida-statute-934.23 fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-counsel inevitable-discovery magistrate-judge objection procedural-error report-and-recommendation search-and-seizure severance similar-fact-evidence sixth-amendment standing third-party warrantless-search Whether the failure to sever counts deprived the P Whether the warrantless search and seizure of text williams-rule |
Whether the Magistrate Judge failed to file a report and recommendation as required, depriving the Petitioner the opportunity to file a written object… |
| 19-6603 |
Dijon Rasheed Brown v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment anticipatory-warrant controlled-delivery drug-possession fourth-amendment jury-selection probable-cause search-and-seizure standing |
Whether the Fourth Amendment tolerates the mere placing of a package containing drugs on a person's property, then executing the warrant when any pers… |
| 19-6607 |
Robert Allen Stanford v. Jay Clayton |
District of Columbia |
2019-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights discretionary-function due-process extraterritorial extraterritorial-jurisdiction fourth-amendment search-and-seizure sec-enforcement securities sovereign-immunity |
Whether the SEC's civil enforcement action against Stanford International Bank, Ltd. in Antigua violated the claimant's due-process rights |
| 19-609 |
Erin J. Shepherd, et al. v. Angela Studdard |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-11-12 |
Denied |
Relisted (3) |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct qualified-immunity sixth-circuit summary-judgment use-of-force |
Whether police officers are entitled to qualified immunity for shooting a knife-wielding suspect on open ground based on a case involving a shooting-t… |
| 19-6573 |
Garron Gonzalez v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment cell-phone cell-phone-privacy civil-rights constitutional-rights digital-evidence effective-assistance-of-counsel fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel probation probation-search search-and-seizure suppression-of-evidence unreasonable-search |
Whether the Fourth Amendment required suppression of evidence found during warrantless interception of incoming calls on a jailed probationer's cell p… |
| 19-6581 |
Javier Leon v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights constructive-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance material-variance methamphetamine-charge search-and-seizure |
Whether counsel's failure to subject the government's case to strict adversarial testing, by reason of a fickle, bare-bones 'mere presence' theory of … |
| 19-6587 |
Jose Joel Helguera-Del Rio v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure evidence evidence-law fourth-amendment plain-view-doctrine probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-stop |
Does an officer's seizure of an object only after crouching down, carefully examining it for several seconds, and obtaining another officer's second o… |
| 19-6561 |
Maurice D. Joseph v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-11-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment illegal-interrogation right-to-privacy secret-recording self-incrimination unlawful-interrogation warrantless-recording |
Whether a detective's interrogation of a suspect at the suspect's home and secret recording of the suspect without consent, court authorization, or a … |
| 19-6522 |
William Smith v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-11-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
blood-draw constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-interpretation mandatory-blood-draw missouri-v-mcneely probable-cause public-safety search-and-seizure texas-transportation-code warrantless-search |
Was the Texas Department of Public Safety Troopers' mandatory blood draw constitutional under the Fourth Amendment as interpreted by Missouri v. McNee… |
| 19-6533 |
Kaleb L. Basey v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2703(f) digital-evidence digital-privacy email-privacy fourth-amendment government-request internet-service-provider search seizure warrantless-search |
Whether the warrantless preservation of private emails by an Internet Service Provider pursuant to a government request under 18 U.S.C. §2703(f) amoun… |
| 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? |
| 19-6469 |
Kenneth N. McFall v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2019-10-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
and sole defense witness to testify at trial for appeal evidence sixth-amendment state-court-decision testimony abuse-of-discretion accomplice-testimony constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-seizure fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment sixth-amendment state-bypass-sixth-amendment |
Whether the trial court's abuse of discretion in not allowing an alleged accomplice to testify violated the petitioner's due process and Sixth Amendme… |
| 19-551 |
Ronald Calzone v. Eric Olson, Superintendent, Missouri State Highway Patrol |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-10-28 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
administrative-discretion civil-rights closely-regulated-industry constitutional-rights fourth-amendment search-and-seizure seizure warrantless-search |
Does the 'closely regulated industry' exception to the Fourth Amendment apply to persons who have not chosen to involve themselves in any business con… |
| 19-6414 |
Miguel Angel Vega-Torres v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-conflict due-process eighth-circuit federal-law fifth-circuit fourth-amendment immigration-checkpoint rodriguez-standard rodriguez-v-united-states traffic-stop traffic-stops |
Do the standards for traffic stops articulated in Rodriguez v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 1609 (2015), apply to immigration checkpoint stops? |
| 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… |
| 19-527 |
Paul Huskisson v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-10-23 |
Denied |
|
direct-appeal exclusionary-rule first-step-act fourth-amendment independent-source independent-source-doctrine police-misconduct retroactivity sentencing sentencing-reform |
Does the independent source exception to the exclusionary rule take into account the flagrancy and deliberate nature of the underlying Fourth Amendmen… |
| 19-6332 |
Walter Glenn v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment consent-to-search criminal-procedure fourth-amendment leadership-role obstruction-of-justice rental-vehicle search-and-seizure sentencing-guidelines standing standing-civil-procedure standing-doctrine traffic-stop |
Whether a relief driver of a rental vehicle had standing to challenge evidence seized from the car |
| 19-6343 |
Antoine Richmond v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-10-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment criminal-procedure felon-in-possession fourth-amendment home-entry home-privacy probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure warrantless-search |
Did law enforcement's suspicion that a firearm would be found just inside the threshold of the home justify their search? |
| 19-6356 |
Gary E. Larock, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights fourth-amendment fourth-amendment,due-process,civil-rights,liberty, home-search liberty-deprivation liberty-interest overbreadth probation probation-supervision statutory-reasonableness vagueness warrantless-search |
Whether a condition of supervision requiring the Petitioner to permit a probation officer to visit at any time is unreasonable under the Fourth Amendm… |
| 19-513 |
Aivaras Mardosas v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-10-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bare-bones-affidavit collective-knowledge-doctrine fellow-officer-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause search-warrant suppression-of-evidence |
Whether the 'fellow officer rule' can justify a search warrant with flawed probable cause |
| 19-6319 |
Antonio Bogan v. Jeffrey German, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-10-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement owner-knowledge probable-cause stare-decisis vehicle-seizure warrantless-search |
Whether probable cause to effect a warrantless seizure of a vehicle is equivalent to officers' knowledge of an arrestee being its owner? |
| 19-494 |
David Zachary Morgan v. Washington |
Washington |
2019-10-17 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment government-search plain-view-doctrine plain-view-exception probable-cause property-seizure search-and-seizure warrant-requirement |
Whether a government official who would like to seize someone's personal property, and has both probable cause and the time to obtain a warrant, must … |
| 19-6296 |
Michael Holmes v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-10-17 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act bright-line-rule burglary-statute curtilage fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure implied-license knock-and-talk no-trespassing-sign property-rights reasonable-expectation-of-privacy reasonable-person-test |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals violated this Court's Fourth Amendment precedence and committed reversible error by endorsing a bright-l… |
| 19-6267 |
Michael E. Goynes, Jr. v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
2019-10-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment affidavit cell-phone cell-phone-privacy crime-investigation criminal-investigation fourth-amendment nexus probable-cause search search-and-seizure search-warrant warrant-requirement |
Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits the search of the content of a suspect's cell phone when the affidavit in support of the search provides no nex… |
| 19-6202 |
Manuel Rodriguez-Santana v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-10-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
affidavit constitutional-procedure criminal-complaint criminal-procedure federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fifth-amendment fourth-amendment magistrate magistrate-review probable-cause |
Whether the District Court Violated the Fourth and Fifth Amendment; Federal Rule Criminal Procedure |
| 19-6241 |
Elfred William Petruk v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-10-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confidential-informant confidential-informants drug-evidence eighth-circuit fourth-amendment gps-tracking gps-tracking-warrants illinois-v-gates probable-cause search-warrant stale-information |
Did the Eighth Circuit erroneously rule, in conflict with this Court's decision in Illinois v. Gates, that the search warrant for a Chrysler vehicle a… |
| 19-466 |
Zachery Pittman v. Herman Harris |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-10-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
42-usc-1983 4th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established excessive-force fourth-amendment qualified-immunity scott-v-harris section-1983 summary-judgment use-of-force |
Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in deviating from other circuit holdings and announcing that Scott v. Harris directs the lower courts to examine whet… |
| 19-6233 |
Alshaqah Tariq Powell v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-10-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment civil-procedure consent consent-search consent-to-search constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process expectation-of-privacy fourth-amendment involuntary-consent traffic-stop vague-consent-form vagueness |
Whether Petitioner had the Fourth Amendment rights as a United States Citizen to be advised of his rights to the 'expectation of privacy' during a det… |
| 19-6193 |
Franklin C. Smith v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-10-08 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law cell-phone-data civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment incident-to-arrest judicial-review legal-procedure privacy search-and-seizure standing statutory-interpretation takings warrant-requirement |
Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits the warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data incident to arrest when the phone is not immed… |
| 19-6172 |
Samantha Delane Rajapakse v. Credit Acceptance Corporation, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-10-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
auto-lenders auto-lending consumer-protection consumer-protection-laws credit-reporting fair-credit-reporting fourth-amendment fraud payment-histories payment-history repossession wrongful-repossession wrongful-seizure |
Does the courts have jurisdiction to give auto lenders immunity from the Consumer Protection Laws enacted by congress when evidence in the court recor… |
| 19-6187 |
Jon Kaiser v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
affiant-misconduct affidavit child-pornography civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment judicial-review lascivious-exhibition magistrate-judge probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant |
Whether an intentional or reckless omission of purported child pornography images from a search warrant application undermines a finding of probable c… |
| 19-452 |
Gregory Clark v. Austin Clark |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-10-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
excessive-force fourth-amendment police-encounter reasonable-suspicion seizure voluntary-interaction |
Whether a voluntary interaction with police becomes an unconstitutional seizure when the officer runs the subject's ID |
| 19-6154 |
Joanthony Deaundre Johnson v. Missouri |
Missouri |
2019-10-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cell-phone criminal-procedure digital-evidence fifth-amendment fourth-amendment particularity-requirement search-and-seizure self-incrimination warrant-particularity |
Whether a warrant authorizing the search of a cell phone and describing the things to be seized as 'all data/software' pertaining to the crimes is off… |
| 19-6095 |
Charles Devan Fulton, Sr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment cellphone-privacy evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception leon-good-faith-exception predicate-illegality probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant united-states-v-leon warrant-requirement |
Whether the Government can whitewash, via United States v. Leon, 468 U.S. 897 (1984), its predicate illegal seizure of a citizen's cellphone and salva… |
| 19-6082 |
Chase Matheny v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights fourth-amendment home-search liberty liberty-interest overbreadth overbroad probation probation-supervision reasonableness reasonableness-standard supervised-release supervision vagueness |
Whether a condition of supervision requiring the Petitioner to permit a probation officer to visit him at any time at home or elsewhere is unreasonabl… |
| 19-6046 |
Steven Gary Sanders v. William Beck, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-09-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
1st-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment law-enforcement search-and-seizure vehicle-seizure |
Issues being raised |
| 19-6059 |
Serrah Arnold, aka Kristen v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights fourth-amendment home-search liberty-deprivation liberty-interest overbreadth probation probation-supervision reasonableness reasonableness-standard supervised-release vagueness |
Whether a condition of supervision requiring the Petitioner to permit a probation officer to visit her at any time at home or elsewhere is unreasonabl… |
| 19-6060 |
Vincent Scott Mathews v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-09-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure fourth-amendment gps-monitoring parole parole-conditions reasonable-expectation-of-privacy reasonable-expectation-privacy search-and-seizure warrant warrant-requirement warrantless-search |
Does U.S. v. Knights and Griffin v. Wisconsin still precedent to be relied on? |
| 19-398 |
LMP Services, Inc. v. City of Chicago, Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-09-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment competition due-process food-truck-regulation fourth-amendment gps-tracking licensure municipal-ordinance privacy-rights restaurants search unreasonable-search |
Whether Chicago's requirement that licensed food trucks install GPS devices that create comprehensive records of their movements in order to protect r… |
| 19-6049 |
Lawrence T. Tyler v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
collateral-consequences coram-nobis criminal-sentencing deportation fact-finding fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-fact-finding jury-trial loss-amount reasonable-doubt search-and-seizure sixth-amendment |
Whether a Certificate-Of-Appealability should be granted |
| 19-384 |
Harmon L. Taylor v. City of Sherman, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights compelled-commerce compelled-consent consent-doctrine due-process fourth-amendment illegal-seizure probable-cause seizure transfer-of-venue transportation-code vehicle-definition |
Question not identified |
| 19-6028 |
Adam Lane v. Adam Nading, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-09-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
42-usc-1983 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-violation fourth-amendment knock-and-announce parole-search parole-searches qualified-immunity |
Whether qualified immunity applies to § 1983 actions for failure to knock-and-announce in parole searches |
| 19-345 |
Dorian Johnson v. City of Ferguson, Missouri, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-09-17 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-rights fourth-amendment move-on-order police-encounter public-space reasonable-person-standard seizure totality-of-circumstances use-of-force |
Whether a person can be 'seized' when he is not confined to a particular space |
| 19-5897 |
Carlos German Lema Nogales v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-09-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment 4th-circuit-precedent 6th-amendment conspiracy constitutional-violations criminal-informant due-process eavesdrop effective-assistance-of-counsel fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance multiple-conspiracies search-and-seizure warrant warrant-reliability |
WHETHER PETITIONER WAS DENIED EFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL |
| 19-5909 |
Blake Clinton Talman v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-09-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
blood-draw criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation good-faith-exception ineffective-assistance warrantless-search |
Whether the 'good faith' exception applies to a warrantless blood draw obtained in violation of the Fourth Amendment |
| 19-5915 |
Steven J. Varnauskas v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-09-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment license-plate probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-violation vehicle-impoundment vehicle-search warrantless-search |
Whether a bicycle rack attached to the rear of a vehicle was stowed accordingly and correctly to the manufacturer's instructions and does not obscure … |
| 19-326 |
Melinda Mitchell, et al. v. City of New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2019-09-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights fourth-amendment malice material-facts objective-reasonableness perjury police-misconduct qualified-immunity trespass wrongful-seizure |
Did the Second Circuit err in applying District of Columbia v. Wesby to grant qualified immunity to the police defendants who arrested the plaintiff p… |
| 19-327 |
Jaonte Hairston v. Ohio, et al. |
Ohio |
2019-09-10 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
aggregate-facts constitutional-rights fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-reasonableness law-enforcement limited-search police-conduct reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-stop |
Whether facts that do not individually show or permit an inference of a connection between a person and a crime that had been committed nearby may, in… |
| 19-5881 |
Arthur O. Armstrong v. Virginia, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-09-10 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
14th-amendment 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-procedure-rule-60-b-6 constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment liberty property rule-60 |
Whether Petitioner is entitled to relief, pursuant to Rule 60(b)(6) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure or any relief |
| 19-5883 |
Richard Johnson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-09-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure eleventh-circuit evidentiary-hearing fourth-amendment franks-challenge franks-v-delaware gall-standard search-warrant search-warrant-challenge-standard sentencing-variance substantial-preliminary-showing substantive-reasonableness veracity |
Whether this Court Should Clarify the Quantum Necessary for a Finding of a 'Substantial Preliminary Showing' That Entitles Defendants to a Hearing in … |
| 19-5886 |
Arthur O. Armstrong v. North Carolina, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-09-10 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-procedure-rule-60-b-6 conspiracy constitutional-rights due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment liberty probable-cause property rule-60 |
Whether Petitioner is entitled to relief, pursuant to Rule 60 (b)(6) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure |
| 19-5887 |
Arthur O. Armstrong v. John Doe |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-09-10 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-procedure-rule-60-b-6 conspiracy constitutional-rights disclosure-of-corporate-affiliation due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment liberty probable-cause property rule-60 standing |
Whether Petitioner is entitled to relief, pursuant to Rule 60 (b)(6) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure |
| 19-5838 |
Glenn Ray Smith v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment fourth-amendment,supervised-release,probation,four home-search liberty liberty-interest probation probation-supervision search-and-seizure supervised-release whether-this-court-should-grant-certiorari-vacate- |
Whether a condition of supervision requiring the Petitioner to permit a probation officer to visit him at any time at home or elsewhere is unreasonabl… |
| 19-5866 |
Jason Loera v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-09-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-split circuit-courts electronic-evidence fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence fourth-amendment-protections inevitable-discovery search-and-seizure state-courts technological-advances warrant-requirement |
Are the federal circuit courts and state courts of last resort analyzing and applying the inevitable discovery doctrine in a manner eviscerating the F… |
| 19-308 |
Blanca Arizmendi v. Patrick Gabbert |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process false-representation fourth-amendment franks-v-delaware hicks-v-oklahoma law-enforcement qualified-immunity texas-code-of-criminal-procedure warrant-affidavit warrantless-arrest |
Was the officer's arrest of Petitioner with a warrant based on clearly established law? |
| 19-5774 |
Patrick O. Neiss v. Montana |
Montana |
2019-09-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof circumstantial-evidence constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment holland-v-united-states jury-instruction jury-instructions net-worth-prosecution particularity presumption-of-innocence probable-cause reasonable-doubt search-and-seizure |
Should this lack of clarity be resolved by this Court? |
| 19-5837 |
Terri McGuire Mollica v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-09-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
detention-cell Evidentiary-Hearing Exclusionary-Rule Fourth-Amendment Fruit-of-the-Poisonous-Tree Fruits-of-Poisonous-Tree ineffective-assistance Ineffective-Assistance-of-Counsel Reasonable-Expectation-of-Privacy section-2255 unreasonable-search Unreasonable-Search-and-Seizure Warrantless-Search |
