law-enforcement-discretion
9 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 24-742 | Vanessa Enoch v. Hamilton County Sheriff's Office, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2025-01-14 | Denied | courthouse-recording first-amendment law-enforcement-discretion media-rights news-gathering public-spaces | At all relevant times, Petitioner Vanessa Enoch was working as a member of the media and collecting information for a study regarding the removal of… | |
| 21-1423 | Anthony Hoti v. City of Warren, Michigan | Michigan | 2022-05-05 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (3) | arrest-authority civil-rights due-process jury-selection jury-tampering law-enforcement-discretion probable-cause prosecutorial-misconduct standing trial-procedure | 1. On 12/11/2017 the City of Warren attorney Caitlin Murphy and the sitting juror Susan Palombo had prior secret conversations before the jury trial s… |
| 20-1384 | Amy Everett v. Cobb County, Georgia, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-04-02 | Denied | Response Waived | cease-and-desist civil-rights constitutional-rights custom-and-practice due-process first-amendment free-speech law-enforcement-discretion malicious-prosecution qualified-immunity speech-protection | 1. In the face of clear law, under Reno v. ACLU and traditional categories of unprotected speech, was it error to treat Everett's email s, which she c… |
| 20-7210 | Tesfa Connell v. New York | New York | 2021-02-23 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 4th-amendment 4th-amendment-warrant-requirement community-caretaking fourth-amendment impoundment inventory-search law-enforcement-discretion standardized-criteria vehicle-impoundment vehicle-search warrant-requirement | Whether the Fourth Amendment likewise mandates that standardized criteria govern an officer's antecedent decision to impound a legally and safely park… |
| 20-283 | Austin J. Bass v. Patrick M. Greve, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2020-09-03 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6) | 4th-amendment arrest arrest-justification civil-rights criminal-intent due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement-discretion probable-cause qualified-immunity | Officer Austin Bass ("Officer Bass") responded to a burglar alarm and found Patrick Greve ("Greve") outside a locked and closed nightclub, wrapped in … |
| 20-5074 | Robert Banks, III v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-07-15 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights fourth-amendment law-enforcement-discretion pretextual-stop racial-profiling search-and-seizure unreasonable-detention unreasonable-seizure whren-v-united-states | 1. Should Whren v. United States, 517 U.S. 806 (1996), be overruled for permitting unconstitutional detentions of Black Americans and people-of-color … |
| 19-814 | Tony Deshawn McCoy v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-12-27 | Denied | Amici (1) | armed-and-dangerous fourth-amendment law-enforcement-discretion marijuana-possession probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-stop terry-v-ohio | Whether officers can presume that a person is "armed and presently dangerous" simply because the person possesses any amount of marijuana, however sma… |
| 19-6253 | Adam Strege v. United States | First Circuit | 2019-10-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure delegation-of-authority due-process judicial-discretion law-enforcement-discretion mental-competence mental-disease mental-health reasonable-cause sentencing standing vagueness vagueness-doctrine | Question Presented is 18 USCS 4246 4248 4241(d) Unconstitutionally Vague lacking definitive standards by failing to aprise;persons of Ordinary intelli… |
| 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… |