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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25A881 | Ngozi Odimegwu v. Gregory Long | Massachusetts | 2026-02-04 | Application | constitutional-rights criminal-complaint due-process fourth-amendment judicial-misconduct law-enforcement | Question not identified. | |
| 25-6694 | Donny Ray Moreno v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2026-02-03 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | confidential-informant law-enforcement materiality probable-cause reckless-omission search-warrant | 1. Whether the "materiality " prong of Franks v. Delaware, 438 U.S. 154 (1978), is satisfied when a search warrant affidavit recklessly omits a confid… |
| 25-885 | United States v. Donte J. Carter | District of Columbia | 2026-01-28 | Pending | constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement racial-profiling seizure | Whether perceptions of law enforcement that a court attributes to a particular racial group are a relevant factor in the Fourth Amendment analysis of … | |
| 25-6649 | Lesley Chappell Green v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2026-01-22 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | communications-intercept court-sanctioning law-enforcement legal-constraints territorial-jurisdiction title-iii | Whether the Government met the intended constraints of Title III and state law incorporating Title III for a lawful interception of communications wit… |
| 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 | This case presents an issue identical to that in Case v. Montana, No. 24-624, currently before this Court, i.e., whether law enforcement may enter a h… |
| 25A795 | Amy Hadley v. City of South Bend, Indiana, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2026-01-08 | Application | fifth-amendment just-compensation law-enforcement police-power property-damage takings-clause | Question not identified. | |
| 25-800 | Matthew Scott Rocco v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2026-01-07 | Pending | Response Waived | bailey-precedent fourth-amendment geographical-restriction law-enforcement probation-officer search-warrant | Does it violate the Fourth Amendment when, during the execution of a residential search warrant, law enforcement subverts the geographical restriction… |
| 25-6489 | Jason William Dobbs v. Nevada | Nevada | 2026-01-06 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | computer-privacy consent-search fourth-amendment law-enforcement third-party-consent warrantless-search | 1. Whether the Fourth Amendment requires law enforcement to make sufficient inquiries as to the authority of a third person to consent to a warrantles… |
| 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… |
| 25-760 | Hamdi A. Mohamud v. Heather Weyker, St. Paul Police Officer | Eighth Circuit | 2025-12-29 | Pending | Amici (2)Response Waived | bivens-action cross-deputization fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity section-1983 state-action state-action-doctrine | 1. Whether a local police officer wielding both state and federal authority can act under color of state law for purposes of 42 U.S.C. 1983. 2. If no… |
| 25A743 | Nathaniel J. Buckley v. Department of Justice | Second Circuit | 2025-12-23 | Application | circuit-split exemption-7 foia law-enforcement records-disclosure statutory-interpretation | Question not identified. | |
| 25-6413 | Marcus T. Dixon v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2025-12-22 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure law-enforcement probation-condition property-rights standing-to-challenge warrantless-search | 1) Law enforcement conducted warrantless searches related to Marcus Dixon and a supervision condition that allowed searches of "his" property. He move… |
| 25-688 | Veronica W. Ogunsula v. Michael Warrenfeltz | Fourth Circuit | 2025-12-12 | Pending | law-enforcement pro-se-litigation probable-cause qualified-immunity reasonable-suspicion traffic-violation | 1. Does a police officer observing an undisputed legal act(s) or something that is not illegal, without more, provide probable cause or a reasonable i… | |
| 25-686 | Gary Sebastian Brown, III v. Federal Bureau of Investigation | District of Columbia | 2025-12-12 | Pending | Response Waived | confidential-source exemption-7d foia foreseeable-harm law-enforcement transparency | I. Whether, after the FOIA Improvement Act of 2016, an agency invoking Exemption 7(D) must, in addition to establishing that the exemption applies, se… |
| 25A686 | Demetrius Green v. United States | District of Columbia | 2025-12-11 | Application | fourth-amendment law-enforcement pole-camera privacy search-and-seizure surveillance | Question not identified. | |
| 25-6326 | Eric Lebron Burney v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-12-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | controlled-substance fourth-amendment law-enforcement marijuana probable-cause search-and-seizure | By April of 2019 both the state of Tennessee and the federal government excluded low-THC (delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol) marijuana from the definition … |
| 25-623 | Ronald Smith v. Bexar County, Texas, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2025-12-02 | Pending | community-caretaking constitutional-seizure fourth-amendment law-enforcement mental-health-detention qualified-immunity | Under the 4th Amendment, a warrantless emergency mental health detention constitutes a physical seizure. Police often misconstrue ordinary street enco… | |
| 25-604 | Drew Craig, et al. v. John Krueger, Individually and as Co-Administrator of the Estate of Jeffery Krueger, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2025-11-24 | Pending | Response RequestedResponse Waived | civil-rights de-novo-review excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity | This case involves an attempt by several law enforcement officers to detain and arrest Respondents' decedent Jeffery Krueger on July 1, 2019. On that … |
| 25-594 | Elizabeth Crockett, et al. v. John Krueger, Individually and as Co-Administrator of the Estate of Jeffery Krueger, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2025-11-21 | Pending | Response RequestedResponse Waived | clearly-established-right excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity reasonable-officer | On the evening of July 1, 2019, Wagoner County Lieutenant Elizabeth Crockett and Deputy Matthew Lott responded to a call from deputies requesting assi… |
| 25-6171 | Aldo DiBelardino v. Jason S. Miyares, Attorney General of Virginia, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-11-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment grand-jury law-enforcement | 1. Does the systematic manipulation of our grand jury authority —contrary to its constitutionally intended role as a "protector of citizens [the Peo… |
| 25-6145 | Gabriel Gallegos v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-11-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | fourth-amendment law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion show-of-authority terry-stop vehicle-stop | When law enforcement makes a show of authority that causes a vehicle to come to a complete stop, however briefly, before fleeing, is that a stop withi… |
| 25-583 | Rodney Towe v. Georgia | Georgia | 2025-11-17 | Denied | criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion terry-stop | Whether lawful, commonplace conduct that law abiding citizens routinely engage in can establish reasonable suspicion because it occurs near an expecte… | |
| 25-6049 | Richard Vandale Clowney v. Greenville County, South Carolina, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-11-06 | Denied | IFP | due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement neutral-detached-magistrate search-and-seizure warrant-requirement | Whether a Magistrate who holds office at the law enforcement center investigating crimes is subject to and why law enforcement on easily passes, i.e. … |
| 25-6032 | Thomas E. Nidiffer, et al. v. Officer David Lovato, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2025-11-05 | Denied | IFP | curtilage fourth-amendment knock-and-talk law-enforcement qualified-immunity warrant | 1. Whether a locked gate surrounding the curtilage of a home clearly revokes the implied social license for law enforcement officers to enter the pro… |
| 25-5984 | Richard Vandale Clowney v. Walker Miller, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-10-29 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-requirement | Whether A Magistrate Issuing Search Warrants And Arrest Warrants At A Law Enforcement Center In Violation Of The Fourth Amendment Neutral And Detached… |
| 25-520 | Alan Howell Parrot v. United States | First Circuit | 2025-10-28 | Denied | Response Waived | assault-on-officer domicile-entry federal-statute jury-instruction law-enforcement mistake-of-fact | In an Assault on an Officer prosecution brought pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 111, is a mistake of fact jury instruction warranted by virtue of United State… |
| 25A463 | David Quarles v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-10-23 | Application | border-search cellphone-search electronic-device fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause | Question not identified. | |
| 25-493 | M. Patricia Cantu, et vir v. Austin Police Department, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2025-10-22 | Denied | Response Waived | americans-with-disabilities-act fourth-amendment law-enforcement mental-health reasonable-accommodations use-of-force | 1. Whether Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act is violated when law enforcement officers fail to provide reasonable accommodations to a su… |
| 25-5883 | Leonard James Tate v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-10-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | fourth-amendment hotel-search law-enforcement marijuana-search probable-cause scent-tracking | Whether a law enforcement officer's untrained and uncorroborated tracking of marijuana odor through a multiunit hotel, without canine assistance or in… |
| 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, consistent with the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, law enforcement may exceed the implied license to approach the front door of a… |
| 25-412 | Rolando Antuain Williamson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-10-06 | Pending | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | curtilage fourth-amendment law-enforcement privacy-expectation search-and-seizure surveillance | 1. Whether a "search" occurs when the government takes a purposeful, investigative act directed toward an individual's home and curtilage, regardless … |
| 25-399 | Ronell Moses, Jr. v. United States | Third Circuit | 2025-10-03 | Denied | Amici (1) | criminal-procedure curtilage fourth-amendment law-enforcement property-rights search-and-seizure | 1. Whether a defendant's actual use of an area adjacent to his home is relevant to whether that area is curtilage under the Fourth Amendment, as four … |
| 25-368 | Hal Taylor, Secretary, Alabama Law Enforcement Agency v. Jonathan Singleton, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-09-29 | Pending | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | civil-rights constitutional-protection first-amendment injunction law-enforcement public-begging | Whether the First Amendment protects begging. |
| 25-314 | Carl Culp v. Scott Caudill, in His Official Capacity as Chief of the Fort Wayne Police Department | Seventh Circuit | 2025-09-17 | Denied | americans-with-disabilities-act arrest-standards civil-rights disability-rights law-enforcement reasonable-accommodation | Whether Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act, 42 U.S.C. § 12131 et seq., applies to a law enforcement agency during the circumstance of the… | |
| 25-297 | Jacob P. Zorn v. Shela M. Linton | Second Circuit | 2025-09-15 | Pending | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (7) | civil-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity specificity | Whether the Second Circuit's qualified immunity analysis conflicts with this Court's repeated instruction that courts must define rights with specific… |
| 25A288 | Miami Township Board of Trustees v. Roger Dean Gillispie, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2025-09-11 | Presumed Complete | civil-rights constitutional-violation law-enforcement municipal-liability sixth-circuit summary-judgment | Question not identified. | |
| 25-267 | Milton Green v. Christopher Tanner, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2025-09-09 | Denied | Amici (2) | constitutional-rights excessive-force law-enforcement qualified-immunity reasonableness-standard summary-judgment | 1. In a case alleging that an officer used excessive force based on a mistake of fact, is the reasonableness of the officer's mistake a legal question… |
| 25-248 | District of Columbia v. R.W. | District of Columbia | 2025-09-03 | Pending | Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) | fourth-amendment investigative-stop judicial-review law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion totality-of-circumstances | 1. Whether a court assessing the existence of reasonable suspicion under the Fourth Amendment may exclude a fact known to the officer, or instead must… |
| 25-5406 | Malgum Whiteside, Jr. v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-08-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure evidence-suppression fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-warrant | I. Mr. Whiteside moved to suppress the evidence related to the firearms because the affidavit did not establish a nexus. Did the district court improp… |
| 25-179 | Officer Phillip Reinink, in His Individual and Official Capacity v. Sean Hart, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2025-08-14 | Pending | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity seizure use-of-force | 1. In the Fourth Amendment reasonableness of a seizure context, whether a law enforcement officer's intended level of force is relevant to determining… |
| 25-5330 | Raymond Dugan v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-08-12 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constitutional-protections fourth-circuit joint-venture law-enforcement probable-cause search-warrant | 1. Did the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals construe the "Joint-Venture " doctrine too narrowly to comply with constitutional protections? 2. Should t… |
| 25-5320 | Heon Jong Yoo v. Brian Barker, et al. | Third Circuit | 2025-08-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law federal-jurisdiction law-enforcement mental-health | Question not identified. |
| 25-5273 | Jordan Padilla v. New Mexico | New Mexico | 2025-08-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-requirement | Whether law enforcement officials violated Petitioner's Right to Due Process when they seized his personal tablet device and held it for 19 days due t… |
| 25A127 | Bill Elder, Sheriff, El Paso County, Colorado, et al. v. Darlene Griffith | Tenth Circuit | 2025-07-30 | Presumed Complete | civil-rights deliberate-indifference detainee-care law-enforcement mental-health tenth-circuit | Question not identified. | |
| 25A119 | Donald Olsen v. Aaron Salter | Sixth Circuit | 2025-07-29 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-rights due-process eyewitness-testimony law-enforcement qualified-immunity show-up-identification | Question not identified. | |
| 25-5229 | David Loren Waldeck v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-07-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | fourth-amendment heien-standard judicial-gloss law-enforcement objective-reasonableness statutory-interpretation | Is a reviewing court permitted to insert a "judicial gloss" in construing an unambiguous statute when determining whether a law enforcement officer's … |
| 25-5192 | John Patrick Fletcher v. Bryan Coleman, Warden | Colorado | 2025-07-24 | Denied | IFP | illegal-seizure judicial-process kidnapping-statute law-enforcement subject-matter-jurisdiction warrant-clause | After law enforcement has illegally seized a person from his home —without a warrant or a recognized exception to the Warrant Clause —and consequently… |
| 25A41 | Mathew Grashorn v. Wendy Love, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2025-07-10 | Presumed Complete | civil-rights domestic-disturbance excessive-force law-enforcement qualified-immunity use-of-force | Question not identified. | |
| 24-7466 | Patrick Joseph Duncan, Jr. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-06-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure state-law | When determining whether law enforcement's stop of a suspect was lawful under the Fourth Amendment, may federal courts use state law – in this case, C… |
| 24A1238 | M. Patricia Cantu, et vir v. Austin Police Department, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2025-06-13 | Presumed Complete | americans-with-disabilities-act discrimination law-enforcement mental-health-crisis reasonable-accommodation use-of-force | Question not identified. | |
| 24-1267 | Adam Douglas Densmore v. Colorado | Colorado | 2025-06-12 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | child-protection custodial-interrogation due-process law-enforcement miranda-rights self-incrimination | Is custodial interrogation by a child-protection caseworker subject to Miranda's requirements where the interrogation concerns matters that may trigge… |
| 24-7388 | Adeoye O. Adebowale v. City of Chicago, Illinois, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2025-06-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-record due-process evidence-fabrication law-enforcement police-misconduct | Given that the documentary evidence in this case appears to indisputably confirm that the said Criminal Arrest Record appears to have been fabricated … |
| 24-7229 | DeAndre Jackson v. United States | Third Circuit | 2025-05-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop | WHETHER the Third Circuit's ruling that an officer's mere suspicion of a suspects dangerousness absent any additional facts supports an arrest rather … |
| 24-7219 | Martin Devalois v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2025-05-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | drug-dog fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-stop | 1.Does a law enforcement officer violate the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution when he has every thing he needs to complete a traffic stop and fini… |
| 24A1073 | Anh Tuyet Thai v. Los Angeles County, California, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-05-06 | Presumed Complete | disability-benefits due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement search-and-seizure social-security | Question not identified. | |
| 24-1099 | Kyle Smith, et al. v. Rochelle Scott, Individually, and as Co-Special Administrator of the Estate of Roy Anthony Scott, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-04-22 | Pending | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (13) | bodily-pressure fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity restraint use-of-force | 1. Viewing the facts from the officers' perspective at the time, did the officers act reasonably under the Fourth Amendment by using bodyweight pressu… |
| 24-1093 | Ashlee Marie Mumford v. Iowa | Iowa | 2025-04-21 | Denied | Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | dog-sniff fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure vehicle-search | Whether a dog sniff of the interior of a lawfully stopped vehicle violates the Fourth Amendment absent consent to the sniff or probable cause to belie… |
| 24-7027 | Charles House v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2025-04-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-law fourth-amendment law-enforcement privacy-rights search-and-seizure surveillance | WHETHER THE INSTALLATION OF A POLE CAMERA, WITH A ZOOM LENS, WHOSE PURPOSE WAS TO MONITOR PETITIONER'S MOVEMENTS FROM AND TO HIS RESIDENCE, TWENTY-F… |
| 24-7021 | Moises Garcia v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2025-04-17 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split fourth-amendment investigative-detention law-enforcement presumptively-lawful reasonable-suspicion | May the police conduct an investigative detention after observing a presumptively lawful act without additional information to suggest that criminal a… |
| 24-7005 | Alsham M. Laster v. Indiana | Indiana | 2025-04-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure evidence-seizure fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause warrantless-search | Whether the warrantless seizure of Alsham Laster's phone, during a murder investigation, violated the Fourth Amendment when: (i) police did not have p… |
| 24-6983 | Markanthony Deleon Sapalasan v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-04-14 | Denied | IFP | detention fourth-amendment inventory-search law-enforcement property-retention search-and-seizure | "At the stationhouse, it is entirely proper for police to remove and list or inventory property found on the person or in the possession of an arreste… |
| 24-1051 | Michael Nissen v. Javier Ambler, Sr., Individually and on Behalf of All Wrongful Death Beneficiaries of Javier Ambler, II, the Estate of Javier Ambler, II, and as Next Friend of J. R. A., minor child, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2025-04-04 | Denied | Amici (2)Response Waived | deadly-force excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity use-of-force | After a crash filled 20-minute high-speed car chase— caught on video by police helicopter—Javier Ambler II died while resisting being handcuffed due … |
| 24-1047 | Ethel "Laverne" McVae, Individually and on Behalf of the Estate of Marcus McVae, Deceased, et al. v. Jesse Perez | Fifth Circuit | 2025-04-03 | Denied | Response Waived | deadly-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity totality-of-circumstances use-of-force | Nearly four decades ago, this Court drew a constitutional line: law enforcement may not use deadly force against an unarmed, fleeing suspect who poses… |
| 24-988 | Jorge Vasquez v. Superior Court of California, Tulare County, et al. | California | 2025-03-17 | Denied | Response Waived | exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception law-enforcement probable-cause search-warrant | Can law enforcement's failure to state any facts whatsoever to establish probable cause to believe that there was evidence of a crime or contraband at… |
| 24-6774 | Alberto Rivera v. Tim Thomas, Warden | Seventh Circuit | 2025-03-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | counsel-of-choice critical-stage law-enforcement right-to-counsel sixth-amendment substitute-counsel | Can law enforcement officials refuse to honor a defendant's request for the presence of their retained counsel at a "critical stage" without a counter… |
| 24-980 | William Jones, Jr., Individually and in His Official Capacity as a Police Officer for the Los Angeles Police Department v. Ymelda Elena, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-03-12 | Denied | Response Waived | excessive-force law-enforcement ninth-circuit qualified-immunity summary-judgment video-evidence | In ruling on a claim for qualified immunity raised in a motion for summary judgment, does a court's obligation to view the evidence in the light most … |
| 24-975 | Latrisha Winder, as Next Friend of J. W., a Minor and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Stephen Wayne Winder, Deceased, et al. v. Joshua M. Gallardo, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2025-03-12 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | americans-with-disabilities-act circuit-split disability-discrimination exigent-circumstances law-enforcement reasonable-accommodation | Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) prohibits public entities, including local law-enforcement agencies, from discriminating… |
| 24-6671 | Isaac Doyle Koch v. Iowa | Iowa | 2025-02-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process law-enforcement official-act resistance statutory-interpretation | What is the difference between interfering with an official act and refusing an official crime? What is the effect, when statute disallows all physic… |
| 24-919 | Mike Miller v. Dillon Rock | Ninth Circuit | 2025-02-26 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (2) | excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-canine qualified-immunity use-of-force | 1. Did the Ninth Circuit depart from this Court's decisions in Graham v. Connor, 490 U.S. 386 (1989) and Plumhoff v. Rickard, 572 U.S. 765 (2014) in d… |
| 24-6637 | Roger Moss v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2025-02-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure drug-trafficking fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-warrant | Courts generally recognize that probable cause to believe a person committed a crime does not alone establish probable cause to search their home. How… |
| 24-6597 | Steven Matthew Boas v. Jason Graves, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-02-20 | Denied | IFP | civil-liberties constitutional-rights emergency-powers fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause | 1. Whether probable cause exists during a stay at home order, when an officer sees someone exiting a grocery store and instead of walking directly hom… |
| 24-886 | Christopher Schurr v. Peter Lyoya, Personal Representative for the Estate of Patrick Lyoya, Deceased | Sixth Circuit | 2025-02-18 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | deadly-force law-enforcement pleading-stage qualified-immunity summary-judgment video-evidence | 1. Whether Scott v. Harris permits courts to resolve qualified immunity at the pleading stage based on objective video evidence that demonstrates the … |
| 24-6548 | Kynnedi'Rae Joan Charles v. Officer Gary Wayne Chambers, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-02-12 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-protections due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment law-enforcement | Does law enforcement's involvement in the arrest and use of force against Ms. Kynnedi 'Rae Charles potentially violate fundamental constitutional prot… |
| 24-6511 | Ian Mitcham v. Arizona | Arizona | 2025-02-10 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | criminal-procedure dna-profile fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery law-enforcement search-and-seizure | For nearly four decades, courts have grappled with interpreting the inevitable discovery doctrine. Some courts, including the Second, Fifth, Eighth, a… |
| 24A752 | Kyle Smith, et al. v. Rochelle Scott, Individually, and as Co-Special Administrator of the Estate of Roy Anthony Scott, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-01-31 | Presumed Complete | civil-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity use-of-force | Question not identified. | |
| 24-6188 | John Earl Broomfield, Jr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-12-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 911-call anonymous-tip fourth-amendment law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion supreme-court-precedent | Whether the 911 callers in this matter were "anonymous" callers, and, if so, was the opinion in this matter then in conflict with Florida v. J.L., 529… |
| 24-648 | Officer Layau Eulizier v. Jose Vega-Colon, Individually and as Administrator of the Estate of Anthony Vega-Cruz, et al. | Second Circuit | 2024-12-16 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-review constitutional-violation law-enforcement material-facts objectively-reasonable-officer qualified-immunity | 1. Whether a court can deny qualified immunity when there are no material disputed issues of fact and all the United States Supreme Court and Circuit … |
| 24A579 | City of Los Angeles, California v. Jesus Pimentel, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-12-13 | Presumed Complete | civil-rights constitutional-violation law-enforcement municipal-liability ninth-circuit section-1983 | Question not identified. | |
| 24A564 | James Dean Hanapel v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-12-10 | Presumed Complete | entrapment law-enforcement minor-solicitation online-sting sexual-exploitation undercover-operation | Question not identified. | |
| 24-616 | Officer Benjamin M. Bauer v. Ethan Daniel Marks | Eighth Circuit | 2024-12-05 | GVR | Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | fourth-amendment law-enforcement medical-evacuation protest seizure use-of-force | During an emergency medical evacuation amidst a large, violent protest that had become a riot, a six-foot, two-hundred pound man assaulted an officer … |
| 24-6068 | Marlon Maurice Winborn v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-12-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-activity fourth-amendment informant-tip law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-inference | Does the Fourth Amendment require that even a reliable informant provide police with sufficient information to allow an officer to reasonably infer th… |
| 24-6039 | Charles Derryberry v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-11-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-prosecution informant-tip law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure weapon-possession | Illinois v. Gates, 462 U.S. 218 (1983) established the "totality of the circumstances analysis" for determining if an informant's tip provided suffici… |
| 24-577 | Gilbert Perez v. United States | First Circuit | 2024-11-25 | Denied | Amici (2) | arrest-search criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement luggage-search warrantless-search | Does the Fourth Amendment prohibit the warrantless search of a backpack, piece of luggage, or other bag carried by an individual at the time of his ar… |
| 24-6023 | Leonardo Terrazas v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-11-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery law-enforcement search-and-seizure | Whether the Fifth Circuit's application of the inevitable discovery doctrine—based on its assumption that officers would have discovered the same evid… |
| 24A506 | Marc M. Susselman v. Washtenaw County Sheriff's Office, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2024-11-21 | Presumed Complete | civil-rights constitutional-violations law-enforcement municipal-liability qualified-immunity sixth-circuit | Question not identified. | |
| 24A487 | City of Los Angeles, California, et al. v. Hasmik Jasmine Chinaryan, Individually and as Guardian ad Litem for NEC, a Minor, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-11-15 | Presumed Complete | civil-rights constitutional-violations excessive-force law-enforcement municipal-liability ninth-circuit | Question not identified. | |
| 24-535 | Gregory Rogers v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-11-13 | Denied | criminal-procedure expectation-of-privacy fourth-amendment law-enforcement search-and-seizure vehicle-search | 1. Whether an individual sitting in the passenger seat of a borrowed and lawfully parked vehicle, which is being used with the standing permission of … | |