Was Petitioner's guilty plea sustained in violation of the Fourth Amendment, Unreasonable-Search-and-Seizure, where law enforcement conducted a warran… |
| 19-292 |
Roxanne Torres v. Janice Madrid, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-09-04 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (13)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
apprehension circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-law detention excessive-force fourth-amendment physical-force police-force seizure |
Is an unsuccessful attempt to detain a suspect by use of physical force a 'seizure' within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment? |
| 19-5801 |
Emory Chiles v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-09-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure district-court evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fourth-circuit motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-and-seizure standard-of-review |
Whether the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred when it affirmed the district court's denial of Chiles' motion to suppress evidence? |
| 19-5825 |
Mario Garcia-Zavala v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-09-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment booking-exception booking-information-exception constitutional-law criminal-procedure evidence-of-identity fifth-amendment fourth-amendment immigration-crimes miranda-v-arizona miranda-warnings stop-and-identify |
Does the booking information exception to the warnings required by Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436 (1966), apply to evidence of identity in prosecuti… |
| 19-5782 |
Tyrone Dexter Christian v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-09-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-activity criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause search-warrant totality-of-the-circumstances vague-affidavit vague-and-conclusory |
Whether the lower court erred in finding probable cause to search petitioner's home when the court viewed the search warrant affidavit as a whole and … |
| 19-5785 |
Raul Zapata-Dominguez v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment home-search indictment jury-trial liberty-deprivation liberty-interest overbreadth probation probation-supervision statutory-maximum statutory-reasonableness supervised-release supervision vagueness |
Whether a condition of supervision requiring the Petitioner to permit a probation officer to visit him at any time at home or elsewhere is unreasonabl… |
| 19-5790 |
Ronald Frank Lee v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-09-03 |
Dismissed |
Response RequestedIFP |
constitutional-rights fourth-amendment home-search liberty-deprivation liberty-interest overbreadth probation-supervision statutory-reasonableness supervised-release vagueness warrantless-search |
Whether a condition of supervision requiring the Petitioner to permit a probation officer to visit him at any time at home or elsewhere is unreasonabl… |
| 19-5795 |
Jacob D. Lickers v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-09-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-conflict circuit-split exclusionary-rule federal-search-warrant fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation good-faith-exception probable-cause search-warrant |
Whether the good faith exception to the exclusionary rule applies when an affidavit supporting a search warrant had been tainted by evidence obtained … |
| 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… |
| 19-5766 |
Tham Bui v. California |
California |
2019-08-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment cell-phone cell-phone-location-data cell-phone-privacy fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search gps gps-tracking location-data privacy reasonable-expectation-of-privacy telecommunications |
Did petitioner have a reasonable expectation of privacy in the contemporaneous Global Positioning System coordinates transmitted by the petitioner's c… |
| 19-5751 |
Charles Massengill v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment interstate-compact parole parole-supervision parolee-rights reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure state-statute warrantless-search |
Whether reasonable suspicion is required for a law enforcement officer to conduct a warrantless search of a parolee or his residence in the absence of… |
| 19-5731 |
Angel Mesa Madueno v. California |
California |
2019-08-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights consensual-encounter consent fourth-amendment independent-contractor privacy property-rights search-and-seizure standing trespass warrantless-entry |
Whether an independent contractor legitimately working in another's back yard has standing to contest a warrantless and non-exigent entry onto the pro… |
| 19-5606 |
Ndokley Peter Enow v. Ricky Foxwell, Warden, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-08-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment plea-bargaining probable-cause search-and-seizure sentencing standing |
Did the trial court err by admitting into evidence the illegally obtained wiretap recordings of the defendant's phone conversations with an undercover… |
| 19-5696 |
Adrian Francis Williams v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-08-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
6th-amendment constitutional-rights custody discovery due-process fourth-amendment jurisdiction prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment speedy-trial state-law |
Whether the petitioner's speedy trial rights were violated by the delay in bringing him to trial |
| 19-5670 |
Thomas James v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment byrd-doctrine exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment passenger-rights passenger-standing rakas-v-illinois reasonable-expectation-of-privacy reasonable-expectation-privacy search-and-seizure standing vehicle-search |
Does a passenger have standing to challenge the search of a vehicle in which they have no ownership or possessory interest? |
| 19-5671 |
James Lyle v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-08-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
byrd-v-united-states community-caretaking driver's-license exclusive-possession exclusive-possession-and-control fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure non-criminal-control reasonable-expectation-of-privacy rental-vehicle trunk-access vehicle-search warrant-exception |
Whether a person operating a rental vehicle without a valid driver's license has a reasonable expectation of privacy in the vehicle's locked trunk com… |
| 19-5676 |
Jerel Leon Jordan v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-08-22 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
brady-disclosure brady-v-maryland exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment giglio-impeachment giglio-v-united-states good-faith-exception motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-warrant united-states-v-leon |
Whether a district court may consider evidence outside the warrant affidavit in determining good-faith exception |
| 19-222 |
Paul Anthony Valderas v. City of Lubbock, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-20 |
Denied |
|
4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights deadly-force due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct police-use-of-force qualified-immunity reasonable-force reasonable-inference use-of-force |
Whether an officer on the scene constrained by what he observes to use any force creates a reasonable inference that deadly force is excessive? |
| 19-217 |
DaVinci Aircraft, Inc. v. United States, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bivens-claim bivens-v-six-unknown-named-agents civil-asset-forfeiture civil-asset-forfeiture-reform-act civil-rights discretionary-action espionage-act federal-tort-claims-act fourth-amendment subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Does the exception for forfeitures created by the Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act of 2000 (CAFRA) apply to goods seized in violation of the Fourth A… |
| 19-202 |
Solomon McLemore v. City of Shoreline, Washington |
Washington |
2019-08-16 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
4th-amendment civil-rights community-caretaking due-process fourth-amendment free-speech obstruction obstruction-of-justice probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-requirement warrantless-entry warrantless-search |
Whether it is a violation of the Fourth Amendment for States to charge and convict a person of obstruction for passively refusing to open the door to … |
| 19-5596 |
Eric T. Latham v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-08-15 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment arizona-v-gant civil-rights criminal-procedure evidence fourth-amendment minor-traffic-offense probable-cause search-incident-to-arrest traffic-offense vehicle-search |
Whether the search incident to arrest exception permits police officers to conduct a search based on probable cause for a minor traffic offense and bo… |
| 19-5600 |
Rafael Tello v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment border-patrol canine-sniff fourth-amendment free-air-sniff immigration-checkpoint martinez-fuerte-standard reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure united-states-v-martinez-fuerte |
May a Border Patrol agent working in the primary inspection lane of an interior immigration checkpoint extend the immigration stop beyond the 'brief q… |
| 19-5602 |
Kirk Wayne McBride, Sr. v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-agency administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure declaratory-relief due-process exclusionary-rule exhaustion-of-remedies federal-jurisdiction fourth-amendment habeas-corpus probable-cause search-and-seizure standing |
Whether the court of appeals erred by concluding that the petitioner's federal habeas corpus claim under 28 U.S.C. Section 2241 rather than under Titl… |
| 19-188 |
Ikechukwu Hyginus Okorie v. Virginia M. Crawford, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-13 |
Denied |
|
administrative-search arrest arrest-without-probable-cause detention detention-standards fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation law-enforcement-conduct probable-cause qualified-immunity search-warrant standard-of-review tolan-v-cotton |
Whether the allegations establish a Fourth Amendment violation and qualified immunity defense |
| 19-5572 |
Rickie Markiece Atkinson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-08-13 |
GVR |
IFP |
18-usc-922g armed-career-criminal-act breaking-and-entering burglary categorical-approach circuit-precedent fourth-amendment guilty-plea north-carolina-breaking-or-entering rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation |
Whether North Carolina breaking or entering is categorically broader than the enumerated offense of burglary in the Armed Career Criminal Act |
| 19-5582 |
Tuan Duc Lam v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split custodial-detention fourth-amendment knowles-v-iowa ninth-circuit probable-cause search-incident-to-arrest terry-stop terry-v-ohio warrantless-search |
Can a warrantless search of a person be 'incident to arrest' where, at the time of the search, no arrest has occurred, and the objective evidence fail… |
| 19-5555 |
Reginald Lacey v. David Gomez, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-08-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement search-and-seizure statutory-authority unreasonable-search void-order warrant-validity warrantless-search |
Whether the police department's use of a 'void order' to conduct a warrantless search violated the petitioner's Fourth Amendment rights |
| 19-5543 |
Arnold Maurice Mathis v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability fourth-amendment independent-source-doctrine ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment warrantless-search |
Whether trial counsel was ineffective in violation of the Sixth Amendment |
| 19-174 |
Jeri Lynn Rich, Representative for Gavrila Covaci Dupuis-Mays, an Incapacitated Person v. Michael Palko, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-07 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
civil-rights clearly-established collateral-order collateral-order-doctrine excessive-force fourth-amendment material-facts qualified-immunity seizure |
When courts are deciding qualified immunity in Fourth Amendment cases, shouldn't they recite the trial court's identification of the disputed issues o… |
| 19-5454 |
Melinda Scott v. Andrew Carlson, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-08-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment free-speech information-disclosure online-publication privacy privacy-act standing state-action state-actor |
Are private citizens, who take over functions normally left to the state, by publishing information, on the Internet, about others from (a) courts not… |
| 19-5444 |
Andrew Blake Moorehead v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-08-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception jurisdiction jurisdiction-limitation network-investigative-technique void-ab-initio warrant warrant-validity |
When a warrant is void ab initio, does the Good-Faith exception to the exclusionary rule apply? |
| 19-5474 |
Terry Lee Carlson v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-08-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
computer-search district-court due-process evidence evidence-suppression fourth-amendment jurisdiction search-limitation search-warrant territorial-jurisdiction venue warrant-scope |
Did the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals disregard plain and unambiguous language in the search warrant limiting searches to the computers located in t… |
| 19-5475 |
Mitchell Taebel v. Maricopa County Attorney's Office, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-08-06 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-misconduct qualified-immunity standing unreasonable-seizure |
Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated |
| 19-5488 |
Loretta Jackson v. Joseph Barla, et al. |
Delaware |
2019-08-06 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment 4th-amendment animal-rights civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment property-rights state-action state-actor |
Whether The Supreme Court of the State of Delaware deprived Loretta Jackson of her Due Process rights under the 4th and 14th Amendment of the United S… |
| 19-5445 |
Ronald Lewis Coleman, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-08-05 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
curtilage fourth-amendment fourth-amendment,search-and-seizure,curtilage,gps- gps-tracking police-intrusion private-property search-and-seizure |
Whether unauthorized police intrusion into a private condominium enclave to install a GPS tracking device on a vehicle constitutes a Fourth Amendment … |
| 19-5456 |
Ibrahim McCants v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-08-05 |
GVR |
IFP |
anonymous-tip categorical-approach criminal-law criminal-statute divisibility-of-state-statutes domestic-violence due-process federal-criminal-procedure firearms fourth-amendment mathis-v-united-states mens-rea police-stop-and-frisk reasonable-suspicion rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states statutory-interpretation stop-and-frisk supreme-court-precedent third-circuit-court-of-appeals |
Whether the government established the knowledge-of-status element under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) |
| 19-156 |
Diego Baldemar Islas v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-08-02 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
blood-seizure fourth-amendment franks-v-delaware misleading-by-commission misleading-by-omission probable-cause schmerber-v-california search-and-seizure warrant-requirements |
Does the holding of Franks v. Delaware forbid misleading by omission as well as misleading by commission? |
| 19-155 |
Lenard Johnson v. Megan Winfrey |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-01 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment franks-v-delaware immunity-analysis law-enforcement qualified-immunity |
When a claim is brought under Franks v. Delaware, does the Fourth Amendment alone fully define the dimensions of a law enforcement officer's qualified… |
| 19-5429 |
Cantrell Lamont Burwell v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-08-01 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment appellate-procedure clear-error consent-search consent-to-search de-novo de-novo-review eleventh-circuit fourth-amendment standard-of-review totality-of-circumstances |
Whether an appellate court should review de novo or for clear error a district court's finding that a defendant did not voluntarily consent to a searc… |
| 19-5431 |
DeAndre Cherry v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel eighth-amendment exclusionary-rule fifth-amendment fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation probable-cause search search-and-seizure vehicle-search |
Was the petitioner's Fourth Amendment right infringed upon when the officers conducted an illegal search of his vehicle absent probable cause? |
| 19-5409 |
Brady Daniel v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-31 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment texas-code-of-criminal-procedure texas-constitution warrantless-search |
Whether the actions of Nawis County Sheriff's Department violate the constitutional and statutory rights of petitioner Brady A. Daniel under the Fourt… |
| 19-5414 |
Arthur Whitley v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-07-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment affidavit cell-phone cell-phone-data cell-phone-search criminal-investigation evidence-nexus fourth-amendment murder-investigation nexus-requirement probable-cause riley-precedent riley-v-california search-warrant search-warrant-precedent |
Whether the Fourth Court of Appeals' legal analysis of the nexus between evidence about a murder investigation and information in the Petitioner's cel… |
| 19-5357 |
Daniel Eugene Cookson v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-07-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights exclusionary-rule federal-magistrate federal-magistrates-act federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure fourth-amendment good-faith-exception magistrate-judge search-warrant territorial-jurisdiction |
When a warrant authorizes a search beyond the issuing judge's territorial jurisdiction, does the good-faith exception to the exclusionary rule apply t… |
| 19-5306 |
Born Murray v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-07-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights detention fourth-amendment investigation investigative-detention law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion seizure time-frame traffic-stop |
Where a police officer admittedly abandons the initial basis for a traffic stop to pursue a new investigation unsupported by reasonable suspicion, doe… |
| 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… |
| 19-5339 |
James Kenneth Ganzer, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
authority exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception magistrate-authority magistrate-judge search-warrant void-ab-initio |
Can the good faith exception to the Fourth Amendment's exclusionary rule apply to a search warrant that was void ab initio, and therefore without lega… |
| 19-5341 |
Roshard Whitehead v. Florida Department of Corrections |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-07-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-trial due-process federal-rule-3 fifth-amendment fourth-amendment illegal-search-and-seizure search-and-seizure standing victim-rights |
Whether the courts overlooked federal law and the U.S. Constitution when they overlooked the 4th Amendment exclusionary rule, the 5th Amendment right … |
| 19-5343 |
Amoire Dupree v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-07-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment constitutional-law exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree incident-to-arrest law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure search-incident-to-arrest warrantless-search |
Can the warrantless search of a person be justified as incident to arrest where, at the time of the search, no arrest has been made and none would hav… |
| 19-5320 |
Romon Lamont Dobbins v. Joe M. Allbaugh, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-07-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process evidentiary-hearing fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence reasonable-doubt search-and-seizure |
Was Petitioner's Conviction Sustained With Insufficient Evidence Beyond A Reasonable Doubt? |
| 19-5283 |
Kyle Jason Korte v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment good-faith-exception illinois-v-krull improper-application judicial-precedent law-enforcement search-and-seizure statutory-interpretation valid-law |
Does the 'good faith exception' outlined in Illinois v. Krull extend to circumstances where the statute remains valid but was improperly applied? |
| 19-5294 |
Abraham Asley Augustin v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-07-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
28-usc-2255 amendment criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-15a due-process evidentiary-hearing fair-notice federal-rules-civil-procedure fourth-amendment habeas-corpus motion-to-amend pleading responsive-pleading section-2255 standing |
Whether the Fed. R.. Crim. P. 15(a) Motion's right to amend as a-matter of course' a 28 U.S.C. Sec. 2255 before a Responsive pleading is filed can be … |
| 19-5248 |
Garry Randall West v. Jason Bryant, Warden |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-07-22 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
child-pornography double-jeopardy due-process fourth-amendment free-speech miranda-rights miranda-warnings right-to-privacy search-and-seizure suppression-of-evidence |
Question not identified |
| 19-5280 |
Charles D. Tuttoilmondo, Jr. v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-07-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment administrative-law administrative-search border-patrol checkpoint-search civil-rights commercial-vehicles constitutional-reasonableness criminal-procedure drug-interdiction fourth-amendment roving-patrol search-and-seizure special-needs-doctrine |
Does Texas' use of commercial motor vehicle inspectors combined with a roving drug interdiction task force unconstitutionally and unreasonably abuse t… |
| 19-5213 |
Arthur O. Armstrong v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania |
Third Circuit |
2019-07-17 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-procedure-rule-60-b-6 constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment liberty property rule-60b6 |
Whether Petitioner is entitled to relief, pursuant to Rule 60(b)(6) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure or any relief |
| 19-88 |
Wadith Stockinger Nader, et ux. v. City of Papillion, Nebraska, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-07-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
absolute-immunity eighth-circuit fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause prosecutorial-immunity search-and-seizure totality-of-circumstances totality-of-the-circumstances |
Can an unverified tip constitute probable cause for arrest? |
| 19-5180 |
Lesa L. Chaney v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-07-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation government-agents probable-cause search-and-seizure unreasonable-search warrant |
Whether a generally worded warrant permitting government agents to rummage through and seize papers, documents and records for which no probable cause… |
| 19-5181 |
Lamar Johnson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-16 |
GVR |
IFP |
arrest-procedure circuit-split custodial-arrest felon-in-possession fourth-amendment probable-cause rehaif-v-united-states search-incident-exception search-incident-to-arrest warrantless-search |
Whether a warrantless search may be upheld under the search-incident-to-arrest exception when the search precedes the arrest |
| 19-5173 |
Johnny Kirkland v. Huntington Ingalls, Incorporated |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-15 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights digital-privacy due-process electronic-device fourth-amendment patent probable-cause standing takings unreasonable-search warrantless-search |
