law-enforcement-misconduct

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-5777 In Re Tyrone Moore 2025-10-02 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process evidence-suppression judicial-misconduct law-enforcement-misconduct preliminary-hearing Whether the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, Clark County District Court, and District Attorney's office violated the petitioner's constituti…
25-5047 Michael Francis v. United States First Circuit 2025-07-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP fourth-amendment informant-reliability judicial-integrity law-enforcement-misconduct probable-cause search-warrant Were Petitioner's Fourth Amendment rights violated when an FBI Agent obtained a search warrant for Petitioner's car by deliberately withholding inform…
24-6641 Chad Adam Cheever v. Oregon Oregon 2025-02-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fair-trial law-enforcement-misconduct Whether law enforcement officials can systematically violate an individual's constitutional rights with impunity and whether a defendant retains funda…
24A473 Victor Hill v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-11-12 Presumed Complete constitutional-violation detainee-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement-misconduct restraint-chairs Whether the use of passive restraint chairs on nonresistant detainees for extended periods constitutes excessive force in violation of the Fourth Amen…
23-6554 Darlene Feiste v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights competent-counsel constitutional-rights court-appointed-counsel due-process employment-discrimination freedom law-enforcement-misconduct liberty privacy Question not identified
22-7411 Mario Sims v. Pete Buttigieg, et al. Indiana 2023-04-28 Denied IFP constitutional-rights deliberate-framing due-process evidence-planting federalism law-enforcement-misconduct police-misconduct state-constitutional-rights state-court-review wrongful-conviction Can the Indiana Supreme Court make an exception to the U.S. Constitution, Illinois Supreme Court, and 1st Circuit Court of Appeals decisions regarding…
21-7431 William Nobles v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-03-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-infirmity exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception law-enforcement-misconduct magistrate-review probable-cause warrant-requirement warrant-validity Whether the good-faith exception should apply when law enforcement officers bury a crucial fact that they knew or should have known would reveal a war…
21-792 Michael Billioni v. Bruce Bryant, Sheriff, York County, South Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-11-30 Denied chain-of-command civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech internal-investigation law-enforcement-misconduct pickering-balancing-test public-employee-speech whistleblower whistleblower-protection Whether a public employee's speech about serious law enforcement misconduct has limited weight in the Pickering First Amendment balancing analysis
21-5362 Robert Lee Crawford v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP confrontation-clause due-process fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation law-enforcement-misconduct misrepresentation pretextual-stop seizure warrantless-search Is the Fourth Amendment violated by a warrantless off-site forced entry search of a gunsafe preceded by a warrantless seizure facilitated by officer m…
21-42 Sylvia Black v. Peace Officer Christine Vitello, et al. Second Circuit 2021-07-13 Denied civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment illegal-entry judicial-authorization law-enforcement-misconduct search-and-seizure standing warrant-forgery Whether peace officers violated the plaintiffs' Fourth Amendment rights by forging a judge's signature on a warrant to enter the plaintiffs' premises …
20-7667 Troy Kendrick, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-04-06 Denied IFP 5th-circuit falsified-evidence franks-standard franks-v-delaware judicial-review law-enforcement-misconduct probable-cause sentencing-guidelines wiretap wiretap-evidence When a law enforcement agent falsifies and misrepresents wiretap evidence to establish probable cause for a second wiretap, can a reviewing court rely…
20-7433 Randy Philip Chaudron v. Texas Texas 2021-03-11 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence identification law-enforcement-misconduct photo-lineup police-conduct witness-identification Whether the Due Process Clause was violated when the trial court allowed evidence, knowing that law enforcement broke the procedure of Art. 320 CP pho…
20-7435 Steven G. Knickerbocker v. Wisconsin, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-03-11 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-violation cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-punishment due-process evidence-destruction excessive-force federal-crime judicial-misconduct law-enforcement-misconduct medical-care Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the alleged physical abuse and denial of medical care while in custody