| 24-538 | Donna Chisesi, Administratrix of the Estate of Jonathon Victor, Deceased v. Matthew Hunady, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-11-13 | Denied | civil-rights interlocutory-appeal law-enforcement qualified-immunity section-1983 summary-judgment | After a police officer fatally shot Jonathan Victor, Victor's estate sued the officer and his supervisor, Sherriff Huey Mack, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. … | |
| 24-519 | Eunice Bisong Nkongho v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-11-06 | Denied | Response Waived | border-search criminal-investigation electronic-media fourth-amendment law-enforcement search-warrant | I. Whether the scope of the border exception to the Fourth Amendment extends to a seizure and search for information about a crime? II. Whether th… |
| 24-504 | Joseph M. Hoskins v. Jared Withers, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2024-11-04 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | civil-rights constitutional-retaliation due-process first-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity | 1. Whether qualified immunity shields government officials from liability even in cases where they retaliate against a person for exercising a clearly… |
| 24-5870 | Paul Curtis Pemberton v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-10-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | evidence-collection exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception law-enforcement warrantless-arrest | Whether the good-faith exception to the exclusionary rule, articulated by this Court in United States v. Leon in the context of a law enforcement offi… |
| 24-473 | Karen Jimerson, et al. v. Mike Lewis | Fifth Circuit | 2024-10-29 | Denied | Amici (2)Relisted (4) | circuit-split constitutional-rights fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity search-warrant | Whether Maryland v. Garrison clearly established that officers violate the Fourth Amendment when they search the wrong house without checking the addr… |
| 24-5841 | Carl Javan Ross v. Carlos D. Bivens, Warden, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2024-10-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights due-process evidence-fabrication judicial-misconduct law-enforcement obstruction-of-justice | Qm C°urh 'wort proof of 'innocence,esftciulfy Vti -fww/<y fi&nf 45 \f '&S f)of a r i$hfWi° QlJ So^tant-jui/p, wA 4fi@r m j> by drLlC *■ ** * M T ^^ ^… |
| 24-5830 | Derek Tyler Horton v. Alabama | Alabama | 2024-10-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights fourth-amendment law-enforcement pretextual-arrest probable-cause warrant-execution | 1.) Whether a police officer's reason for acting, in at least some circumstances, should factor into the Fourth Amendment inquiry? 2.) Whether the St… |
| 24-406 | Matthew Hunady v. Donna Chisesi, Administratrix of the Estate of Jonathon Victor, Deceased | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-10-11 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-court deadly-force interlocutory-review law-enforcement qualified-immunity standard-of-review | Whether the Eleventh Circuit's decision that relied on the district court's use of a reasonable jury standard in a case arising from a law enforcement… |
| 24-5741 | Wanda Nelson v. Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office, et al. | California | 2024-10-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection governmental-immunity law-enforcement racial-discrimination | 1) Whether Government Code §821.6, as written, is a violation of Petitioner's right to Equal Protection under the United States Constitution, the Cali… |
| 24-5636 | Robert Moco v. J. M. Janik, et al. | Second Circuit | 2024-09-25 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-violation deliberate-indifference excessive-force law-enforcement medical-care | Question not identified. |
| 24-5416 | Christopher Dominguez v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-08-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split constitutional-rights excessive-force law-enforcement qualified-immunity use-of-force | Question not identified. |
| 24-5397 | Bruce Sanford v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-08-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights fourth-amendment freedom-of-movement law-enforcement probable-cause seizure | Whether a citizen is seized within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment when law enforcement impedes the citizen's freedom of movement? |
| 24-193 | Yoel Weisshaus v. Steve Coy Teichelman, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2024-08-21 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights constitutional-rights law-enforcement material-fact qualified-immunity summary-judgment | 1. In Tolan, involving qualified immunity, the Court held, "Summary judgment is appropriate only if the movant shows that there is no genuine issue as… |
| 24-172 | Marques A. Johnson v. James Dunn | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-08-16 | Denied | Response Waived | arrest circuit-split constitutional-rights fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity | 1. Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits arresting a passenger in a car not suspected of any wrongdoing solely for failing to immediately provide ide… |
| 24-5332 | Armando Daniel Calderon v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-08-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement property-rights reasonable-suspicion vehicle-seizure | 1. Does an officer interfere with a driver's property rights, in violation of the Fourth Amendment, by continuing to seize a vehicle after the driver … |
| 24A166 | Tidera Harris v. Gregory Harvey | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-08-12 | Presumed Complete | deadly-force excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity use-of-force | Question not identified. | |
| 24-144 | Thomas Charles Felton Jones v. South Carolina | South Carolina | 2024-08-09 | Denied | Response Waived | constitutional-challenge first-amendment free-speech law-enforcement overbreadth-doctrine verbal-resistance | Whether a county ordinance that criminalizes any verbal act that resists, hinders, impedes, or interferes with a law enforcement officer is facially i… |
| 24-5226 | Terry Dwayne Jones v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-08-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof fourth-amendment law-enforcement pacing probable-cause search-and-seizure speed-estimation traffic-stop warrantless-search | "The government bears the burden of proof in justifying a warrantless search or seizure." United States v. McGee, 736 F.3d 263, 269 (4th Cir. 2013), c… |
| 24-5150 | Toyrieon Sessions v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-07-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | Due-Process fourth-amendment law-enforcement mobile-device Mobile-Devices Probable-Cause Riley-v-California search-and-seizure Seizure warrant-requirement Warrantless-Search | Following Riley v. California, 573 U.S. 373 (2014), may law enforcement seize a person's mobile telephone—without probable cause and without a warrant… |
| 24-5145 | Antonio Tyree Gaskin v. Kentucky | Kentucky | 2024-07-25 | Denied | IFP | 6th-amendment constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification law-enforcement legal-representation lineup procedural-safeguards right-to-counsel suspect-rights | Whether the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution have guaranteed protection that safeguard law in enforcement showing in single paragraph a suspect… |
| 24-5115 | Jima Brown v. New York | New York | 2024-07-19 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment investigative-suspicion law-enforcement privacy probable-cause search-and-seizure warrantless-search | WJ FourFi/\ AyvAead iM.e/rF permd-S Afi' v^l S>FxVeS rVvuFe a warrarv+less CocFs OocUbaSe "5Wrck ^ ^ro/vA a |jFre£] person wko AaS Ac4 bee a. £oc t c\… |
| 24-5107 | Myron Motley v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-07-18 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment fourth-amendment jurisdictional-split law-enforcement medical-records prescription-data prescription-drugs privacy privacy-expectation search-and-seizure | Whether patients hold a reasonable expectation of privacy under the Fourth Amendment in prescription medication records, which can reveal a wealth of … |
| 24-39 | Christopher Glenn White v. Donald T. Sloan, Sheriff, Lynchburg, Virginia, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2024-07-16 | Denied | booking-photo booking-photos civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment-prospects freedom-of-information government-decision-making internet-publication law-enforcement public-disclosure | In the United States today, law enforcement acting on their own accord engaging in arbitrary government decision making, can destroy an individual's p… | |
| 24-5074 | Charles Brian O'Neill v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-07-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith good-faith-exception law-enforcement probable-cause search-warrant suppression | Do the deficiencies in the search warrants and their supporting affidavits merit good faith protection from the exclusionary rule? |
| 24-5056 | Tyrone Stafford v. Arnold S. Zwicke, Executive Sheriff, Guadalupe County, Texas, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2024-07-11 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement malicious-prosecution police-misconduct qualified-immunity use-of-force | Does sitting with hands on steering wheel constitute the use of force that allows for officers to grab your neck and choke you in 2022, when the arres… |
| 24-5036 | Dalvon Curry, aka Dale, aka Dalo v. United States | Second Circuit | 2024-07-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights combat-speech constitutional-protections deadly-force deadly-physical-force excessive-force law-enforcement penal-law retreat-duty self-defense use-of-force | \AjaS %txt 6o&tCi**vV cvi^wce, Vo 'pehhov'ter ko^c-cbbor Czq^ctA by }vleuJ YorK Pencx,\ Unuj VW Xa>V v 35 \6 txYOO "po-Yif\onef l5 -£outore Vo feVfe«&… |
| 24A4 | Joseph M. Hoskins v. Jared Withers, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2024-07-03 | Presumed Complete | civil-rights constitutional-rights first-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity retaliation | Whether, in a retaliation case, to overcome qualified immunity a plaintiff need only establish that the right retaliated against was clearly establish… | |
| 23-7824 | Kwuan Montrell Baker v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-06-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-balancing law-enforcement pretextual-stop probable-cause reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop whren-v-united-states | The question presented is whether an admittedly pretextual traffic stop by law enforcement violates the Fourth Amendment when it is based not on proba… |
| 23-7827 | Gianni Montay Minners v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-06-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment fourth-amendment gang-affiliation high-crime-area investigative-detention law-enforcement prior-gun-possession probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure | Is it reasonable for an officer to conduct an investigative detention where there are insufficient facts in the record to conclude that an individual … |
| 23-7834 | Willie Medina v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2024-06-28 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force judicial-review law-enforcement probable-cause search-warrant unlawful-detention | 1) Of Ficers Had Wo Probable Cavsé far Zhe Stop. 775 hecessérg Or hot 7 2) There Was Mo Searth Wwatrant Fir the Car. The Reasonas/é? 32) Fheré Was i… |
| 23-7795 | Marc Pierre Hall, aka Marc Valeriano, aka Fella v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-06-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure sentencing statutory-interpretation | sVsAtrVe^S Cor^Vrfefes er er-rontcus U3e cA Sl\ J\ko\\er- -_Aor\ L^orxAS^^ cjT- Cor>s'VrWi\i o^C)\ Errors ga.~a Connc~V\r>ej— error cn Aer~lV\<e ^T^k… |
| 23-1333 | Sami Azmi, et al. v. John Sylvester Penny | Ninth Circuit | 2024-06-21 | Denied | civil-rights clearly-established excessive-force law-enforcement ninth-circuit qualified-immunity summary-judgment undisputed-evidence video-evidence | In ruling on a claim for qualified immunity raised in a motion for summary judgment, does a court's obligation to view the evidence in the light most … | |
| 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 | When an individual invites an undercover agent into their residence, can the agent secretly record without a warrant, or does such conduct exceed the … |
| 23-7748 | Jacob W. Barron v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-06-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | compliance-check criminal-procedure fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-expectation-of-privacy law-enforcement privacy-expectation probable-cause probation probation-search warrantless-search | Mr. Jacob W. Barron's probation officers conducted a compliance check of Mr. Barron's home after they were contacted by Rapides Parish Sheriff's Offic… |
| 23-7734 | Reshod Jamar Everett v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-06-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-rights law-enforcement maryland-v-buie probable-cause protective-sweep reasonable-belief warrantless-search | Whether the Fourth Amendment precludes the police from conducting a warrantless search of a home when the police decided to conduct a protective sweep… |
| 23-7713 | Calvin K. Wilson v. Florida | Florida | 2024-06-13 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | exclusionary-rule false-statements fourth-amendment franks-v-delaware judicial-integrity law-enforcement probable-cause search-warrant | The Fourth Amendment exclusionary Rule serves another vital function- the imperative of judicial integrity. In Franks u. Delaware , 438 U.S. at 186, 5… |
| 23A1094 | Daniel A. Madero v. Owen McGuinness | Seventh Circuit | 2024-06-07 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split due-process exculpatory-evidence law-enforcement probable-cause summary-judgment | Question not identified. | |
| 23-7637 | Andres Nixon Gonzales-Catagua, aka Nexon Gonzalez v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-06-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure drug-enforcement drug-interdiction jurisdiction jurisdictional-limit law-enforcement maritime-drug-law maritime-law military-law-enforcement miranda-warnings sixth-amendment | WHETHER the jurisdictional limit contained in the Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act relates to the legislative reach of the statute or whether it rela… |
| 23-7636 | Russell Davis v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-06-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure sworn-testimony warrant-affidavit | 1. Does the Leon good-faith exception apply to salvage a barebones affidavit where at an evidentiary hearing conducted to establish a record of sworn … |
| 23-7623 | Estephen Castellon v. Ohio | Ohio | 2024-06-03 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure discovery due-process evidence-preservation exculpatory-evidence law-enforcement sixth-amendment speedy-trial warrant-execution | Whether the failure to preserve potentially exculpatory evidence under the Trombetta and Youngblood standards, coupled with delays in trial proceeding… |
| 23-7562 | Ricky Escobedo v. Katherine R. Gutierrez, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2024-05-28 | Denied | Relisted (3)IFP | 4th-amendment 5th-amendment color-of-law constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment law-enforcement search-and-seizure traffic-stop | 1. Whether petitioner's motorvehicle traffic stop by a third-party (State Local) under federal color of law was the result of a denial of his Fourth A… |
| 23A1023 | Marques A. Johnson v. Chris Nocco, in His Official Capacity as Sheriff of Pasco County, Florida, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-05-17 | Presumed Complete | fourth-amendment identification law-enforcement passenger-rights qualified-immunity traffic-stop | Whether, consistent with the Fourth Amendment, a passenger in a car not suspected of any wrongdoing may be arrested solely for refusing to immediately… | |
| 23-1204 | Daniel Kinsinger v. Sherelle Thomas, Administrator of the Estate of Terelle Thomas, et al. | Third Circuit | 2024-05-09 | Denied | Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | arrestee-rights civil-rights constitutional-violation deliberate-indifference due-process law-enforcement medical-care qualified-immunity summary-reversal | 1. Whether the Third Circuit erred in holding that law enforcement officers' decision to transport an arrestee they believed had ingested drugs, but d… |
| 23-7413 | Adonis Marquis Perry v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-05-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | cell-phone cell-phone-privacy consent constitutional-rights fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation law-enforcement privacy search-and-seizure third-party-consent warrantless-search | 1. Whether a third party's personal use and physical possession of Petitioner's cell phone transfer authority to the third party to consent to law enf… |
| 23-1182 | Kenneth Jones v. County of San Diego, California, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-05-02 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure civil-rights dismissal due-process equitable-tolling excessive-force law-enforcement race-discrimination standing | The grant of orders, in favor of the Respondents' motions to dismiss, the District Curt and the Appeals Court granted a dismissal of the above-entitle… |
| 23-7350 | Raul Zamora-Quinonos v. Illinois | Illinois | 2024-04-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | coercion consent-search exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment involuntary-consent law-enforcement search-and-seizure traffic-stop unreasonable-search | WHETHER LAW ENFORCEMENT VIOLATED THE PETITIONER'S RIGHT TO BE FREE FROM UNREASONABLE SEARCH AND SEIZURE UNDER THE FOURTH AMENDMENT TO THE UNITED STATE… |
| 23-1114 | Charles R. Hays v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2024-04-15 | Denied | Response Waived | automobile-exception contraband criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement passenger probable-cause search search-and-seizure | Whether law enforcement has probable cause under the Fourth Amendment's automobile exception to search a driver's vehicle based on a passenger's perso… |
| 23-1102 | Timothy Allen Davis, Sr. v. City of Apopka, Florida | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-04-11 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights due-process false-arrest immunity law-enforcement probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure section-1983 stand-your-ground | I. Whether the federal court denied effect to the immunity provision of the state statute when it concluded that the arrest of Mr. Davis was objective… |
| 23-1108 | Daril Foose, et al. v. Sherelle Thomas, Administrator of the Estate of Terelle Thomas, et al. | Third Circuit | 2024-04-11 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | civil-rights constitutional-violation custody drug-toxicity due-process fourteenth-amendment law-enforcement law-enforcement-custody medical-care qualified-immunity | Whether the police officers' decision to transport a detainee who they suspected had ingested drugs to a nearby prison where he was evaluated by the p… |
| 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 | 1) When law enforcement applied for the search warrant to search petitioner's vehicle and residence, does the Warrant Clause of the Fourth Amendment r… |
| 23A848 | Carlos Vega v. Terence B. Tekoh | Ninth Circuit | 2024-03-19 | Presumed Complete | civil-rights constitutional-violation evidence-admissibility law-enforcement miranda-rights section-1983 | Question not identified. | |
| 23-1018 | Harold Jean-Baptiste v. City of New York, New York, et al. | Second Circuit | 2024-03-18 | Denied | Response Waived | 2nd-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights conceal-carry due-process gun-rights law-enforcement licensing-restrictions second-amendment self-defense standing takings | Whether New York State Section 400 restrictions on conceal carry handgun license violate the Second Amendment. Under the provision of New York State S… |
| 23-991 | City of Long Beach, New York, et al. v. Ricky Joshua Benny | Second Circuit | 2024-03-11 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-court civil-rights clearly-established-law due-process excessive-force law-enforcement police-conduct qualified-immunity | 1. Whether the Second Circuit departed from this Court's precedents, none of which it cited or discussed, when it concluded that two police officers r… |
| 23-6885 | Joseph Rendon v. Beth Skinner, Director, Iowa Department of Corrections, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2024-03-04 | Denied | IFP | certificate-of-appealibility circuit-split due-process expert-testimony fair-trial law-enforcement police-expert pro-se pro-se-petitioner | WHETHER THE SIXTH CIRCUIT OR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT MADE THE CORRECT RULING REGARDING DENIAL OF DUE PROCESS AND FAIR TRIAL CONCERNING THE USE OF A POLI… |
| 23-6832 | Willie Levens, II v. Louisiana Insurance Guaranty Association, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2024-02-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection excessive-force law-enforcement qualified-immunity racial-discrimination standing | I. What is the test of Levans Vs (Las pad invites, vi cld-ionkUMMb. rights. 2. kklhir an Off Mil OfFi'air sfill fliiairfto for ..fjjiflliTi'di immunf… |
| 23-907 | Pablo Pastrana v. New York | New York | 2024-02-22 | Denied | Response Waived | brown-vs-texas constitutional-law fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-roadblocks probable-cause reasonable-suspicion roadblock search-and-seizure | Whether a vehicular roadblock satisfies the standard for a reasonable search and seizure under the Fourth Amendment, articulated in Brown v. Texas, 44… |
| 23-893 | Jonathan Walker v. Arkansas | Arkansas | 2024-02-21 | Denied | 4th-amendment algorithm digital-privacy fourth-amendment law-enforcement law-enforcement-search private-company probable-cause search-and-seizure technology-search warrant-requirement | Does the Fourth Amendment require police to get a warrant before they open a digital file that was flagged by a private technology company's computer … | |
| 23-872 | Josh Patrick v. LaRhonda Dunlap Perez | Sixth Circuit | 2024-02-14 | Denied | Response Waived | 4th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity taser taser-use | 1. Is there variance among federal judicial circuits regarding how they apply Fourth Amendment law in excessive force cases involving taser use? 2. S… |
| 23-869 | Tyler Land v. Donald L. Edenfield, in His Official Capacity as Sheriff of Jackson County, Florida, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-02-13 | Denied | 4th-amendment affidavit criminal-arrest fourth-amendment intentional-misstatements law-enforcement probable-cause reckless-misstatements search-and-seizure warrant | When an probable cause affidavit contains only evidence that a person was in a car with and drove an alleged drug dealer to and from a drug transactio… | |
| 23-860 | Brandon Holtan, et al. v. Mark Edward Nieters | Eighth Circuit | 2024-02-09 | Denied | civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment free-speech law-enforcement probable-cause qualified-immunity unlawful-assembly warrantless-arrest | In the aftermath of the 2020 killing of George Floyd, civil unrest broke out across the country, including in Des Moines, Iowa. Mark Nieters, a freela… | |
| 23-6688 | Christian Alejandro Estrella v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-02-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement parole parole-search police-authority probable-cause search-and-seizure suspicionless-search suspicionless-seizure | A police officer may seize and search a person on parole without suspicion. See Samson v. California, 547 U.S. 843, 857 (2006). But the officer must f… |
| 23-842 | Patricia Polanco, et al. v. Ralph Diaz, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-02-07 | Denied | civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process government-liability immunity judicial-doctrine law-enforcement legal-standard qualified-immunity standing | Whether the Court should reverse or recalibrate the doctrine of qualified immunity. | |
| 23-6649 | Larry David Davis v. Barry Sims, Judge, 7th Division, Pulaski County Circuit Court, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2024-02-01 | Dismissed | IFP | 4th-amendment adverse-action civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fingerprinting investigative-procedures law-enforcement legal-standing probable-cause search-and-seizure | Question not identified. |
| 23-6535 | Ryan C. Armstrong v. United States Federal Government, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2024-01-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | capital-case civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-government judicial-circuit law-enforcement mental-health standing state-government state-jurisdiction | I am not presenting my case to the Supreme Court with a question. My case is being presented to the Supreme Court as a matter of right. My case is a c… |
| 23A679 | Jeremy Henning v. Donald V. Snowden | Seventh Circuit | 2024-01-23 | Presumed Complete | bivens-remedy damages-action excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement new-context | Question not identified. | |
| 23-6523 | Mark David Galloway v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-01-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion seizure terry-stop | Whether the Ninth Circuit has unjustifiably expanded the Terry exception to the probable cause requirement by creating a new category of exempt seizur… |
| 23A669 | Kenneth Allen Washington v. Deputy Rayl, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2024-01-22 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement misconduct video-evidence | Question not identified. | |
| 23-6455 | Darrel R. Fisher v. United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri | Eighth Circuit | 2024-01-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 42-usc-1981 42-usc-1982 4th-amendment civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-protections due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement property-rights trespass warrantless-search | 1) first: 4:99-01.2-BCW; When wasLibfie Federal Government allowed to "open" a [case] against me in 1999, and when was any indictment fitst made publi… |
| 23-6448 | Stephen Dudley Brunson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-01-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment arrest drug-interdiction fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery law-enforcement pretext probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-stop | Texas DPS Troopers stopped Stephen Brunson because his license plate was expired. They had planned, due to a tip they received, to ask for consent to … |
| 23-689 | City of Los Angeles, California, et al. v. M. A. R., a Minor, By and Through His Guardian ad Litem, Elisabeth Barragan, Individually and as a Successor in Interest to Daniel Rivera, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-12-27 | Dismissed | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | civil-rights clearly-established excessive-force law-enforcement qualified-immunity summary-judgment undisputed-evidence video-evidence | In ruling on a claim for qualified immunity raised in a motion for summary judgment, does a court's obligation to view the evidence in the light most … |
| 23-684 | Andrew Knapp, et al. v. Janice Brown | Sixth Circuit | 2023-12-26 | Denied | Response Waived | adverse-effects-for-police clearly-established-law constitutional-rights detention law-enforcement probable-cause probable-cause-determination qualified-immunity sixth-circuit warrantless-arrest | 1. Did the Sixth Circuit err in denying qualified immunity to four police officers involved in a warrantless arrest and detention in the absence of cl… |
| 23-644 | City of Charlotte, North Carolina, et al. v. Azucena Zamorano Aleman, Individually and as Administrator of the Estate of Rubin Galindo Chavez | Fourth Circuit | 2023-12-14 | Denied | Amici (1) | 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights deadly-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement precedent qualified-immunity use-of-force | Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in the process it used to find a "clearly established" Fourth Amendment right because it used cases: (1) decided afte… |
| 23-6123 | Kyle Maurice Parks v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-11-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | camera constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence law-enforcement perjury search-and-seizure suppression-hearing vehicle | 0) UrevldiNO. W A tfehihc, Coma,,-, r£-/U/ 4^t/ yu°r ViokrtCM) a pthu ®(ficen pi pttj vny <U ThZ fiu-T AT JUpfiHeSJ/o* &c;e faoccs.3 0) A / Q/LE-S£A… |
| 23-6095 | Jerome McGoy v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-11-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights confidential-informant controlled-buy criminal-procedure drug-investigation due-process law-enforcement search-and-seizure undercover-operation | Is it not true that Arkansas state was not authorized to use the Confidential Informant (CI) Robert Sullivan a.k.a. Smokey G. in an undercover operati… |
| 23-541 | Michael Donnellon, Deputy, et al. v. John Jordan | Tenth Circuit | 2023-11-20 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (2) | arrest civil-rights excessive-force first-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech law-enforcement probable-cause qualified-immunity | 1. Whether the Tenth Circuit's use of Hill's First Amendment analysis negated the objective Fourth Amendment standard of Maryland v. Pringle, 540 U.S.… |
| 23-6030 | Gregory P. Burleson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-11-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confession corroborating-evidence defense-of-others excessive-force federal-law law-enforcement reasonable-doubt self-defense supreme-court | 1. Is a citizen entitled to act in self-defense or defense of others against law enforcement officers if he has a reasonable belief that there is an i… |
| 23-499 | Jesus Leonardo Esquivel-Carrizales v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-11-13 | Denied | Response Waived | 4th-amendment companion-suspicion criminal-activity drug-crime fourth-amendment investigative-stop law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop | While out shopping five days before Christmas, Petitioner had a brief interaction in the public parking lot of a shopping center with a man agents sus… |
| 23-5982 | Garnet Small v. United States | Third Circuit | 2023-11-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | equal-protection fourth-amendment law-enforcement pretextual-stop probable-cause racial-profiling reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop traffic-stops whren-v-united-states | Whether this Court's decision in Whren v. United States, 517 U.S. 806 (1996), should be overruled. |