Whether Hunks nian 'EM As Kncocpyehion Was Ned h\\igence Under Nesse\\ Quoner + |
| 19-5178 |
Howard Lester v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2019-07-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause criminal-procedure essential-element expert-testimony firearms-examination fourth-amendment prosecutor-summation report-admission seizure substitute-analyst summation witness-testimony |
Whether the admission of a non-testifying firearms examiner's report and substitute analyst testimony violated the Confrontation Clause |
| 19-5196 |
Malcolm Omar Robinson v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-07-15 |
GVR |
IFP |
armed-career-criminal-act breaking-and-entering burglary criminal-law fourth-amendment fourth-circuit rehaif-v-united-states remand sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation |
Whether North Carolina Breaking and Entering is broader than Armed Career Criminal Act burglary |
| 19-5131 |
Steven L. Rackley v. Brigham Sloan, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-07-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
actual-innocence constitutional-rights dismissal due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment guilty-plea habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel involuntary-manslaughter notice post-indictment-delay probable-cause sixth-amendment statute-of-limitations |
statute-of-limitations |
| 19-5139 |
Alauna Gaye Morris v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-07-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights fourth-amendment impound inventory-search investigative-stop law-enforcement policy pretext search-and-seizure unreasonable-search vehicle-impoundment |
Whether the Government meets its burden of proving the existence of a clear written policy for searching impounded vehicles |
| 19-5119 |
Johana Cabantac Arucan v. Cambridge East Healthcare Center, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-07-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
age-discrimination civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment employment-discrimination equal-protection fourth-amendment police-misconduct summary-judgment title-vii |
Whether a court can properly grant summary judgment by accepting an employer's disputed claim that a long-term, older female employee was a poor perfo… |
| 19-5122 |
David Alan Westerfield v. California |
California |
2019-07-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
capital-trial de-novo-review due-process due-process-review fourth-amendment independent-review jury-sequestration polygraph-evidence pretrial-publicity probable-cause sheppard-v-maxwell standard-of-review |
Does the mandate announced in Sheppard v. Maxwell apply to the appellate assessment of the trial court's rejection of jury sequestration? |
| 19-5126 |
Jesus M. Garcia v. Tammy Ferguson, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Phoenix, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-07-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment trial-counsel wiretap wiretap-evidence |
Did the district court and appeals court err in denying appellant relief on ineffective assistance of trial counsel due to counsel's failing to object… |
| 19-5081 |
David Morel, Jr. v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-07-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment computer-location computer-search digital-privacy expectation-of-privacy fourth-amendment internet-activity-tracking ip-address law-enforcement reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure warrantless-search |
Whether the warrantless search for personal IP address information related to images that Morel privately uploaded to Imgur, an image-hosting website,… |
| 19-21 |
Gregory Owens v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-07-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-protection due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement-procedure property property-rights search search-and-seizure standing warrant warrant-requirement |
Does the Fourth Amendment protect a person's property from a search without a warrant? |
| 19-5045 |
Donald Lee Hathorn v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment 5th-circuit appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process electronic-devices fourth-amendment search-and-seizure supervised-release warrantless-search |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit erred by affirming the district court's requirement for Mr. Hathorn to submit his com… |
| 19-5050 |
John Asmodeo v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-07-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment attenuation-doctrine Attenuation-Factors circuit-split civil-rights due-process exclusionary-rule Finucan-Factors Flagrant-Misconduct fourth-amendment fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree illegal-search Intervening-Circumstances Purpose-of-Condon's-Interview suppression-hearing Temporal-Proximity |
Whether the attenuation doctrine applies when law enforcement officials deliberately discuss illegally seized evidence with a third party in order to … |
| 19-5028 |
Osvaldo Vasquez v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-07-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment fundamental-fairness gps-tracking gps-warrant sixth-amendment warrant-challenge wiretap-warrant |
Whether the Petitioner was denied his fundamental constitutional rights to Due Process and Fundamental Fairness |
| 19-5004 |
Ivan Stamps v. Michael Miller |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-06-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
biggers-test concerted-action fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment fraud-on-the-court fundamental-fairness governmental-conduct habeas-corpus hearsay-testimony jurisdiction oath-requirement-perjury-fraud-jurisdiction perjury perjury-fraud-jurisdiction verification-affidavit |
Whether State obtained conviction through perjury/fraud |
| 19-5008 |
Jamie B. Johnson v. Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2019-06-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
digital-age digital-data fourth-amendment gps gps-tracking location-data privacy privacy-rights probation probation-conditions search warrantless-search |
Whether the warrantless search, unsupported by any individualized suspicion of criminal wrongdoing, of a former probationer's historical GPS location … |
| 18-9825 |
Shepell Orr v. Ron Neal, Superintendent, Indiana State Prison |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-06-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 14th-amendment-equal-protection 4th-amendment 4th-amendment-seizure 5th-amendment 5th-amendment-due-process 6th-amendment 6th-amendment-fair-trial 8th-amendment-cruel-punishment circuit-court-conflict fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel sixth-amendment sudden-heat |
Whether the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals' decision conflicts with another circuit court decision and a state court decision, and whether the petitione… |
| 18-9816 |
Kabil Anton Djenasevic, aka Anton Genase, aka Kabil Genase, aka Kabil Kraja v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-06-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights conspiracy-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence false-testimony fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment judicial-notice sixth-amendment standing |
Whether petitioner was denied his Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights |
| 18-9785 |
Wayne A. Hussar, II v. James C. Reynolds, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment probable-cause prosecutorial-misconduct search-and-seizure self-defense sentencing standing warrantless-search |
Whether the petitioner's due process and equal protection rights were violated when the state court dismissed his criminal case despite evidence of se… |
| 18-9788 |
Sarah Denise Cardwell v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2019-06-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
computer-search evidence-seizure fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery plain-view-doctrine probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant warrant-requirement warrantless-search |
Whether the Supreme Court of South Carolina erred in applying a standard of 'more likely than not' in concluding under the Fourth Amendment's plain vi… |
| 18-1577 |
Pennsylvania v. Edward Adams |
Pennsylvania |
2019-06-25 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
4th-amendment 4th-amendment-law civil-rights conflict-with-other-jurisdictions fourth-amendment investigative-detention law-enforcement-encounter pennsylvania-supreme-court probable-cause reasonable-suspicion seizure terry-stop traffic-stop |
Whether the Pennsylvania Supreme Court erred in finding that Adams was subjected to an unreasonable seizure in violation of the 4th Amendment |
| 18-9768 |
Keith Talbert v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-06-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-amendments due-process eminent-domain. standing takings civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment search-and-seizure standing |
Whether the lower court erred in its application of the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable searches and seizures |
| 18-9775 |
Dustin Washington v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-06-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment affidavit criminal-procedure drug-weight forfeiture fourth-amendment fourth-circuit motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant sentencing-error standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence |
Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in failing to find that the trial court erred in denying Mr. Washington's motion to suppress the search of the BMW |
| 18-9756 |
Hector Guadalupe Lozano v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights drug-dog fourth-amendment law-enforcement lawful-possession odor-detection probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure |
Whether a drug dog's alert, standing alone, is sufficient to establish probable cause to search when the dog is known to react to the odor of a substa… |
| 18A1347 |
John M. Wasson v. United States, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-21 |
Presumed Complete |
|
bivens-action due-process fourth-amendment property-rights reasonable-expectation-of-privacy warrantless-search |
Whether the Fourth Amendment protects an individual's reasonable expectation of privacy when law enforcement photographs a property through an unobstr… |
| 18-9736 |
Darius Kinney v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2019-06-20 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (3)IFP |
4th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-law criminal-procedure fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure sixth-amendment warrant warrantless-search |
Were Petitioner's Sixth Amendment rights violated? |
| 18-9737 |
Laquan L. Kellam v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-06-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure eighth-amendment eighth-amendment-rights expert-witness-testimony fifth-amendment fifth-amendment-rights fourteenth-amendment fourteenth-amendment-rights fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-rights procedural-error search-and-seizure sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-rights statutory-interpretation warrantless-arrest |
Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit abuse its discretionary, broadly-based authority of interpretation, thus, violating petit… |
| 18-9722 |
Jonathan Edward Meier v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-06-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights fourth-amendment investigative-stop law-enforcement law-enforcement-detention pat-down probable-cause prolonged-detention reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure unreasonable-search weapons-search |
Whether law enforcement violates the Fourth Amendment right against unreasonable search and seizure when it holds an individual for a prolonged period… |
| 18-1553 |
Cheri Marie Hanson, as Trustee for the Next of Kin of Andrew Derek Layton v. Daniel Best, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-06-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process excessive-force excited-delirium fourth-amendment police-practices police-restraint police-training positional-asphyxia qualified-immunity use-of-force |
Was the use of prolonged prone restraint with compressive force on an individual who was already handcuffed and hobble-tied a clearly established cons… |
| 18-1554 |
Lawrence W. Blessinger v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-06-19 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
circuit-split completed-misdemeanor fourth-amendment investigatory-stop law-enforcement-efficacy misdemeanor police-detention privacy-interests reasonable-suspicion terry-stop terry-v-ohio |
Whether the Fourth Amendment permits police to detain a suspect under Terry v. Ohio to investigate a completed misdemeanor |
| 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… |
| 18-9708 |
Brad Smith v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-06-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attenuation-doctrine brown-v-illinois consent-search consent-to-search curtilage exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause |
Was petitioner's consent to search following law enforcement agents' unconstitutional entry into the curtilage of his home sufficiently attenuated fro… |
| 18-9715 |
Johnny Curtis Bedgood v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-06-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure critical-stage evidentiary-hearing fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining pre-trial-counsel section-2255 sentencing sentencing-enhancements |
whether-the-us-district-court-abused-its-discretion |
| 18-9655 |
Sylvester Ekwunife v. City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-06-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment affidavit affidavit-accuracy civil-rights constitutional-procedure criminal-procedure detective-misconduct fourth-amendment groh-v-ramirez probable-cause warrant warrant-preparation |
Whether the dictates of Groh v. Ramirez were violated when the Detective in this case did not have all the correct facts when preparing a probable cau… |
| 18-9694 |
Oliver Douce v. New York |
New York |
2019-06-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
1st-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights false-arrest fifth-amendment fifth-amendment-self-incrimination first-amendment-free-speech fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure illegal-arrest illegal-search jurisdiction probable-cause search-and-seizure standing |
Whether fingerprints obtained from John Doe appellant should have been excluded from evidence as the product of false arrest and illegal search under … |
| 18-9678 |
Binika L. Hankton v. Frederick Boutte, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-06-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process due-process,criminal-procedure,evidence,jackson-v- evidence evidence-sufficiency fifth-amendment fourth-amendment jackson-v-virginia sixth-amendment standard-of-review sufficiency-of-evidence |
Is a conviction constitutionally suspect when the evidence used to convict does not meet the standards of Jackson? |
| 18-9631 |
Erickson Meko Campbell v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-06-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception reasonable-suspicion rodriguez-v-united-states seizure-doctrine traffic-stop united-states-v-griffin |
Whether the exclusionary rule should apply when the only precedent the officer could rely on was not directly on point, explicitly rejected a bright-l… |
| 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 |
| 18-1519 |
Jason Correa v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-06-06 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
electronic-devices fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-protections law-enforcement multi-unit-buildings privacy privacy-rights search-incident-to-arrest secured-common-areas warrantless-search |
Whether the Fourth Amendment permits law enforcement to conduct a warrantless search of an individual's garage door remote, key fob, and seized key to… |
| 18-1513 |
Michigan v. Michael Frederick, et al. |
Michigan |
2019-06-05 |
Denied |
|
consent-to-search constitutional-trespass fourth-amendment implied-license knock-and-talk law-enforcement predawn-visit search search-and-seizure trespass |
Whether the Fourth Amendment applies to knock and talk encounters |
| 18-9535 |
Alexander Ocasio v. William Perez, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-06-05 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
access-to-courts citizens-arrest constitutional-rights due-process Fifth-Amendment-violation First-Amendment-violation fourteenth-amendment Fourteenth-Amendment-violation fourth-amendment Fourth-Amendment-violation inter-local-agreement judicial-bias jurisdictional-limitations liberty-interest nev-rev-stat-289-350 Ninth-Circuit police-powers property-interest unlawful-arrest warrantless-arrest |
Is it a violation of the Fourth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution where it is clear to every reasonable police officer that … |
| 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… |
| 18-9530 |
Terry Margheim v. Kenneth Buck, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-06-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
favorable-termination fourth-amendment innocence legal-process malice probable-cause supreme-court-precedent unlawful-seizure |
Are malice and favorable termination indicative of innocence, necessary elements to prove a violation of the Fourth Amendment? |
| 18A1251 |
City of Chicago, Illinois, et al. v. Maurice Lewis |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-06-03 |
Presumed Complete |
|
accrual-of-claim false-arrest fourth-amendment legal-process qualified-immunity wrongful-detention |
Whether a Fourth Amendment claim for wrongful pretrial detention accrues when the detention ends or at a different point in time |
| 18-1494 |
Michael Steven Beeman v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
counsel-performance criminal-procedure fourth-amendment guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-suppress plea-bargaining pre-trial-motion pre-trial-motions prejudice reasonable-counsel reasonable-performance |
Whether jurists of reason could debate that a district court must evaluate the merits of a potential motion to suppress where the defendant pled guilt… |
| 18-9461 |
Antonio Tillmon v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conviction criminal-evidence criminal-procedure drug-distribution due-process evidence fourth-amendment fourth-circuit-review insufficient-evidence judicial-review right-to-a-fair-trial sufficiency-of-evidence undercover-agent undercover-operations |
Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in affirming Mr. Tillmon's convictions on certain counts |
| 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 |
| 18-9434 |
Juan Carlos Rodriguez v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
404(b) 4th-amendment co-defendant-consent consent-search consent-to-search fourth-amendment jury-instructions prior-bad-acts prior-bad-acts-404(b) rule-404b search-and-seizure sentencing sentencing-variance standing-4th-amendment-search-and-seizure standing-to-suppress variance warrantless-search |
Whether the trial and appellate court erred in adjudging that Petitioner had no standing to request suppression of evidence obtained from a warrantles… |
| 18A1234 |
Jackie Duncan v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-05-29 |
Presumed Complete |
|
criminal-procedure evidence-rule fourth-amendment prior-bad-acts right-to-fair-trial sixth-amendment |
Whether the admission of prior bad act evidence of a shooting, over a defendant's Rule 404(b) objection, constituted reversible error that violated th… |
| 18-1483 |
Gene N. Barry v. Scott M. Freshour, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment administrative-law administrative-search civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment medical-records privacy privacy-interest property-rights section-1983 standing |
Must doctors have an ownership interest in their medical practices in order to have cognizable privacy or property interests in medical records that (… |
| 18-1486 |
Zachariah J. Marshall v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2019-05-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment federal-precedent fourth-amendment law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion speeding traffic-stop vehicle-movement vehicle-speed warrantless-stop |
Whether the Fourth Amendment requires reasonable suspicion of speeding based on an officer's ability to provide actual or estimated vehicle speed or o… |
| 18-1478 |
Ryan Lawrence Steck v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2019-05-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment drug-dog-search drug-sniffing-dog fourth-amendment law-enforcement-procedure police-investigation police-procedure probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search search-and-seizure vehicle-search |
Does an indication of a drug-sniffing dog being 'in odor' without an alert provide probable cause for a search? |
| 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… |
| 18A1223 |
Keith Jerome Wright v. M. Eliot Spearman, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-28 |
Presumed Complete |
|
dna-evidence due-process fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance prosecutorial-misconduct search-and-seizure |
Whether the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments require suppression of DNA evidence obtained through an allegedly unlawful arrest and seizure due to inef… |
| 18-9419 |
Mario Laron Waiters v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-05-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
1st-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment first-amendment fourth-amendment |
Whether the Virginia Statute 19.2-72 violates due-process, equal-protection, 1st-amendment, 4th-amendment, 5th-amendment, 6th-amendment |
| 18-9422 |
Davaus L. McCown v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment controlled-buys criminal-pattern criminal-procedure drug-crimes drug-enterprise drug-sales fourth-amendment ongoing-activity ongoing-criminal-activity probable-cause probable-cause-search search-and-seizure search-warrant stale-information |
Whether two police-orchestrated, controlled buys demonstrate an ongoing pattern of drug sales sufficient to support probable cause for an otherwise-st… |
| 18-1465 |
County of San Diego, California v. Mark Mann, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-24 |
Denied |
|
child-welfare due-process fourth-amendment medical-examination municipal-liability parental-consent parental-notice parental-rights shocks-the-conscience special-needs special-needs-doctrine substantive-due-process |
Does a parent have a substantive due process right to notice and consent before a child's medical examination in protective custody? |
| 18-1466 |
County of Sonoma, California, et al. v. Rafael Mateos Sandoval, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-24 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
4th-amendment constitutional-rights continued-detention detention due-process fourth-amendment lawful-seizure monell-liability municipal-liability property-rights property-seizure public-safety section-1983 seizure vehicle-impound |
Whether the Fourth Amendment can be violated by the government's mere continued detention of property even though its full-blown seizure satisfied the… |
| 18-9393 |
Tarell McIlwain v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-05-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
2nd-circuit 4th-amendment circuit-split custodial-arrest fourth-amendment new-york-court-of-appeals officer-safety probable-cause search-incident-to-arrest warrantless-search |
Can the warrantless search of a person be justified as incident to arrest where, at the time of the search, no arrest has been made and none would hav… |
| 18-9397 |
