government-search

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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…