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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…