Miguel Angel Barron v. Raymond Madden, Warden |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-suppression fair-trial fourth-amendment jury-instructions probable-cause relevance search-and-seizure self-defense warrantless-search |
Whether a state trial court's jury instruction that reduces the burden of proof or violates a principle of fairness contained in the due process claus… |
| 18-9398 |
Ali Cisse v. New York |
New York |
2019-05-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2511 circuit-court-split circuit-split civil-rights consent fourth-amendment mitchell-v-wisconsin privacy privacy-rights statutory-interpretation title-iii wiretapping wiretapping-consent |
Does knowledge of wiretapping establish 'consent' to wiretapping under 18 U.S.C. § 2511(2)(c)? |
| 18-9399 |
Paul Johnson, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-23 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
ammunition ammunition-seizure eleventh-circuit fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-original-meaning original-meaning pat-down police-procedure probable-cause search-and-seizure terry-stop terry-v-ohio |
Whether the Fourth Amendment permits a police officer to seize a freestanding round of ammunition identified during a pat down conducted pursuant to T… |
| 18-9402 |
David Lester Jackson v. California |
California |
2019-05-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-rights ineffective-assistance-of-counsel probation probation-search search-and-seizure standing warrant-requirement warrantless-search |
Were-appellates Fourth Amend. rights violated |
| 18-9381 |
Hubert Youte v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-05-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
border-search civil-rights fourth-amendment living-quarters maritime-law reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure vessel vessel-search |
Whether the Fourth Amendment requires reasonable suspicion to enter and search the living quarters on a vessel docked at the border |
| 18-1458 |
Charles J. Vernier v. Debra Gallegos |
New Mexico |
2019-05-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 4th-amendment 4th-amendment-search burden-of-proof circuit-precedent circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established clearly-established-law consent consent-burden fourth-amendment implied-consent qualified-immunity search-and-seizure |
Did the state appellate court err in failing to apply the standards set forth in federal case law regarding 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and the qualified immunit… |
| 18-9371 |
Lawrence Dusean Adkinson v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-05-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment adhesion-contract cellular-service civil-rights consent csli due-process fourth-amendment historical-csli location-tracking privacy privacy-policy standing |
Whether a defendant necessarily consents to disclosure of historical CSLI data tracking his physical location in excess of seven days simply by utiliz… |
| 18-9359 |
Emmanuel Diaz v. New York |
New York |
2019-05-20 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
due-process fourth-amendment pretrial-detainee pretrial-detention prison prison-security recordings search-and-seizure telephone telephone-recording telephone-recordings warrant-requirement |
Whether absent a warrant, notice, or suspicion the Fourth Amendment permits the government to obtain recordings of telephone conversations from pretri… |
| 18-9305 |
Joshua Chapman-Sexton v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-05-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-pornography exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure inevitable-discovery probable-cause search-warrant warrantless-search |
Whether the inevitable discovery exception to the Fourth Amendment exclusionary rule applies |
| 18-1435 |
Matthew Wayne Minard, Individually and in His Official Capacity as a Taylor Police Officer v. Debra Lee Cruise-Gulyas |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-05-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights discretion discretionary-action discretionary-enforcement due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech law-enforcement qualified-immunity retaliation retaliatory-arrest traffic-stop |
Whether a police officer can immediately initiate a second traffic stop in response to a driver's offensive speech to change the original discretionar… |
| 18-9257 |
Lonnie Rarden v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2019-05-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment habeas-corpus judgment merits mitigating-evidence opinion petition search-and-seizure sentencing state-court state-courts writ-of-certiorari |
Whether the petitioner's due process rights were violated when the state court failed to consider mitigating evidence during sentencing |
| 18-9259 |
Akunna Baiyina Ejiofor v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-05-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
affidavit criminal-procedure fourth-amendment good-faith-exception plain-language plain-meaning search-warrant search-warrant-affidavit standard-of-review suppression-motion tenth-circuit |
May a reviewing court uphold a search by reading a statement in a search-warrant affidavit contrary to its plain meaning? |
| 18-9193 |
Artez Brewer v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-05-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights federal-law-enforcement fourth-amendment gps-tracking law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure standing warrant warrant-limitations warrant-requirements |
Whether federal law enforcement exceeds the limitations on the face of the warrant for GPS tracking to in-state monitoring and continues to monitor an… |
| 18-1408 |
John Washek v. Vermont |
Vermont |
2019-05-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
complete-defense constitutional-rights criminal-behavior criminal-charge criminal-procedure due-process evidence-presentation fourth-amendment innocent-behavior probable-cause reasonable-suspicion right-to-defense terry-stop |
Whether Defendant/Petitioner John Washek's Fourth Amendment rights were violated because the police officer's Terry stop was based on observations muc… |
| 18-1410 |
James A. Jackson v. Thomas Lawson |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-05-09 |
Denied |
|
constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment miranda-rights miranda-v-arizona self-incrimination sixth-circuit united-states-v-hale unlawful-detention |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit may condition enforcement of a citizen's right against unlawful detention guaranteed … |
| 18-9179 |
Tony B. Thomas v. C. Blake, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-05-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violations due-process eighth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech standing |
Why did the UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE TENTH CIRCUIT overlook petitioner arguments pertaining to First-Amendment, Fourth-Amendment, Eighth… |
| 18-9177 |
Robert Murphy v. Ron Neal, Superintendent, Indiana State Prison |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-05-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-violation cell-phones criminal-procedure digital-evidence due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miranda-rights privacy search-and-seizure sixth-amendment |
Whether the government's warrantless search of a person's cell phone violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable searches and seiz… |
| 18-9131 |
Ryan Canfield v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-05-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights community-caretaking due-process fourth-amendment impoundment inventory law-enforcement probable-cause public-safety reasonableness standardized-procedures vehicle-impoundment |
Must impoundment be reasonable under the Fourth Amendment, or conducted pursuant to standardized procedures, or both? |
| 18-9096 |
Douglas A. Glaser v. City and County of Denver, Colorado, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-05-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment jurisdiction qualified-immunity search-and-seizure standing |
Whether the lower court erred in its application of the Fourth Amendment's prohibition against unreasonable searches and seizures |
| 18-9058 |
Juan L. Garcia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment cell-phone-data civil-rights consent fourth-amendment home-search lawful-arrest probable-cause search-and-seizure seizure unreasonable-search warrantless-search |
Whether the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on unreasonable searches and seizures applies to the search of a person's home and belongings when the pers… |
| 18-9082 |
Arion D. Andrews v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2019-05-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-investigation evidence-sufficiency fourth-amendment independent-evidence judicial-review police-investigation probable-cause residence search-warrant |
Can a search warrant properly issue under the Fourth Amendment when the police-officer-affiant states that the address to be searched is the residence… |
| 18-9036 |
Gregory Tarrel Brown v. Virginia, et al. |
Virginia |
2019-04-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights curtilage fourth-amendment plain-smell-doctrine probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-stop terry-v-ohio |
Whether the defendant's Fourth Amendment rights were violated |
| 18-9037 |
Rolander Brown v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
2019-04-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment appellate-review criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception search-and-seizure stored-communications-act |
Whether the 'good faith exception' to the exclusionary rule should apply to court orders obtained pursuant to the Federal Stored Communications Act |
| 18-1366 |
Estate of Adriano Roman, Jr. v. City of Newark, New Jersey, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-04-30 |
Denied |
|
42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights fourth-amendment joint-and-several-liability joint-several-liability pleading qualified-immunity section-1983 standing tort-law warrantless-search |
Whether joint and several liability applies under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, where a plaintiff alleges unconstitutional search by multiple officers |
| 18-9022 |
Maurice Edward Carter v. Mike Parris, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-violation fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel miranda-rights probable-cause search-and-seizure sixth-circuit |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit decision to deny Mr. Carter's habeas corpus relief misconstrued meritorious unresolve… |
| 18-8988 |
Airrington L. Sykes v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-04-25 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights concealed-carry due-process firearm-possession fourth-amendment law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion terry-stop |
Whether law enforcement can presume any concealed carry of a firearm is unlawful and conduct a Terry stop when the state statute does not criminalize … |
| 18-1344 |
LaMarcus Thomas v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-04-25 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception magistrate-review officer-reliance probable-cause warrant-application |
Whether a suppression court may consider (1) only information contained within the four corners of the warrant application, (2) only that information … |
| 18-1327 |
Christian Vernon Sims v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-04-19 |
Denied |
|
carpenter-v-united-states cell-site-location-information fourth-amendment privacy privacy-expectation standing surveillance-tracking third-party-doctrine warrant-requirement |
Does a person have a legitimate expectation of privacy in historic or real-time cellphone tracking data (CSLI) regardless of the duration of the track… |
| 18-8921 |
Hector Tellez v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel reasonable-time-period recent-precedence recent-precedent supremacy-clause supreme-court-precedent trial-counsel trial-outcome united-states-supreme-court |
What is a reasonable time period for trial counsel to be required to become aware of recent precedence before he/she may be deemed ineffective for fai… |
| 18-8905 |
Anthony G. Bryant v. Army Corps of Engineers, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-04-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
10th-amendment 14th-amendment civil-rights due-process first-amendment sixth-amendment 10th-amendment 14th-amendment administrative-procedure asset-seizure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection first-amendment fourth-amendment |
Whether the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on excessive fines applies to asset seizures by state and local governments |
| 18-1321 |
Edward Ronald Ates v. Gurbir Grewal, Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-04-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment attorney-client-privilege civil-rights due-process federalism fourth-amendment interstate-communications jurisdictional-authority law-enforcement-surveillance out-of-state-interception phone-call-interception privacy state-jurisdiction wiretap-statute wiretapping |
Whether the New Jersey Wiretap Statute violates the Fourth Amendment by permitting law enforcement to intercept phone calls of out-of-state individual… |
| 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… |
| 18-8823 |
Omer Al Obaidy v. Kevin K. McAleenan, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
10th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights due-process false-arrest fifth-amendment fourth-amendment immigration immigration-removal self-incrimination sixth-amendment tenth-amendment unlawful-seizure |
Whether a long-term legal resident with no criminal record who was removed from the U.S. based on falsified records has due process rights |
| 18-8785 |
Temarco Sartorio Pope, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-04-11 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
2nd-amendment civil-rights concealed-carry criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-powers reasonable-suspicion terry-stop |
Whether law enforcement can presume any concealed carry of a firearm is unlawful and conduct a Terry stop when the state statute does not criminalize … |
| 18-8783 |
Daniel R. Kendricks v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-04-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arrest-warrant firearm fourth-amendment law-enforcement officer-safety plain-view search-and-seizure search-warrant |
Whether law enforcement, when searching a residence pursuant to an arrest warrant, can initiate a separate search into any firearm that it encounters,… |
| 18-8784 |
DiAngelo Johnson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-justice due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct pretextual-stops racial-profiling traffic-stops whren-v-united-states |
Should this Court overrule Whren? |
| 18-8758 |
Lamonte Diondre Gaston v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment caretaking civil-procedure community-caretaking fourth-amendment impoundment inventory-search law-enforcement outstanding-fine warrant-requirement |
Whether the inventory-search exception to the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement applies to a search of a vehicle that was impounded for the purpo… |
| 18-8694 |
Bryan Gilbert Henderson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation good-faith-exception law-enforcement search-warrant systemic-misconduct systemic-mistake united-states-v-leon |
Whether the good faith exception to the exclusionary rule of United States v. Leon, 468 U.S. 897 (1984) applies when law enforcement makes an obvious,… |
| 18-8702 |
Vernon Carter v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections |
Florida |
2019-04-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
fifth-amendment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus illegal-traffic-stop ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-suppress sixth-amendment |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court erred in affirming the denial of Carter's petition for writ of habeas corpus, where Carter raised sufficient allegat… |
| 18-8665 |
Michael Benanti v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-04-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
affidavit criminal-activity fed-evid-r-403 fed-evid-rule-403 fourth-amendment harmless-error nexus nexus-requirement place-to-be-searched search-warrant substantial-rights |
Whether the Fourth Amendment requires the affidavit supporting a search warrant to show a nexus between the criminal activity at issue and the place t… |
| 18-8667 |
Donald James Anson v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-04-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights digital-privacy dismissal due-process fourth-amendment opportunity-to-be-heard probable-cause search-and-seizure standing surveillance |
Does an appellate court err in dismissing an appeal because 'it lacks an arguable basis in law or fact' without first providing the petitioner an oppo… |
| 18-8650 |
Ollisha Nicole Easley v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-04-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights consensual-search due-process fourth-amendment interrogation probable-cause race racial-profiling reasonable-person reasonable-person-standard search search-and-seizure |
When examining the totality of the objective circumstances, is a bus passenger's race a factor in understanding how a reasonable person in her positio… |
| 18-8600 |
Tony McLeod v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cell-phones circuit-split criminal-evidence digital-forensics expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence fourth-amendment internet-anonymity lay-testimony mens-rea rule-702 sixth-amendment statutory-interpretation |
Whether Cellebrite forensic data requires expert testimony |
| 18-8631 |
Bekim Fiseku v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-03-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights fourth-amendment handcuffing investigative-stop police-procedure probable-cause terry-stop terry-v-ohio unusual-circumstances |
Whether the Second Circuit disregarded its prior decisions and created precedent that undermines the rule that officers may not handcuff a suspect dur… |
| 18-1252 |
Rev. Barry D. Bilder v. Rev. Beth Mathers, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-03-29 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights dna dna-collection due-process fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-rights reasonableness right-to-counsel search-warrant seizure sixth-amendment |
Is a Search Warrant (for DNA) reasonable under the Fourth (4th) Amendment? |
| 18-8593 |
Dontae Callen v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2019-03-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
affidavit appellate-review criminal-procedure death-penalty fourth-amendment jury-unanimity probable-cause search-warrant separate-affidavit |
Where an affidavit does not support a finding of probable cause for the issuance of a search warrant, can a reviewing court consider information from … |
| 18-1247 |
Robert Alan Ries v. Oregon |
Oregon |
2019-03-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
affidavit blood-sample constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment particularity-requirement probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-particularity |
Does a warrant commanding the police to seize a blood sample from a person with an entirely different name than the defendant violate the Fourth Amend… |
| 18-1248 |
Neil C. Kienast and Braman B. Broy v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-03-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
child-pornography circuit-split due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception law-enforcement privacy-interest probable-cause search-and-seizure suppression-doctrine suppression-of-evidence warrant warrant-validity |
Whether the good faith exception to the exclusionary rule applies to a warrant that should have never been issued, involving the government's reproduc… |
| 18-8541 |
In Re Randy A. Jones |
|
2019-03-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
cell-site-simulator civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment honeycutt-v-united-states legal-representation lis-pendens luis-v-united-states right-to-counsel takings warrantless-search |
Did the government violate this petitioner's rights, creating a flaw so grave that it rendered the proceedings unreliable? |
| 18-8487 |
Kevin Neysmith v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2019-03-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment birchfield-precedent birchfield-v-north-dakota blood-alcohol blood-alcohol-content criminal-procedure evidence-admissibility fourth-amendment fruits-of-the-poisonous-tree o-connell-warnings o'connell-warnings search-warrant warrantless-search |
Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits State judicial systems from admitting evidence of blood alcohol content obtained without a search warrant |
| 18-8518 |
John Moses Burton v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-03-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-protections due-process fourth-amendment good-faith good-faith-exception judicial-interpretation legal-precedent magistrate-qualifications search-and-seizure search-warrant standing |
When and how should the courts be bound to the precedent set by the high Court's opinion? |
| 18-8508 |
Charles Edward Cooper, Jr. v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
curtilage evidence-suppression fourth-amendment gated-community home police-procedure privacy privacy-rights privacy-wall search-and-seizure warrant warrantless-entry |
Whether the Fourth Amendment's protection of the home and its curtilage extends to the entrance of a privately gated community, surrounded by an eight… |
| 18-1230 |
Juan Zamudio v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-03-21 |
Denied |
|
4th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process fourth-amendment nexus-requirement particularized-nexus probable-cause residence search-and-seizure search-warrant standing |
Whether a search warrant application that fails to provide any particularized nexus between an individual's alleged drug trafficking activity and the … |
| 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 |
| 18-8474 |
John Henneberry v. County of Alameda, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment bench-warrant civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment mail-fraud qualified-immunity rico-statute service-of-process |
When can a court allow faulty and fabricated service-by-mail of a criminal summons instead of personal service-by-sworn-officer? |
| 18-8500 |
Nickey Ardd v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-03-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review civil-rights confidential-informant due-process entrapment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel search-warrant sixth-amendment warrant-requirement |
Question not identified |
| 18-8448 |
Edward Bishop v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-03-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment criminal-procedure digital-evidence digital-files dna-evidence evidence fourth-amendment particularity-requirement probable-cause search-warrant |
Does a search warrant which described the place to be searched and the things to be seized fail the particularity requirement of the Fourth Amendment? |
| 18-8438 |
Abdul Cole v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2019-03-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment administrative-law civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment jurisdictional-standards procedural-due-process reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure sexual-harassment strip-search title-ix university-liability |
Whether the strip search and visual body cavity search of Mr. Cole violated the Fourth Amendment's prohibition against unreasonable searches and seizu… |
| 18-8411 |
Lecephrus Pierce v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-03-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