| 23-5953 | Michael Muthee Munywe v. Julie Dier, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-11-06 | Denied | IFP | 42-usc-1983 civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-misconduct probable-cause qualified-immunity search-and-seizure | Question not identified. |
| 23-5946 | Dravion Sanchez Ware v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-11-02 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing due-process identification identification-evidence law-enforcement physical-restraint sentencing-guidelines surveillance-evidence | L. As held by other Circuits, the physical restraint enhancement in US.S.G. § 2B3.1(b)(4)(B) requires more than pointing a gun at someone, and the Ele… |
| 23-5905 | Daniel Kristof Lak v. California | California | 2023-10-27 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | brady brady-disclosure conflict-of-interest conflicts-of-interest criminal-investigation criminal-procedure due-process impeachment-evidence law-enforcement law-enforcement-witness prosecutorial-ethics witness | When a law enforcement witness in a criminal trial, themselves, becomes the subject of an unrelated criminal investigation, the prosecution is faced w… |
| 23-433 | Joyce Daniels, as the Administrator of the Estate of Mark Daniels, Deceased v. City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, et al. | Third Circuit | 2023-10-26 | Denied | 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process judicial-procedure law-enforcement qualified-immunity section-1983 summary-judgment unsworn-testimony wrongful-death | A police officer, Gino Macioce, shot and killed Mark Daniels. Shortly after the shooting, Officer Macioce was interviewed by other police officers. Of… | |
| 23-5893 | Tigran Zmrukhtyan v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-10-26 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure firearm-possession law-enforcement law-enforcement-interaction physical-struggle reckless-conduct risk-enhancement sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines | Does mere possession of a firearm, even during a brief physical struggle with law enforcement, support a § 3C1.2 enhancement? |
| 23A368 | Adrian Martinez v. Sean Jenneiahn, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2023-10-24 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-canine qualified-immunity | Question not identified. | |
| 23-398 | Henry H. Howe v. Steven Gilpin, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2023-10-17 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | confidential-informant criminal-investigation dishonesty-and-false-statement law-enforcement probable-cause reckless-disregard rule-609 warrant-affidavit | Whether complete omission from an arrest warrant of a primary confidential informant's multiple prior Rule 609 [F.R.Evid.] "dishonesty and false state… |
| 23-5778 | Larry David Davis v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Division of Correction | Eighth Circuit | 2023-10-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment interrogation-tactics law-enforcement self-incrimination standing takings voluntary-confession | Question not identified. |
| 23-5696 | Elvins Sylvestre v. United States | First Circuit | 2023-10-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment controlled-purchases informant-reliability law-enforcement probable-cause search-warrant warrant-sufficiency | Was there sufficient probable cause for the issuance of the search warrant where law enforcement officers failed to fully supervise a series of contro… |
| 23-5681 | Justin Weible v. Kevin Provost, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-10-02 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | arbitrary-or-capricious civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement legal-malpractice license-revocation procedural-due-process unlawful-procedure | 1. That substantial rights of the Petitioner have been prejudiced because of the Lower Courts and Department's findings, inferences, conclusions and/o… |
| 23-319 | Evelyn Newey v. Orange County, California, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-09-27 | Denied | Response Waived | 1983-claims civil-rights decertification due-process heck-doctrine judicial-conduct judicial-policy law-enforcement police-accountability sb-2 | Of legal and national significance, important to real-world impact in law and order decision making, is the Peace Officers Decertification process all… |
| 23-5624 | Charles M. Porter v. United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-09-21 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process extraordinary-circumstances judicial-discretion law-enforcement probable-cause trial-court-error warrantless-arrest | The sole point of this petition is the fact that Petitioner was arrested without probable cause. Hence, therefore, the warrantless arrest was unlawful… |
| 23-5615 | Roosevelt L. Linicomn, Jr. v. District Attorney, 482nd Judicial District Court of Texas, Harris County, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2023-09-19 | Denied | IFP | 42-usc-1985 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process law-enforcement probable-cause warrant-validity warrants | Appeal Case #23-20100- "Questions of Law" Does the Constitution ensure that a person is entitled to section 242 of title 18..? (If a person is truly d… |
| 23-5481 | Festus Okwudili Ohan v. Armando B. Fontoura, Sheriff, Essex County, New Jersey, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-08-30 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | civil-rights digital-privacy due-process excessive-force false-arrest fourth-amendment law-enforcement malicious-prosecution probable-cause retaliation traffic-stop warrantless-search | Question not identified. |
| 23-5473 | Arnez J. Salazar v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2023-08-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | arizona-v-gant closed-container fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reaching-distance search-incident-to-arrest secured-arrestee vehicle-search warrantless-search | Whether this Court's opinion in Arizona v. Gant, 556 U.S. 332 (2009) created a two-part test that requires an arrestee to be unsecured and within reac… |
| 23-5460 | Clinton D. Johnson, Jr., aka Kayzon Ru v. Sgt. Johnson, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2023-08-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 8th-amendment antiterrorism-act civil-rights constitutional-protection due-process excessive-force fourteenth-amendment law-enforcement | Wat. extesMvt-fkflee -ustj^ end af?Tcfujafc/ cJt/TCfrrfon comer}S etT Was .Ke_ 4-oJ^ehtftT ^ e_<v0f GnJ Htuo? W»s The Pift^ Tou-i'Teenrh Avre-nAaenT… |
| 23-5428 | Hector Gastelum Valenzuela v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-08-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment law-enforcement motel-room motel-search probable-cause protective-sweep search-and-seizure warrantless-search | Whether the mere presence of a person in a motel room—that officers believe contains drugs and a gun—creates exigent circumstances sufficient to justi… |
| 23-5396 | Antoine Clark v. United States | Third Circuit | 2023-08-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause title-iii wiretap wiretap-law | 1. Whether this Court should set limits on whether law enforcement's selfcreated exigent circumstances provide justification for a Title III wiretap? |
| 23-5302 | Larry Rederick v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-08-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights eighth-circuit fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-stop traffic-stops unreasonable-search | 1) Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals Decision Authorizes Unreasonably Prolonged Traffic Stops and Unreasonable Searching of a Separate Vehic… |
| 23-5206 | Francisco J. Castaneda v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2023-07-26 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-convictions criminal-procedure detention-standards due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel interrogation-tactics law-enforcement police-questioning search-and-seizure | Question not identified. |
| 23A61 | Chris Dutra, et al. v. Kim Jackson | Ninth Circuit | 2023-07-24 | Presumed Complete | excessive-force law-enforcement qualified-immunity second-story-railing summary-judgment use-of-force | Question not identified. | |
| 23-5120 | Clim Eugene Murphy Thomas v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-07-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights consensual-encounter consent-search due-process fifth-circuit law-enforcement police-encounter racial-profiling totality-of-circumstances | WHETHER THE UNITED STATE FIFTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS IMPROPERLY APPLIED ITS TOTALITY OF THE CIRCUMSTANCES ANALYSIS OF PETITIONER'S CHALLENGE TO THE… |
| 23A31 | Winterville Police Department, et al. v. Dijon Sharpe | Fourth Circuit | 2023-07-13 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-interpretation first-amendment fourth-amendment law-enforcement livestreaming traffic-stop | Whether the constitutionality of a policy prohibiting livestreaming during a lawful traffic stop should be analyzed under the First Amendment or the F… | |
| 23-37 | Kyle Cardenas v. Josiah Saladen, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-07-12 | Denied | Response Waived | 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity section-1983 unlawful-arrest | Regularizing qualified immunity. In 42 U.S.C. § 1983 excessive-force and unlawful-arrest litigation, should this Court regularize the process for usin… |
| 23-5022 | Ruben Ramirez-Rivera v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-07-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | drug-sniff fourth-amendment fruit-of-poisonous-tree law-enforcement motion-to-suppress probable-cause traffic-stop | Whether Mr. Ramirez-River's Fourth Amendment rights were violated when his motion to suppress all fruits of an illegal traffic stop was denied? |
| 22-7853 | Carlos Miguel Concepcion-Guliam v. United States | First Circuit | 2023-06-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | arrest criminal-procedure detention fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure search-warrant | Should a writ of certiorari be granted to clarify whether an exception to the Fourth Amendment can be applied randomly or if law enforcement officers … |
| 22-1226 | Idaho v. Kirby Anthony Dorff | Idaho | 2023-06-21 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 4th-amendment constitutional-protection drug-detection drug-detection-dog fourth-amendment governmental-conduct law-enforcement lawfully-stopped-car physical-intrusion search search-and-seizure | I. Does a drug-detection dog physically intrude upon a constitutionally protected area and therefore conduct an unreasonable search under the Fourth A… |
| 22-7779 | Zohn Wang Kub Yang v. Dan Cromwell, Warden | Seventh Circuit | 2023-06-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 5th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation due-process fifth-amendment law-enforcement miranda-rights miranda-v-arizona self-incrimination | Whether the totality of the law enforcement officers' words or actions made during the questioning of Petitioner in this case when they told Petitione… |
| 22-7747 | Samuel Wilson, III v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-06-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure drug-slang evidence expert-testimony law-enforcement lay-testimony lay-witness | Some, but not all, circuits permit a law enforcement agent who is not designated as an expert to testify as a lay witness about drug slang, jargon or … |
| 22-7691 | Jace Emerson Fesler v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-06-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment citizen-rights civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment free-speech law-enforcement police-procedure reasonable-suspicion terry-stop | Does a citizen's noncompliance with an unlawful order from law enforcement create reasonable suspicion to conduct a Terry frisk? |
| 22-7694 | Karl Ray Masek v. Rob Isonta, Attorney General of California, et al. | District of Columbia | 2023-06-02 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights conspiracy due-process federal-procedure law-enforcement mail-fraud racketeering retaliation rico-complaint standing | Petitioner contends California defendant officers, and agents engaged in conspiracy cover-up of corruption in promoting themselves, intimidation, stal… |
| 22-1155 | Douglas E. Wilcox v. Maine | Maine | 2023-05-30 | Denied | Response Waived | constitutional-provision constitutional-rights field-sobriety-test fourth-amendment law-enforcement lower-courts probable-cause search sobriety-test | Whether a field sobriety test is a search for which the Fourth Amendment requires probable cause. |
| 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 … |
| 22-7596 | Ripdaman Narula v. Superior Court of California, Orange County, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-05-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure civil-rights crime-reporting criminal-procedure default-judgment due-process judicial-procedure judicial-review law-enforcement pro-se standing victim-rights | Question # 1. A pro se has a right to file a complaint in the court. Does he also has a right to win especially if defendant(s) default? Question # 2… |
| 22-1121 | Kamaladoss Selvam v. United States, et al. | Second Circuit | 2023-05-17 | Denied | Response Waived | administrative-law administrative-warrant civil-procedure drug-enforcement fda-jurisdiction federal-agencies law-enforcement search-and-seizure search-warrant statutory-interpretation subpoena-power | 1. Whether Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has jurisdiction to enforce Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act? 2. Whether Food and Drug Administrat… |
| 22-1107 | Officer Matthew Gregory, et al. v. Elise Brown | Ninth Circuit | 2023-05-12 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (3) | civil-rights clearly-established clearly-established-law constitutional-rights department-policies excessive-force law-enforcement police-procedure police-training qualified-immunity | 1. A unanimous Ninth Circuit panel upheld qualified immunity for two police officers who followed department policies and training when they ordered t… |
| 22-1041 | Kevin Brunner v. Megan Marie McMurry, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2023-04-27 | Denied | Response Waived | 4th-amendment child-welfare children civil-rights due-process exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment law-enforcement protective-custody qualified-immunity | "[C]ases involving unattended young children inside a home" fall within the exigent circumstances doctrine. Children need adult supervision. This cas… |
| 22-7379 | Igor Grushko v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-04-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement loss-calculation probable-cause reasonableness reasonableness-standard search-and-seizure search-warrant sentencing-guidelines | 1. WHETHER THE POLICE ENTERING A RESIDENCE TO EXECUTE A SEARCH WARRANT MUST POSSESS PROBABLE CAUSE THAT THE PERSON THEY ARE SEEKING IS INSIDE THE RESI… |
| 22-7350 | Emanuel Higuera v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-04-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-hearing expert-testimony judicial-discretion law-enforcement preliminary-proceedings trial-procedure witness-qualification | Whether district courts should be required to hold some type of preliminary proceedings before allowing experienced-based law enforcement experts to t… |
| 22-1018 | Jeffrey L. Moeser v. Wisconsin | Wisconsin | 2023-04-20 | Denied | Response Waived | constitutional-protection federal-courts-of-appeals fourth-amendment general-warrants individual-liberty law-enforcement oath-affirmation oath-or-affirmation probable-cause warrant-requirement | The question presented is whether a sheriff (1) who indisputably did not make an oral or written oath or affirmation to anyone and (2) who falsely sig… |
| 22-7335 | Enrique Holguin v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-04-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-standards expert-testimony judicial-discretion law-enforcement preliminary-hearing preliminary-proceedings trial-procedure | Whether district courts should be required to hold some type of preliminary proceedings before allowing experienced-based law enforcement experts to t… |
| 22-1005 | Cornelius L. Emily, et al. v. Christopher Welters | Minnesota | 2023-04-17 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (2) | 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process law-enforcement law-generality legal-standard precedent qualified-immunity supreme-court-precedent | Did the Minnesota Supreme Court depart from this Court's decisions in City of Tahlequah v. Bond, 142 S. Ct. 9 (2021) (per curiam), Rivas-Villegas v. C… |
| 22-7275 | Matthew Jones v. Delaware | Delaware | 2023-04-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection hate-crime judicial-branch law-enforcement police-misconduct standing takings | 1. Are you aware that I am the victim of the longest ongoing most violent hate crime and murder attempt in all of North America's millions of years of… |
| 22-7253 | Ilse Ivon Solis v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-04-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights detention-duration fourth-amendment law-enforcement motion-to-suppress reasonable-suspicion rodriguez-v-united-states scope-of-justification traffic-stop | I. IN LIGHT OF THIS COURT'S OPINION IN RODRIGUEZ V. UNITED STATES, 575 U.S. 348 (2015), DID THE OFFICER'S INQUIRIES UNJUSTIFIABLY PROLONG THE TRAFFIC … |
| 22-978 | Jackie Jackson v. Ohio | Ohio | 2023-04-10 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 4th-amendment contraband criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement lower-court-conflict police-conduct precedent probable-cause search search-and-seizure vehicle-search | Where one police officer opens the door of a car, and another officer looks through the open door for contraband, have the police conducted a "search"… |
| 22-7026 | Erin F. Graham, Jr. v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2023-03-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | co-defendant confrontation-clause criminal-offense criminal-procedure domestic-incident hearsay hearsay-statements law-enforcement ongoing-criminal-offense | 1) Whether the introduction of a co-defendant's inculpatory hearsay statements about her alleged co-conspirator, made to law enforcement following a d… |
| 22-848 | James Douglas Fox v. Mark Campbell, et ux. | Sixth Circuit | 2023-03-08 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | county-of-sacramento-v-lewis excessive-force fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment graham-v-connor law-enforcement qualified-immunity seizure self-defense unreasonable-force | Petitioner James Fox performed a welfare check at the home of Respondents Mark Campbell and Sherrie Campbell. Mark stated through the closed front doo… |
| 22-830 | Corey Forest v. Tennessee | Tennessee | 2023-03-02 | Denied | Response Waived | 4th-amendment citizen-arrest citizen's-arrest civil-rights drug-dog law-enforcement pretextual-stop search-and-seizure seizure traffic-stop | 1. Whether a law enforcement officer acting as a private citizen who initiates a traffic stop with no intention of ever attempting to complete the "mi… |
| 22-820 | Lori D. McLaughlin v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General | Fourth Circuit | 2023-02-28 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | civil-rights constitutional-rights doj-policy due-process fourteenth-amendment giglio-determination giglio-policy law-enforcement standing | Are law enforcement officers entitled to due process rights prior to a Giglio determination? Does the DOJ Giglio Policy violate the Due Process Cla… |
| 22-793 | Paul Donald Davis, et al. v. Paul Waller, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-02-22 | Denied | circuit-split civil-rights deadly-force due-process hostage law-enforcement non-suspect-seizure qualified-immunity seizure use-of-force | Whether the Eleventh Circuit misapplied the test for the constitutional use of deadly force set forth by this Court in Tennessee v. Garner, 471 U.S. 1… | |
| 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? |
| 22-735 | Kori Anderson, et al. v. Tristen Calder, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Coby Lee Paugh | Tenth Circuit | 2023-02-07 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (2) | alcohol-withdrawal civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-violation due-process law-enforcement medical-needs qualified-immunity | Is qualified immunity wrongfully denied to Petitioners in an alcohol withdrawal case based upon a general determination that ignoring serious medical … |
| 22-731 | Tyler Brienza v. City of Peachtree, Georgia, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-02-06 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 4th-amendment civil-rights curtilage exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment investigative-detention knock-and-talk law-enforcement seizure voluntary-encounter | When occupants answer a "knock-and-talk" by law enforcement officers and step onto the porch, or curtilage of the home, to address the officers, may t… |
| 22-728 | Daniel Cameron Wilkey, et al. v. William Eugene Klaver | Sixth Circuit | 2023-02-03 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights clearly-established-law clearly-established-right fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct qualified-immunity reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop | 1. This Court has repeatedly instructed the lower courts that in determining whether a right is clearly established for purposes of qualified immunity… |
| 22-6583 | Keith Melillo v. City and County of Rice, Minnesota, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2023-01-20 | Denied | IFP | arrest-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law disability-discrimination disability-rights due-process equal-protection false-arrest law-enforcement standing | the right to sue all of them defendants for violatin of my civil rights and discrimination cell me the N word and hit me my rights under ADA I am disa… |
| 22-675 | Vicki Jo Lewis, et vir, Individually and as Co-Personal Representatives of the Estate of Isaiah Mark Lewis, Deceased v. City of Edmond, Oklahoma, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2023-01-20 | Denied | 42-usc-1983 civil-rights clearly-established clearly-established-law constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force law-enforcement qualified-immunity section-1983 summary-reversal | 1. Whether this Court should reconsider the judge made doctrine of qualified immunity. 2. Whether qualified immunity insulates a law enforcement offi… | |
| 22-6575 | Paul Michael Malagerio v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-01-19 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constructive-entry exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment home-invasion knock-and-announce law-enforcement santana-doctrine scott-v-harris search-and-seizure | 1. Whether multiple armed law enforcement officers surrounding a home at daybreak, repeatedly banging on the home's only door, refusing to leave, and … |
| 22-6484 | Courtney Saunders v. Kyle Thies, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2023-01-09 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-rights discriminatory-intent discriminatory-policing driving-while-black equal-protection fourteenth-amendment law-enforcement racial-discrimination racial-profiling traffic-stop | 1. Whether an Equal Protection claim under the Fourteenth Amendment, based on an incident of discriminatory policing, requires a plaintiff to establis… |
| 22-6491 | Eric Romero-Lobato v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-01-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-error due-process eyewitness-identification gatekeeping gatekeeping-function harmless-error law-enforcement reliability reliability-standard suggestive-identification | Due process prohibits any "suggestive and unnecessary identification procedure" that does not possess "sufficient aspects of reliability." Manson v. B… |
| 22-6441 | James D. Dayvault v. Kansas | Kansas | 2023-01-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights consensual-encounter custody detention due-process family-law fourth-amendment law-enforcement photography reasonable-person reasonable-person-standard seizure | 1. Did the Kansas Court of Appeals err when it affirmed the trial court's decision regarding custody for the purposes of Miranda, and does the court e… |
| 22-589 | Daryl Holloway v. City of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2022-12-27 | Denied | circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification identification-procedure law-enforcement lineup qualified-immunity | 1. Whether the Court should address ambiguity among the circuits on whether an unduly suggestive identification procedure violated the Due Process Cla… | |
| 22-6398 | Deon Lewis Duke v. Microsoft Corporation, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2022-12-27 | Denied | IFP | access-to-courts civil-rights conspiracy corruption criminal-record delusion due-process law-enforcement property-rights standing telecommunications | Question not identified. |
| 22-6378 | Angela Dee Garges v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-12-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | dwelling-search fourth-amendment law-enforcement maryland-v-buie probable-cause protective-sweep reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure | 1. Whether the Eighth Circuit Court's determination that law enforcement officers may search an entire dwelling without probable cause or reasonable s… |
| 22-563 | Randall Greer, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Christopher Greer, Deceased v. James Haman, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-12-20 | Denied | Response Waived | deadly-force fourth-amendment graham-v-connor jury-instruction law-enforcement probable-cause self-defense tennessee-v-garner use-of-force | A law enforcement officer's use of deadly force in self-defense is not constitutionally unreasonable. Courts throughout the nation universally agree t… |
| 22-564 | Juan Carlos Salazar v. Juan Rene Molina | Fifth Circuit | 2022-12-20 | Denied | Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 4th-amendment circuit-split excessive-force graham-v-connor law-enforcement qualified-immunity reasonableness-of-force surrender-protocol use-of-force | After initially fleeing from police who suspected him of speeding, petitioner encountered a roadblock, pulled his car over, exited, and lay face down … |
| 22-556 | N. S., Only Child of Decedent, Ryan Stokes, By and Through Her Natural Mother and Next Friend, Brittany Lee, et al. v. Kansas City Board of Police Commissioners, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2022-12-19 | Denied | Amici (1)Relisted (12) | 42-usc-1983 circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-rights due-process law-enforcement legal-precedent qualified-immunity section-1983 | 1. Whether qualified immunity insulates a law enforcement officer from liability under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 if there is no factually identical precedent e… |
| 22-6259 | Eric Bruce Fowler v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-12-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights criminal-arrest cross-deputization due-process federal-approval indian-law indian-reservation jurisdiction law-enforcement state-jurisdiction territorial-sovereignty | A state trooper stopped, detained, and searched Eric Fowler, an Indian within the boundaries of his reservation. Did the state trooper have jurisdicti… |
| 22-509 | J. T. H., et al. v. Spring Cook | Eighth Circuit | 2022-11-30 | Denied | Amici (3)Response Waived | circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment hartman-v-moore law-enforcement qualified-immunity retaliatory-investigation retaliatory-investigations | Whether investigations—even when they lack probable cause—are so categorically different from other retaliatory acts that they cannot be the basis for… |
| 22-510 | Jody Lombardo, et al. v. City of St. Louis, Missouri, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2022-11-30 | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (9) | civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights detainee-death due-process excessive-force law-enforcement police-misconduct police-restraint qualified-immunity | When officers put a handcuffed and shackled person face-down on the floor and push into his back until he dies, are they entitled to qualified immunit… |
| 22-6155 | Ryan McGuire v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-11-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation confrontation-clause criminal-trial cross-examination due-process fair-trial impeachment impeachment-evidence law-enforcement | 1. Does a trial court's ruling excluding evidence at trial violate a criminal defendant's right to due process, including the rights to confront and e… |
| 22-6083 | Aaron Jay Pierce v. Utah | Utah | 2022-11-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | coercion constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence-collection impeachment interrogation-tactics law-enforcement police-interrogation right-to-counsel self-incrimination | m H'f CitdcpteAsfS 4%L*ft/VV[ c*~ were obfai^erf fmfx>lf*e. l.vfer/no^rh 'o^/ vioj^Hom erf1 Co/vstffiAfro^ ! ^4 tafesrh£~ 0/Sfr/crf~ £oti*rf~j rfn^ 5… |
| 22-6061 | Kyle Watkins v. Sean Medeiros, Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Norfolk | First Circuit | 2022-11-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brady-v-maryland brady-violation constitutional-rights cumulative-effect due-process first-degree-murder habeas habeas-corpus law-enforcement law-enforcement-practices prejudice prosecutorial-misconduct | In a habeas case involving a first degree murder conviction, whether a Court can construe Brady's prejudice prong so strictly that it becomes, in effe… |
| 22-6008 | David Jay Tyson v. Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al. | Second Circuit | 2022-11-07 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-rights due-process law-enforcement property-rights return-of-property seizure | Question not identified. |
| 22-405 | Michael Leon Grubb v. Texas | Texas | 2022-11-01 | Denied | 5th-amendment confession confessions due-process fifth-amendment interrogation law-enforcement miranda-rights self-incrimination supreme-court-precedent | Whether the Supreme Court's 1987 decision in Mauro effectively abdicated its 1980 holding in Innis by creating an analytical escape hatch related to t… | |
| 22-5968 | Grant Manaku v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-11-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement rule-41 search-warrant warrant-service | When executing a search warrant, agents disassembled the ir five-page warrant , disregarded homeowners' repeated requests for a copy of the warrant , … |
