investigatory-stop

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-6903 John Sheldon Pickens, Jr. v. United States Eighth Circuit 2025-04-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment independent-source-doctrine investigatory-stop warrantless-search Does an unlawful flee that would not have happened but for the police's violation of the Fourth Amendment trigger the independent source exception to …
24A157 United States v. Landon R. Mayo District of Columbia 2024-08-08 Presumed Complete fourth-amendment high-crime-area investigatory-stop reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-stop Whether a police officer's encounter with an individual in a high-crime area, involving suspicious waistband movements and subsequent flight, constitu…
22-6169 Shane Alan Nault v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-11-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment fourth-amendment investigatory-stop rodriguez-standard rodriguez-v-united-states search-and-seizure seizure-scope terry-stop traffic-stop Whether seizing an individual seated in a parked car in a private parking lot should be analyzed in the context of a 'traffic stop' under Rodriguez, o…
21-374 Steven Edward Struve v. Iowa Iowa 2021-09-08 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) cellphone-use civil-rights fourth-amendment investigatory-stop law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion texting-while-driving traffic-stop Whether police officers have reasonable suspicion under the Fourth Amendment to initiate a traffic stop for briefly holding a cellphone
20-5555 Franklin C. Edwards v. Illinois Illinois 2020-09-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment investigatory-stop kansas-v-glover law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop vehicle-search Whether the traffic stop was lawful where the police had no idea who the driver was but knew the registered owner of the vehicle was neither involved …
20-5392 Jermaine Tyrone Jones v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-08-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP completed-misdemeanor criminal-procedure fourth-amendment investigatory-stop misdemeanor reasonable-suspicion vehicle-stop Is reasonable suspicion of a completed misdemeanor sufficient under the Fourth Amendment to justify an investigatory stop of a vehicle when there is n…
19-7490 Omar Ernesto Hernandez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment appeal conclusory-statements criminal-procedure fourth-amendment human-smuggling investigatory-stop law-enforcement law-enforcement-database reasonable-suspicion Whether the district court and Ninth Circuit erred in relying on factually unsupported statements in determining reasonable suspicion for an investiga…
19-7370 Mario Alberto Buenrostro-Lopez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-01-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment anonymous-tip border-patrol border-security civil-rights criminal-activity criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment investigatory-stop reasonable-suspicion vehicle-stop Whether an individual's telephone call to law enforcement is sufficient to establish reasonable suspicion for an investigatory stop
18-1554 Lawrence W. Blessinger v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-06-19 Denied Amici (1) circuit-split completed-misdemeanor fourth-amendment investigatory-stop law-enforcement-efficacy misdemeanor police-detention privacy-interests reasonable-suspicion terry-stop terry-v-ohio Whether the Fourth Amendment permits police to detain a suspect under Terry v. Ohio to investigate a completed misdemeanor
18-7156 Antonez Terril Johnson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-12-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP arrest federal-circuit-split fourth-amendment investigative-detention investigatory-stop investigatory-stops pedestrian-stop probable-cause reasonableness-standard scope-and-duration terry-stop terry-v-ohio Whether pedestrian Terry stops based on probable cause do or do not equate to arrest