conviction criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement search-and-seizure supreme-court-precedent traffic-stop vehicle-search warrantless-search |
Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals abandoned established Supreme Court precedent in affirming the petitioner's conviction despite finding no … |
| 18-1198 |
Westley A. Albright v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2019-03-14 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
criminal-defendant criminal-procedure diversion due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment nolo-contendere plea-bargaining sentencing |
Whether the Supreme Court of Tennessee erred when it held, as a matter of first impression, that due process rights under the Fourth and Fourteenth Am… |
| 18-1201 |
Keith Preston Gartenlaub v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
computer-search criminal-procedure due-process evidence-use-restrictions fisa fisa-warrant fourth-amendment franks-hearing general-warrant general-warrants legal-traditions national-security use-restrictions |
Whether a secret FISA-authorized computer search violates the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on general warrants, whether the Fourth Amendment imposes… |
| 18-1188 |
Jeffrey A. Jacobi v. Wisconsin |
Wisconsin |
2019-03-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourth-amendment intoxication intoxication-determination intoxication-inference law-enforcement law-enforcement-inference police-inference probable-cause reasonable-suspicion traffic-accident traffic-stop vehicle-collision |
Whether it is reasonable for police to infer that a driver was intoxicated at the time of a collision based solely on the fact that the driver was fou… |
| 18-8388 |
Brian Wright v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cell-phone-tracking due-process fourth-amendment overbreadth search-and-seizure sentencing supervised-release tapia-error vagueness warrantless-search |
Did the Ninth Circuit err by finding that there was no 'egregious violation' of Mr. Wright's Fourth Amendment rights when Mr. Wright's cellular phone … |
| 18-8402 |
Jesse Allen Dauenhauer, aka Jesse A. Dauenhauer v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-03-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment 4th-amendment,search-and-seizure,exclusionary-rule constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment search-and-seizure suppression-of-evidence washington-state-law |
Should the District Court have suppressed the evidence of firearms in the Defendant's car because the search and seizure was inadmissible under Washin… |
| 18-8361 |
Arturo Sarli v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights consent-to-search custodial-interrogation detention due-process fourth-amendment fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure search-consent vehicle-search |
Whether consent to search comes to a natural end after a thorough and fruitless search has been conducted or may officers use the initial consent to s… |
| 18-8377 |
Walter D. Booker v. T. Johnson, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-03-11 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment investigative-detention probable-cause qualified-immunity reasonable-suspicion section-1983 seizure |
Whether the officers had reasonable suspicion to seize Mr. Booker Shabazzallah? |
| 18-1172 |
Tynisa Williams v. City of Cleveland, Ohio |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-03-11 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights delousing detainee-rights due-process fourth-amendment penological-interests prison-policy privacy-rights reasonable-alternatives reasonable-search strip-search |
Whether the physical delousing and group strip searches of detainees entering the Cleveland Workhouse were constitutional under the Fourth Amendment, … |
| 18-1173 |
I. B. and Jane Doe v. April Woodard, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-03-11 |
Denied |
Amici (7) |
child-abuse child-protection circuit-split constitutional-rights fourth-amendment qualified-immunity strip-search warrant warrant-requirement |
Whether the Fourth Amendment requires a caseworker to obtain a warrant to strip-search a child |
| 18-1176 |
Eric Wenzel, et al. v. Carl Storm |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-03-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
anderson-v-liberty-lobby civil-rights dash-camera-evidence dash-camera-video excessive-force fourth-amendment lytle-v-bexar-county police-use-of-force qualified-immunity scott-v-harris seizure-intrusive seizure-standard summary-judgment unarmed-suspect |
Did the Eighth Circuit err in holding that Officer Storm was entitled to qualified immunity for the fatal shooting of Mr. Wenzel under the Fourth Amen… |
| 18-1166 |
Colton W. Sievers v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
2019-03-08 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
4th-amendment-search-and-seizure constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-suspect fourth-amendment information-gathering police-investigative-stop police-powers police-stop reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-stop |
Whether Illinois v. Lidster allows the police to stop a criminal suspect without reasonable suspicion on the ground that the stop is merely 'informati… |
| 18-8307 |
Dockery Cleveland v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment-search-and-seizure 6th-amendment-jury-trial appellate-review cell-phone cell-phone-search equal-protection fourth-amendment jury-selection ongoing-intrusion peremptory-challenge race-neutral-basis search-and-seizure suppression suppression-of-evidence time-limitation warrant warrant-limitation whether-defendant-must-renew-objection-to-perempto |
Whether the failure to extract information from a cell phone within the time limitation of a warrant requires suppression of the tardily obtained info… |
| 18-8338 |
Anthony T. Jackson v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-03-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-violations criminal-procedure due-process due-process,standing,criminal-procedure,evidence,p evidentiary-hearing fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel post-conviction wrongful-conviction |
Whether the Illinois state courts' refusal to allow a petitioner an evidentiary hearing on post-conviction claims despite the record containing facts … |
| 18-8355 |
Mario Chester Tabron v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burglary burglary-element criminal-enhancement criminal-law criminal-procedure district-court due-process federal-jurisdiction fourth-amendment fourth-circuit sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation |
Did the Fourth Circuit and the Middle district Of North Carolina (Greensboro) err in affirming the USSG 2K2.1(b)(6)(B) | 4-Level enhancement without p… |
| 18-1157 |
Edwin A. Vega v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2019-03-07 |
Denied |
|
detention fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion rodriguez-v-united-states search-and-seizure united-states-v-ross usps vehicle-search |
Did the Ohio Supreme Court reverse Rodriguez v. United States and permit unlawful detention and search in violation of the Fourth Amendment? |
| 18-8293 |
Rodolfo Rivero Garcia, Jr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-03-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment border-patrol border-search drug-interdiction drug-trafficking fourth-amendment reasonable-suspicion terry-stop traffic-stop vehicle-search vehicle-stop |
Whether the stop of Mr. Garcia's vehicle was supported by reasonable suspicion under the Fourth Amendment |
| 18-8213 |
Hector Santillan v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-03-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment fourth-amendment minority-communities police-interrogation police-investigation prolonged-detention reasonable-suspicion reid-v-georgia rodriguez-standard rodriguez-v-united-states traffic-stop |
Whether an officer may prolong a traffic stop to investigate other matters |
| 18-8259 |
Nickie Thomas Gray, Jr. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-03-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-rights debatable-standard due-process fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurist-of-reason law-enforcement sixth-amendment sixth-circuit |
Was the Sixth Circuit's denial of a certificate of appealability erroneous? |
| 18-8177 |
Julia Augusta Constan Macri v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure deviation fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure illinois-v-caballes law-enforcement original-purpose reasonable-suspicion rodriguez-v-united-states traffic-stop |
Whether under the Fourth Amendment the reasonable articulable suspicion necessary to extend a traffic stop must be formed before the officer's deviati… |
| 18-8185 |
Anthony Alexander Ferrari v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-overbreadth fourth-amendment liberty-deprivation overbreadth overbroad plain-error probation-officer statutory-reasonableness supervised-release vague vagueness |
Whether it is plain error to require as a condition of supervised release that a defendant permit a probation officer to visit the probation officer a… |
| 18-8202 |
Walter Ronaldo Martinez Escobar v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-02-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
circuit-split eighth-circuit exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception leon-standard search-and-seizure supreme-court-precedent warrant-execution warrant-requirement warrantless-search |
Does the Eighth Circuit caselaw the Panel applied in Escobar's case holding that the United States v. Leon good-faith exception applies even when the … |
| 18-1128 |
Curtis Minchuk v. Craig Strand |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-02-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split deadly-force deadly-force-justification excessive-force fourth-amendment police-use-of-force qualified-immunity self-defense totality-of-the-circumstances use-of-force |
Whether evidence of a dangerous and violent suspect's sudden and unexpected gesture of surrender immediately and objectively terminates the deadly thr… |
| 18-1121 |
Captain James Linlor v. Michael Polson |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-02-27 |
Denied |
|
4th-amendment bivens bivens-action civil-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment police-powers qualified-immunity sexual-battery tsa tsa-screener tsa-screening |
Whether the attested-as-intentional excessive and unreasonable force striking of a cooperative passenger's genitals by a TSA screener not meeting mand… |
| 18-8146 |
Jamie Geer v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-02-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment interstate-police-action jurisdiction jurisdictional-violation minor-consent out-of-state-jurisdiction police-conduct wire-communication wiretap-act |
Whether the minors consent for the interception of wire communication is legally and constitutionally valid, when secured by police acting outside of … |
| 18-8147 |
Jerry Allen Horn v. Kansas |
Kansas |
2019-02-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights county-of-riverside-v-mclaughlin due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment gerstein-hearing investigative-delay res-judicata sixth-amendment state-habeas-corpus supremacy-clause warrantless-arrest |
Question not identified |
| 18-1111 |
James J. Kaufman v. Scott Walker, et al. |
Wisconsin |
2019-02-26 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-versus-punitive ex-post-facto fourth-amendment gps-monitoring judicial-review Lifetime-GPS-Monitoring Reasonable-Suspicion retroactive-application retroactive-law sex-offender sex-offenders |
Whether lifetime GPS monitoring of sex offenders based on decades-old convictions and the possibility of future crimes is reasonable under the Fourth … |
| 18-1093 |
City of Joliet, Illinois, et al. v. Elijah Manuel |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-02-22 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (2) |
42-usc-1983 accrual accrual-rule civil-rights fourth-amendment judicial-procedure manuel-v-city-of-joliet pretrial-detention section-1983 |
Whether the Seventh Circuit erred in holding that a Fourth Amendment claim for unlawful post-process, pretrial detention brought pursuant to §1983 is … |
| 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? |
| 18-8054 |
Michael Kenneth Young v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-02-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment crack-cocaine-seizure criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-joinder fair-trial firearm-seizure fourth-amendment joinder motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-and-seizure severance traffic-stop |
Did the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals err in upholding the denial of Petitioner Michael Young's motion to sever his unrelated charges arising out of… |
| 18-1084 |
Minnesota v. Mark Jerome Johnson |
Minnesota |
2019-02-21 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
collateral-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process dui fourth-amendment implied-consent retroactive-application retroactivity search-and-seizure warrant-requirement |
Retroactive application of Birchfield v. North Dakota rule on warrantless blood tests |
| 18-8038 |
James Patrick Burke v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
child-pornography criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment jurisdiction network-investigative-technique rule-41 rule-41(b) |
Should evidence be suppressed under the 'exclusionary rule' when obtained from Network Investigative Tecnique (NIT) warrants that violated Rule 41(b) … |
| 18-1078 |
James Dawson, et al. v. Joshua Brennan |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-02-19 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (9) |
4th-amendment circuit-split curtilage fourth-amendment law-enforcement probation probation-condition probation-conditions search-and-seizure sixth-circuit |
Sixth Circuit misapplied Supreme Court precedent on Fourth Amendment curtilage, creating circuit split |
| 18-1066 |
Tracy Chang and Howard Hsu v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-defense criminal-procedure fourth-amendment good-faith good-faith-defense good-faith-reliance jury-instructions search-warrant standing tax-fraud |
Whether a court must instruct the jury on a criminal defendant's good-faith reliance on professional tax advice as a defense, the scope of discretion … |
| 18-1068 |
Raja Mittal v. County of Clark, Nevada, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-14 |
Denied |
|
and in the absence of exigent circumstances violate Fourth-and-Fourteenth-Amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process family-law fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment juvenile-court parental-rights rooker-feldman-doctrine standing takings warrantless-removal |
Whether removal of a child from parent's custody without a judicial order or a warrant, and in the absence of exigent circumstances, violate Fourth an… |
| 18-7962 |
Al-Rashid Muhammad Abdullah v. Plant City Police Department, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-02-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 1st-amendment 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment liberty-rights property-rights section-1983 takings |
Whether the Due Process Clause requires an opportunity for a post-deprivation hearing for a property right/interest § 1983 claim |
| 18-7965 |
Daniel Stewart v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights counsel-of-choice due-process fourth-amendment Fourth-Amendment-Claim Miranda-Rights probable-cause Right-to-Counsel rodriguez-v-united-states search-and-seizure standing Suspicionless-Surveillance warrantless-search Warrantless-Searches |
Whether the warrantless searches of petitioner's person and his motor vehicle were in clear violation of his Fourth Amendment rights |
| 18-7981 |
Santos Peter Murillo, aka Peter Santos Murillo v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
batson batson-hearing civil-rights discrimination first-amendment fourth-amendment jury-selection public-trial sixth-amendment standing triviality-exception warrantless-search |
Is there a 'triviality' exception to the First Amendment's and Sixth Amendment's public trial requirement, and, if so, was a hearing regarding Governm… |
| 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… |
| 18-1060 |
Michael A. Weiss, Individually and as Executor of the Estate of Jane L. Marsh, Deceased v. Stephen D. Marsh, as Executor of the Estate of Monroe F. Marsh, Deceased, et al. |
California |
2019-02-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-clauses constitutional-standing due-process fourth-amendment fundamental-justice jurisdiction legal-principles material-change pre-trial-seizure standing statutory-basis takings unclean-hands |
Whether specified principles of fundamental justice, including unclean hands, constitutionally prohibited the court from affirming distribution of pro… |
| 18-7914 |
Jay Maurice Tharps v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-02-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment anonymous-informant drug-trafficking fourth-amendment leon-exception leon-good-faith-exception partially-rotten-fruit probable-cause search-warrant totality-of-circumstances totality-of-the-circumstances |
Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in determining that probable cause existed |
| 18-7882 |
Christopher M. Gates v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment handcuffs investigative-detention officer-safety reasonable-suspicion terry-stop use-of-force |
Whether use of handcuffs is permissible during a mere investigative detention, or 'Terry stop,' where there is a risk to officer safety |
| 18-7875 |
Lionel Cannon, aka Cannon v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-02-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
carpenter-precedent carpenter-v-united-states criminal-procedure fourth-amendment franks-hearing law-enforcement search-and-seizure vehicle-search warrant-requirement warrantless-search wiretaps |
Was Cannon denied his Fourth Amendment rights? |
| 18-7811 |
Ronald Bishop Thompson v. Noah Nagy, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cell-phone-testimony cell-site-location cell-site-location-information criminal-procedure fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel search-and-seizure stored-communications-act warrant-requirement |
Did trial counsel perform ineffectively at Petitioner's second trial |
| 18-1035 |
Keithrick Thomas v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
|
curtilage driveway plain-view-exception probable-cause search-and-seizure warrantless-search curtilage fourth-amendment plain-view-doctrine police-encounter probable-cause search-and-seizure standing vehicle-search warrantless-search |
Warrantless search of passenger's pockets in driveway violates Fourth Amendment |
| 18-1024 |
Lenard Johnson v. Richard Winfrey, Jr. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-02-06 |
Denied |
|
4th-amendment accrual-of-claim civil-rights false-statements fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure franks-analysis franks-v-delaware law-enforcement-misconduct legal-accrual material-omission probable-cause qualified-immunity warrant-application |
Franks v. Delaware analysis of omitted information material to probable cause |
| 18-7746 |
Joseph Davis v. United States |
First Circuit |
2019-02-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
thereby rendering the use of evidence uncovered d constitutional-rights criminal-procedure evidence florida-v-wells fourth-amendment inventory-search probable-cause ruse search-and-seizure |
Whether errors in an inventory search report are indicative of a 'ruse' under Florida v. Wells, thereby rendering the use of evidence uncovered during… |
| 18-7711 |
Christopher Fitzgerald v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant united-states-v-leon warrant-affidavit |
Does the 'good faith' exception to the exclusionary rule apply to uphold a search |
| 18-1006 |
Michael Kevin Adams v. Texas |
Texas |
2019-02-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights community-caretaking criminal-procedure fourth-amendment impoundment interrogation law-enforcement minor-offense probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-stop vehicle-impoundment vehicle-search |
Michael-Kevin-Adams |
| 18-1007 |
Assem A. Abulkhair v. Google LLC, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-02-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
abuse-of-discretion civil-procedure civil-rights due-process email-privacy federal-rules-of-civil-procedure fourth-amendment judicial-recusal law-enforcement-overreach privacy-rights recusal religious-discrimination search-and-seizure search-warrant standing |
Whether the District Judge has the authority to dismiss suit while his/her recusal remains pending and his/her disqualification and impartiality comes… |
| 18-7619 |
Michael Scott Morris v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-01-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment coercion consent criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment police-coercion probable-cause search-and-seizure voluntary-consent warrant-requirement |
Is consent to search a home freely and voluntarily given when police threaten arrest and jail if they are required to obtain a search warrant? |
| 18-7683 |
Deandre Anderson v. Daniel Lesatz, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violations criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment miranda-rights new-evidence post-conviction-relief postconviction-relief probable-cause standing statute-of-limitations trial-errors wrongful-conviction |
Does the cases stated apply to this case? |
| 18-7627 |
Tavis Labron Houpe v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-01-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment newly-discovered-evidence search-and-seizure standing Was the petitioner's Fourteenth(14th) Amendment ri |
Was the petitioner's Fourth(4th) Amendment rights violated due to a search and seizure? |
| 18-7653 |
Lonzo Bonner v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2019-01-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-material due-process fair-trial fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel perjured-testimony probable-cause prosecutorial-misconduct |
Whether petitioner was deprived of his state and federal constitutional right to a fair trial and due process of law |
| 18-985 |
BMP Family Limited Partnership, et al. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights due-process financial-records fourth-amendment internal-revenue-code katz-v-united-states neece-v-irs non-party-clients preemption privacy right-to-financial-privacy right-to-privacy standing summons-privacy tax-summons |
Whether the issuance of summonses under 26 U.S.C. § 7609 preempts the privacy rights of non-party clients |
| 18-954 |
Cory Speelman v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2019-01-25 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
blood-draw fourth-amendment implied-consent search-and-seizure search-warrant unconscious unconscious-person warrant warrant-exception |
Should the Court revisit Birchfield v. North Dakota to resolve a split in the States: does the Fourth Amendment permit statutory 'implied consent' to … |
| 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? |
| 18-7530 |
Tonya Udoh, et vir v. Minnesota Department of Human Services, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-01-23 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment 1983-claims 1985-claims 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights davis-v-monroe-county-board due-process emotional-distress false-arrest fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment haines-v-kerner minor-children miranda-rights monell-liability municipal-liability parental-rights pro-se-litigant qualified-immunity search-and-seizure standing unconstitutional-statutes |
Whether pro se litigants are held to the same legal standards as counseled litigants |
| 18-7534 |
Tylon Hudson v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-01-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment parolee probable-cause reasonable-belief search-and-seizure warrant |