| 22-5925 | Christopher Santillanes Ceja v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-10-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment criminal-investigation drug-trafficking fourth-amendment investigative-duration law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop | 1. Was the traffic stop of Mr. Ceja unreasonably prolonged when officers conducted two consecutive investigations, one for an alleged traffic violatio… |
| 22-354 | Lorenzo Shelton v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-10-14 | Denied | Response Waived | cell-phone-search circuit-split fourth-amendment law-enforcement parolee parolee-search privacy privacy-protection residence search standing | The first question presented, on which the circuits are now divided, is whether the Fourth Amendment's privacy protections prevent law enforcement fro… |
| 22-5744 | Warne Keahi Young v. Hawaii Island Humane Society, et al. | Hawaii | 2022-10-03 | Denied | IFP | animal-seizure collateral-estoppel fourth-amendment hawaii-state-court intentional-infliction-of-emotional-distress law-enforcement negligence reasonableness reasonableness-standard search-and-seizure | Is the standard of reasonableness under the Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution the same as the standard of reasonableness under neglig… |
| 22-5726 | Veronica Gonzalez-Carmona v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-09-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | credibility drug-interdiction fourth-amendment law-enforcement officer-testimony rodriguez-precedent rodriguez-v-united-states safety-valve-relief traffic-stop | 1. Whether an officer's interspersed drug interdiction questions impermissibly extend a traffic stop per this Court's decision in Rodriguez v. United … |
| 22-307 | Michigan v. Marcus Martell McCloud and Bruce Cliffin Edwards | Michigan | 2022-09-29 | Denied | Response Waived | commonsense-judgments criminal-procedure detention frisk human-behavior law-enforcement officer-experience probable-cause reasonable-suspicion terry-stop weapons-frisk | Police preparing to enter a suspected unlicensed after-hours drinking establishment to make an under-cover purchase removed the two respondents from j… |
| 22-293 | Anthony Novak v. City of Parma, Ohio, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2022-09-28 | Denied | Amici (5) | circuit-split civil-rights first-amendment free-speech law-enforcement parody parody-speech police-misconduct qualified-immunity | Petitioner Anthony Novak created a parody Facebook page to mock his local police department in Parma, Ohio. Novak published six posts on the page, der… |
| 22-223 | County of Riverside, California, et al. v. Estate of Clemente Najera-Aguirre, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2022-09-12 | Denied | Amici (1) | 9th-circuit clearly-established-law constitutional-rights deadly-force excessive-force law-enforcement ninth-circuit particularized-consideration qualified-immunity use-of-force | 1. Did the Ninth Circuit's panel decision denying qualified immunity contravene this Court's mandate that courts should not hold officers to a standar… |
| 22-224 | Brent Stroman, et al. v. John Wilson, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2022-09-12 | Denied | Response Waived | 42-usc-1983 civil-rights false-arrest franks-v-delaware franks-violation grand-jury law-enforcement pleading-standards qualified-immunity section-1983 | This case involves issues relating to the arrest of respondents on the charge of engaging in organized criminal activity and the sufficiency of respon… |
| 22-207 | Volodymyr Kvashuk v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-09-08 | Denied | Response Waived | and injection of vague 'cybercrime' concepts automatic justification of law enforcement invasi cybercrime electronic-devices electronic-search fourth-amendment home-invasion home-search law-enforcement nexus nexus-analysis search-and-seizure unfounded-presumptions | Whether the Ninth Circuit's analytical approach in weighing "the nature of cybercrime" into its assessment of nexus to search one's home violates the … |
| 22-5373 | Berenice Del Angel v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-08-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-limits fourth-amendment law-enforcement rodriguez scope-of-detention seizure traffic-stop warrantless-detention | Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits a police officer from continuing his warrantless detention of a motorist after the officer has announced that h… |
| 22-5249 | Michael Anthony Galluzzo v. Village of St. Paris, Ohio | Ohio | 2022-08-02 | Dismissed | IFP | arrest-warrant constitutional-rights due-process failure-to-appear jurisdiction law-enforcement liberty notice proof-of-service | 1. Did the lower court violate established due process requirements when they failed to provide proper "Proof of Service" of "Notice" of a hearing bef… |
| 22-5251 | Levonne Jomarrio Greer v. Kristopher Taskila, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2022-08-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability due-process habeas habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review law-enforcement plea-bargaining sham-plea-bargaining sham-tactics | DID THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN AND THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT ERRONEOUSLY DEN… |
| 22-85 | Oregon v. Langston Amani Harris | Oregon | 2022-07-28 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | delegation delegation-authority evidence-suppression good-faith good-faith-exception law-enforcement prosecuting-attorney statutory-interpretation suppression wiretap-order wiretapping | 1. Does 18 U.S.C. § 2516(2) prohibit the principal prosecuting attorney from delegating that authority to a deputy when state law allows the delegatio… |
| 22-80 | Frank Napolitano, et al. v. Laurence Washington | Second Circuit | 2022-07-27 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | circuit-split credibility criminal-investigation law-enforcement probable-cause qualified-immunity subjective-intent warrant-application | 1. Whether the Court of Appeals improperly denied qualified immunity by requiring an officer to disclose his subjective intent and state of mind in a … |
| 22-5055 | Amin Wadley, aka Jamil Abdul Amin White v. United States | Third Circuit | 2022-07-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure criminal-trial-procedure evidence-rules evidentiary-standards federal-rules-of-evidence law-enforcement law-enforcement-testimony lay-witness lay-witness-testimony opinion-evidence opinion-testimony | 1. Whether this Court should set limits on what law enforcement testimony should be admitted as opinion evidence under Federal Rule of Evidence 701. |
| 22-5011 | Randolph Mays v. Illinois | Illinois | 2022-07-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure civil-rights due-process government-liability law-enforcement qualified-immunity | Question not identified. |
| 22-8 | Anthony Momphard, Jr., Individually and in His Official Capacity as a Deputy Sheriff of the Macon County Sheriff's Department, et al. v. Melissa B. Knibbs, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Michael Scott Knibbs | Fourth Circuit | 2022-07-01 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights deadly-force due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-use-of-force qualified-immunity use-of-force | 1. Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in finding that a reasonable officer in Deputy Momphard's position would not have perceived a danger that justifie… |
| 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 | Where a law enforcement officer trespasses into a resident's home by shoving his foot into the doorway through the threshold of the home, does the Fou… |
| 21-8122 | Jeremiah Henderson v. Austin K. McClain | Fourth Circuit | 2022-06-10 | Denied | IFP | 42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-tort first-amendment free-speech law-enforcement probable-cause retaliatory-arrest retaliatory-prosecution section-1983 | Does probable cause defeat a retaliatory prosecution claim when there is strong circumstantial proof that a policeman initiated the prosecution to ret… |
| 21-1495 | Jimmy Baldea v. City of New York License Division of the NYPD | New York | 2022-05-31 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (2) | 2nd-amendment administrative-procedure civil-rights concealed-carry due-process handgun-regulation law-enforcement licensing-rights police-officer police-powers qualified-immunity | 1. Is License Division empowered to deny an unrestricted concealed carry license to a qualified police officer, as defined by 18 U.S.C. § 926B (2017),… |
| 21-1501 | Orrilyln Maxwell Stallworth v. Rodney W. Hurst, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-05-31 | Denied | civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process law-enforcement probable-cause qualified-immunity section-1983 standing | Whether the Court should recalibrate or reverse the doctrine of qualified immunity. | |
| 21-1482 | Dequantey Maurice Williams v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-05-25 | Denied | Response Waived | 4th-amendment criminal-procedure evidence fourth-amendment law-enforcement motion-to-suppress plain-view-doctrine probable-cause search-and-seizure vehicle-search | Whether the United States District Court For The Middle District Of North Carolina Erred in Denying Mr. Williams 's Motion to Supress evidence related… |
| 21-1466 | Lenard Johnson v. Richard Winfrey, Jr., et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2022-05-20 | Denied | 4th-amendment affidavit civil-rights damages-claim franks-v-delaware law-enforcement probable-cause qualified-immunity section-1983 warrant-affidavit | In Franks v. Delaware, 438 U.S. 154, 155-56 (1978), the Court identified a right of "limited scope" "that [applies], where [a criminal] defendant make… | |
| 21-7848 | Martin Ibarra-Ozuna v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-05-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | collective-knowledge-doctrine constitutional-limits law-enforcement officer-request pretext-stops probable-cause reasonable-suspicion united-states-v-hensley vehicle-stop whiteley-v-warden | A. When officers who have probable cause for an arrest or vehicle stop request another officer to take only a particular, limited action, does the "co… |
| 21-7822 | Christopher Patrick Lovings v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-05-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure enhancement fleeing fleeing-offense judicial-discretion knowledge knowledge-standard law-enforcement sentencing sentencing-guidelines ussg-3c1.2 | Whether a sentencing court may apply an enhancement pursuant to USSG § 3C1.2 when the record fails to establish the defendant knew or had reason to kn… |
| 21-7808 | John Edward McIntyre v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-05-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-interdiction criminal-procedure equal-protection fourth-amendment high-crime-neighborhood high-crime-neighborhoods law-enforcement probable-cause racial-profiling targeted-enforcement traffic-stop | In Whren v. United States, 517 U.S. 806 (1996), this Court held that for purposes of the Fourth Amendment, a police officer's subjective motivation fo… |
| 21-7785 | Jose Mena-Valdez v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-05-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment criminal-procedure law-enforcement probable-cause vehicle-search warrantless-search | Did law enforcement officers have probable cause to conduct a warrantless search of the vehicle driven by the Defendant. |
| 21-1403 | Travis Morse, Individually and in His Official Capacity as a Police Officer for the Town of Orono, Maine, et al. v. Christopher French | First Circuit | 2022-05-02 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | circuit-court civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-rights due-process knock-and-talk law-enforcement qualified-immunity warrant-requirement | 1. Did the First Circuit depart from this Court's qualified immunity precedent by defining clearly established law at a high level of generality and f… |
| 21-7703 | Tyrone Wortham v. New York | New York | 2022-04-26 | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | booking-exception criminal-procedure incriminating-response law-enforcement miranda-rights split-of-authority | When a law enforcement officer's purportedly biographical question to a suspect is reasonably likely to elicit an incriminating response, does it fall… |
| 21-7681 | Oniel McKenzie v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-04-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | canine-sniff curtilage fourth-amendment law-enforcement privacy-interest privacy-interests search search-and-seizure storage-unit | Whether a warrantless canine sniff of the exterior of a private storage unit to detect contraband inside the unit constitutes a search in violation of… |
| 21-7685 | Carlos Delgado, aka Los v. United States | Second Circuit | 2022-04-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confidential-informant fourth-amendment franks-hearing law-enforcement probable-cause reckless-disregard roviaro-v-united-states search-and-seizure warrant-affidavit | Did the DEA task force agent act with reckless disregard for the truth when omitting material information that militated against a finding of probable… |
| 21-7597 | Clifford Idris Bell v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-04-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confidential-informant criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement personal-residence probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant warrant | Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits the issuance of a warrant and the subsequent search of a personal residence based solely on a confidential info… |
| 21-7502 | William Dallas Elmore v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-03-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights conflict-among-courts constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement personal-property property-seizure seizure unreasonable-search | Does the Fourth Amendment prohibit an unreasonable and ongoing seizure of personal property? |
| 21-7512 | Kevin E. Herriott v. Major Parrish, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2022-03-31 | Denied | IFP | 8th-amendment civil-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-unusual-punishment disciplinary-action due-process eighth-amendment excessive-force good-faith good-faith-effort law-enforcement | 1) WHETHER PETITIONER GIVE DEFENDANTS PATQ OTICE OF WHAT THE CLAIMS ARE AND THE GROUND UPON WHICH IT RESTS? 2) WHERE OFFICERS VIOLATE THE RULE ANNOUN… |
| 21-7442 | Aaron Matthew Oleston v. Wisconsin | Wisconsin | 2022-03-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights disorderly-conduct due-process fighting-words first-amendment free-speech law-enforcement police-arrest police-discretion | Does the First Amendment protect the right of the people to approach law enforcement and criticize police actions in an opprobrious manner? |
| 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… |
| 21-7387 | Henry E. Wood v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2022-03-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment cellphone circuit-split fourth-amendment law-enforcement mobile-phone parolee parolee-rights search-and-seizure warrant-requirement warrantless-search | I. Whether the Seventh Circuit's decision allowing law enforcement officers to conduct a warrantless search of a parolee's mobile phone upon arrest ha… |
| 21-7330 | Japher Yosuf Rajab v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-03-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | age-of-consent conviction criminal-law due-process federal-statute law-enforcement mens-rea non-existent-victim statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 2422 (b) authorizes a conviction based on an imaginary, non-existent victim. Whether a defendant can be convicted under 18 U.S.C.… |
| 21-1225 | The Estate of Dillon Taylor, et al. v. Salt Lake City, Utah, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2022-03-09 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (2) | civil-procedure civil-rights excessive-force jury law-enforcement material-dispute qualified-immunity summary-judgment tenth-circuit | 1. Whether the Tenth Circuit impermissibly expanded the judicially-created doctrine of qualified immunity to shield an officer where there is a subs… |
| 21-1220 | County of Sacramento, California, et al. v. Kenard Thomas | Ninth Circuit | 2022-03-08 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | 42-usc-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-violation due-process fact-determination law-enforcement qualified-immunity reviewing-standard section-1983 | 1. In deciding whether qualified immunity applies, the court is to view the evidence in the light most favorable to the plaintiff. Is it appropriate, … |
| 21-7287 | Ivan Cruz-Rivera v. United States | First Circuit | 2022-03-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment criminal-procedure fourth-amendment informant informant-tip law-enforcement police-officer probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure | Whether It Is Not Necessary To Evaluate The Basis Of Knowledge Underlying An Informant's Tip If The Informant Is A Police Officer. |
| 21-7309 | Jaime Calderon, aka Jaime Arredonde, aka Jaime Rene Calderon v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-03-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights daubert-standard due-process evidence expert-testimony gatekeeping-function judicial-reliability kumho-tire law-enforcement law-enforcement-experts reliability | Whether district courts, serving as Daubert/Kumho Tire gatekeepers, have a duty to assess the reliability of law enforcement officers testifying as ex… |
| 21-7313 | Domonick Deshay Wright v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-03-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-misconduct probable-cause qualified-immunity reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop | Question not identified. |
| 21-7298 | Dennis Allen Conte, III v. Maryland | Maryland | 2022-03-07 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure standing | Did the Lower courts Violate Mr. Conte's Constitutional Right, Mr. Conte's Fourth Amendment? |
| 21-7279 | Charlie Foster v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-03-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-law detention due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-stop | Consistent with the Fourth Amendment, may a law enforcement officer extend a traffic stop by asking for a driver's license and registration after the … |
| 21-1204 | City of Chico, California, et al. v. Estate of Tyler S. Rushing, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2022-03-03 | Denied | arrest-procedure civil-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct qualified-immunity use-of-force | 1. As a matter of first impression, does the Fourth Amendment prevent law enforcement officers from deploying a Taser to safely arrest a suspect who v… | |
| 21-1190 | Ramon Rios, III v. Texas | Texas | 2022-02-28 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 4th-amendment arrest fourth-amendment home-search law-enforcement plain-view-doctrine protective-sweep surveillance warrantless-search | I. Does the Fourth Amendment prohibit a warrantless protective sweep of the interior of a home following the arrest of a resident outside his home tha… |
| 21-7153 | Arthur Miles v. United States | First Circuit | 2022-02-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights fourth-amendment inception-of-stop law-enforcement narrow-shoulder probable-cause reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop weather-conditions | Can facts observed or learned by a police officer after he decided to initiate a traffic stop, which traffic stop was delayed a short distance only ba… |
| 21-7100 | Alkiohn Dunkins v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2022-02-10 | Denied | IFP | cellsite-information constitutional-protections criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement privacy privacy-rights search-and-seizure standing | Whether the Lower Courts erred by being forced to suppress the cell-site information under this Courts opinion in Carpenter? Whether the Lower Courts… |
| 21-1104 | John Davis v. City of Andrews, Texas, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2022-02-09 | Denied | civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process false-statements law-enforcement police-misconduct qualified-immunity | The Fifth Circuit ignored its own precedent and the controlling standards of law arriving at a decision upholding the doctrine of qualified immunity a… | |
| 21-7089 | LeAndre Jordan v. Ohio | Ohio | 2022-02-09 | Denied | Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-reasonableness exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause unreasonable-seizure warrant-requirement warrantless-arrest | Are warrantless, probable cause arrests reasonable when no exigency or contemporaneous crimes are present to excuse the failure to obtain a warrant? … |
| 21-7014 | Vicente Lopez-Sanchez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-01-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | assault criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process jury-instruction jury-instructions law-enforcement mens-rea | Whether the district court erred by denying the defense's jury instruction stating that for a finding of guilt, Mr. Lopez had to know that the person … |
| 21-6857 | Reginald E. Blandford v. New York | New York | 2022-01-14 | Denied | IFP | drug-sniff founded-suspicion fourth-amendment law-enforcement new-york reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop vehicle-search | This Court has held that under the Fourth Amendment police officers may not extend a traffic stop to conduct a drug sniff of a vehicle's exterior with… |
| 21-6800 | Abdulkhaliq Mohammed Murshid, aka Andy v. Mississippi | Mississippi | 2022-01-10 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 4th-amendment business-records civil-rights compulsory-process constitutional-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-action law-enforcement prosecutorial-discretion search-and-seizure | Wether officers can Search my business without a search waran Also, wether the prosecution should look for wonvictron but not justice in addition to … |
| 21-975 | Idaho v. Aaron James Howard | Idaho | 2022-01-06 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (2) | dog fourth-amendment law-enforcement narcotics-detection probable-cause search search-and-seizure seizure vehicle vehicle-search | When officers lawfully deploy a narcotics-detection dog on the exterior of a vehicle and, without any direction, prompting, or facilitation by officer… |
| 21-895 | John Rodrigues, Jr. v. County of Hawaii, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-12-16 | Denied | civil-rights due-process federal-preemption firearms firearms-law law-enforcement leosa preemption qualified-retired-officer statutory-interpretation | Does LEOSA (18 U.S.C. Sec. 966C) preempt State firearms laws that prohibit the transport, carrying and possession of firearms by a Qualified Retired L… | |
| 21-6615 | Fabian I. Sanchez v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-12-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights detention fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure seizure | Once objective facts have dispelled the officer's suspicions, may a person still be detained on a hunch? |
| 21-6600 | Willis Wheeler v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-12-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split fourth-amendment key-insertion law-enforcement multi-unit-dwelling privacy probable-cause reasonable-expectation search warrantless-search | Whether a law enforcement officer's warrantless insertion of keys into a locked apartment door, within a secured multi-unit dwelling, to gain informat… |
| 21-6558 | Keith Anthony Rosario v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2021-12-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | apparent-authority consent consent-search fourth-amendment law-enforcement reasonable-belief residence search warrant-requirement | Does the apparent authority exception to the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement permit a police officer to reasonably believe a seventeen-year-old… |
| 21-835 | Otha Ray Flowers v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-12-06 | Denied | 4th-amendment criminal-procedure fourth-amendment high-crime-area illinois-v-wardlow law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion terry-stop terry-v-ohio | Whether conduct that is consistent with either lawful or unlawful behavior, and in which law-abiding members of the general public routinely engage, c… | |
| 21-6458 | David A. Callison v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-11-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 8th-circuit civil-procedure due-process law-enforcement proof-of-insurance rodriguez-analysis traffic-stop trial-record | 1. Whether the 8th Circuit erred by refusing to perform a Rodriguez analysis on whether or not a traffic stop was improperly extended because it misco… |
| 21-789 | Casey Benton v. Mary Bradley, as Administrator of the Estate of Troy Robinson, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-11-29 | Denied | clearly-established-law constitutional-rights deadly-force excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity taser-deployment tennessee-v-garner | The issue in this case is whether a police officer who deployed a taser to stop a fleeing person on top of an eight-foot wall is entitled to qualified… | |
| 21-6405 | Ashley McArthur v. Florida | Florida | 2021-11-24 | Denied | IFP | 5th-amendment 6th-amendment criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation due-process fifth-amendment involuntary-confession law-enforcement miranda-rights self-incrimination waiver-of-rights | Whether a law enforcement officer's minimization/downplaying of a defendant's rights set forth in Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436 (1966), renders a s… |
| 21-751 | Dr. Ralph Slaughter v. Louisiana State Employees' Retirement System | Louisiana | 2021-11-19 | Denied | Response Waived | compensation-calculation constitutional-challenge equal-protection judges law-enforcement retirement-benefits state-employees statutory-interpretation supplemental-pay | Does the statutory scheme of the Louisiana State Employees' Retirement System ("LASERS") violate the Equal Protection Clause by defining earned compen… |
| 21-6314 | Carl Alvin Cushing v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-11-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-trials evidence-evaluation expert-testimony federal-rule-of-evidence-702 federal-rules-of-evidence jury-function law-enforcement law-enforcement-experts percipient-witnesses prosecutorial-discretion | Where all the percipient witnesses in a case have testified in a manner unsatisfactory to the government's prosecution, under Federal Rule of Evidence… |
| 21-726 | Augustin Torres Gonzalez v. Steven Hahl, et al. | Second Circuit | 2021-11-17 | Denied | Response Waived | arrest-standard civil-rights due-process false-arrest investigative-procedure judicial-review law-enforcement malicious-prosecution pendent-jurisdiction probable-cause state-policy totality-of-circumstances | 1. The Panel found arguable probable cause to arrest and prosecute petitioner for the felony of sexual abuse in the first degree under New York law wi… |
| 21-6290 | George Steven Burch v. Wisconsin | Wisconsin | 2021-11-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | consent consent-search data-retention digital-privacy fourth-amendment law-enforcement search-and-seizure smartphone-data warrantless-search | After the government obtains consent to search specific information on an individual's smart phone, whether or to what extent the Fourth Amendment tol… |
| 21-6305 | Eric Volk v. State Bar of California | California | 2021-11-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights digital-evidence disciplinary-proceedings due-process evidence fourth-amendment law-enforcement legal-representation professional-conduct search-and-seizure warrant-requirement | £*A 11 'FqiC/I/A c,1o$ji _1 CO^p/^/n^r On fi-H-O/'r'-exj /T)£ Lc^r*^^ Eroyur^, U/hes^ fh i^s eZ2and r*b d<*~ P^a rt-dClmhj <^/WZirods '? U&f*' l/fola… |
| 21-6177 | Richard Leroy Parker v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-11-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | and whether complying with that order is valid co causation civil-rights consent due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement medical-examiner seizure | (1) Whether a law enforcement officer's order to "just kinda stay here" results in a seizure under the Fourth Amendment, and whether complying with th… |
| 21-6140 | Leonard Morrison v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-11-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment community-caretaking consent exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment home-search implied-consent law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure warrantless-entry | Can a court find voluntary "implied consent" to a warrantless home entry when the officer did not request permission to enter and was unaware of any c… |
| 21-6125 | Roberto Griego Jimenez v. Texas | Texas | 2021-10-29 | Denied | IFP | corroboration credibility criminal-informant fourth-amendment law-enforcement magistrate-warrant probable-cause quid-pro-quo reliability | 1. Did the trial court and Texas Court of Appeals err in their Fourth Amendment analysis, when they found that a first-time criminal snitch informant,… |
| 21-6016 | Zelda Ware v. City of Atlanta, Georgia, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-10-19 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity search-warrant state-agency | 1. Whether, consistent with the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution, a court order directing a state agency to pick up a child is the f… |
| 21-5959 | Darwin J. Fifield, Sr. v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-10-14 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights coerced-statement counsel-ineffectiveness due-process excessive-force fifth-amendment fourth-amendment involuntary-confession law-enforcement self-representation sixth-amendment | Whether law enforcement's unprovoked excessive use of force during an arrest should invalidate as coerced by threat or force a Petitioner's later stat… |
| 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. |
| 21-532 | Jacob Matthew Johnson v. Texas | Texas | 2021-10-12 | Denied | Amici (2)Response Waived | calls-for-service criminal-activity fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion warrantless-search | Can three or four unadorned "calls for service" to an area (1) constitute a specific and articulable fact significantly associating said area with cri… |
| 21-533 | Brad Martin, Individually and as an Employee of the Arizona Department of Public Safety, et al. v. Carlos Castro | Ninth Circuit | 2021-10-12 | Denied | Amici (1) | clearly-established-law fourth-amendment k9-deployment law-enforcement qualified-immunity reasonable-force totality-of-circumstances use-of-force violent-crime | 1. When a law enforcement officer reasonably deploys a police K9 to restrain a fleeing suspect known to have a history of violent crime and believed t… |
