home-privacy

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
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…
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, long term video camera surveillance of an individual's home and curtilage constitutes a "search" for Fourth Amen…
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 deciding a civil rights claim under 42 U.S.C. ยง 1983 for deprivation of rights can find that the Officers were entitled to qua…
23-5057 Nicholas Scott Werling v. Circuit Court of Wisconsin, Rock County Wisconsin 2023-07-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment arrest-warrant civil-rights home-privacy search-and-seizure warrant-requirement Question not identified.
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, or under what circumstances, social guests are entitled to the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable searches of the home that t…
21-814 Christopher Castagna, et al. v. Harry Jean, et al. First Circuit 2021-12-01 Denied 4th-amendment cady-v-dombrowski community-caretaking home-privacy search-and-seizure warrantless-entry 1. Did th is Cour t's opinion in Cady v. Dombrowski , 413 U.S. 433 (1973) clearly establish that the community caretaking exception applied only to wa…
21-709 Jacob Clark, et ux. v. Bernadette Stone, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-11-15 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment burden-of-proof child-protective-services civil-rights home-invasion home-privacy qualified-immunity warrantless-search warrantless-searches 1. Whether qualified immunity applies to shield from liability child protective services case workers who repeatedly conduct warrantless searches of a…
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.
21-5819 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,…
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…
20-7415 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 Could police search the curtilage of the home โ€” a narrow driveway wedged between two homes โ€” merely because they wanted to look for evidence of a none…
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 In Kyllo v. United States, the Court held that "obtaining by sense-enhancing technology any information regarding the interior of the home that could …
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 Police officers were patrolling a residential neighborhood when they saw Petitioner walking on the sidewalk. They saw that he had something in his fro…
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 The "physical entry of the home is the chief evil against which the wording of the Fourth Amendment is directed." Payton v. New York, 445 U.S. 573, 58…
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 May the government circumvent a home occupant's consent by invoking Terry v. Ohio to search home and person without a warrant?