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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | Whether a warrantless, post-warrant home entry conducted hours after the original warrant was executed and without judicial authorization falls within… |
| 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 | Whether law enforcement may enter a home without a search warrant based on less than probable cause that an emergency is occurring, or whether the eme… |
| 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 law enforcement may exceed the implied license to approach a home's front door by walking through the front yard to peer into a fenced-in side… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| 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 … |
| 22-747 | 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? |
| 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… |
| 21-1522 | 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 |
| 21-7874 | 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… |
| 21-1199 | 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? |
| 21-7114 | 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… |
| 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 |
| 20-139 | 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 |
| 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? |
| 19-272 | 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… |
| 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… |