| 21-5898 | Ernest Gabriel Verdugo v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-10-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abandoned-address criminal-procedure fourth-amendment independent-access law-enforcement motel-room probable-cause residence residence-definition search-and-seizure | Whether police officers establish probable cause that a motel room is a suspect's "residence" when they learn that he has abandoned his reported addre… |
| 21-499 | Carlos Vega v. Terence B. Tekoh | Ninth Circuit | 2021-10-04 | Judgment Issued | Amici (14)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | 42-usc-1983 civil-rights civil-rights-act fifth-amendment law-enforcement miranda-v-arizona miranda-warnings police-liability section-1983 self-incrimination | Whether a plaintiff may state a claim for relief against a law enforcement officer under Section 1983 based simply on an officer's failure to provide … |
| 21-5834 | Mechele R. Parker v. Sara LaRosa, et al. | District of Columbia | 2021-09-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights damages federal-cause-of-action fourth-amendment law-enforcement rico-act unlawful-search unlawful-searches-and-seizures | What is the U.S. Supreme Court's Ruling On All Members To A Conspiracy? Whether A Violation Of One's Fourth Amendment Rights By Sara LaRosa, et al, A… |
| 21-5799 | Robert Ronald Perales v. Texas | Texas | 2021-09-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process entrapment law-enforcement online-persona outrageous-government-conduct | Outrageous government conduct exists when the actions of law enforcement are shocking to the universal sense of justice. Outrageous government conduct… |
| 21-5803 | Joseph Wayne Attaway, II v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-09-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | anti-gang due-process fair-trial inflammatory-inference law-enforcement prejudice street-gangs witness-testimony | Whether Petitioner was denied his due process right to a fair trial when the background testimony of multiple law enforcement witnesses about their an… |
| 21-5744 | Joseph George v. United States, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-09-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-violation criminal-conspiracy due-process federal-law law-enforcement prisoner-rights public-officials standing | DoeS AlONg RUNNiNg GOVERNMEN/ ANd ORgANiZEd CRIMiNAL CoNspiRAcy taRgeting ANd fRaming pelitioNeR toe batteRy caSES Meet the PLRA 3-striKes exceptiorof… |
| 21-410 | Gregorio Gigliotti and Angelo Gigliotti v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-09-15 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | 4th-amendment 4th-amendment-violation constitutional-standard criminal-investigation criminal-procedure foreign-law-enforcement fourth-amendment joint-investigation law-enforcement wiretapping | 1. Whether the Fourth Amendment is violated when foreign law enforcement officials engage in wiretapping at the behest of United States officials purs… |
| 21-5670 | Elijah Vines v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2021-09-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | cell-phone-seizure circuit-split expectation-of-privacy fourth-circuit law-enforcement password-protected password-protection privacy-expectation tenth-circuit third-party-consent | WHETHER A THIRD PARTY POSSESSES AUTHORITY TO CONSENT TO THE SEIZURE OF ANOTHER'S CELL PHONE WHEN THAT PHONE IS PASSWORD PROTECTED, THE OWNER OF THAT P… |
| 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 in those states have reasonable suspicion under the Fourth Amendment to initiate an investigatory traffic stop, where they obs… |
| 21-5591 | Veretta Burnett v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2021-09-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment freedom geographical-profiling justice law-enforcement liberty section-242 standing | Before the Court is Plaintiff and movant's Motion to Compel , Reopen and Reconsider original case 2:09-cv-14238 under Section 242 Liability of State o… |
| 21-5528 | Gabriel Samar Martinez v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-08-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | can give rise to reasonable suspicion to justify standing alone 4th-amendment 4th-amendment-jurisprudence anonymous-tip corroboration fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion seizure terry-stop vehicle-stop | Whether an uncorroborated anonymous tip, standing alone, can give rise to reasonable suspicion to justify a seizure. |
| 21-282 | Brian Russell Turner v. Mississippi | Mississippi | 2021-08-25 | Denied | Response Waived | arizona-v-youngblood body-camera-footage brady-v-maryland brady-violation due-process evidence-suppression exculpatory-evidence law-enforcement prosecutorial-misconduct youngblood-standard | Whether the Supreme Court of Mississippi Erred in Denying Petitioner's Claim that the Prosecution Withheld Exculpatory Evidence Pursuant to Brady v. M… |
| 21-5433 | Alex White v. California | California | 2021-08-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights fourth-amendment law-enforcement mistake-of-law pretext pretext-stop reasonable-mistake traffic-stop vehicle-code vehicle-equipment | 1. Where police officers admitted that their equipment violation stop of the vehicle in which petitioner was a passenger was a pretext to conduct gang… |
| 21-5325 | Raul Adrian Torres v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-08-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | arrestee criminal-procedure fourth-amendment handcuffs law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure search-incident-to-arrest secured | Whether a search of a backpack or other bag that was being carried by an arrestee is permissible as a search incident to arrest even after officers ha… |
| 21-5283 | Richard Todd Haas v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-08-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | fourth-amendment franks-hearing law-enforcement materiality materiality-analysis probable-cause recklessness search-and-seizure search-warrant | Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in refusing to engage in a materiality analysis of the information omitted from the affidavits to determine whether t… |
| 21-57 | Levi Frasier v. Christopher L. Evans, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2021-07-15 | Denied | Amici (7) | civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech law-enforcement police-conduct police-recording public-conduct qualified-immunity | 1. Whether training or law enforcement policies can be relevant to whether a police officer is entitled to qualified immunity. 2. Whether it has been… |
| 21-16 | Robert Paul Magtulis Cledera v. United States, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2021-07-08 | Denied | Response Waived | 4th-amendment bivens civil-rights constitutional-law due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement reasonable-expectation-of-privacy redressability search-and-seizure standing | In Carpenter v United States, No. 16-402, 585 U. S. _ (2018), this court held that the Government 's acquisition of Carpenters cell-site records was a… |
| 21-5027 | Shane LaGrange v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-07-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-court constitutional-rights exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure law-enforcement police-conduct reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop | WHETHER THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT IMPROPERLY CONCLUDED THAT THE FOURTH AMENDMENT PERMITS THE COURT TO FIND THAT REASONABLE SUSPICION FOR A TRAFFIC STOP EXIST… |
| 20-1806 | Kim R. Helper v. Patrick H. Stockdale, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2021-06-25 | Denied | absolute-immunity civil-rights first-amendment giglio-disclosure giglio-v-united-states law-enforcement qualified-immunity retaliation | Did the Sixth Circuit err in denying Helper absolute immunity for communicating to the officers' employer her decision regarding them under Giglio v. … | |
| 20-1784 | Ohio v. Daniel Deuble | Ohio | 2021-06-23 | Denied | 4th-amendment digital-communication fourth-amendment identity-corroboration law-enforcement law-enforcement-sting probable-cause search-and-seizure social-media | 1. Whether probable cause existed under the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution to detain a person suspected of soliciting sexual activ… | |
| 20-8397 | Louis A. Banks v. District of Columbia, et al. | District of Columbia | 2021-06-23 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 5th-amendment civil-rights custodial-interrogation due-process edwards-violation fifth-amendment judicial-immunity law-enforcement rule-23 rule-60 | 1. Whether Teacher, officers, law enforcement violate the rule announced in Edwards v. Arizona by interviewing, interrogated, unreasonable searches Fa… |
| 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… |
| 20-8315 | Joel Barcelona v. M. Escotto Rodriguez, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-06-16 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights deadly-gas due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement mental-health petitioner use-of-force | 1. "WHETHER THE RESPONDENT, M. RODRIGUEZ, ET AL., EXCESSIVELY USE OF DEADLY FORCE IN USING A TASER GAS SPRAY VIOLATED PETITIONER'S RIGHTS UNDER THE (I… |
| 20-1737 | Luke Noel Wilson v. California | California | 2021-06-15 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | electronic-search email email-scanning fourth-amendment google law-enforcement private-search-doctrine search-warrant warrant-requirement | 1. DOES THE PRIVATE SEARCH DOCTRINE PLACE GOOGLE'S AUTOMATED ELECTRONIC SCAN OF ALL EMAIL ON ITS SYSTEM OUTSIDE THE PROTECTION OF THE FOURTH AMENDMENT… |
| 20-8306 | Donnie Joe Phillips v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-06-15 | Denied | IFP | circuit-split criminal-defense criminal-law criminal-procedure due-process entrapment government-inducement law-enforcement unwitting-agent | Whether the "government inducement" element of the entrapment defense can be met through the actions of an unwitting government agent. |
| 20-8318 | Jason C. Youker v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-06-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights drug-trafficking due-process fifth-amendment informant-distribution law-enforcement narcotics police-misconduct standing takings | 1. DO POLICE VIOLATE THE FIFTH AMENDMENT OF THE CONSTITUTION Ynformants RtoVbeEdistributed Ion u^sCcItizens without OanyDrecovery 2. sagaMi spssmmmM … |
| 20-8259 | Peter James Sorokaput v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2021-06-09 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights coerced-confession constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process law-enforcement plea-bargaining sentencing wrongful-conviction | So W ftkouf Sl/ch evidence Old oFFfceC FiaVe ffobableCaLlse +o SiopOie, SeaOch meTThen he?Oessufla) Hie-, Forced me +o Confess -Vo a crime I d ithric… |
| 20-8261 | Francisco Felix v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-06-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant wiretap | Whether the wiretap application failed to satisfy the requisite Fourth Amendment standard that requires exigent circumstances for an application to be… |
| 20-8186 | Michael James Young, Jr. and Vance Edward Volious, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-06-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law explosives first-amendment fourth-circuit law-enforcement mail-fraud non-mailable-matter postal-service statutory-interpretation | DID THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT ERR BY RULING THAT 18 UNITED STATES CODE SECTION 1716 PROHIBTS AS NON-MAILABLE AN INERT … |
| 20-8160 | Tamaran Edward Bontemps v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-05-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-stop reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-stop terry-v-ohio | Does a sweatshirt bulge alone give an objectively reasonable and particularized suspicion to stop Bontemps? |
| 20-8156 | Ricardo Renteria v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-05-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure constitutional-rights fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion specific-facts statute-violation traffic-stop | Whether reasonable suspicion to support a traffic stop under the Fourth Amendment requires a showing of specific facts that the suspect violated the r… |
| 20-8159 | Craig S. Robledo-Valdez v. Aramark Correctional Services, LLC, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2021-05-27 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights county-deputy due-process employment-status government-immunity law-enforcement legal-standing notice-of-intent qualified-immunity standing state-government state-law | 1. DOES A COUNTY JAIL DEPUTY QUALIFY AS A "STATE EMPLOYER"? 2. DOES A NOTICE OF INTENT SENT TO THE ATTORNEY GENERAL OF A STATE QUALIFY AS NOTICE UNDE… |
| 20-1629 | George Wingate v. Scott Fulford, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2021-05-20 | Denied | civil-rights constitutional-arrest due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-misconduct qualified-immunity standing | 1. Whether the Court should permit the qualified immunity defense to extend to a court-invented, hypothetical and demonstrably counter-factual justifi… | |
| 20-1539 | Daniel Rivas-Villegas v. Ramon Cortesluna | Ninth Circuit | 2021-05-05 | Judgment Issued | Amici (1)Relisted (3) | civil-rights constitutional-violation excessive-force fourth-amendment graham-v-connor law-enforcement ninth-circuit plumhoff-v-rickard qualified-immunity supreme-court-precedent | 1. Did the Ninth Circuit depart from this Court's decisions in Graham v. Connor, 490 U.S. 386 (1989) and Plumhoff v. Rickard, 572 U.S. 765 (2014) in d… |
| 20-1512 | Gregory C. Dacanay v. Illinois | Illinois | 2021-04-28 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment impartial-jury impartiality jury-selection law-enforcement sixth-amendment structural-error | Whether law enforcement officers, despite their answers to voir dire questions, can be fair and impartial jury members in a criminal trial in order to… |
| 20-1471 | Jonathan Lozada, Deputy Sheriff, in His Individual Capacity v. Dudley Teel, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Susan Teel | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-04-20 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (2) | 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment graham-factors law-enforcement obvious-factual-clarity-rule qualified-immunity use-of-force | Whether this Court should clarify the application of the Graham factors to a law enforcement officer's use of force during a call for service that doe… |
| 20-7716 | Milton Mosley v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-04-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-stop terry-v-ohio | The finding of the lower courts, where suspicion of criminal activity was clearly not "specific, individualized, and reasonable," is contrary to the S… |
| 20-1392 | Jason Fowler, et al. v. Brittany Irish, et al. | First Circuit | 2021-04-05 | Denied | Amici (2)Relisted (3) | circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-duty due-process law-enforcement qualified-immunity state-created-danger | Did the First Circuit err in denying qualified immunity to Petitioners where neither this Court nor the First Circuit had ever before recognized the s… |
| 20-7612 | Michael D. Johnson v. Indiana | Indiana | 2021-03-31 | Denied | Amici (2)Response WaivedIFP | actual-suspicion circuit-split criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement objective-standard reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-frisk terry-stop | To uphold a Terry frisk as constitutional, the First and Ninth Circuits require the frisking officer to have actually suspected that the detainee may … |
| 20-7588 | Anthony Sharif Gay v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry | Ninth Circuit | 2021-03-26 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-authority inalienable-rights law-enforcement mandamus standing state-authority | Whether a Court's knowing review of, and ruling on, a petition for writ of mandamus, that was neither authored nor delivered by the Petitioner, consti… |
| 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 (i.e., in those in… |
| 20-7444 | Toddrey Bruce v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-03-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | anonymous-911-call circuit-split fourth-amendment high-crime-area law-enforcement navarette-v-california probable-cause reasonable-suspicion second-amendment traffic-stop | In Navarette v. California, the Court held that the "absence of additional suspicious conduct"—five minutes of normal driving—did not dispel reasonabl… |
| 20-7423 | Jose Jesus Cruz v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-03-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment destruction-of-evidence evidence-destruction exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure | 1. Is it reasonable for law enforcement to enter a suspect's home under the exigent circumstances (fear of imminent destruction of evidence) exception… |
| 20-1247 | Gerald Dix v. Edelman Financial Services, LLC, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2021-03-09 | Denied | Response Waived | 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eviction eviction-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct police-seizure seizure | Whether the Fourth Amendment protects a person and property from seizure by police using force and threats to arrest to effect an eviction in contrave… |
| 20-7290 | Michael Scott Hanuman v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-03-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure emergency-aid emergency-aid-doctrine fourth-amendment law-enforcement protective-sweep reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure | This Court has held that when law enforcement officers are lawfully present within a private home to make an arrest, the Fourth Amendment permits a pr… |
| 20-1189 | Brian E. Hardin v. Indiana | Indiana | 2021-02-26 | Denied | Response Waived | constitutional-rights exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant vehicle-search | Whether law-enforcement officers violate the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution by searching a person's vehicle when the person drives… |
| 20-7272 | Tyslen J. Baker v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-02-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | arrest-warrant civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure | Does a police officer violate a defendant's Fourth Amendment rights by executing an arrest warrant consisting of bare bones allegations lacking in pro… |
| 20-1172 | George Ponik, et al. v. Jamie Williams, Individually and as Administratrix ad Prosequendum of the Estate of Peter Lee Williams, Deceased, et al. | Third Circuit | 2021-02-25 | Dismissed | Response RequestedResponse Waived | civil-procedure civil-rights due-process excessive-force law-enforcement objective-reasonableness qualified-immunity summary-judgment | 1. May a Court refuse to engage in the requisite two step qualified immunity analysis, based solely on a decision that the more general liability ques… |
| 20-7187 | Haseeb Malik v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-02-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment constitutional-rights fourth-amendment law-enforcement marijuana-legalization probable-cause search-and-seizure state-law-enforcement vehicle-search | Probable cause requires facts and circumstances within an officer's knowledge establishing a fair probability that contraband or evidence of a crime w… |
| 20-1122 | Edward B. Fleury v. Massachusetts | Massachusetts | 2021-02-16 | Denied | Response Waived | 14th-amendment 2nd-amendment 5th-amendment criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process law-enforcement second-amendment statutory-interpretation vagueness | 1. Whether Massachusetts gun storage law M.G.L. c. 140, § 131L, providing enhanced penalties for different types of firearms, is unconstitutionally va… |
| 20-1082 | Raymond Gardner v. Matthew T. Mglej | Tenth Circuit | 2021-02-08 | Denied | civil-rights constitutional-rights fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search identification identification-statute law-enforcement qualified-immunity terry-stop | Whether it was clearly established in 2011 that an arrest under Utah Code Section 76-8-301.5(1) for refusal to hand over an identification document vi… | |
| 20-1060 | Jose Oliva v. Mario Nivar, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2021-02-03 | Denied | Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | bivens bivens-remedy civil-rights constitutional-remedy constitutional-violation federal-police fourth-amendment law-enforcement search-and-seizure | Whether claims against federal police for Fourth Amendment violations committed during standard law enforcement operations fall within an established … |
| 20-7020 | Richie Wheeler v. United States | Third Circuit | 2021-02-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bodily-injury criminal-law criminal-statute deadly-weapon intent jury-finding law-enforcement reckless-driving sentencing sentencing-guidelines | 1. Whether to be guilty of a violation of 18 U.S.C. §111(b), which requires the use of a deadly weapon while forcibly assaulting, resisting, opposing,… |
| 20-1045 | David G. Liebenguth v. Connecticut | Connecticut | 2021-02-01 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fighting-words first-amendment free-speech hate-speech law-enforcement racial-epithet | Whether Referring To A Law Enforcement Officer By A Racial Epithet While Protesting An Enforcement Action Constitutes Fighting Words Unprotected By Th… |
| 20-7003 | Justin Anthony Kudla v. Minnesota | Minnesota | 2021-02-01 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment criminal-activity criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-intrusion reasonable-suspicion terry-stop terry-v-ohio traffic-stop | Did the district court error by denying the suppression motion where a police officer violated a rule announced in Terry v. Ohio, under the Fourth Ame… |
| 20-1017 | Lawrence Johnson v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-01-28 | Denied | Relisted (2) | 2nd-amendment affirmative-defense circuit-split civil-rights common-law criminal-law criminal-statute due-process firearm-possession law-enforcement statutory-interpretation | In Dixon v. United States, 548 U.S. 1 (2006), this Court held that every "long-established common-law" affirmative defense is incorporated into the fe… |
| 20-6960 | DeAndre McMichaels v. Illinois | Illinois | 2021-01-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment 4th-amendment concealed-carry fourth-amendment law-enforcement public-carry reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-stop terry-v-ohio | In a state that permits residents to legally carry concealed firearms while in public, whether or under what circumstances an officer's belief that a … |
| 20-993 | Jeremy Mickens v. Arkansas | Arkansas | 2021-01-26 | Denied | Response Waived | 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure dog-sniff due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop | Whether a police officer may, in the absence of reasonable suspicion, extend an otherwise completed traffic stop, justified only by a police officer o… |
| 20-997 | Arlane James, et al. v. Noah Bartelt | Third Circuit | 2021-01-26 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) | civil-procedure civil-rights deadly-force johnson-v-jones law-enforcement officer-involved-shooting qualified-immunity self-defense summary-judgment third-circuit use-of-force | 1. Whether the Third Circuit's decision to exercise jurisdiction over an appeal of the District Court's denial of qualified immunity on a motion for s… |
| 20-919 | Richard Spinnenweber, et al. v. Dan Williams | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-01-08 | Denied | Response Waived | arrest civil-rights criminal-arrest criminal-procedure district-court due-process fourth-amendment judicial-determination law-enforcement legal-standard probable-cause | Whether the district court erred in holding that there was probable cause to believe the plaintiffs had committed the crime for which they were arrest… |
| 20-6728 | Jarvis O'Neil Adams v. Georgia Office of the Governor, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-12-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment arrest civil-rights criminal-procedure law-enforcement narcotics officer-opinion probable-cause search-and-seizure seizure | 1. Whether probable cause pursuant to the 4th Amendment can be established solely upon an officer's opinion of smelling narcotics. 2. Whether seizure… |
| 20-6733 | John Christopher Ferguson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-12-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment affidavit exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception jurisdiction jurisdictional-limits law-enforcement search-warrant warrant-affidavit | 1. Whether the good faith exception to the exclusionary rule under the Fourth Amendment applies where law enforcement officials knew or should have kn… |
| 20-6586 | Shane Mauritz Vandergroen v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-12-09 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment anonymous-tip circuit-split corroboration law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion terry-stop warrant-exception warrant-requirement | 1. Police officers may stop a person under an exception to the warrant requirement only if they have reasonable suspicion to support an assertion of i… |
| 20-6562 | Reynaldo Salinas v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-12-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | air-force air-force-office-of-special-investigations civil-rights civilian-employee constitutional-rights due-process federal-tort-claims-act law-enforcement military-law posse-comitatus-act special-investigations standing | ft) Wqs#ns ^ ~XnVg.s4i^^4iQK\ ?_ 3,) ~X-f Milrtarij , wha-f Ar4iclg UflrtK - LLC. M.^T. uiere.'lfatij ___ fjjtiiinj- 3,) ZC-P Civilian, rtujhw ift… |
| 20-6512 | Davey Lewis v. Florida | Florida | 2020-12-03 | Denied | IFP | confession-suppression confessions constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exclusionary-rule interrogation-tactics law-enforcement miranda-rights police-interrogation | Can the State doubts allow the Voitee by use promises, inducements, threats and for taken obtaining a Confession and then also Suppress the Confession… |
| 20-6472 | Raquel Cortez v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2020-12-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment border-patrol civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop | This Court has held that held that the use of a drug-detention canine unit after the completion of an otherwise lawful traffic stop exceeded the time … |
| 20-6475 | Samer Walid Abdalla v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-11-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | fourth-amendment judicial-authorization law-enforcement neutral-magistrate particularity probable-cause residence search-warrant warrant-specificity | Approximately 18 law-enforcement officers raided Samer Abdalla's home with what purported to be a search warrant. On the first page of the document wa… |
| 20-741 | Tacara Anderson, on Behalf of Minor Child M. A. v. Officer Jonathan Vazquez | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-11-30 | Denied | Response Waived | 4th-amendment bodily-injury civil-rights due-process excessive-force law-enforcement qualified-immunity use-of-force | Are federal courts required to afford qualified immunity to a law enforcement officer who released a K9 on a child who weighed 75 pounds and was 4 fee… |
| 20-6467 | Craig Howard v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-11-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment co-tenant co-tenant-consent consent-to-search detention fernandez fourth-amendment law-enforcement physical-presence randolph reasonable-search search-and-seizure | (1) Does the lawful detention of an objecting co-tenant in a squad car on the premises to be searched make him absent such that another co-tenant may … |
| 20-6348 | William J. O'Brien, III v. United States | Third Circuit | 2020-11-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-violation criminal-procedure due-process free-speech law-enforcement procedural-error prosecution standing takings | (1) LE tA Gasirvpvte Violv bord ok Dut Paces f, , tke govenneobs TPosecu fot AS pgeok, va LIE non A veo d yor, MATA BUIQEN CE Kartwed 4h perjoredy & o… |
| 20-6268 | Bryan Keith Roberts v. Texas | Texas | 2020-11-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | continuous-sexual-abuse criminal-trial criminal-trial-prejudice due-process jury-charge law-enforcement law-enforcement-presence prejudice right-to-fair-trial spectators statutory-interpretation | Is the presence of a large number of uniformed, under cover, and armed spectators identifiable as law enforcement on the final day of the guilt-innoce… |
| 20-595 | Dennis Lemma, Sheriff, Seminole County, Florida v. Seana Barnett | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-11-05 | Denied | 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-reasonableness detention detention-duration due-process dui dui-arrest fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause | 1. Is it constitutionally unreasonable for a jail to detain for eight hours any driver arrested with probable cause for driving under the influence of… | |
| 20-6232 | Brian Dwight Peterson v. Randee Rewerts, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2020-11-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel law-enforcement prosecutorial-misconduct right-against-self-incrimination right-to-counsel trial-procedure | Question not identified. |
| 20-585 | Greg Vasquez, et al. v. Maritza Amador, Individually and as Representative of the Estate of Gilbert Flores and as Next Friend of Minor R. M. F., et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2020-11-03 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (2) | civil-rights deadly-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-intervention police-use-of-force qualified-immunity reasonableness-standard suicide-by-cop use-of-force | 1. Viewing the facts from the officers' perspective at the time of the incident, did they act reasonably, under the Fourth Amendment, when an officer … |
| 20-578 | Sergeant Gary Hedger, et al. v. Ronald Graves | Sixth Circuit | 2020-11-02 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (7) | deadly-force fourth-amendment homicidal-suspect law-enforcement perceived-threat qualified-immunity taser-deployment use-of-force violent-suspect | Did the Sixth Circuit misapply or disregard this Court's precedent by holding that a law enforcement officer violates the Fourth Amendment and clearly… |