Does a Police officer who without reasonable belief that a parolee is inside his residence and repeatedly enters the parolee's unoccupied residence, i… |
| 18-943 |
Fairfield County, Ohio, et al. v. Neil A. Morgan, II, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-18 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-procedure fourth-amendment knock-and-talk law-enforcement officer-safety perimeter-security search-and-seizure |
Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits law enforcement officers from securing the perimeter of a residence, for officer safety, when conducting a lawf… |
| 18-7465 |
Marshaun Boykin v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-01-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process excessive-force police-misconduct qualified-immunity civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment property-rights search-and-seizure warrantless-search |
Whether the police violated the petitioner's Fourth Amendment rights by conducting a warrantless search and seizure of the petitioner's property |
| 18-915 |
Gregory T. Christian v. K. A. Payne, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-01-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment audio-evidence coercion consent evidence-suppression fourth-amendment procedural-irregularities qualified-immunity search-and-seizure section-1983 suppression-of-evidence warrantless-search |
Whether producing identification without being requested justifies search for weapons several minutes later |
| 18-924 |
Michael Antonio Bullock v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2019-01-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-limits due-process fourth-amendment mission-scope police-conduct police-investigation reasonable-duration rodriguez-v-united-states traffic-stop |
Whether any activities unrelated to the mission of a traffic stop inherently prolong it, and what activities fall within the mission of a stop? |
| 18-900 |
Philip Zodhiates v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2019-01-11 |
Denied |
Amici (4)Response Waived |
carpenter-v-united-states cell-site-location-information davis-v-united-states exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure good-faith-exception international-parental-kidnapping probable-cause warrant-requirement |
Whether the good faith exception to the exclusionary rule allows use at trial of cell-site location information illegally seized by a prosecutor prior… |
| 18-7315 |
James Gregory Armistead v. Jennie Bowen, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-01-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights contracts-clause criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection ex-post-facto fourth-amendment hearing-rights informal-hearing program-eligibility termination |
Whether the trial court and administrative agency denied petitioner due process and equal protection rights by terminating him from a program without … |
| 18-7294 |
Sergio Antonio Zambrano v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment fourth-amendment pat-down probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-stop terry-v-ohio warrantless-search warrantless-searches |
Whether a police officer may reach into an individual's pockets and remove objects during a Terry stop if the officer cannot determine through a pat-d… |
| 18-7309 |
Kevin Balfour v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment home-invasion inevitable-discovery police-procedure protective-sweep search-and-seizure warrant-requirement warrantless-search |
Does the inevitable-discovery doctrine unlawfully and/or improperly expand the limits of the protective-sweep exception to the Fourth-Amendment right … |
| 18-870 |
Ilyas V. Ibragimov v. Wisconsin |
Wisconsin |
2019-01-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation law-enforcement search-and-seizure seizure seizures unreasonable-search unreasonable-searches vehicle-stop warrantless-search |
Whether Petitioner's Fourth Amendment right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures was violated when his vehicle was stopped by law enforc… |
| 18-7248 |
Vertis Anthony v. Louis Boyd, Warden, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeals appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment judicial-bias jurisdiction probable-cause rules-of-civil-procedure standing subject-matter-jurisdiction warrantless-search |
Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit erred in its rulings on the jurisdictional issues raised in the petition |
| 18-7256 |
Amin De Castro v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2019-01-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement-interaction police-encounter police-seizure probable-cause reasonable-person reasonable-person-standard seizure terry-stop |
whether a reasonable person would feel free to refuse a police officer's polite request to take his hands out of his pockets |
| 18-863 |
Tralvis Edmond v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-01-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment confidential-informant criminal-activity criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment probable-cause search-warrant temporal-evidence |
Whether a complaint for search warrant that is silent as to the date on which alleged criminal activity occurred and recounts only a single drug purch… |
| 18-7214 |
Waymon Scott McLaughlin v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arrestee-access arrestee-rights fourth-amendment law-enforcement-procedure probable-cause search-incident-to-arrest unreasonable-search vehicle-search warrant-requirement warrantless-search |
Whether the Fourth Amendment permits officers to search objects carried by an arrestee without a warrant even after they have eliminated any realistic… |
| 18-831 |
Michael Presley, et al. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-03 |
Denied |
|
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process financial-privacy financial-records fourth-amendment internal-revenue-code irs-investigation preemption right-to-financial-privacy-act right-to-privacy tax-summons third-party-summons |
Whether the court below erroneously held that the issuance of summonses under 26 U.S.C. § 7609 preempts the privacy rights of non-party clients |
| 18-7205 |
In Re Arthur O. Armstrong |
|
2019-01-02 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-procedure-rule-60 due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment liberty liberty-interest property rule-60 standing |
Whether Petitioner is entitled to relief, pursuant to Rule 60(b)(6) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure |
| 18-7184 |
Antione Chambers, aka Sealed Defendant 1, aka Twizzie v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-12-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment carpenter-v-united-states cell-site-data civil-rights exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception search-and-seizure stored-communications-act warrantless-search |
Whether the good faith exception to the Fourth Amendment exclusionary rule applies |
| 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… |
| 18-7163 |
Kent Mayfield, et ux. v. Harvey County Sheriff's Department, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-12-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights dog-seizure due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement personal-property pet-dog property-rights qualified-immunity search-and-seizure warrantless-search |
Did the defendants violate the plaintiffs' Fourth Amendment rights? |
| 18-806 |
Jodi C. Hohman, et al. v. United States, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-12-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure federal-court financial-privacy-act fourth-amendment john-doe-summons jurisdictional-discovery limited-liability-company right-to-financial-privacy-act sovereign-immunity |
Whether limited liability companies are 'persons' under the Right to Financial Privacy Act |
| 18-7156 |
Antonez Terril Johnson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-12-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arrest federal-circuit-split fourth-amendment investigative-detention investigatory-stop investigatory-stops pedestrian-stop probable-cause reasonableness-standard scope-and-duration terry-stop terry-v-ohio |
Whether pedestrian Terry stops based on probable cause do or do not equate to arrest |
| 18-7095 |
Miguel Robinson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-12-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment circumstances circumstantial-evidence criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-search rigid-legal-rules rule-of-law search search-and-seizure search-warrant |
Did the Court of Appeals violate the principle that rigid legal rules are ill-suited to an analysis of probable cause by relying on a rule to find a m… |
| 18-7124 |
Ruben Geovanni Hernandez v. Texas |
Texas |
2018-12-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fishing-expedition fourth-amendment law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion scope-of-detention search-and-seizure traffic-stop vehicle-search |
Does the Fourth Amendment protect against a 'fishing expedition' to develop 'reasonable suspicion' to exceed the scope of an initial stop in order to … |
| 18-7129 |
Brennan Christian, aka Twin, aka Trey v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-12-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
carpenter-precedent carpenter-v-united-states cell-phone-records cell-site-records circuit-split constitutional-rights district-court-discretion fourth-amendment fourth-circuit pro-se-petition stare-decisis |
Has the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals misapplied this Court's ruling in Carpenter v. United States regarding cell phone records being Constitutional… |
| 18-775 |
Andrew Chien v. LeClairRyan, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-12-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-error civil-rights collateral-estoppel color-of-state-act due-process false-imprisonment fourth-amendment qualified-immunity res-judicata subject-matter-jurisdiction territorial-jurisdiction |
Whether the order is void due to administrative error and lack of jurisdiction |
| 18-7043 |
Coleman Tuton v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-12-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment attenuation-doctrine commercial-passenger-bus drug-detection-canine fourth-amendment independent-source-doctrine luggage probable-cause search-and-seizure warrantless-search |
Does the general alert of a drug-detection canine to the luggage compartment of a commercial passenger bus—but not to any particular piece of luggage … |
| 18-7053 |
Kevin Scott Varner v. John Christiansen, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-12-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment habeas-corpus state-court state-court-litigation state-court-review stone-v-powell |
What constitutes an opportunity for full and fair litigation of a Fourth Amendment claim in state court? |
| 18-764 |
Oscar Henry Steinmetz v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-12-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment civil-rights consent consent-search constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure |
Does the law regarding searches, seizures, and consent need clarification for proper guidance and application? |
| 18-7023 |
Webster Douglas Williams, III v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-12-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-violation due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel eighth-amendment-cruel-and-unusual-punishment equal-protection exclusionary-rule forced-entry fourth-amendment restitution ruse search-and-seizure sixth-amendment-right-to-counsel third-party |
When police officers attempt to gain voluntary admittance to a residence by use of a ruse, which fails, and are peacably asked to present a search war… |
| 18-746 |
County of Los Angeles, California, et al. v. Angel Mendez, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-12-12 |
Denied |
|
42-usc-1983 4th-amendment causation circuit-review civil-rights clearly-erroneous fourth-amendment intervening-event proximate-causation proximate-cause reasonable-force remand search-warrant section-1983 standard-of-review use-of-force warrantless-search |
Whether a plaintiff's injuries resulting from a police officer's use of force may be proximately caused by the officer's failure to secure a search wa… |
| 18-6986 |
Nathan Lynn Cloud v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-12-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment intergovernmental-agreements law-enforcement law-enforcement-agreements nevada-v-hicks service-of-process tribal-sovereignty |
Does the tribal criminal defendant have Fourth Amendment rights when state law enforcement violates an agreement with the tribe regarding criminal ser… |
| 18-6994 |
Cleveland McDowell Meador, IV v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-12-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
consent-search consent-to-search felon-in-possession fourth-amendment home-search police-procedure probable-cause search-and-seizure seizure supervision supervision-of-search withdrawal-consent withdrawal-of-consent |
Whether police officers violate the Fourth Amendment when they obtain consent to search a person's home, then keep that person outside the home, preve… |
| 18-6951 |
Jamal Cooper v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-12-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-2518 4th-amendment congressional-intent consent-requirements criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment franks-v-delaware necessity-requirement omnibus-crime-control-act probable-cause separate-application statutory-interpretation wiretap-application wiretap-necessity wiretap-statute |
Is 18 U.S.C. § 2518 (1) (ce) a statutory provision that reflects Congress' core concerns and does § 2518 (1)(c) require that each request for a wireta… |
| 18-6963 |
Muhammed Tariq Camran v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-12-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
11th-circuit 11th-circuit-split 4th-amendment 4th-circuit 4th-circuit-split circuit-split drug-corridor fourth-amendment law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion rental-vehicle search-and-seizure traffic-stop vehicle-rental |
Should this court resolve the split between the Fourth and Eleventh Circuit about the probity of the fact that a vehicle is a rental in the reasonable… |
| 18-6903 |
Curtis McLaurin v. New York |
New York |
2018-12-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review constitutional-law due-process federal-law fourth-amendment groh-v-ramirez habeas-corpus incorporated-application new-york-state-appellate-court search-warrant stone-v-powell |
Whether the New York State appellate court's holding that a defective search warrant can be cured by an incorporated search warrant application |
| 18-6908 |
Livingston Manners v. Ronald Cannella, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-12-04 |
Denied |
IFP |
42-U.S.C.-1983 Excessive-Force fleeing-and-eluding fourth-amendment Fourth-Amendment-Violation probable-cause qualified-immunity reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop |
Is there a violation of the fourth amendment where the arrest of a civilian stems from an illegal traffic stop |
| 18-6918 |
Samantha Christine Velazquez v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-12-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment border-search cell-phone-privacy cell-phone-search civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment probable-cause riley-precedent riley-v-california search-and-seizure warrantless-search |
Whether a warrantless, post-arrest cell-phone-search is permissible under the Fourth-Amendment at the United-States-border |
| 18-6905 |
Thomas Thadeus Szczerba v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-12-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
affidavit-incorporation criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception incorporation-of-affidavit search-and-seizure warrant-incorporation warrant-particularity warrant-particularization |
Does the Leon 'good-faith exception' to the exclusionary rule apply when a warrant fails to particularize the 'things to be seized' and fails to conta… |
| 18-6866 |
Thomas Edward Sperber v. Pennsylvania |
Pennsylvania |
2018-11-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment cellular-phone civil-rights digital-privacy fourth-amendment privacy probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-requirement warrantless-search |
Does the act of accessing any information from a cellular phone without a warrant contravene the Supreme Court's decision in Riley v. California and U… |
| 18-693 |
Steven Crain v. Nevada, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment legal-process malicious-prosecution unreasonable-seizure |
Does an individual's Fourth Amendment right to be free from unreasonable seizure continue beyond legal process so as to allow a malicious prosecution … |
| 18-6810 |
Timothy Hickman-Smith v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-11-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
colorado-v-bertine criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel inventory-search search-and-seizure south-dakota-v-opperman vehicle-search |
Did inventory search violate this Court's decisions in South Dakota v. Opperman and Colorado v. Bertine, as well as the Fourth Amendment to the Consti… |
| 18-6820 |
Robert Paul Langley, Jr. v. Jeff Premo, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary |
Oregon |
2018-11-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-authorization particularity particularity-requirement search-warrant seizure sixth-amendment |
Does the Fourth Amendment require that a search warrant particularly describe the things to be seized? |
| 18-672 |
City of Newport Beach, California, et al. v. Richard Vos, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-23 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6) |
ada-title-ii americans-with-disabilities-act fourth-amendment law-enforcement mental-illness totality-of-the-circumstances use-of-force |
Does Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act require law enforcement officers to provide accommodations to an armed, violent, and mentally ill… |
| 18-6775 |
Edward Joseph Kehoe v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-11-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment criminal-procedure fourth-amendment harmless-error impartial-judge judicial-error racial-bias racial-discrimination reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure structural-error warrantless-search |
Whether the clearly improper use of a person's race by a judge to support a finding of reasonable suspicion justifying a warrantless search and seizur… |
| 18-667 |
Lonnie Charles Williams, III v. Texas |
Texas |
2018-11-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
driving-while-intoxicated drug-detection fourth-amendment intoxication-signs law-enforcement odor-of-alcohol probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop |
Whether reasonable suspicion under the Fourth Amendment can exist in a driving while intoxicated context when officers do not detect the odor of alcoh… |
| 18-643 |
Janette Dunkle v. Jennifer Dale, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment 4th-amendment child-seizure circuit-court-precedent circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment qualified-immunity warrantless-seizure |
Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in applying the narrow approach from Kirkpatrick, and whether Circuit-level opinions stating that an emergency is requ… |
| 18-6715 |
Cortney John Edstrom v. Minnesota |
Minnesota |
2018-11-19 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment apartment-dwellers apartment-search circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights curtilage drug-detection-dog drug-detection-dogs due-process first-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech reasonable-expectation-of-privacy standing |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for violation of their First Amendment rights |
| 18-6734 |
Henry Franklin Reddick v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-11-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment child-pornography civil-rights digital-privacy digital-search fourth-amendment hash-value private-search private-search-doctrine search-and-seizure warrant-requirement |
Does a police officer violate the Fourth Amendment by opening a digital file and viewing an image in it without a warrant to confirm a private company… |
| 18-619 |
Gamada A. Hussein v. Matthew G. Whitaker, Acting Attorney General, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-11-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bodily-integrity civil-rights dna-testing due-process faith-based-discrimination false-imprisonment fourth-amendment fourth-amendment,false-imprisonment,due-process,wa sovereign-immunity surveillance warrantless-monitoring |
Whether implanting chips in Petitioner's body and monitoring the Petitioner and Petitioner's family life activities for a decade without warrant and d… |
| 18-623 |
Katrina Walker v. Carl Weatherspoon, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-11-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment illinois-v-gates informant informant-tip probable-cause qualified-immunity search-warrant section-1983 seventh-circuit |
May a police officer, who secures a search warrant on the uncorroborated tip of a first-time informant by withholding from the issuing judge facts tha… |
| 18-6664 |
Daniel David Garza v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-11-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment law-enforcement motion-to-suppress probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop |
Whether the lower courts erred in denying Mr. Garza's Motion to Suppress based on the erroneous finding that the officer had reasonable suspicion to i… |
| 18-6702 |
Brandon Gale Combs v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-11-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception leon-doctrine probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant warrant-requirement |
Whether it is unconstitutional to allow appellate courts to review information known to police, but unknown to the neutral and detached magistrate at … |
| 18-591 |
Gary Dressler v. Bradford Rice, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-11-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
2nd-amendment civil-rights conspiracy fourth-amendment open-carry probable-cause qualified-immunity second-amendment |
Is an individual's Second Amendment right to bear arms violated? |
| 18-6587 |
David James Matthew v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
anticipatory-warrant conditional-warrant florida-v-jardines fourth-amendment knock-and-announce probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant united-states-v-grubbs warrantless-entry |
Whether agent Waldo's initial warrantless entry into the enclosed 'screened front patio' of Matthew's residence violated the Fourth Amendment |
| 18-576 |
Robert H. Wright, Jr. v. Jerald Watson, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-11-02 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
4th-amendment civil-forfeiture civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment malicious-prosecution police-misconduct probable-cause standing |
Is a malicious prosecution claim under the Fourth Amendment and Manuel v. City of Joliet the proper civil remedy for an 'overcharge' prosecution? |
| 18-6540 |
Maha Z. Rayan v. Georgia |
Georgia |
2018-11-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
arrest contempt contempt-order criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment judicial-appointment municipal-court-jurisdiction municipal-courts probable-cause state-penal-law uniform-traffic-citation |
Whether the use of a municipal traffic citation as an initial accusation for a state penal law non-traffic offense is constitutional |
| 18-6505 |
Brian Powell v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-11-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment appellate-review district-court first-circuit fourth-amendment fourth-amendment,private-search-doctrine,united-st motion-to-suppress private-search-doctrine search-and-seizure united-states-v-jacobsen |
