gps-tracking
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | Question not identified. | |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| 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… | |
| 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… |
| 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 | |
| 22-7097 | 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 |
| 22-275 | 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… | |
| 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? |
| 21-5736 | 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 |
| 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 … | |
| 19-6640 | 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… |
| 19-6241 | 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… |
| 19-398 | 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… |
| 19-5766 | 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… |
| 19-5445 | 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 … |
| 19-5028 | 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 |
| 19-5008 | 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 … |
| 18-9193 | 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… |
| 18-8797 | Juan Lopez-Zuniga v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-04-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment 8th-circuit eighth-circuit gps-monitoring gps-tracking gps-warrant probable-cause search-and-seizure supreme-court-precedent vehicle-search vehicle-tracking warrant-standard | Whether the Eighth Circuit's creation of a new standard in evaluating GPS warrants is contrary to existing United States Supreme Court precedent |