| 20-564 | Rodney Carlisle, Jr. v. Kentucky | Kentucky | 2020-10-30 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | circuit-split criminal-history-check fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-requirements law-enforcement officer-safety probable-cause traffic-stop | Whether the Fourth Amendment permits law enforcement to prolong every traffic stop by performing a criminal history check, or whether the Fourth Amend… |
| 20-6177 | John Leo Davis v. Goodyear Police Department, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2020-10-30 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights due-process law-enforcement prisoner-rights qualified-immunity retaliation sexual-abuse standing | 1. Whether it is proper for a district court to dismiss a Complaint, sua sponte, before the parties have had an opportunity to conduct discovery or en… |
| 20-6163 | Angelique Bankston v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-10-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brady-violation civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process exculpatory-evidence grand-jury ineffective-assistance-of-counsel law-enforcement material-omissions professional-misconduct sixth-amendment | If the jury was presented with severe witness and evidence and witness presented where (Xanks-twls) Was no+ clowned -he in violcch'on - l-f "dhie (ooV… |
| 20-6149 | Jose Sanchez v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-10-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-stop unreasonable-search | When an improperly performed drug-dog sniff of a vehicle fails to provide probable cause to search for contraband, but law enforcement officers search… |
| 20-6142 | Steven Spain v. Illinois | Illinois | 2020-10-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment gun-rights law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion second-amendment terry-v-ohio | In a state that allows residents to carry a firearm in public, is it reasonabl e under the Fourth Amendment to stop and arrest someone for carryi ng a… |
| 20-6090 | Reginald Ferguson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-10-21 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | civil-rights consensual-encounter consent criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion testimony | 1. Can a court determine that an encounter was initially consensual when the officer testified that he did not remember how it was initiated, nor is i… |
| 20-6055 | Terrill Bernard Weatherspoon v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-10-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment companion-rule fourth-amendment law-enforcement officer-safety pat-down-search reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-stop terry-v-ohio | MUST AN OFFICER HAVE A REASONABLE SUSPICION THAT A COMPANION OF AN ARRESTEE IS ARMED AND DANGEROUS, INDEPENDENTLY OF A REASONABLE SUSPICION THAT THE A… |
| 20-476 | Rafael Martinez, et al. v. Bryheim Jamar Baskin | New Jersey | 2020-10-13 | Denied | 42-u.s.c.a.-§-1983 civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process law-enforcement municipal-liability police-misconduct qualified-immunity section-1983 | Is the petitioner/Police Detective Rafael Martinez protected by "qualified immunity" in this action brought under the jurisprudence of 42 U.S.C.A. § 1… | |
| 20-477 | Shanika Day, et al. v. Franklin Wooten, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2020-10-13 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | asphyxiation civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement positional-asphyxiation qualified-immunity section-1983 | A law enforcement officer is not entitled to qualified immunity in a § 1983 excessive force action if he violated a constitutional right which was cle… |
| 20-5991 | Mayra Yurivia Reyes v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-10-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment canine-sniff detention-extension drug-enforcement fourth-amendment law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop | Whether Reyes' 4th Amendment Rights were violated by Officer Windham by extending his detention of Reyes for over 20 minutes to allow for a canine to … |
| 20-5960 | Joe Hernandez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-10-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | arrest-warrant constitutional-rights fourth-amendment law-enforcement maryland-v-buie probable-cause protective-sweep search-and-seizure standard-procedure | I. Does a protective sweep of person's entire residence by law enforcement officers pursuant to "standard procedure" upon their entry when serving an … |
| 20-5966 | Keven A. Morgan v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina | Fourth Circuit | 2020-10-08 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment attorney-general authorization-order criminal-procedure due-process jury-trial law-enforcement wire-tapping wiretapping | LAW ENFORCEMENT AND DISTRICT ATTORNEY FAIL TO ATTACHED THE UNITED STATES ATTORNEY GENERAL SPECIAL DESIGNATED AUTHORIZATION ORDER AND AUTHORIZATION M… |
| 20-411 | Traize T. Wash v. Ohio | Ohio | 2020-09-29 | Denied | Response Waived | 4th-amendment automobile-exception civil-rights fourth-amendment law-enforcement pretextual-stop probable-cause racial-profiling reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure whren-v-united-states | 1. Whether a police officer's subject ive intent should be considered in the context of a Fourth Amendment analysis involving a pretextual stop and un… |
| 20-5829 | Jerry Fruit v. United States | Third Circuit | 2020-09-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement officer-safety probable-cause rodriguez-precedent search-and-seizure traffic-stop | Whether police may delay a traffic stop, in the interest of officer safety, absent probable cause, in order to conduct a search? |
| 20-391 | Jody Lombardo, et al. v. City of St. Louis, Missouri, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2020-09-25 | Denied | Amici (3)Relisted (21) | civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force law-enforcement police-misconduct qualified-immunity reasonable-jury | Whether a reasonable jury could find that officers used excessive force when they put a handcuffed and shackled person face-down on the ground and pre… |
| 20-5789 | Gerard Nguedi v. Brian Caulfield, et al. | Second Circuit | 2020-09-24 | Denied | IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-misconduct qualified-immunity | Are police officers entitled to qualified immunity as a matter of law—even if they use substantial force against non-threatening suspected misdemeanan… |
| 20-5747 | Ryan Nicholas Haynes v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-09-17 | Denied | Relisted (4)IFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process law-enforcement passenger-rights passenger-search plain-error-review search-and-seizure traffic-stop | (1) Whether a traffic stop of a bus for a minor traffic violation allows law enforcement to order all passengers off the bus to be searched? (2) Whet… |
| 20-5749 | Elijah Hart v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-09-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-infirmity fourth-amendment good-faith-exception law-enforcement law-enforcement-disclosure magistrate-judge magistrate-review warrant warrant-application | Whether the good-faith exception should apply when law enforcement officers technically disclose a crucial fact that would reveal a warrant's constitu… |
| 20-5718 | Raheim Abdullah Trice v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-09-16 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | apartment-building covert-surveillance fourth-amendment law-enforcement privacy-rights reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure surveillance unlawful-search warrant-requirement warrantless-search | Whether a law enforcement official entering an unlocked apartment building, without permission and without a warrant, placing a "covert camera" disgui… |
| 20-5690 | Darrick Michael Loff v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2020-09-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence-tampering false-arrest fourth-amendment law-enforcement malicious-prosecution probable-cause property-seizure search-and-seizure warrantless-search | I. biri prior 1-e rinoad-rle.aci orket.oe earmi:SSIOnt enfed- or aufliori2e. sere 6Pappe lam iszaviAdre_s -froperty ? a uo...c ;1-- /e,3cci-Por -L. cu… |
| 20-5637 | Limmia Page v. New York | New York | 2020-09-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | citizen-arrest citizen's-arrest civil-rights color-of-law customs-and-border-patrol federal-preemption fourth-amendment law-enforcement search-and-seizure unreasonable-search vehicle-stop | Whether a citizen loses the right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures because an on-duty federal agent acting under color of law makes … |
| 20-263 | Nanette Blanchard-Daigle, Representative of the Estate of Lyle Blanchard v. Shane Geers, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2020-09-02 | Denied | civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force fifth-circuit law-enforcement police-misconduct qualified-immunity use-of-force | 1. Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by overlooking precedent in determining whether an officer enjoys qualified immunity after applying deadly excessiv… | |
| 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 | Duri ng the early morni ng hours, a shooti ng took place in a parking lot of an apartment compl ex. The crime scene was large. There were a lot of she… |
| 20-5476 | Derek Tyler Horton v. Alabama | Alabama | 2020-08-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights duty-to-investigate fourth-amendment law-enforcement lawful-arrest pretext pretextual-arrest probable-cause warrant-validity | 1.) Whether a police officer's reason for acting , in at least some circumstances , should factor into the Fourth Amendment inquiry?* 2.) Whether t… |
| 20-202 | Robert Massie v. Basilea Mena | Ninth Circuit | 2020-08-21 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | civil-rights clearly-established-law detention excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct qualified-immunity use-of-force | (1) Under the particular facts and circumstances of this case, did the Ninth Circuit err in finding that Massie's actions constitute an excessive use … |
| 20-5405 | Jaroderick Hardy v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-08-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure fourth-amendment high-crime-area investigative-stop law-enforcement probable-cause proximity reasonable-suspicion terry-stop | Pursuant to Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1, 22 (1968) and its progeny, law enforcement officers may conduct a brief, investigative stop when, under the tot… |
| 20-182 | Rita Stanback, et al. v. Ginny Humphrey, as Parent and Legal Guardian of Minor Child, O. H., et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2020-08-19 | Denied | civil-rights clearly-established-law due-process law-enforcement police-investigation qualified-immunity sexual-misconduct sixth-circuit supervisory-liability takings | Whether the Sixth Circuit contradicted a fundamental principle of this Court's qualified immunity precedent when it denied qualified immunity to Petit… | |
| 20-183 | Billy D. Stair, III v. Charles Jackson | Eighth Circuit | 2020-08-19 | Denied | excessive-force fourth-amendment graham-v-connor law-enforcement plumhoff-v-rickard qualified-immunity reasonableness-standard totality-of-the-circumstances use-of-force | Did the Eighth Circuit depart from this Court's decisions in Graham v. Connor, 490 U.S. 386 (1989) and Plumhoff v. Rickard, 572 U.S. 765 (2014) in den… | |
| 20-157 | Edward A. Caniglia v. Robert F. Strom, et al. | First Circuit | 2020-08-13 | Judgment Issued | Amici (15)Relisted (2) | community-caretaking constitutional-law fourth-amendment home home-search law-enforcement privacy-rights search-and-seizure warrant-requirement | Whether the "community caretaking" exception to the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement extends to the home. |
| 20-5339 | Leandre R. Jennings, III v. Nebraska | Nebraska | 2020-08-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment fourth-amendment good-faith good-faith-exception illinois-v-krull judicial-approval judicial-review law-enforcement probable-cause search-warrant united-states-v-leon | 1) Whether, in cases wherein a statute requires judicial approval before law enforcement may conduct a search, the reviewing court, before determining… |
| 20-5324 | In Re Jeremiah Ybarra | 2020-08-11 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial false-evidence false-statements false-testimony law-enforcement warrant-validity | IS PETITIONER'S INNOCENCE OF THE MILLED OFFENSE? WAS THE CRIMINAL PROCESS ABUSED, WHEN FALSE STATEMENTS WERE HELD TO APPLY FOR MURDER WARRANT? Was f… | |
| 20-5309 | Michael Owen Harriot v. Department of Justice, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2020-08-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process law-enforcement property-rights search-and-seizure | In ght o9 84200 two critial question presented here is: C. THAT J. WHEN PETIT JTE DE LIMITATIONS FOR HIS FA |
| 20-5303 | Lawrence A. Dibble v. Ohio | Ohio | 2020-08-07 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception judicial-review law-enforcement magistrate oral-testimony probable-cause search-warrant | In considering whether a search warrant affidavit is so lacking in indicia of probable cause as to render official belief in its existence entirely un… |
| 20-5290 | Eric J. Perez, aka Ignacio Valdez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-08-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment electronic-communications fourth-amendment government-agency law-enforcement seizures stored-communications-act warrant-requirement warrantless-search warrantless-searches | Whether subsection (f) of the Stored Communications Act, 18 U.S.C. § 2703, which requires provider of wire or electronic communications to preserve us… |
| 20-5257 | Jimmy McLain Moore v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-08-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fourth-amendment law-enforcement right-to-confrontation sixth-amendment witness-communication | 1. Whether the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals failed to decide an important Federal Question regarding the right of a Defendant to confront witnesses … |
| 20-5215 | Jessica Lang v. Nebraska | Nebraska | 2020-07-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | automobile automobile-exception civil-rights fourth-amendment law-enforcement passenger passenger-rights probable-cause search search-and-seizure | Whether police officers violate the Fourth Amendment when they search a passenger's purse, while on her lap, inside an automobile where probable cause… |
| 20-83 | Jacob Jones, et al. v. Wayne Duke Kalbaugh | Tenth Circuit | 2020-07-29 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (2) | civil-rights clearly-established-law excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement objective-reasonableness police-conduct qualified-immunity tenth-circuit | I. Did the Tenth Circuit improperly focus on the knowledge and intentions of the suspect, rather than the facts knowable to the officers, in reversing… |
| 20-5186 | John Edward Butler v. North Carolina | North Carolina | 2020-07-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights confidential-informant constitutional-rights criminal-investigation dna-evidence due-process excessive-force law-enforcement trial-procedure | Question not identified. |
| 20-5062 | Paul Byrd v. Florida | Florida | 2020-07-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement ruse-checkpoint search-and-seizure | Whether a "ruse checkpoint" that focuses on those who attempt to avoid the checkpoint violates the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution. |
| 20-21 | Billy Duane Card Fleshner v. Matthew Tiedt, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2020-07-14 | Denied | Response Waived | 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process excessive-force law-enforcement police-accountability police-misconduct qualified-immunity | Can Peace Officers use excessive force when the force is objectively unreasonable and it violates well established case law and department policies? … |
| 19-1416 | Mateusz Fijalkowski v. M. Wheeler, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2020-06-25 | Denied | civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process judicial-doctrine law-enforcement police-misconduct qualified-immunity standing takings western-political-theory | Whether the Court should revisit its qualified immunity doctrine, which stands in derogation of over three hundred years of Western political theory a… | |
| 19-1421 | Michael Wilford LaFlamme v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2020-06-25 | Denied | Relisted (2) | 6th-amendment bias constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission expert-testimony judicial-discretion jury-selection jury-selection-bias law-enforcement law-enforcement-bias trial-procedure voir-dire | 1. ) Was Petitioner prejudiced When Several Prospective furors Withheld Crucial Information Pertaining To Employment As Law Enforcement When Asked D… |
| 19-8809 | Brandon Lee Alexander v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-06-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bad-faith constitutional-rights exclusionary-rule inevitable-discovery inventory-search law-enforcement primary-evidence search-and-seizure warrantless-search | In order to deny a motion to suppress where a warrantless inventory search is found to have violated the defendant's constitutional rights, should the… |
| 19-8754 | Francisco Armando Martinez v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2020-06-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-review circuit-split consensual-encounter district-court fourth-amendment law-enforcement motion-to-suppress reasonable-suspicion standard-of-review suppression | I. Whether an appellate court must uphold the ruling of the district court if there is any reasonable view of the evidence to support it where the dis… |
| 19-1379 | Andrew McKinley v. Christopher Lee-Murray Bey | Sixth Circuit | 2020-06-16 | Dismissed | Response Waived | civil-rights constitutional-rights equal-protection fourth-amendment investigation investigatory-detention law-enforcement pre-contact qualified-immunity race race-discrimination | Does the Equal Protection clause require an officer who initiated a pre-contact investigation for non-race-related reasons to break off the investigat… |
| 19-8715 | Timothy Robert Treffinger v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-06-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | curtilage effective-assistance-of-counsel fourth-amendment knock-and-talk law-enforcement privacy-expectation reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure | Question 1: Do law enforcement officers have an implied license to cross the clearly marked and defined curtilage of a home to conduct a "knock and … |
| 19-1301 | Clyde S. Bovat v. Vermont | Vermont | 2020-05-20 | Denied | Amici (3)Relisted (3) | 4th-amendment curtilage exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure warrant-requirement | Whether a police officer can access "semiprivate" areas within a home's curtilage to conduct an investigation without a warrant. |
| 19-8498 | Winnie Diggs v. Neil Gallucci, Chief of Police, City of Carlsbad, California | Ninth Circuit | 2020-05-19 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | affirmative-action antidiscrimination civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-process law-enforcement racial-discrimination supreme-court-jurisprudence | Question not identified. |
| 19-8486 | Quincy Tremayne Bloodworth v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-05-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights fourth-amendment law-enforcement marijuana-legalization police-encounter probable-cause search-and-seizure standard-of-review unreasonable-seizures | Are immunities provided and protected against seizures? Poor people from when certain seizures are prolonged to rely Does the Fourth Amendment of the… |
| 19-8393 | Joshua Tucker v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-05-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause probation probation-rights search-and-seizure warrantless-searches | Whether a probationer has a right to be free from warrantless searches and seizures conducted by law enforcement officials without reason or purpose p… |
| 19-8212 | Santiago Soto-Garcia v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-04-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-stop witness-testimony | I. Did the 8th cir. court of appeals error when they concluded that the ^ in plain view and registeredmere presents or possession of guns/weapons that… |
| 19-8131 | Dwayne B. Sheron v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-03-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-powers probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure vehicle-search warrantless-search | WHETHER a police officer can utter the magic words "I smelled an odor of marihuana" long after he conducted illegal search of a vehicle to justify sai… |
| 19-1161 | Justin Hawkins v. Ohio | Ohio | 2020-03-23 | Denied | Response Waived | 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion stolen-vehicle traffic-stop vehicle-registration vehicle-search | Whether a report that a car's color is different from the color listed on the car's registration — without any additional facts — gives a police offic… |
| 19-8050 | Cuwan Merritt v. United States | First Circuit | 2020-03-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment canine-sniff criminal-procedure de-facto-arrest law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-articulable-suspicion reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure | Whether the level of corroboration and investigation required for reasonable articulable suspicion gives rise to a de facto arrest, which requires pro… |
| 19-8014 | Michael Artis v. United States | First Circuit | 2020-03-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | arrest criminal-activity criminal-conspiracy evidence-suppression fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure | Whether the Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution requires that evidence be suppressed where agents lacked probable cause to arrest two p… |
| 19-7881 | Tavares L. Farrington v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-03-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment criminal-behavior criminal-procedure first-hand-witness fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure second-hand-information terry-stop | Under the Fourth Amendment, a Terry stop and frisk must be supported by reasonable suspicion that a crime has been or will soon be committed. Here, po… |
| 19-1082 | Stephen Linder v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2020-03-04 | Denied | civil-rights-tort-claims-act-discretionary-functio constitutional-violation constitutional-violations discretionary-function-exception federal-tort-claims-act intentional-infliction-of-emotional-distress law-enforcement malicious-prosecution sovereign-immunity | 1. Whether the Seventh Circuit erred in concluding, contrary to five other circuits, that the discretionary function exception of the Federal Tort Cla… | |
| 19-7828 | Ronald Hayward v. Keith J. Foley, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2020-03-02 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment box-truck civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause racial-profiling search-and-seizure standing vehicle-search | 1. Do a police officer have probable cause to search a vehicle or a box truck without a search warrant? 2. Do citizens has the protection of the Four… |
| 19-1067 | Neal N. Browder, et al. v. S. R. Nehad, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2020-02-28 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | civil-rights deadly-force due-process emergency-response fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct police-shooting qualified-immunity use-of-force | Shortly before midnight on April 29, 2015, a bookstore clerk saw Fridoon Rawshan Nehad in an alley. Nehad, who was incoherent, pulled a knife out of h… |
| 19-7769 | Demetrius Antwon Wilson v. David Shinn, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2020-02-25 | Denied | IFP | 6th-amendment competency competency-to-stand-trial constitutional-rights criminal-investigation criminal-procedure due-process evidence fair-trial fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel interrogation law-enforcement plea-bargaining prosecutorial-misconduct self-representation | If yourrepresenting yourself do you think I'm Competent to Stand trial or Sign a plea If you had Fecent Surgery of having Part of your Intestine remov… |
| 19-1042 | Euince J. Winzer, Individually and on Behalf of the Statutory Beneficiaries of Gabriel A. Winzer v. Kaufman County, Texas, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2020-02-21 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | civil-procedure civil-rights civil-rights-act clearly-established-law constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force fifth-circuit law-enforcement qualified-immunity | 1. According to the Fifth Circuit, a reasonable juror could conclude that it was clearly unreasonable for a law-enforcement officer to fire multiple b… |
| 19-1021 | Micah Jessop, et al. v. City of Fresno, California, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2020-02-18 | Denied | Amici (12)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | civil-rights constitutional-rights fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-misconduct property-rights property-seizure qualified-immunity search-and-seizure search-warrant seizure | Whether it is clearly established that the Fourth Amendment prohibits police officers from stealing property listed in a search warrant. |
| 19-7667 | Robert Tremaine Williams v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-02-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment coercion detainment due-process fourth-amendment k-9-search law-enforcement search-and-seizure seizure traffic-stop video-evidence | WHETHER THE PROMISE TO BE FREE TO LEAVE AFTER CLEARANCE OF DRIVERS LICENSE, VEHICLE PAPERS, AND WARRANTS — with issuance of a warning traffic citati… |
| 19-7631 | Regina Wolgamott v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-02-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment garrison-v-hudson law-enforcement privacy privacy-rights probable-cause residential-search search-and-seizure search-warrant standing | If when executing a search warrant of a single-family residence, officers discover multiple occupants with their own private rooms, are officers requi… |
| 19-7601 | Craig K. Garrett v. Joseph Madder, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2020-02-10 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure digital-privacy due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel law-enforcement probable-cause prosecutorial-misconduct public-defender right-to-counsel search-and-seizure state-attorney | Question not identified. |
| 19-7619 | Therian Cornelia Wimbush v. R. L. Conway, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-02-10 | Dismissed | IFP | civil-procedure civil-rights due-process government-liability law-enforcement qualified-immunity | Question not identified. |
| 19-1001 | Noble Cooper, et al. v. Officer Oliver Flaig, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2020-02-10 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (7) | civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force law-enforcement police-accountability qualified-immunity | Should the Court eliminate or significantly revise the judicially created doctrine of qualified immunity to protect the people's core constitutional r… |
| 19-7583 | Tiffany R. Byrd v. Frederick Boutte, Warden | Fifth Circuit | 2020-02-07 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-preservation exculpatory-evidence ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-search juror-bias jury-misconduct law-enforcement procedural-violations search-and-seizure | Where I, Tiffany R. Byrd, was denied to receive an alternative evidentiary hearing on my claims of Illegal Search and Seizure. Where I was denied an e… |
| 19-7552 | Joseph Michael Guarascio v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-02-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights compensation constitutional-violation digital-data digital-evidence due-process evidence-retention government-seizure law-enforcement property-rights | CAN THE GOVERNMENT RETAIN INDEFINITELY PETITIONER'S SEIZED BUSINESS AND PERSONAL ELECTRONIC FILES, DIGITAL DATA AND OTHER PHYSICAL PROPERTY WHEN SAID … |
| 19-7533 | Allan Leslie Sinanan, Jr. v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2020-02-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-law fourth-amendment law-enforcement search-and-seizure state-court state-court-decision unreasonable-application | 1) The crux of this Writ of Certiorari is whether Law Enforcement Authorities' engaged in tactics and procedures designed *to* Petitioner 's circumve… |
| 19-7519 | Ericka Hernandez-Nunez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-01-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | crime-detection criminal-procedure exculpatory-evidence fourth-amendment holistic-analysis inculpatory-evidence law-enforcement motion-to-suppress reasonable-inference reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure | Whether the Fourth Amendment requirement of reasonableness requires that a determination of reasonable suspicion be based upon an explicit identificat… |
| 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, in determining that there was reasonable suspicion for an investigatory stop, the district court and Ninth Circuit erred by relying on factua… |
| 19-7445 | Maechel Shawn Patterson v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina | Fourth Circuit | 2020-01-28 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure deportation due-process habeas-corpus law-enforcement pro-se probable-cause search-and-seizure standing warrantless-search | ARE All StAtE PRiSONERS bEINg UN/Awfolly Held, If the eVideNCe UsED TO CONVICT THEM INVOlUED SheRiff DepaRrtment offciAls from ONE CoontyI SEARCHiNg S… |
| 19-7439 | Saddam Samaan Daoud Samaan v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-01-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | carpenter-v-united-states expectation-of-privacy fourth-amendment hotel-guest-registration law-enforcement reasonable-search search-and-seizure third-party-doctrine warrantless-search | 1. Did Petitioner have a sufficient expectation of privacy in hotel guest registration information that a warrantless demand to the innkeeper for prod… |
| 19-7403 | Theodore C. Shove v. Ron Davis, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2020-01-24 | Dismissed | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | capital-case constitutional-rights criminal-violations due-process federal-constitution habeas-corpus judicial-oath law-enforcement prosecution state-constitution state-court-judgment state-exhaustion statutory-demand us-constitution | 1. Judgment based upon criminal violations of State and United States Constitutions and Laws, by Law Enforcement, Prosecution; Qualify for Habeas Corp… |
