government-search
5 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| 19-494 | 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 … |
| 18-7824 | John C. Killingbeck v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-02-07 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | certificate-of-appealability civil-rights computer-search digital-privacy due-process first-amendment free-speech government-search internet-forums internet-speech interstate-commerce prosecution search-and-seizure standing title-28-usc | Whether the government can investigate and search a private citizen's computer and storage devices for allegedly illegal speech content obtained throu… |