implied-license
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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… |
| 24-7228 | Eric Corder v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2025-05-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | consent curtilage evidence-gathering fourth-amendment illegal-entry implied-license | Whether government agents have an implied license to enter the curtilage of a fenced and gated home to gather evidence, and whether voluntary consent … |
| 24-321 | King for Congress v. Laney Griner, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2024-09-20 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (2) | attorneys-fees copyright-law de-forest-test implied-license marek-decision rule-68 | Whether a non-prevailing judgment-defendant can recover attorneys' fees under Rule 68 and Marek in a copyright case where attorneys' fees are defined … |
| 23-7773 | Christopher Marcel Esqueda v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-06-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | consent Florida-v-Jardines fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search implied-consent implied-license jardines-precedent law-enforcement property-based-test property-rights search search-and-seizure secret-recording undercover-agent | Fourth-Amendment-search |
| 20-1680 | ACI Information Group v. MidlevelU, Inc. | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-06-03 | Denied | Response Waived | copyright-infringement copyright-registration fair-use fraud implied-license internet-publication internet-publications statutory-interpretation statutory-mandate | Whether a party has an implied license to use and redistribute internet content that an author has made freely available without any effort to protect… |
| 20-1443 | Candace Aguilera, aka Candace Sgaggio v. City of Colorado Springs, Colorado, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2021-04-15 | Denied | 4th-amendment civil-rights fourth-amendment free-exercise implied-license indigenous-rights private-property search-and-seizure spiritual-property standing | How long can government agents stay on private spiritual property after implied license is revoked? | |
| 20-1299 | Eric S. Clark v. City of Williamsburg, Kansas | Tenth Circuit | 2021-03-19 | Denied | Response Waived | castle curtilage fourth-amendment general-warrant home implied-license law-enforcement physical-intrusion search search-and-seizure warrant-requirement | Should the court adopt the original meaning of the Fourth Amendment by holding that a search of a home(castle) is unreasonable when the implied licens… |
| 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 | Whether police can search the curtilage of a home without evidence of a crime |
| 20-68 | Cheetah Omni LLC v. AT&T Services, Inc., et al. | Federal Circuit | 2020-07-24 | Denied | Response Waived | contract-interpretation contract-law federal-circuit federal-common-law implied-license license-continuation patent patent-law rodriguez-v-fdic uniquely-federal-interests | Did the Federal Circuit violate Rodriguez when it invoked its own federal common law rule, superseding controlling state contract law, to hold that a … |
| 19-873 | Geophysical Service, Inc. v. TGS-NOPEC Geophysical Co. | Fifth Circuit | 2020-01-14 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | burden-of-proof contract-law copyright-infringement foreign-government-compulsion implied-license kirtsaeng-doctrine kirtsaeng-v-john-wiley-sons seismic-works | Whether the nature and scope of the defense of implied license to copyright infringement requires proof of the grantor's intent by concepts familiar t… |
| 19-6296 | Michael Holmes v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-10-17 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act bright-line-rule burglary-statute curtilage fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure implied-license knock-and-talk no-trespassing-sign property-rights reasonable-expectation-of-privacy reasonable-person-test | Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals violated this Court's Fourth Amendment precedence and committed reversible error by endorsing a bright-l… |
| 18-1513 | Michigan v. Michael Frederick, et al. | Michigan | 2019-06-05 | Denied | consent-to-search constitutional-trespass fourth-amendment implied-license knock-and-talk law-enforcement predawn-visit search search-and-seizure trespass | Whether the Fourth Amendment applies to knock and talk encounters | |
| 18-495 | Morris & Associates, Inc. v. John Bean Technologies Corporation | Federal Circuit | 2018-10-17 | Denied | claim-construction due-process equitable-estoppel federal-circuit implied-license judicial-procedure patent patent-claims patent-infringement patent-law reexamination scotus-precedent waiver | Whether the Federal Circuit erred and contradicted a century of this Court's licensing precedent in holding that implied license rights to a patent ar… |