| 19-7356 | James H. Griffin v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-01-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-claim criminal-procedure downward-departure due-process habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-review law-enforcement procedural-due-process sentencing sentencing-manipulation | Did the lower federal courts deny Appellant's Brady Petition without affording a full and fair hearing concerning the claim that his counsel was ineff… |
| 19-899 | Shaniz West v. Doug Winfield, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2020-01-21 | Denied | Amici (3)Relisted (6) | 4th-amendment civil-rights consent due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement property-damage property-rights qualified-immunity | Whether an officer who has consent to "get inside" a house but instead destroys it from the outside is entitled to qualified immunity in the absence o… |
| 19-889 | Kaufman County, Texas, et al. v. Eunice J. Winzer, Individually and on Behalf of the Statutory Beneficiaries of Gabriel A. Winzer, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2020-01-16 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fifth-circuit law-enforcement police-conduct qualified-immunity summary-judgment use-of-force | 1. Did the Fifth Circuit panel majority err in reversing Kaufman County's summary judgment after concluding Officer Hinds did not violate clearly esta… |
| 19-7282 | John Anthony Arnold v. Virginia | Virginia | 2020-01-14 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights criminal-procedure death-penalty due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment law-enforcement motion-to-suppress ninth-circuit search-warrant standing warrantless-arrest | Question not identified. |
| 19-7241 | William Gene Cox, Jr. v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2020-01-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | armed-assault civil-rights confidential-informant confidential-informants constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement pretext search-and-seizure unreasonable-search | Should law enforcement be allowed to utilize armed assaults by confidential informants as pretext for circumventing the Fourth Amendment guarantee aga… |
| 19-7213 | Rodney Banks v. California | California | 2020-01-08 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment 5th-amendment arrest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourth-amendment law-enforcement miranda-rights probable-cause search-and-seizure | I AM ReQUesTinG FoR ReVIeW THAT -ARRESTING OFFICER DId NOT ReAd ME my MIRAnDA RIGHTS. AUd THE JURY GOT THE WRonG eviden ce foR DelibeRATiON. |
| 19-7195 | Matthew Davonn Weatherspoon v. Colorado | Colorado | 2020-01-07 | Denied | IFP | cell-phone-tracking civil-rights colorado-statute criminal-law due-process first-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech law-enforcement privacy-rights search-and-seizure sex-trafficking standing statutory-interpretation warrant-requirement | Question not identified. |
| 19-7053 | Jason Dean Barnes v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-12-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-disclosure constitutional-infirmity digital-technologies good-faith-exception law-enforcement magistrate-judge magistrate-review warrant warrant-infirmity | Whether and in what circumstances the good-faith exception should apply in cases involving emerging digital technologies when law enforcement officers… |
| 19-794 | Daniel Macias, et al. v. Raymond Nichols, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-12-20 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | circuit-split civil-dispute civil-procedure civil-rights district-of-columbia-v-wesby fourth-amendment law-enforcement ninth-circuit probable-cause qualified-immunity section-1983 wesby | A magistrate judge granted Riverside police officers qualified immunity on a § 1983 unlawful arrest claim, finding there was probable cause for the ar… |
| 19-7020 | Nahach Garay v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-12-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment affidavit criminal-procedure fourth-amendment inventory-search law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure training-and-experience warrant warrantless-search | 1. Whether, a purported inventory search that produces no inventory, can justify the warrantless search of automobile after its occupants have been re… |
| 19-6990 | King Bush v. Kannika Say | Michigan | 2019-12-18 | Denied | IFP | benefits civil-rights confidential-informant criminal-procedure due-process false-documents fourth-amendment fraud green-card immigration immigration-fraud law-enforcement marriage money-laundering probable-cause search-and-seizure | I want to void marrdige based on immig vation fraud? Kannika say shewas married to heruncle during the time she was living withme 8127/2oob, wasmy mar… |
| 19-776 | James Wesley Amonett, Jr. v. Virginia | Virginia | 2019-12-18 | Denied | Response Waived | contract-enforcement contract-law criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-contract-enforcement due-process jury-trial law-enforcement plea-bargaining police-authority police-promises right-to-jury-trial sixth-amendment | Issue 1. There is an important, recurring issue on which the Federal circuits and the states' highest courts are split, i.e. whether the police can pr… |
| 19-6943 | Sheila Annette Cunningham v. Florida Credit Union | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-12-13 | Denied | IFP | burden-of-proof civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights curtilage discrimination due-process employment equal-protection fourth-amendment investigative-authority law-enforcement search-and-seizure standing summary-judgment | Whether the District Court erred in holding that Cunningham failed to provide evidence of racial discrimination. Whether the District Court erred in … |
| 19-751 | Elio Gutierrez v. California | California | 2019-12-12 | Denied | Response Waived | blood-alcohol-content blood-draw consent driving-under-the-influence dui-arrest fourth-amendment Fourth-Amendment-search-incident-to-arrest law-enforcement search-exception search-incident-to-arrest | Is consent voluntary under the Fourth Amendment where a driving under the influence arrestee submits to a blood draw after the arresting officer tells… |
| 19-718 | James King v. Douglas Brownback, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2019-12-06 | Denied | Relisted (2) | 42-usc-1983 bivens civil-procedure civil-rights color-of-law due-process federal-law law-enforcement section-1983 state-law task-force | The use of joint state-federal police task forces has expanded nationwide and along with it the related practice of federally deputizing state law enf… |
| 19-696 | Dan Haendel v. Anne Reed, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2019-12-03 | Denied | Response Waived | alford-plea due-process fair-trial fourteenth-amendment heck-v-humphrey interception-act law-enforcement suppression-motion virginia virginia-interception-act | 1. Does Heck v. Humphrey bar Appellant's federal court review of the constitutionality of actions by local Virginia investigative and law enforcement … |
| 19-676 | Joseph A. Zadeh, et al. v. Mari Robinson, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2019-11-26 | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6) | civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process government-liability judicial-precedent law-enforcement legal-doctrine qualified-immunity section-1983 standing | Whether the Court should recalibrate or reverse the doctrine of qualified immunity. |
| 19-679 | Amy Corbitt v. Michael Vickers | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-11-26 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6) | burden-of-proof civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force interlocutory-appeal law-enforcement pleading-requirement pleading-standards police-use-of-force qualified-immunity section-1983 use-of-force | 1) Whether qualified immunity is an affirmative defense (placing the burden on the defendant to raise and prove it) or whether it is a pleading requir… |
| 19-661 | Mynor Abdiel Tun-Cos, et al. v. B. Perrotte, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2019-11-22 | Denied | 4th-amendment bivens bivens-action civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-law-enforcement federal-tort-claims-act immigration-enforcement law-enforcement qualified-immunity search-and-seizure | Whether victims of an unconstitutional search and seizure, who were subjected to a home raid and detention without a warrant or suspicion, by law enfo… | |
| 19-657 | Virgil Brewer v. Kristina Myers | Tenth Circuit | 2019-11-21 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force graham-factors law-enforcement police-use-of-force qualified-immunity summary-judgment use-of-force | While conducting a house-to-house search for a suspect who had threatened people in a bar with a shotgun after being thrown out of that bar for fighti… |
| 19-6676 | Christopher G. Waguespack v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-11-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-pornography computer-evidence computer-forensics confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination evidence law-enforcement sixth-amendment software-reliability | I. Whether failing to call the law enforcement agent responsible for generating a computer report in the Government's case-in-chief implicates the Six… |
| 19-614 | Cesar Vizcarra, et al. v. Monica Ortiz, Individually and as Co-Successor in Interest to Decedent Christian Pena, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-11-13 | Denied | Response Waived | anderson-v-liberty-lobby armed-suspect civil-rights excessive-force interlocutory-appeal johnson-v-jones law-enforcement mitchell-v-forsyth qualified-immunity summary-judgment taser use-of-force | 1. Does Johnson v. Jones, 515 U.S. 304 (1995) foreclose interlocutory appeal of an order denying summary judgment on qualified immunity, where the und… |
| 19-609 | Erin J. Shepherd, et al. v. Angela Studdard | Sixth Circuit | 2019-11-12 | Denied | Relisted (3) | 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct qualified-immunity sixth-circuit summary-judgment use-of-force | 1. Police officers are entitled to qualified immunity unless they violate constitutional rights in factual situations squarely governed by controlling… |
| 19-529 | Robert Sanchez Turner v. Al Thomas, Jr., et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2019-10-22 | Denied | Response Waived | actual-knowledge-of-danger affirmative-act civil-rights constitutional-rights cut-off-all-avenues-of-recourse due-process law-enforcement public-safety qualified-immunity racial-violence shock-the-conscience specific-individual-or-public state-created-danger | The following questions stem from the Fourth Circuit's Published Opinion regarding claims asserted by Mr. Turner: 1. What analytical framework appl… |
| 19-6319 | Antonio Bogan v. Jeffrey German, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2019-10-21 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement owner-knowledge probable-cause stare-decisis vehicle-seizure warrantless-search | Whether probable Cause to effect a laarrantless Seizure, of a vehicle is equivalent to officers Wnaoledge of an arrestee, being its Oujner ?Respondent… |
| 19-426 | Pennsylvania v. Michael J. Hicks | Pennsylvania | 2019-10-01 | Denied | Amici (1) | 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-analysis due-process element-or-defense-test firearm-possession innocent-scenarios law-enforcement police-officer police-stop reasonable-suspicion stop totality-of-circumstances | 1. Whether the Pennsylvania Supreme Court's decision in this case is contrary to this Court's precedent and established framework for the analysis of … |
| 19-6103 | Farid John Popal v. New York | New York | 2019-10-01 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence government-misconduct jurisdiction law-enforcement skype-testimony witness witness-coaching witness-testimony | WHETHER LAW ENFORCEMENT'S COACHING THE WITNESS'AS HOW TO ANSWER QUESTIONS, WHILE GOVERNMENT WITNESS WAS TESTIFYING AGAINST THE PETITIONER FROM FLORI… |
| 19-6046 | Steven Gary Sanders v. William Beck, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-09-25 | Denied | IFP | 1st-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process excessive-fines fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment law-enforcement search-and-seizure vehicle-seizure | 1) Ds tt not a vislehen of the RehKenev's 4 Ste BF and 1h Amendment rights then! a SEI Unknown officec/oPicers search ancl setee lis vehicle by enteri… |
| 19-342 | Mark F. McCaffrey v. Michael L. Chapman, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2019-09-16 | Denied | Amici (2)Response Waived | civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech free-speech-balancing law-enforcement law-enforcement-discretion partisan-politics patronage-termination pickering-connick political-retaliation public-employee public-employee-speech public-employment | In Elrod v. Burns, 427 U.S. 347 (1976) and Branti v. Finkel, 445 U.S. 507 (1980), the Court recognized a patronage exemption from First Amendment prot… |
| 19-5947 | Michael Patrick Kennedy v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2019-09-16 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial harmless-error ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel law-enforcement perception-of-guilt substantial-guilt trial-defense witness-tampering | If defense counsel omits the necessary trial defense and thereby sustains a perception of substantial guilt so that the substantial guilt mas dependen… |
| 19-5941 | Roger Cha v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-09-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process interrogation law-enforcement miranda-rights miranda-waiver self-incrimination waiver | Is a Miranda waiver invalidated when the law enforcement officer providing the advisal involves himself in the waiver process by asking the subject of… |
| 19-327 | Jaonte Hairston v. Ohio, et al. | Ohio | 2019-09-10 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | aggregate-facts constitutional-rights fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-reasonableness law-enforcement limited-search police-conduct reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-stop | This dispute turns on the proper interpretation of the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution. In a jurisdiction where citizens are entitl… |
| 19-308 | Blanca Arizmendi v. Patrick Gabbert | Fifth Circuit | 2019-09-06 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process false-representation fourth-amendment franks-v-delaware hicks-v-oklahoma law-enforcement qualified-immunity texas-code-of-criminal-procedure warrant-affidavit warrantless-arrest | 1. Was the following "clearly established law" at the time of the officer's arrest of Petitioner with a warrant: The officer made misleading and mater… |
| 19-305 | Lisa Wilkins, et al. v. James Soler, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-09-05 | Denied | Response Waived | due-process forum-state fourteenth-amendment law-enforcement personal-jurisdiction third-party-interactions | Whether a court can, consistent with the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, exert personal jurisdiction over an out of state law enforcem… |
| 19-263 | Cody Ross v. Johnnie Rochell, Jr. | Eighth Circuit | 2019-08-28 | Denied | 4th-amendment 8th-circuit assault-weapon civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-violation eighth-circuit excessive-force kisela-v-hughes law-enforcement qualified-immunity use-of-force | 1. Did the Eighth Circuit depart from this Court's decision in Kisela v. Hughes, U.S. , 138 S. Ct. 1148 (2018) (per curiam) and numerous other cases b… | |
| 19-222 | Paul Anthony Valderas v. City of Lubbock, Texas, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2019-08-20 | Denied | 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights deadly-force due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct police-use-of-force qualified-immunity reasonable-force reasonable-inference use-of-force | Whether an officer on the scene constrained by what he observes to use any force creates a reasonable inference that deadly force is excessive? | |
| 19-5564 | Montye Benjamin v. Lynn Thomas | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-08-13 | Denied | IFP | 42-usc-1983 civil-rights disputed-facts due-process federal-court federal-courts law-enforcement qualified-immunity section-1983 standing summary-judgment | 1. Whether a defense of qualified immunity raised by a law enforcement officer in a § 1983 action is a valid basis for a Federal court to resolve disp… |
| 19-5555 | Reginald Lacey v. David Gomez, Warden | Seventh Circuit | 2019-08-12 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement search-and-seizure statutory-authority unreasonable-search void-order warrant-validity warrantless-search | Specifically, Chicago Police Department Badge No. JAA4 1A0eS, which was used to arrest the Petitioner was created and issued without any Statutory aut… |
| 19-5502 | David Anderson v. Jackie T. Strode, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2019-08-08 | Denied | IFP | 8th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force inmate-rights law-enforcement prison-conditions prisoner-treatment qualified-immunity restraint-chair tasing-in-restraints | WHY WAS I TASED IN A RESTRAINT CHAIR WITH ONLY ONE ARM LOOSE OUT|OF THE RESTAINTS.WHY IS THIS A LEGAL ACTION AGAINST INMATES, WHY IS THERE NOT A LAW A… |
| 19-5440 | Lena McCollum v. Hubert Peterkin, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2019-08-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | accrual civil-procedure civil-rights concealment constitutional-rights due-process executive-knowledge illegal-entry law-enforcement procedural-violation search-and-seizure search-warrant standing | CAUSE FOR THE EVENT, WHOSE WRONGDOING WAS CONCEALED AND UNACCESSIBLE UNIL A LATER TIME ME T WI E NEE T I UNTIL A LATER PERIOD IN TIME ? |
| 19-5475 | Mitchell Taebel v. Maricopa County Attorney's Office, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-08-06 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-misconduct qualified-immunity standing unreasonable-seizure | Whether a Defendant has a primary Right of Self Representation and to Disclosure, by ithe Sat also Farottav California, Usi975) whther plainif ha all… |
| 19-155 | Lenard Johnson v. Megan Winfrey | Fifth Circuit | 2019-08-01 | Denied | civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment franks-v-delaware immunity-analysis law-enforcement qualified-immunity | When a claim is brought under Franks v. Delaware, does the Fourth Amendment alone fully define the dimensions of a law enforcement officer's qualified… | |
| 19-5306 | Born Murray v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-07-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights detention fourth-amendment investigation investigative-detention law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion seizure time-frame traffic-stop | Where a police officer admittedly abandons the initial basis for a traffic stop to pursue a new investigation unsupported by reasonable suspicion, doe… |
| 19-5343 | Amoire Dupree v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-07-25 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment constitutional-law exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree incident-to-arrest law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure search-incident-to-arrest warrantless-search | Can the warrantless search of a person be justified as incident to arrest where, at the time of the search, no arrest has been made and none would hav… |
| 19-5283 | Kyle Jason Korte v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-07-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment good-faith-exception illinois-v-krull improper-application judicial-precedent law-enforcement search-and-seizure statutory-interpretation valid-law | 1. Does the "good faith exception" outlined in Illinois v. Krull 480 U.S. 340 (1987) extend to circumstances where the statute, rather than being "sub… |
| 19-5224 | Lee Chang v. Wisconsin | Wisconsin | 2019-07-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | brady-violation due-process evidence evidence-translation evidentiary-hearing fair-trial fundamental-fairness ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel law-enforcement sixth-amendment | Was Recorded Evidence By Law Enforcement and Presented By The Prosecutor Given In A Timely Manner As Well As Can It Be Considered A Brady Violation D… |
| 19-88 | Wadith Stockinger Nader, et ux. v. City of Papillion, Nebraska, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2019-07-17 | Denied | Response Waived | absolute-immunity eighth-circuit fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause prosecutorial-immunity search-and-seizure totality-of-circumstances totality-of-the-circumstances | 1. Can an unverified tip which was the basis for a lawful search, and which was disproved during the course of the lawful search, by itself constitute… |
| 19-5139 | Alauna Gaye Morris v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-07-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights fourth-amendment impound inventory-search investigative-stop law-enforcement policy pretext search-and-seizure unreasonable-search vehicle-impoundment | Whether the Government meets its burden of proving the existence of a clear written policy for searching impounded vehicles when there is a written po… |
| 19-5081 | David Morel, Jr. v. United States | First Circuit | 2019-07-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment computer-location computer-search digital-privacy expectation-of-privacy fourth-amendment internet-activity-tracking ip-address law-enforcement reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure warrantless-search | Whether the warrantless search for personal IP address information related to images that Morel privately uploaded to Imgur, an image-hosting website,… |
| 18-9756 | Hector Guadalupe Lozano v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-06-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights drug-dog fourth-amendment law-enforcement lawful-possession odor-detection probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure | Whether a drug dog's alert, standing alone, is sufficient to establish probable cause to search when the dog is known to react to the odor of a substa… |
| 18-9722 | Jonathan Edward Meier v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-06-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights fourth-amendment investigative-stop law-enforcement law-enforcement-detention pat-down probable-cause prolonged-detention reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure unreasonable-search weapons-search | Whether law enforcement violates the Fourth Amendment right against unreasonable search and seizure when it holds an individual for a prolonged period… |
| 18-9702 | Cathrin Funk-Vaughn v. Tennessee Department of Children's Services | Tennessee | 2019-06-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | agency-overreach child-custody child-jurisdiction child-removal diversion-plea document-fraud due-process evidence-suppression federal-funding first-amendment food-recall free-speech interstate-custody jurisdiction kidnapping law-enforcement parental-rights rescission unreasonable-search | [III] Douse the Department of Children Services "AGENCY "haveany legal right to e a child from the parent / legal garden well the parent / legal garde… |
| 18-1542 | Bobby Johnson v. North Carolina | North Carolina | 2019-06-14 | Denied | Response Waived | admissibility admissibility-of-statements constitutional-rights custodial-interrogation due-process law-enforcement law-enforcement-procedure miranda-warnings self-incrimination timing timing-of-warnings | 1. Whether an officer violates a defendant's constitutional privilege against self-incrimination or due process rights by (a) delivering Miranda warni… |
| 18-9661 | William Kostopoulos v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-06-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1512 criminal-procedure criminal-statute federal-jurisdiction federal-nexus law-enforcement mens-rea misdemeanor obstruction-of-justice statutory-interpretation | WHETHER A DEFENDANT'S GENERAL DENIAL TO STATE LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS THAT HE COMMITTED A MISDEMEANOR OFFENSE IS SUFFICIENT TO MEET THE FEDERAL NEXUS… |
| 18-1519 | Jason Correa v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-06-06 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | electronic-devices fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-protections law-enforcement multi-unit-buildings privacy privacy-rights search-incident-to-arrest secured-common-areas warrantless-search | Whether or under what circumstances the Fourth Amendment permits law enforcement agents to conduct a warrantless search of the electronic signal of an… |
| 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 | 1. Whether the Fourth Amendment applies to knock and talk encounters. 2. If yes, whether the Michigan Supreme Court correctly held that a predawn vis… | |
| 18-1486 | Zachariah J. Marshall v. Indiana | Indiana | 2019-05-29 | Denied | Response Waived | 4th-amendment federal-precedent fourth-amendment law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion speeding traffic-stop vehicle-movement vehicle-speed warrantless-stop | Whether the Supreme Court of Indiana's decision was contrary to federal precedent when it held that there was reasonable suspicion to substantiate a w… |
| 18-1488 | John S. Cammalleri v. Florida | Florida | 2019-05-29 | Denied | Response Waived | confession confession-involuntariness criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment involuntary involuntary-confession law-enforcement leniency | Whether a "specific" and "direct" promise of leniency by a law enforcement official renders a defendant's confession involuntary pursuant to the Fifth… |
| 18-9414 | Donald Stewart Royce v. Florida | Florida | 2019-05-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment 6th-amendment confrontation-clause criminal-procedure cross-examination due-process evidence impeachment law-enforcement witness witness-testimony | During the Petitioner's trial one of the two victims was to be questioned by the defense about prior inconsistent statements to law enforcement for im… |
| 18-1435 | Matthew Wayne Minard, Individually and in His Official Capacity as a Taylor Police Officer v. Debra Lee Cruise-Gulyas | Sixth Circuit | 2019-05-15 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights constitutional-rights discretion discretionary-action discretionary-enforcement due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech law-enforcement qualified-immunity retaliation retaliatory-arrest traffic-stop | I. Did the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals define the "clearly established" constitutional rights at issue in this qualified immunity case at too high … |
| 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 when federal law enforcement exceeds the limitations on the face of the warrant for GPS tracking to in-state monitoring and continues to monit… |
| 18-9174 | Warren Myles v. Nebraska | Nebraska | 2019-05-07 | Denied | IFP | 2nd-amendment civil-rights concealed-carry criminal-history due-process federalism law-enforcement marijuana-search probable-cause reciprocity state-reciprocity state-rights welfare-check | Does the State of Nebraska have the option to respect some but not other states concealed carry permits. Does smelling of marijuana constitute probab… |
| 18-9131 | Ryan Canfield v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-05-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights community-caretaking due-process fourth-amendment impoundment inventory law-enforcement probable-cause public-safety reasonableness standardized-procedures vehicle-impoundment | The warrantless impoundment of an arrested person's car is permissible only when it is "totally divorced" from any investigation of criminal activity.… |
| 18-8986 | David E. Kelly v. Joseph M. Arpaio, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-04-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment business-identity-theft civil-rights constitutional-rights copyright-infringement due-process equal-treatment identity-theft law-enforcement property-rights | Under the 14th Amendment: Section 1 of the Constitution of the United States of America, are law enforcement officers allowed to violate the rights of… |
| 18-8988 | Airrington L. Sykes v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-04-25 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 2nd-amendment civil-rights concealed-carry due-process firearm-possession fourth-amendment law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion terry-stop | (1) Whether law enforcement can presume any concealed carry of a firearm is unlawful and conduct a Terry stop when the state statute does not criminal… |
| 18-8943 | David Raphael Concepcion v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-04-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment arrest arrest-incident constitutional-provision criminal-procedure home home-search law-enforcement maryland-v-buie police-powers protective-sweep search-and-seizure | WHETHER THE HOLDING OF THIS COURT IN MARYLAND v. BUIE, 494 U.S. 325, 110 S.Ct. 1093 (1990), TO PROTECTIVE SWEEPS APPLIES ALSO INCIDENT TO ARRESTS MADE… |
| 18-1326 | Justin Shultz, et al. v. Jason Cole | Third Circuit | 2019-04-19 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights clearly-established-law due-process first-amendment individual-assessment law-enforcement legal-standard police-conduct qualified-immunity retaliation summary-judgment | 1. When multiple police officers seek qualified immunity on a summary judgment motion, should their entitlement to qualified immunity be evaluated ind… |
| 18-8851 | Lester James Smith v. Georgia | Georgia | 2019-04-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attempt-to-elude criminal-procedure double-jeopardy double-punishment due-process equal-protection evidence-collection federalism investigative-techniques law-enforcement probable-cause prosecutorial-misconduct sentencing single-incident single-jurisdiction | M. Smith alleges that the State of Geargia has illeggally sentenced him to 25 years for five counts Single incident, and a single jurisdiction for pro… |
| 18-8873 | Tracy Devon Thomas v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-04-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment criminal-evidence evidence judicial-standard law-enforcement perpetrator probable-cause search-warrant shooting standing vehicle-rental | Can the common-sense standard of probable cause be so reduced as to allow a search warrant to be issued on the basis that a person rented a vehicle th… |
| 18-8826 | Omar Christopher Miller v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-04-15 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process impartial-jury juror-bias jury-impartiality law-enforcement sixth-amendment | Whether the Sixth Amendment right to an impartial jury is violated when prospective jurors are allowed to conceal facts that indicate possible bias - … |
