law-enforcement-discretion

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
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…