Whether the First Circuit erred when it relied upon the private search doctrine as delineated by this Court in United States v. Jacobsen, 466 U.S. 109… |
| 18-6512 |
Jabril Jones v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-11-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment appeals cell-phone-privacy civil-procedure civil-rights due-process exclusionary-rule false-imprisonment Fourth-Amendment jurisdiction jury-trial probable-cause search-incident-to-arrest sentencing standing warrantless-search |
Whether petitioners were arrested without probable cause |
| 18-6496 |
John Thomas v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-10-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-argument appellate-procedure appellate-review carpenter-v-united-states cell-phone-location cell-phone-location-data cell-phone-tracking constitutional-rights conviction-affirmance conviction-affirmation fourth-amendment search-and-seizure warrantless-search |
Whether the opinion of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, which failed to address Thomas's appellate argument that his Fourth Amendment rights were… |
| 18-6499 |
Dominique Johnson v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-10-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
10th-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights double-jeopardy due-process federal-agents federal-government fourth-amendment home-arrest standing tenth-amendment warrantless-search |
Whether an individual can challenge a warrantless arrest inside a home by federal government agents under the 4th Amendment |
| 18-556 |
Kansas v. Charles Glover |
Kansas |
2018-10-29 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (10)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
4th-amendment fourth-amendment habitual-violator investigative-stop law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion registered-owner traffic-law traffic-laws vehicle-registration vehicle-stop |
Whether an officer may reasonably suspect the registered owner of a vehicle is driving the vehicle absent information to the contrary |
| 18-6484 |
Markus Davis v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-10-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights fourth-amendment pat-down police-procedure prior-incidents reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop |
Whether factors based largely on prior incidents, some years old, can provide a police officer with the reasonable suspicion the Fourth Amendment requ… |
| 18-6431 |
Justin Jenkins v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-10-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment evidence-suppression Exclusionary-Rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception Illegal-Search Illegal-Seizure probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant standing vehicle-search |
Whether the trial court erred in refusing to suppress evidence from illegal searches |
| 18-6432 |
Patrick Killen, Jr. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confession confession-voluntariness consent-to-search due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment interrogation interrogation-circumstances involuntary law-enforcement-tactics totality-of-the-circumstances young-adult |
Whether Due Process allows federal agents to obtain a confession and a consent to search from an immature, young adult that has been startled awake by… |
| 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… |
| 18-6417 |
Derrick Wilson v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-10-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
faretta-v-california faretta-waiver Fifth-Amendment-due-process Fourth-Amendment Franks-v-Delaware johnson-v-zerbst pro-se-representation right-to-counsel sixth-amendment sixth-amendment-right United-States-v-Giordano voluntariness waiver wiretap-application |
When trial counsel informs the court that he is not prepared for trial and the court's Faretta colloquy does not inquire into the voluntariness of Pet… |
| 18-6422 |
Larry Norton v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-10-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment mistake-of-law perjury police-misconduct pretext pretextual-stop search search-and-seizure traffic-stop |
Does a mistake of law by police in the stopping of a vehicle render the subsequent search violative of the Fourth Amendment? |
| 18-6399 |
Marcos Perez-Trevino v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-10-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
berger-v-united-states circuit-split closed-container closed-containers conspiracy drug-conspiracy due-process fifth-amendment fifth-amendment-due-process florida-v-wells fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure indictment inventory-search law-enforcement-policy material-variance probable-cause shared-interest Whether a material variance exists where the gover written-policy |
Whether the officer conducted a valid inventory search of a closed container without a written policy governing such searches |
| 18-6412 |
Jaiyanah Bey v. Elmwood Place Police Department, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-10-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment 4th-amendment-search-and-seizure administrative-search civil-rights commercial-activity constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure standing traffic-stop |
Can a police randomly stop and force you off the road to randomly inspect your private property without probable cause to impose a program on people t… |
| 18-511 |
Austin Gates v. Hassan Khokhar, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-18 |
Denied |
|
arrest-standard civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech probable-cause qualified-immunity standing state-law supreme-court |
Whether a court, in determining whether arguable probable cause exists to arrest for a state-law crime, must consider any narrowing decisions by the s… |
| 18-491 |
Cameron Heath Ray v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2018-10-17 |
Denied |
|
appellate-division circuit-split criminal-evidence criminal-procedure evidence fourth-amendment immediate-mobility law-enforcement mobility probable-cause search-and-seizure vehicle-search vehicle-seizure |
Whether it violates the Fourth Amendment to characterize a criminal suspect's car as evidence of a crime when the car is not used in the crime at issu… |
| 18-474 |
LeFloris Lyon v. Canadian National Railway Company, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-10-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
bivens bivens-action civil-rights first-amendment fourth-amendment probable-cause retaliatory-prosecution seventh-circuit-conflict |
Whether retaliatory prosecution in violation of the First Amendment and Fourth Amendment is actionable under Bivens when the arrest warrants and prose… |
| 18-478 |
Brian Edward Malnes v. City of Flagstaff, Arizona, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
constitutional-vagueness fourth-amendment harassment harassment-statute law-enforcement overbreadth probable-cause search-and-seizure unreasonable-search-and-seizure vagueness |
Whether law enforcement officials had probable cause to arrest the Petitioner for the crime of harassment under Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 13-2921(A)(1) based… |
| 18-6297 |
Jorge Robles-Avalos v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-10-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment border-patrol fourth-amendment motion-to-suppress probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure totality-of-the-circumstances vehicle-stop |
Must a court consider a Border Patrol agent's admission to routinely stopping vehicles without reasonable suspicion as part of the totality of the cir… |
| 18-6318 |
Jeffrey Allen Ware v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment constitutional-violation exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment police-misconduct search-and-seizure warrant-requirement warrantless-search |
Is the exclusionary rule properly limited solely to the purpose of deterring police misconduct or can/should it be used to enforce a clear constitutio… |
| 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… |
| 18-6310 |
LeShawn Lawson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-12 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights drug-activity due-process fourth-amendment investigative-questioning pretextual-stop prolonged-detention reasonable-suspicion rodriguez-rule rodriguez-v-united-states traffic-stop |
Whether five minutes of drug-related investigative questioning of a driver at the beginning of an admittedly pretextual traffic stop violates the rule… |
| 18-6296 |
Alexander Robert Jacome v. California |
California |
2018-10-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 9th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law Constitutional-Rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment Fourth-Amendment free-speech ninth-amendment Parole-Conditions |
Will this Court reverse the lower Courts substantial violations of the Fourteenth Amendment's substantive Due Process clause, or allow the unprecedent… |
| 18-6268 |
Roger King v. Terence Kilpatrick, Warden |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-10-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-court access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights clerk-interference constitutional-rights discretionary-review due-process fourth-amendment fraud misrepresentation probable-cause procedural-error search-and-seizure |
Whether the Georgia Supreme Court erred in dismissing the Petitioner's application for certificate of probable cause because the Petitioner did not fi… |
| 18-6243 |
Christopher Jackson v. Florida |
Florida |
2018-10-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-violation exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree illegal-evidence indirect-evidence probable-cause search-and-seizure standing wong-sun |
Whether secondary evidence discovered as a result of an illegal search and seizure can constitute proof against the victim of search, and does exclusi… |
| 18-437 |
Dmitri I. Medvedev v. Henrico County |
Virginia |
2018-10-05 |
Denied |
|
4th-amendment civil-rights driver's-license due-process dui fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-suspicion seizure terry-stop terry-v-ohio |
When the officer took and retained Petitioner's license, did it constitute a seizure for Fourth Amendment purposes where reasonable suspicion did not … |
| 18-6216 |
Musonda Mulenga v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2018-10-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
carpenter-v-united-states criminal-conviction criminal-procedure district-court-procedure district-of-columbia due-process fourth-amendment harmless-error judicial-precedent legal-conflict second-degree-murder superior-court supreme-court-review |
Whether the opinion from the District of Columbia Court of Appeals is in conflict with opinion of this Court in Carpenter v. United States, 136 S.Ct. … |
| 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 |
| 18-6225 |
Scott Mitchell Bummer v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-procedure due-process equal-protection standing civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment hearing-absence indefinite-retention motion-to-suppress personal-property telephonic-conference unreasonable-search-and-seizure warrantless-seizure |
Whether the government's warrantless seizure and indefinite retention of a person's personal property violates the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on u… |
| 18-430 |
Rashaud Jones v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-10-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment automobile-exception curtilage fourth-amendment multi-family-dwelling multi-family-homes privacy privacy-expectation search-and-seizure warrant-requirement |
Whether dwellers in multi-family homes have a legitimate expectation of privacy in the curtilage of their home that would be regarded as curtilage und… |
| 18-6179 |
Mario Govan Emmanuel v. Territory of the Virgin Islands |
Virgin Islands |
2018-10-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment bolo-flyer collective-knowledge collective-knowledge-doctrine fellow-officer-doctrine fourth-amendment officer-discretion reasonable-suspicion stop-and-frisk terry-stop terry-v-ohio united-states-v-hensley whiteley-v-warden |
Does the collective knowledge or fellow officer doctrine eliminate the need for the BOLO-flyer to articulate facts supporting a reasonable suspicion t… |
| 18-407 |
Matthew John Stickle v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2018-10-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure curtilage due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment fourth-amendment,fourteenth-amendment,search-and-s ip-address search-and-seizure threshold warrantless-search |
Was the evidence in this case unlawfully obtained as a result of an unlawful search and seizure in violation of the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments? |
| 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? |
| 18-396 |
Brittan Holland, et al. v. Kelly Rosen, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2018-09-28 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
bail bail-reform-act criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment fourth-amendment monetary-bail new-jersey pretrial-detention pretrial-liberty restrictive-conditions |
Whether New Jersey's law prohibiting courts from considering monetary bail unless no combination of non-monetary conditions will reasonably assure the… |
| 18-6122 |
Sheri Lee Pualani Kapahu v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-09-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
boarding-a-plane consensual-encounter detention drug-possession federal-agent fourth-amendment law-enforcement-interaction reasonable-person reasonable-person-standard search-and-seizure |
Whether a reasonable person would feel free to ignore a federal agent's direct accusation of drug possession and go about her business of boarding a p… |
| 18-6137 |
Steven Doyle Burton v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-09-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment probation probation-search probation-searches reasonable-suspicion search search-condition standing |
Whether the Fourth Amendment allows probation searches without reasonable suspicion |
| 18-392 |
Aaron M. Richardson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-09-27 |
Denied |
|
carpenter-precedent carpenter-v-united-states cell-site-location-information eleventh-circuit fourth-amendment search-and-seizure standing stored-communications-act warrant-requirement warrantless-search |
whether-cell-site-location-information-obtained-without-a-warrant-violates-the-fourth-amendment |
| 18-6050 |
Timothy L. Rodriguez v. DeWayne Burton, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-09-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment probable-cause subject-matter-jurisdiction Void-for-Lack-of-Jurisdiction warrantless-arrest |
Whether the states have reached incongruent results when interpreting this Court's decision due to a radical defect that occurred after the petitioner… |
| 18-6057 |
Omar Sosa-Gonzalez v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-09-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule first-circuit fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure sentencing standing statutory-interpretation |
Whether the First Circuit erred in affirming the district court's denial of petitioner's motion to suppress evidence obtained in violation of the Four… |
| 18-368 |
Cedrick Thomas v. Jeffrey Cozzi |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-09-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights detective-thomas district-of-columbia-v-wesby eleventh-circuit false-arrest fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause qualified-immunity |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit erred in affirming the denial of probable cause and qualified immunity for Detective Thomas |
| 18-6045 |
Corey Levon Beckham v. Darrell Miller, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-09-19 |
Denied |
IFP |
drug-abuse equal-protection fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance mental-illness sixth-amendment strickland-v-washington unprofessional-conduct |
Did the Fourth Circuit err in holding that the District Court failed to accept the showing of the two-prong test in Strickland v. Washington on counse… |
| 18-350 |
Lamar Sequan Brown v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2018-09-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
abandonment abandonment-doctrine cell-phone-privacy cell-phones digital-data fourth-amendment privacy reasonable-expectation-of-privacy reasonable-expectation-privacy search-and-seizure search-warrant warrant-requirement |
Whether police must obtain a warrant before searching cell phone data on a lost but passcode-protected phone |
| 18-348 |
Robert Weisler, III v. Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-09-17 |
Denied |
|
42-usc-1983 4th-amendment civil-rights Devenpeck-v-Alford fourth-amendment heck-v-humphrey police-accountability qualified-immunity warrantless-arrest |
Whether Devenpeck v. Alford, which protects officers who either incompetently or maliciously arrest a person for a crime the arrestee did not commit, … |
| 18-337 |
County of Orange, California, et al. v. Mary Gordon, Individually and as Successor in Interest to Matthew Shawn Gordon, Deceased |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-09-14 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-standard due-process eighth-amendment fourth-amendment medical-care objective-reasonableness pretrial-detainee qualified-immunity section-1983 standard-of-care |
Whether a pretrial detainee's 'inadequate medical care' claim pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 requires a showing of a jail professional's subjective inte… |
| 18-339 |
June Harper v. Arthur Leahy, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2018-09-14 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
arrest-warrant civil-rights fourth-amendment home-entry law-enforcement-procedure payton-standard payton-v-new-york probable-cause reasonable-suspicion |
Does the Fourth Amendment require police officers to have probable cause to believe that a suspect is present in a home before forcing entry into that… |
| 18-5987 |
Ajohntae Hammond v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-09-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment circuit-split fourth-amendment officer-safety police-discretion pretext probable-cause qualified-immunity reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure totality-of-circumstances totality-of-the-circumstances warrantless-search |
Whether a police officer's fear for safety justified a warrantless search |
| 18-325 |
Thomas F. Gehrmann, et al. v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-09-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review exculpatory-evidence fourth-amendment franks-doctrine franks-v-delaware material-omissions probable-cause search-warrant standard-of-review waiver |
Whether Franks applies to material omissions and whether probable cause is vitiated and the entire affidavit and search warrant are invalid if omitted… |
| 18-5973 |
Alvin Ramirez-De Jesus v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-09-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-3553(a) booker-standard criminal-procedure drug-conspiracy exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause probation-revocation procedural-reasonableness reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure sentencing-factors sentencing-guidelines substantive-reasonableness supervised-release |
Whether the First Circuit erred in affirming the district court's denial of the petitioner's motion to suppress evidence obtained in violation of the … |
| 18-323 |
Suzan Evans, Individually and as Wife and Next of Kin of Scott Evans, Deceased v. United States, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-09-12 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split constitutional-law excessive-force fourth-amendment graham-v-connor police-conduct reasonableness-standard tennessee-v-garner totality-of-circumstances use-of-force |
Whether the totality of the circumstances test for assessing the reasonableness of a use of force under Tennessee v. Garner and Graham v. Connor requi… |
| 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… |
| 18-309 |
Lonnie Swartz v. Araceli Rodriguez, Individually and as the Surviving Mother and Personal Representative of J. A. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-09-11 |
GVR |
CVSGAmici (1)Relisted (4) |
bivens bivens-remedy bivens-v-six-unknown-named-agents border-security cross-border-shooting extraterritorial-application foreign-relations fourth-amendment qualified-immunity separation-of-powers |
Whether the panel's decision to create an implied remedy for damages under Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of the Fed. Bureau of Narcotics, 403 U.S… |
| 18-5927 |
J. A. v. New Jersey |
New Jersey |
2018-09-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attenuation coolidge-v-new-hampshire fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree illegal-entry lustig-v-united-states probable-cause reasonable-foreseeability search-and-seizure state-action |
Did a search involve state action under the Fourth Amendment where police officers entered a home illegally, an officer there told an inquiring civili… |
| 18-285 |
Missouri v. Phillip Douglass, et al. |
Missouri |
2018-09-05 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment particularity particularity-requirement probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant standing warrant warrant-severability |
Is severance the default remedy when part of a warrant is valid, or does the Fourth Amendment also require that the valid sections make up 'the greate… |
| 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? |
| 18-5874 |
Nalenzer Lee Edwards v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-09-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arrest confidential-informant drug-possession eighth-circuit fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion vehicle-stop |
Did the Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit error in finding probable cause to justify a vehicle stop and the arrest of petitioner? |
| 18-5824 |
James Eugene Larive, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure discovery due-process entrapment evidence fair-trial fourth-amendment parallel-construction search-and-seizure traffic-stop |
Whether the government's use of 'parallel construction' to conceal the true source of evidence violates the defendant's right to a fair trial |
| 18-5831 |
Willie Riley Curry v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment 6th-circuit age-of-victim byrd-v-united-states carpenter-v-united-states criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment gvr plain-error scienter search-and-seizure sixth-circuit-review statutory-interpretation |
Does Carpenter and Byrd require a GVR in this case? |
| 18-5734 |
Robert Dennis Martin v. Oklahoma |
Oklahoma |
2018-08-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-waiver criminal-procedure due-process due-process,criminal-procedure,4th-amendment,stand fourth-amendment jury-verdict police-stop reasonable-doubt standing |
Can Oklahoma adopt a rule of law regarding the waiver of a fundamental constitutional right that does not meet the minimum criteria for such waivers s… |
| 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 |
| 18-236 |
Paul Weddle v. Alan Nutzman, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct qualified-immunity seizure standing use-of-force |
Whether there was clearly established precedent that the officers' use of force against Weddle, who had surrendered and posed no immediate threat, vio… |
| 18-5715 |
Thomas A. Sweeney v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-08-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment criminal-procedure fourth-amendment griffin-v-wisconsin law-enforcement parole parole-search-and-seizure privacy-rights probation probation-supervision samson-v-california search-and-seizure stalking-horse |
Did this Court's decision in Samson v. California overturn the 'stalking horse' doctrine? |
| 18-5718 |