| 18-8809 | B. C. v. Florida Department of Children and Families | Florida | 2019-04-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-neglect child-custody child-welfare civil-procedure civil-rights due-process family-law law-enforcement parental-rights standing state-intervention | THE COURT BELOW COMMIT AN ERROR SO IMPORTANT THAT IT AS LAW AND FACTS SHOULD COMPELL JUDGES. THE DAMAGING ERROK OF THE COURTS DECISION ULTIMATELY HAS … |
| 18-8785 | Temarco Sartorio Pope, Jr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-04-11 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 2nd-amendment civil-rights concealed-carry criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-powers reasonable-suspicion terry-stop | (1) Whether law enforcement can presume any concealed carry of a firearm is unlawful and conduct a Terry stop when the state statute does not criminal… |
| 18-8783 | Daniel R. Kendricks v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-04-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | arrest-warrant firearm fourth-amendment law-enforcement officer-safety plain-view search-and-seizure search-warrant | The Fourth Amendment permits law enforcement officers, already searching pursuant to a valid warrant, to search and seize readily apparent contraband … |
| 18-8784 | DiAngelo Johnson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-04-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-justice due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct pretextual-stops racial-profiling traffic-stops whren-v-united-states | Because Whren v. United States1/ permits pretextual traffic stops, it has become notorious for its effective legitimation of racial profiling . Whren … |
| 18-8758 | Lamonte Diondre Gaston v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-04-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment caretaking civil-procedure community-caretaking fourth-amendment impoundment inventory-search law-enforcement outstanding-fine warrant-requirement | Can the government justify a search under the inventory search exception to the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement if no inventory log is created? |
| 18-8694 | Bryan Gilbert Henderson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-04-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation good-faith-exception law-enforcement search-warrant systemic-misconduct systemic-mistake united-states-v-leon | Whether the good faith exception to the exclusionary rule of United States v. Leon, 468 U.S. 897 (1984) applies when law enforcement makes an obvious,… |
| 18-1248 | Neil C. Kienast and Braman B. Broy v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-03-26 | Denied | Response Waived | child-pornography circuit-split due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception law-enforcement privacy-interest probable-cause search-and-seizure suppression-doctrine suppression-of-evidence warrant warrant-validity | This Court has applied the U.S. v. Leon, 468 U.S. 897 (1984) good faith exception in a variety of cases to include a knock and announce violation (Hud… |
| 18-8411 | Lecephrus Pierce v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-03-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conviction criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement search-and-seizure supreme-court-precedent traffic-stop vehicle-search warrantless-search | Whether in affirming the petitioner's conviction the fourth circuit court of appeals abandoned established Supreme Court precedent when they found no … |
| 18-1188 | Jeffrey A. Jacobi v. Wisconsin | Wisconsin | 2019-03-13 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourth-amendment intoxication intoxication-determination intoxication-inference law-enforcement law-enforcement-inference police-inference probable-cause reasonable-suspicion traffic-accident traffic-stop vehicle-collision | Where one driver involved in a vehicle collision did not report to police that she observed any behavior by the other driver (Jacobi) to suggest that … |
| 18-8361 | Arturo Sarli v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-03-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights consent-to-search custodial-interrogation detention due-process fourth-amendment fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure search-consent vehicle-search | Police officers stopped Arturo Sarli as he drove his truck. The officers had received a tip about Sarli and used their traffic-enforcement authority t… |
| 18-1157 | Edwin A. Vega v. Ohio | Ohio | 2019-03-07 | Denied | detention fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion rodriguez-v-united-states search-and-seizure united-states-v-ross usps vehicle-search | 1. In its decision in the above captioned matter did the Ohio Supreme Court reverse this honorable Court's decision in Rodriguez v. United States, 135… | |
| 18-8259 | Nickie Thomas Gray, Jr. v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-03-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | buck-v-davis certificate-of-appealability civil-rights debatable-standard due-process fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel jurist-of-reason law-enforcement sixth-amendment sixth-circuit | Gty Was Initially represented by counsel when he filed his § 2255, and application for a certificate of appealability The Court below along with the t… |
| 18-8177 | Julia Augusta Constan Macri v. Illinois | Illinois | 2019-02-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure deviation fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure illinois-v-caballes law-enforcement original-purpose reasonable-suspicion rodriguez-v-united-states traffic-stop | Under this Court's Fourth Amendment decisions, an officer is prohibited from prolonging a traffic stop beyond its original purpose without "reasonable… |
| 18-1078 | James Dawson, et al. v. Joshua Brennan | Sixth Circuit | 2019-02-19 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (9) | 4th-amendment circuit-split curtilage fourth-amendment law-enforcement probation probation-condition probation-conditions search-and-seizure sixth-circuit | Did the Sixth Circuit misapply this Court's authority and create a conflict among Circuits by holding that a law enforcement officer violates the Four… |
| 18-7875 | Lionel Cannon, aka Cannon v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-02-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | carpenter-precedent carpenter-v-united-states criminal-procedure fourth-amendment franks-hearing law-enforcement search-and-seizure vehicle-search warrant-requirement warrantless-search wiretaps | Lionel Cannon Argued in the Court below that the District Court erred in denying his motion for a Franks hearing, and that Court abused its discretion… |
| 18-1006 | Michael Kevin Adams v. Texas | Texas | 2019-02-01 | Denied | Response Waived | 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights community-caretaking criminal-procedure fourth-amendment impoundment interrogation law-enforcement minor-offense probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-stop vehicle-impoundment vehicle-search | The warrantless impoundment of an arrested person's car must be in furtherance of "public safety" or "community caretaking functions." South Dakota v.… |
| 18-7609 | Merlin Alston v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-01-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-924c 18-usc-926b criminal-law-enforcement-officer-exemption criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process firearm-possession firearms law-enforcement sentencing sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation | 1. Is the conviction of a local poli ce officer, required to carry a service pistol when off duty, excluded from prosecution for violating 18 U.S.C. 9… |
| 18-943 | Fairfield County, Ohio, et al. v. Neil A. Morgan, II, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2019-01-18 | Denied | civil-rights constitutional-procedure fourth-amendment knock-and-talk law-enforcement officer-safety perimeter-security search-and-seizure | Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits law enforcement officers from securing the perimeter of a residence, for officer safety, when conducting a lawf… | |
| 18-913 | Joshua Brennan v. James Dawson, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2019-01-15 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (9) | civil-liability civil-procedure civil-rights common-law constitutional-rights due-process law-enforcement liability police-conduct qualified-immunity reasonable-reliance | Whether a police officer may reasonably rely on a narrow exception to a specific and clearly established right to shield him from civil liability when… |
| 18-7324 | Roberto Gil v. Florida | Florida | 2019-01-09 | Denied | IFP | arrest confidential-informant contingent-fee due-process forfeiture fourteenth-amendment law-enforcement testimony | Whether a confidential informant's contingent fee arrangement with police - earning twenty percent only in the event of arrest, forfeiture, and favora… |
| 18-870 | Ilyas V. Ibragimov v. Wisconsin | Wisconsin | 2019-01-08 | Denied | Response Waived | fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation law-enforcement search-and-seizure seizure seizures unreasonable-search unreasonable-searches vehicle-stop warrantless-search | Whether Petitioner's Fourth Amendment right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures was violated when his vehicle was stopped by law enforc… |
| 18-851 | Bryan Christopher Marshall v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-01-04 | Denied | Response Waived | armed-career-criminal-act categorical-approach criminal-sentencing drug-distribution drug-statute due-process federal-law first-amendment law-enforcement predicate-offense sentencing speech-protection statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether a state drug statute that lists a variety of means by which it can be violated, including one which does not meet the definition of a drug … |
| 18-856 | Serge Antonin v. Baltimore Police Department | Maryland | 2019-01-04 | Denied | Response Waived | accardi-v-shaughnessy administrative-hearing administrative-law constitutional-law due-process evidence law-enforcement police-misconduct prejudice procedural-rights state-agency state-agency-regulations | Whether United States ex rel. Accardi v. Shaughnessy, 347 U.S. 260 (1954) is constitutional law binding upon the State of Maryland? Where a state age… |
| 18-857 | Patrick Boyd v. Mississippi Department of Public Safety, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2019-01-04 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment-law first-amendment free-speech government-employment government-overreach governmental-supervision law-enforcement public-concern | Whether law enforcement and governmental supervisors, by mere announcement of some collective fear, without any factual basis whatsoever, may override… |
| 18-810 | John Maguire, et al. v. Anika Edrei, et al. | Second Circuit | 2018-12-26 | Denied | acoustic-device civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force first-amendment free-speech law-enforcement lrad police-tactics protest-control qualified-immunity | Did the Second Circuit err in finding a potential constitutional violation for excessive force and denying the officers qualified immunity, particular… | |
| 18-7147 | Abasi Akeem Smith v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-12-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-111 18-usc-1114 criminal-procedure federal-officer federal-task-force law-enforcement official-duties state-law-enforcement statutory-interpretation | Whether a state law enforcement officer, who has also been made a member of a federal task force, qualifies as a federal agent when he is acting in th… |
| 18-7163 | Kent Mayfield, et ux. v. Harvey County Sheriff's Department, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2018-12-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 2nd-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights dog-seizure due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement personal-property pet-dog property-rights qualified-immunity search-and-seizure warrantless-search | DID THE DEFENDENTS VIOLATE THE PLAINTIFFS FOURTH AMENDMENT RIGHTS? Does the 4th amendment protect authorized custodians of a private rural residence … |
| 18-7151 | Curtis John Mulhern v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2018-12-20 | Denied | IFP | 2nd-amendment civil-rights confidential-informant criminal-enterprise due-process entrapment law-enforcement outrageous-conduct outrageous-government-conduct probable-cause reverse-sting | Did law enforcement conduct become constitutionally unacceptable where government agents and their confidential informant essentially, engineered and … |
| 18-7124 | Ruben Geovanni Hernandez v. Texas | Texas | 2018-12-19 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fishing-expedition fourth-amendment law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion scope-of-detention search-and-seizure traffic-stop vehicle-search | In Ohio v. Robinette, 519 U.S. 35, 41 (1996) Justice Ginsburg, in a concurring opinion, discussed the need to evaluate both the reason for an initial … |
| 18-764 | Oscar Henry Steinmetz v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-12-14 | Denied | Response Waived | 4th-amendment civil-rights consent consent-search constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure | 1. Does the law regarding searches, seizures, and consent need clarification for proper guidance and application? 2. Should a law enforcement officer… |
| 18-6986 | Nathan Lynn Cloud v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-12-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment intergovernmental-agreements law-enforcement law-enforcement-agreements nevada-v-hicks service-of-process tribal-sovereignty | Notwithstanding this Court's holding in Nevada v. Hicks, where there is a law enforcement agreement between state authorities and the tribe regarding … |
| 18-6987 | Javon Sanders v. Wendy Kelley, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2018-12-11 | Denied | IFP | 13th-amendment civil-rights compensation constitutional-challenge due-process evidence-standard forced-labor-slavery interaction-log international-covenant international-law involuntary-servitude labor-conditions law-enforcement police-contact prison-labor prison-reform procedural-review | I. Does The Failure OfThe Arlansas Department. Of Correction To Pay Equitale Remuneration To Its Inmate Population Equate To Mader Day Slavery? II. D… |
| 18-6963 | Muhammed Tariq Camran v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-12-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 11th-circuit 11th-circuit-split 4th-amendment 4th-circuit 4th-circuit-split circuit-split drug-corridor fourth-amendment law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion rental-vehicle search-and-seizure traffic-stop vehicle-rental | Should this court resolve the split between the Fourth and Eleventh Circuit about the probity of the fact that a vehicle is a rental in the reasonable… |
| 18-6945 | William Nathaniel Washington v. Scott Frauenheim, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2018-12-06 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure criminal-prosecution due-process evidence-fabrication fabricated-evidence false-evidence law-enforcement law-enforcement-misconduct miranda-waiver | If there exist authentic uncontradicted testimonial evidence in the record of a criminal proceedings that proves that a member of a law enforcement ag… |
| 18-695 | Christopher Chung, et al. v. Gulstan E. Silva, Jr., as Personal Representative of the Estate of Sheldon Paul Haleck, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2018-11-27 | Denied | Amici (1) | civil-rights clearly-established-law community-caretaking due-process excessive-force law-enforcement ninth-circuit qualified-immunity reasonableness use-of-force | 1. Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in denying the officers qualified immunity by defining clearly established law at too high a level of generality ra… |
| 18-6824 | Martavious Detrel Banks Keys v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-11-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 349 U.S. 81 (1955) on double-jeopardy bell-v-united-states congressional-intent criminal-procedure double-jeopardy fifth-amendment law-enforcement mens-rea multiple-punishments single-statute testimony | I. This Court should grant certiorari in this case to answer to resolve a division in the case law and an important question of double jeopardy jurisp… |
| 18-672 | City of Newport Beach, California, et al. v. Richard Vos, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2018-11-23 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6) | ada-title-ii americans-with-disabilities-act fourth-amendment law-enforcement mental-illness totality-of-the-circumstances use-of-force | 1. Does Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act require law enforcement officers to provide accommodations to an armed, violent, and mentally … |
| 18-667 | Lonnie Charles Williams, III v. Texas | Texas | 2018-11-21 | Denied | Response Waived | driving-while-intoxicated drug-detection fourth-amendment intoxication-signs law-enforcement odor-of-alcohol probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop | Whether reasonable suspicion under the Fourth Amendment can exist in a driving while intoxicated context when officers do not detect the odor of alcoh… |
| 18-6664 | Daniel David Garza v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-11-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment law-enforcement motion-to-suppress probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop | Whether the lower courts erred in denying Mr. Garza's Motion to Suppress based on the erroneous finding that the officer had reasonable suspicion to i… |
| 18-6542 | Mauricio Licea v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-11-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure dual-role due-process evidence expert-testimony expert-witness jury-instruction jury-instructions law-enforcement law-enforcement-testimony lay-witness trial-procedure | Whether district courts must give a dual-purpose jury instruction after a law enforcement officer testifies as both an expert and a percipient witness… |
| 18-564 | Rosemary L. Decosimo v. Tennessee | Tennessee | 2018-10-31 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial fifth-amendment forensic-science fourteenth-amendment impartiality law-enforcement sixth-amendment standing | Whether the right to a fair trial guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment and right to due process under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments of the United S… |
| 18-556 | Kansas v. Charles Glover | Kansas | 2018-10-29 | Judgment Issued | Amici (10)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | 4th-amendment fourth-amendment habitual-violator investigative-stop law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion registered-owner traffic-law traffic-laws vehicle-registration vehicle-stop | A Kansas officer ran a registration check on a pickup truck and learned that the registered owner's license had been revoked. Suspecting that the owne… |
| 18-6406 | Daniel Tappen v. Florida | Florida | 2018-10-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | attorney-client-privilege attorney-client-relationship constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel law-enforcement right-to-counsel sixth-amendment | Whether a defense attorney renders ineffective assistance of counsel – in violation of the Sixth Amendment to the Constitution – by failing to inform … |
| 18-6412 | Jaiyanah Bey v. Elmwood Place Police Department, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2018-10-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment 4th-amendment-search-and-seizure administrative-search civil-rights commercial-activity constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure standing traffic-stop | The United States Constitution forth bill of right protects the people in their private capacity from any unlawful stops, search and seziors without a… |
| 18-6392 | Mohsen Khoshmood v. Eastern Market Management | District of Columbia | 2018-10-19 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-rights damages disability-discrimination due-process false-arrest free-speech government-misconduct law-enforcement police-misconduct standing | I'm seeking for this case $100 Million dollars damages with explanation of: Part I of General Assembly 9 Dec. 1975 res. .3452 (XXX), Article 1, Artic… |
| 18-491 | Cameron Heath Ray v. Oklahoma | Oklahoma | 2018-10-17 | Denied | appellate-division circuit-split criminal-evidence criminal-procedure evidence fourth-amendment immediate-mobility law-enforcement mobility probable-cause search-and-seizure vehicle-search vehicle-seizure | Whether it violates the Fourth Amendment to characterize a criminal suspect's car as evidence of a crime when the car is not used in the crime at issu… | |
| 18-498 | Maricopa County, Arizona v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-10-17 | Denied | 42-usc-1983 civil-rights civil-rights-act due-process issue-preclusion law-enforcement monell-doctrine monell-liability policymaker-liability sovereign-immunity title-vi violent-crime-control-act | In McMillian v. Monroe County, Alabama, 520 U.S. 781 (1997), this Court held that counties cannot be liable in actions brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 … | |
| 18-478 | Brian Edward Malnes v. City of Flagstaff, Arizona, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2018-10-15 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | constitutional-vagueness fourth-amendment harassment harassment-statute law-enforcement overbreadth probable-cause search-and-seizure unreasonable-search-and-seizure vagueness | Whether law enforcement officials had probable cause to arrest the Petitioner (issuing a citation) for the crime of harassment under Ariz. Rev. Stat. … |
| 18-440 | Edward Michael Nero, et al. v. Marilyn J. Mosby | Fourth Circuit | 2018-10-05 | Denied | Response Waived | absolute-immunity advocacy-function civil-procedure civil-rights due-process investigation investigatory-materials law-enforcement legal-advice probable-cause prosecutor prosecutor-investigation prosecutorial-immunity standing | Whether a prosecutor is acting as an "advocate" and is entitled to absolute immunity when the prosecutor performs an investigation and provides those … |
| 18-6116 | Anthony Allen Jean v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-09-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment computer-searches exclusionary-rule good-faith-exception law-enforcement search search-and-seizure standing united-states-v-leon void-ab-initio warrant warrant-validity | I. Can the good-faith exception to the exclusionary rule announced by this Court in United States v. Leon, 468 U.S. 897 (1984), be applied in cases in… |
| 18-368 | Cedrick Thomas v. Jeffrey Cozzi | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-09-20 | Denied | Response Waived | 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights detective-thomas district-of-columbia-v-wesby eleventh-circuit false-arrest fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause qualified-immunity | 1. Whether, in light of District of Columbia v. Wesby, 138 S. Ct. 577 (2018), the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals erred by affirming the denial of p… |
| 18-5936 | Terrance D. Johnson v. Randall Williams, Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2018-09-12 | Denied | IFP | evidence-preservation exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure vehicle-search | whether the Fourth Amendment forbids a pretextual seizure of a motorist based solely on probable cause due to an alleged obstructed tag? Does the Fou… |
| 18-5874 | Nalenzer Lee Edwards v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-09-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | arrest confidential-informant drug-possession eighth-circuit fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion vehicle-stop | As recently as 2014, this Court reemphasized that an informant's knowledge of a suspect's future movements may be indicative of some familiarity with … |
| 18-5747 | Javier Amador-Flores v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-08-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-procedure evidence evidence-law expert-testimony federal-rules-of-evidence law-enforcement lay-opinion lay-opinion-testimony lay-testimony specialized-knowledge witness-testimony | When a law-enforcement agent expressly compares the events in a case to what is typical in other cases he has investigated, is his opinion based on "s… |
| 18-236 | Paul Weddle v. Alan Nutzman, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2018-08-23 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct qualified-immunity seizure standing use-of-force | (1) Whether under a qualified immunity analysis there existed clearly established precedent that taking down Weddle when he had surrendered, posed no … |
| 18-5715 | Thomas A. Sweeney v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-08-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment criminal-procedure fourth-amendment griffin-v-wisconsin law-enforcement parole parole-search-and-seizure privacy-rights probation probation-supervision samson-v-california search-and-seizure stalking-horse | This Court has held that persons on parole have a "lesser" expectation of privacy than the general public, due to the "special needs" of the state in … |
| 18-5627 | Carl Anthony Webb v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2018-08-17 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment arrest-procedure civil-rights color-of-law constitutional-violation due-process false-arrest false-evidence false-report false-testimony fourth-amendment law-enforcement video-evidence | Would the Trial Court be in violation of the 14th Amendment if his finding of fact and conclusion of of discretion against the petitioner.? 2. Would … |
| 18-5613 | Ladina Sykes v. Illinois | Illinois | 2018-08-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-law custody fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct private-individual search-and-seizure state-action state-actors | Whether on-duty police officers are state actors for Fourth Amendment purposes when they assist a private individual in searching a suspect in police … |
| 18-150 | Phil Plummer, et al. v. David M. Hopper, Special Administrator of the Estate of Robert Andrew Richardson, Sr. | Sixth Circuit | 2018-08-03 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 14th-amendment civil-rights clearly-established-right deliberate-indifference detainee-rights due-process excessive-force fourteenth-amendment law-enforcement medical-intervention qualified-immunity | 1. Whether the Sixth Circuit defined the constitutional rights in question at too high a level of generality contrary to this Court's teachings on qua… |
| 18-145 | Stepheno Jemain Alston v. South Carolina | South Carolina | 2018-07-31 | Denied | Response Waived | 4th-amendment automobile-detention civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion seizure traffic-stop | Does South Carolina's reasonable suspicion analysis, in the context of prolonged automobile detentions, violate due process when it fails to sufficien… |
| 18-99 | Johnny Barnes v. Joseph Gerhart, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2018-07-23 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (3) | civil-rights confidential-informant drug-surveillance due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement law-enforcement-action police-misconduct qualified-immunity search-and-seizure unreasonable-search | (1) Did the Fifth Circuit wrongly hold that Officer Barnes' mistake was "unreasonable" under the Fourth Amendment? (2) In the alternative, did the Fi… |
| 18-5286 | Odere Suleitopa v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-07-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-court-conflict circuit-split civil-procedure evidence evidence-admissibility federal-rule-of-evidence-701 federal-rules-of-evidence law-enforcement law-enforcement-officer-testimony law-enforcement-testimony lay-witness-testimony opinion-testimony personal-knowledge personal-knowledge-requirement witness-testimony | Federal Rule of Evidence 701 states that a lay witness's opinion testimony must be rationally based on the witness's perception. The Circuits have lon… |
| 18-5249 | Kristian Thomas v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-07-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | active-warrant arrest-procedure due-process failure-to-appear fourth-amendment law-enforcement misdemeanor-arrest misdemeanor-arrest-warrant misdemeanor-warrant probable-cause reasonable-caution warrant-confirmation | Does not the Fourth Amendment require prudence or reasonable caution so that before exercising a misdemeanor arrest warrant for failure to appear, a w… |
| 18-46 | City of Middletown, Connecticut, et al. v. William McKinney | Second Circuit | 2018-07-09 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | 4th-amendment active-resistance civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-rights detainee-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct qualified-immunity reasonable-officer use-of-force | Police officers were attempting to transfer a detainee to a padded cell where he could be appropriately monitored after he repeatedly obstructed the v… |
| 18-5163 | Kai Uwe Thier v. Florida | Florida | 2018-07-06 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | consular-relations consular-rights criminal-procedure due-process habeas-corpus incriminating-statement international-treaties international-treaty law-enforcement miranda-rights vienna-convention vienna-convention-on-consular-relations | WHETHER PETITIONER IS ENTITLED TO DISCHARGE OR A NEW TRIAL BASED ON A VIOLATION OF INTERNATIONAL TREATIES AS CODIFIED IN THE VIENNA CONVENTION ON CONS… |
| 18-13 | Juan Francisco Maldonado v. Texas | Texas | 2018-07-02 | Denied | Response Waived | canine-sniff civil-procedure consent-to-search constitutional-rights fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop | The Court of Appeals erred in applying the incorrect Fourth Amendment standard to Mr. Maldonado's traffic stop. Once the purpose of the traffic stop c… |
| 18-5016 | George Eli Brown, Jr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-06-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment driver's-license due-process fourth-amendment inchoate-hunch law-enforcement motorist-rights police-investigation reasonable-suspicion sentencing traffic-stop | DOES A POLICE OFFICER'S BELIEF THAT HE ALLEGEDLY HAS REASONABLE SUSPICION A MOTORIST DOES NOT HAVE A DRIVER'S LICENSE DIMINISH TO AN INCHOATE HUNCH OR… |
| 18-5019 | Bohdan G. Seniw v. Connecticut General Assembly, et al. | Second Circuit | 2018-06-28 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process government-misconduct hipaa-violation hippa law-enforcement medical-information medical-privacy medical-records privacy public-records retaliation whistle-blower whistle-blower-protection whistleblower-protection | Why it was done Purposely ? Why Enforce Whistle Blower Protection ? I'm certain you will be hearing from him ( Edwin Gomes, Senator ) soon. Why it w… |