20-7363 Lerone Bernard Butler v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP conspiracy controlled-substances criminal-procedure drug-offenses due-process law-enforcement-misconduct possession-with-intent sentencing sufficiency-of-evidence whether-the-verdict-was-supported-by-sufficient-evidence
20-384 Penny Nichols Corn, et al. v. Mississippi Department of Public Safety, et al. Fifth Circuit 2020-09-24 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech garcetti-precedent garcetti-v-ceballos lane-v-franks law-enforcement-misconduct misprision-of-felony public-employee-speech Whether public employees have First Amendment protection to report fraudulent conduct by state troopers
19-8069 Eric S. Newton, Jr. v. Ohio Ohio 2020-03-23 Denied IFP 4th-amendment cell-phone-search civil-rights constitutional-rights fourth-amendment jurisdiction law-enforcement-misconduct police-misconduct probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant Was the Ohio Supreme Court in error when it refused to accept jurisdiction over a matter that, like the instant petition, involves a substantial Const…
19-7983 Eric S. Newton, Jr. v. Ohio Ohio 2020-03-13 Denied IFP 4th-amendment affidavit cell-phone-search civil-rights constitutional-rights fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-rights law-enforcement-misconduct misidentification police-misconduct probable-cause reckless-disregard search-and-seizure search-warrant standing Was the Ohio Supreme Court in error when it refused to accept jurisdiction over a matter involving a violation of the petitioner's Fourth Amendment ri…
19-7826 Marlon R. Miller v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-03-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP appellate-review criminal-procedure document-sealing due-process first-amendment judicial-transparency law-enforcement-misconduct public-access public-access-to-courts right-to-fair-trial sealed-records Whether the district court correctly sealed an entire category of information from public access, including preventing Mr. Miller from having meaningf…
19-7592 John D. McAllister v. Timothy Malfitano, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-02-07 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment judicial-integrity jurisdiction jurisdictional-overreach law-enforcement-misconduct probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-falsification Whether the Fourth Amendment was violated by the illegal arrest and search of the petitioner without probable cause
19-6768 Cary VanDerMeulen v. Thomas L. Leclaire, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-11-26 Denied IFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment abuse-of-authority civil-asset-forfeiture civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-abuse law-enforcement-misconduct property-rights standing takings When are the Federal Courts going to take-up the cause concerning the violation(s) of Constitutional Law and abuse(s) of authority by the States of th…
18-1389 Financial Oversight and Management Board for Puerto Rico v. Andalusian Global Designated Activity Company, et al. First Circuit 2019-05-03 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) bankruptcy civil-rights commercial-law constitutional-violations debtor-name due-process law-enforcement-misconduct official-immunity perfection property-rights public-record registered-organization secured-lending secured-transactions uniform-commercial-code Whether public officials can maintain immunity des Whether the court below erred by inventing an exception to Article 9's requirement that the name of a debtor for perfection purposes is 'the name that…
18-8602 Enrico M. Ponzo v. United States First Circuit 2019-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-justice criminal-procedure due-process evidence false-affidavit false-statements franks-doctrine franks-v-delaware judicial-review law-enforcement-misconduct probable-cause sanctions standing Whether Franks v. Delaware should be revisited to allow sanctions for false affiant declarations even if there remains probable cause in the absence o…
18-1024 Lenard Johnson v. Richard Winfrey, Jr. Fifth Circuit 2019-02-06 Denied 4th-amendment accrual-of-claim civil-rights false-statements fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure franks-analysis franks-v-delaware law-enforcement-misconduct legal-accrual material-omission probable-cause qualified-immunity warrant-application Franks v. Delaware analysis of omitted information material to probable cause
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…
18-5963 Steve Kassab v. S. Skinner, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-09-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights discovery due-process excessive-force law-enforcement-misconduct new-trial qualified-immunity standing summary-judgment trial-procedure Whether the district court's dismissal of all but 2 defendants caused prejudice to petitioner
18-5921 Jeffrey Allen Stevens v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-09-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 1st-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights civil-unrest constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process first-amendment free-speech jury-trial law-enforcement-misconduct standing Are Predictions of Civil Unrest or Violent Revolt Protected Speech under the First Amendment?