James Willis Campbell, Sr. v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2018-08-23 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment appellate-procedure appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment jurisdiction probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant standard-of-review |
Did the Supreme Court of Virginia err in reversing the Court of Appeals of Virginia's ruling and affirming the judgment of the trial court? |
| 18-5690 |
Darren Taylor v. Thomas Schweitzer, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-08-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment cell-phone-privacy constitutional-rights due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment gps-data search-and-seizure warrantless-search |
Whether Petitioner was denied his constitutional right to a full and fair opportunity to litigate his claim of being denied his constitutional right t… |
| 18-5682 |
Landon Trevor Anderson v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-08-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment circuit-split fourth-amendment harmless-error plain-error reasonable-suspicion supervised-release supervised-release-conditions |
Must searches conducted as conditions of federal supervised release be supported by at least reasonable suspicion? |
| 18-5667 |
Matthew Desmond Browne v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
anonymous-tip civil-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement-procedure location-prediction probable-cause reasonable-suspicion vehicle-identification vehicle-search warrantless-seizure |
Is the Fourth Amendment violated when a warrantless seizure is carried out based on an anonymous tip that correctly identifies a vehicle and a driver'… |
| 18-209 |
Ram Mehta v. California |
California |
2018-08-17 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
Civil-Procedure Civil-Rights constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment judicial-review search-and-seizure unlawful-arrest unlawful-search Unlawful-Search-and-Seizure |
Were the Petitioner's constitutional rights to be free from unlawful search and seizure under the Fourth Amendment and to due process under the Fourte… |
| 18-211 |
Steven Morris Hurd v. California |
California |
2018-08-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
cell-phone cell-phone-search criminal-procedure digital-data fourth-amendment physical-objects riley-v-california robinson-precedent search-incident-to-arrest supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-robinson warrant-requirement |
Whether the search incident to arrest exception to the Fourth Amendment warrant requirement applied to digital data on a cell phone prior to Riley v. … |
| 18-5627 |
Carl Anthony Webb v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-08-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment arrest-procedure civil-rights color-of-law constitutional-violation due-process false-arrest false-evidence false-report false-testimony fourth-amendment law-enforcement video-evidence |
Whether the trial court's finding of fact and conclusion of law were an abuse of discretion |
| 18-5630 |
Hunter Vaughan Eure v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-08-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
computer-privacy exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception particularity-requirement remote-computer-searches remote-search search-and-seizure united-states-v-leon warrant-particularity |
Whether an FBI agent can reasonably rely on the validity of a single warrant that authorizes a million searches of 100,000 different computers without… |
| 18-5633 |
Michael A. Kennedy v. Michigan State Treasurer |
Michigan |
2018-08-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cell-phone-data civil-procedure due-process fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence index list-of-parties privacy question-presented reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure standing |
Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on unreasonable sear… |
| 18-5643 |
Nathan Craft v. Willie Bonds, Administrator, South Woods State Prison, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2018-08-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment consent-search fourth-amendment habeas-corpus pro-se-litigant schneckloth-v-bustamonte stone-v-powell |
When pro-se litigant's 4th amendment consent search claim is misunderstood and misstated, can Stone v. Powell standard be applied to consent search is… |
| 18-5613 |
Ladina Sykes v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2018-08-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law custody fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct private-individual search-and-seizure state-action state-actors |
Whether on-duty police officers are state actors for Fourth Amendment purposes when they assist a private individual in searching a suspect in police … |
| 18-5585 |
Karen Mackey v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-08-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
border-patrol due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment gender-discrimination traffic-stop unreasonable-search-and-seizure unreasonable-seizure vehicle-search |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in holding that a driver's gender may be a factor in the U.S. Border Patrol's decision to stop and search the person's… |
| 18-196 |
Francis Supeno, et al. v. Secretary, Vermont Agency of Natural Resources |
Vermont |
2018-08-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
administrative-penalty administrative-procedure appeal-rights civil-procedure due-process environmental-regulations fourth-amendment notice penalties property-access property-rights regulatory-criteria regulatory-enforcement |
Whether the assessment of a penalty, in a proceeding entirely separate from and subsequent to a hearing on the underlying merits, constitutes a denial… |
| 18-5584 |
Lawrence L. Thompson v. Pete Copeland, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-14 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment 8th-amendment arrest-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process eighth-amendment excessive-force failure-to-supervise fourth-amendment qualified-immunity search-and-seizure |
Whether Deputy Copeland's arrest of Mr. Thompson was unconstitutional and warranted the denial of qualified immunity |
| 18-5587 |
Bobby Joe Rosa v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-08-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment confidential-informant criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fifth-amendment fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant sixth-amendment |
Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in affirming the denial of the motion to suppress evidence under the good faith exception despite the lack of probable… |
| 18-5588 |
Juan Manuel Sanchez-Jara v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-08-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cell-site-simulator fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search privacy probable-cause residence surveillance warrant |
Whether location of a cell phone user in his residence through use of a cell site simulator, without a probable cause warrant, but with a 'warrant and… |
| 18-5535 |
Paul Lynn Schlieve v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-08-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
brady-v-maryland case-dispositive-motion due-process evidence-suppression exculpatory-evidence fifth-amendment fourth-amendment materiality prosecutorial-duty suppression-motion suppression-of-evidence |
Does the prosecutor's duty to disclose exculpatory evidence under the Fifth Amendment include evidence that is favorable and material to a Fourth Amen… |
| 18-5573 |
Tajuan Williams v. Sherman Campbell, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-08-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law contraband due-process evidence-gathering fourth-amendment prison prison-regulations prisoner-rights regulations |
Should the Court review the case, de novo, to address the importance to the public of the issue in keeping contraband items out of prisons and out of … |
| 18-5536 |
Joseph P. Pacheco v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-08-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment cell-phone cell-phone-search cell-phones civil-rights exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception riley-v-california search-warrant search-warrants |
When is a search of a cell phone conducted for the purposes of a search warrant following Riley v. California? |
| 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… |
| 18-5521 |
Miguel Antonio Ramos v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process fourth-amendment procedural-due-process sentencing sentencing-enhancement supervised-release |
Whether the petitioner was denied procedural due process by enhancements to his guidelines sentence without any proof to support those enhancements |
| 18-5526 |
Michael P. Lough v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-08-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-and-seizure standard-of-review warrant-requirement |
Whether the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred when it affirmed the district court's denial of Lough's motion to suppress evidence? |
| 18-5508 |
Gerald Andrew Darby v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-08-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment anticipatory-warrant computer-privacy exclusionary-rule extraterritoriality fourth-amendment good-faith-exception particularity remote-search search-and-seizure warrant-particularity |
Whether an FBI agent can reasonably rely on the validity of a single warrant that authorizes a million searches of 100,000 different computers without… |
| 18-5509 |
Randy David Makell v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-08-08 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment curtilage drug-dog drug-dog-search florida-v-jardines fourth-amendment home-search jardines-standard katz-v-united-states reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure |
Does the use of a trained drug dog to sniff the doorway of a residence violate the resident's reasonable expectation of privacy? |
| 18-5446 |
Allan Latoi Story v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-08-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-violation civil-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fair-trial fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance sixth-amendment speedy-trial |
Whether the state violated the petitioner's constitutional rights under the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments |
| 18-5432 |
Ahmadou Sankara v. Liam O'Hara, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2018-08-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process false-arrest false-imprisonment fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel malicious-prosecution search-and-seizure unlawful-search-and-seizure |
Whether the petitioner's Fourth Amendment rights were violated by an unlawful search and seizure, false arrest, and false imprisonment without consent… |
| 18-5440 |
Larenzo Lomax v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-08-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
arrest arrest-legality constitutional-rights criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule false-affidavit false-statements fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel search-and-seizure search-warrant sixth-amendment |
Whether Lomax was denied the effective assistance of counsel when his trial attorney failed to challenge the legality of Lomax's arrest |
| 18-5406 |
Orlando G. McDaniel v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2018-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights court-of-appeals exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment police-powers precedent probable-cause scope-of-search search-and-seizure search-warrant seizure |
Whether the police exceeded the scope of the search warrant and seized additional items in violation of the Fourth Amendment |
| 18-5414 |
Keith William Deichert v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-08-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith good-faith-exception jurisdiction objective-reasonableness rule-41 search-warrant void-ab-initio |
Does the good-faith exception to the exclusionary rule apply to a search warrant that is issued by a judge without jurisdiction, rendering the warrant… |
| 18-136 |
Catherine Rose Dreyer v. County Court of Texas, Coleman County |
Texas |
2018-07-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
1st-amendment 4th-amendment constitutional-violation due-process due-process,4th-amendment,1st-amendment,property-r ex-parte-hearing fourth-amendment property-rights religious-freedom supremacy-clause |
Whether the issuance of a court order from an ex-parte probate hearing, granting the petitioning party the power to enter someone else's private home … |
| 18-145 |
Stepheno Jemain Alston v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2018-07-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment automobile-detention civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion seizure traffic-stop |
Does South Carolina's reasonable suspicion analysis, in the context of prolonged automobile detentions, violate due process when it fails to sufficien… |
| 18-5418 |
Kenneth Green v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2018-07-31 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure collateral-attack due-process federal-questions fourth-amendment indigent-defendant march-7-2014 motion plea-bargaining right-to-appeal transcript written-motion |
Whether the state has constitutional authority to prosecute and accept a guilty plea without a probable cause determination and a voluntary, knowing, … |
| 18-5389 |
Torrick Johntrelle Rodgers v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-07-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree fruits-of-poisonous-tree ineffective-assistance-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining probable-cause prosecutorial-misconduct search-and-seizure search-warrant sentencing warrant |
Whether the district court should have suppressed all of the fruits of the poisonous tree based upon the found to be corrupted officials and the illeg… |
| 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… |
| 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 … |
| 18-5368 |
Gabriel Werdene v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-07-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
computer-search criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule federal-rule-of-criminal-procedure-41(b) fourth-amendment good-faith good-faith-exception jurisdiction jurisdictional-defect law-enforcement-procedure search-warrant warrant warrant-validity |
Whether the good-faith exception to the exclusionary rule applies when a warrant is void from the outset due to the issuing authority's lack of jurisd… |
| 18-5292 |
Armando Angeles v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-07-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-interpretation circuit-split criminal-procedure fourth-amendment lane-maintenance search-and-seizure state-court-interpretation state-federal-court-tension statutory-interpretation suppression-motion traffic-laws traffic-statute traffic-stop |
Whether the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in applying the Kansas Supreme Court's interpretation of a Kansas traffic statute governing the failu… |
| 18-110 |
Andrew Burningham, et al. v. John Morrison Raines, III, Guardian of the Estate of John Morrison Raines, IV |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-07-24 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
8th-circuit anderson-v-liberty-lobby civil-rights clearly-established-law excessive-force fourth-amendment interlocutory-appeal johnson-v-jones mitchell-v-forsyth qualified-immunity summary-judgment use-of-force |
Whether qualified immunity should be denied where the underlying evidentiary fact is undisputed but different inferences may be drawn from it |
| 18-5332 |
Davon Merkiese Kemp v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-07-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment criminal-procedure drug-crimes drug-trafficking evidence fourth-amendment home-search probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant unreasonable-search |
Whether a police officer's generalized opinion that drug dealers often keep drugs and other evidence of their trafficking activities in their homes is… |
| 18-99 |
Johnny Barnes v. Joseph Gerhart, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-23 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (3) |
civil-rights confidential-informant drug-surveillance due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement law-enforcement-action police-misconduct qualified-immunity search-and-seizure unreasonable-search |
Did the Fifth Circuit wrongly hold that Officer Barnes' mistake was 'unreasonable' under the Fourth Amendment? |
| 18-5296 |
Todd Rasberry v. United States |
First Circuit |
2018-07-20 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
consent fourth-amendment home-privacy home-search probable-cause search-and-seizure terry-stop terry-v-ohio warrant-requirement warrantless-search |
Whether the government can circumvent a home occupant's consent by invoking Terry v. Ohio to search the home and person without a warrant |
| 18-5306 |
Ramiah Jefferson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-07-20 |
GVR |
Relisted (3)IFP |
cell-phone cell-phone-search fourth-amendment gang-activity probable-cause riley-v-california search-warrant zurcher-v-stanford-daily |
Whether an application for a search warrant to examine the contents of a cell phone seized incident to an arrest must show more to establish probable … |
| 18-5279 |
Jonathan Hayhoe v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-07-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception law-enforcement-conduct magistrate-powers qualified-immunity search-and-seizure suppression suppression-of-evidence void-ab-initio warrant-validity |
Whether conduct by law enforcement in securing a void in initio warrant was grossly negligent, thereby precluding application of good-faith exception |
| 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? |
| 18-5249 |
Kristian Thomas v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2018-07-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
active-warrant arrest-procedure due-process failure-to-appear fourth-amendment law-enforcement misdemeanor-arrest misdemeanor-arrest-warrant misdemeanor-warrant probable-cause reasonable-caution warrant-confirmation |
Does the Fourth Amendment require prudence or reasonable caution so that before exercising a misdemeanor arrest warrant for failure to appear, a week-… |
| 18-58 |
Edward Jaimaal Price v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-07-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment constitutional-rights evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree illegal-seizure motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-and-seizure standard-of-review |
Whether the evidence seized during the illegal search and seizure should be suppressed |
| 18-46 |
City of Middletown, Connecticut, et al. v. William McKinney |
Second Circuit |
2018-07-09 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
4th-amendment active-resistance civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-rights detainee-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct qualified-immunity reasonable-officer use-of-force |
Did the Second Circuit Court of Appeals improperly find a constitutional violation in failing to consider the reasonableness of the use of force from … |
| 18-48 |
Minnesota v. Quentin Todd Chute |
Minnesota |
2018-07-09 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
curtilage fourth-amendment knock-and-talk plain-view plain-view-doctrine probable-cause reasonable-expectation-of-privacy reasonable-suspicion search search-and-seizure |
Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits police officers from engaging in knock-and-talks to gather evidence, and whether officers can inspect evidence … |
| 18-5094 |
Jerry Wayne Sherry v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-06 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure direct-appeal due-process fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance motion-to-suppress preservation-of-error retroactive-precedent retroactivity |
Whether defense counsel has a duty to object to inadmissible evidence, and, or file a motion to suppress evidence under the Fourth Amendment to preser… |
| 18-5151 |
James G. Yahnke v. North Dakota |
North Dakota |
2018-07-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment blood-test civil-rights consent constitutional-rights drunk-driving due-process fourth-amendment implied-consent probable-cause search-and-seizure warrantless-search |
Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits warrantless blood tests for drunk driving, where a motorist has not consented to the blood test |
| 18-5142 |
Robert Jay Heximer v. Michigan |
Michigan |
2018-07-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-4th-amendment-exclusionary-rule due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment illegal-detention jurisdiction probable-cause standing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Whether the evidence acquired during Mr. Heximer's illegal detention is inadmissible under clearly-established law |
| 18-13 |
Juan Francisco Maldonado v. Texas |
Texas |
2018-07-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
canine-sniff civil-procedure consent-to-search constitutional-rights fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop |
Whether the court of appeals erred in applying the incorrect Fourth Amendment standard to Mr. Maldonado's traffic stop, where reasonable suspicion did… |
| 18-5085 |
Teon Jamell Williams v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2018-07-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment cell-phone-privacy collateral-estoppel constitutional-rights criminal-procedure direct-appeal double-jeopardy effective-assistance-of-counsel fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel search-and-seizure sixth-amendment state-law warrantless-search |
Whether the petitioner's right to effective assistance of counsel in his first direct appeal of right was violated when counsel refused to brief his F… |
| 18-5004 |
Tremayne Antwane Mitchell v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-06-28 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment curtilage evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment franks-hearing franks-v-delaware good-faith-exception police-search probable-cause reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure standing warrantless-search |
Whether the police officers unlawfully searched the petitioner's apartment by trespassing on the curtilage and sniffing the window and doorframe |
| 18-5016 |
George Eli Brown, Jr. v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-06-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment driver's-license due-process fourth-amendment inchoate-hunch law-enforcement motorist-rights police-investigation reasonable-suspicion sentencing traffic-stop |
Whether a police officer's belief that a motorist does not have a driver's license diminishes to an inchoate hunch or suspicion when another officer s… |
| 18-5023 |
Glenn Edwards v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2018-06-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment free-speech ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel insufficient-evidence probable-cause search-warrant staleness standing takings |
Whether the district court abused its discretion in denying petitioner's motion to suppress evidence used to obtain a search warrant, violating the pe… |
| 24A1078 |
Mike Miller v. Dillon Rock |
Ninth Circuit |
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Presumed Complete |
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canine-deployment excessive-force fourth-amendment irreparable-harm qualified-immunity section-1983 |
Whether the Fourth Amendment permits a police officer to deploy a canine to apprehend a suspect and, if deployment is justified, whether the duration … |