particularity-requirement
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-7500 | Ramon Carlos Hernandez v. Texas | Texas | 2025-06-25 | Denied | IFP | cell-phone-search fourth-amendment law-enforcement-search particularity-requirement privacy-interest warrant-limitation | Does the Fourth Amendment's particularity requirement place any limitations on the search of a cell phone beyond requiring that a search warrant limit… |
| 24-6295 | Rashawn Tyriq Perkins v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-01-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | cell-phone fourth-amendment location-data particularity-requirement reasonable-reliance search-warrant | Whether the court of appeals correctly determined that a search warrant for collection of real time location data from Petitioner's cell device over a… |
| 23-1355 | Kris V. Zocco v. Wisconsin | Wisconsin | 2024-06-28 | Denied | Response Waived | cell-phone-search criminal-procedure enumerated-crimes evidence evidence-seizure fourth-amendment particularity-requirement search-and-seizure search-warrant | Does a warrant to search the entire contents of a cell phone for unspecified 'evidence' of enumerated crimes violate the Fourth Amendment's requiremen… |
| 23A1100 | Moises Orlando Zelaya-Veliz, Jose Eliezar Molina-Veliz, Luis Alberto Gonzales, Gilberto Morales, and Jonathan Rafael Zelaya-Veliz v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-06-10 | Presumed Complete | digital-warrant exclusionary-rule facebook-data fourth-amendment particularity-requirement search-and-seizure | Whether warrants for digital platform account data that lack temporal limitations and seek comprehensive account information violate the Fourth Amendm… | |
| 23-6045 | Perry Wayne Suggs, Jr. v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-11-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment general-warrant good-faith-exception home-search particularity-requirement search-and-seizure warrant-particularity | When a warrant plainly violates the Fourth Amendment's particularity requirement by authorizing an unbridled, general search of a home, does the good-… |
| 21-5902 | Alhakka Campbell v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-10-05 | Denied | IFP | cell-phone-search cell-phones digital-privacy electronic-data-seizure fourth-amendment law-enforcement-search particularity-requirement privacy search-and-seizure warrant-particularity warrant-requirements | Whether a warrant that authorizes police to seize a smart phone and search it for 'all electronic data' is invalid because it is insufficiently partic… |
| 20-7482 | Lavellous Purcell v. United States | Second Circuit | 2021-03-17 | Denied | IFP | electronic-data-privacy federal-rules-of-evidence fourth-amendment general-warrants internet-privacy interstate-commerce mann-act particularity-requirement probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant | Whether a search warrant ordering Facebook to hand over the defendant's entire account to law enforcement for review, without limiting either Facebook… |
| 20-5601 | Eric Wayne Grinder v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2020-09-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split computer-search computer-searches digital-evidence fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-rights particularity-requirement search-and-seizure search-warrant | Does the conflict of the particularity required for computer searches between the Fourth and Tenth Circuits diminish Fourth Amendment rights? |
| 19-1454 | Naray Palaniappan v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-07-02 | Denied | Response Waived | computer-search fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-particularity-requirement good-faith-exception jurisdiction jurisdiction-limitation particularity-requirement search-warrant warrant-application warrant-incorporation | Where a warrant application requested authorization to search computers 'wherever located' but the warrant itself omitted that language, can governmen… |
| 19-1327 | Kris V. Zocco v. Wisconsin | Wisconsin | 2020-06-01 | Denied | Response Waived | cell-phone-search cell-phone-searches cell-phones evidence evidence-search fourth-amendment general-warrant general-warrants particularity-requirement personal-computers probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-requirement | Is the Fourth Amendment's ban on general warrants violated by a warrant broadly authorizing search of the 'contents' of a cell phone for unspecified '… |
| 19-1055 | Dustin Moss v. United States | First Circuit | 2020-02-25 | Denied | Response Waived | 4th-amendment civil-procedure criminal-procedure evidence-suppression fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation illegal-search package package-description particularity-requirement probable-cause search-warrant tracking-number | Whether the search of a package that was solely referenced by its tracking number in the warrant's caption, but was not otherwise described in the war… |
| 19-6154 | Joanthony Deaundre Johnson v. Missouri | Missouri | 2019-10-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | cell-phone criminal-procedure digital-evidence fifth-amendment fourth-amendment particularity-requirement search-and-seizure self-incrimination warrant-particularity | Whether a warrant authorizing the search of a cell phone and describing the things to be seized as 'all data/software' pertaining to the crimes is off… |
| 18-1247 | Robert Alan Ries v. Oregon | Oregon | 2019-03-26 | Denied | Response Waived | affidavit blood-sample constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment particularity-requirement probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-particularity | Does a warrant commanding the police to seize a blood sample from a person with an entirely different name than the defendant violate the Fourth Amend… |
| 18-8448 | Edward Bishop v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2019-03-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment criminal-procedure digital-evidence digital-files dna-evidence evidence fourth-amendment particularity-requirement probable-cause search-warrant | Does a search warrant which described the place to be searched and the things to be seized fail the particularity requirement of the Fourth Amendment? |
| 18-911 | Intermountain Health Care, Inc., et al. v. United States, ex rel. Gerald Polukoff, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2019-01-14 | Dismissed | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse Waived | appointments-clause civil-procedure civil-procedure-9(b) false-claims-act fraud particularity-requirement pleading-standards qui-tam rule-9b standing | Whether a court may create an exception to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 9(b)'s particularity requirement when the plaintiff claims that only the de… |
| 18-6820 | Robert Paul Langley, Jr. v. Jeff Premo, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary | Oregon | 2018-11-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-authorization particularity particularity-requirement search-warrant seizure sixth-amendment | Does the Fourth Amendment require that a search warrant particularly describe the things to be seized? |
| 18-285 | Missouri v. Phillip Douglass, et al. | Missouri | 2018-09-05 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (2) | 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment particularity particularity-requirement probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant standing warrant warrant-severability | Is severance the default remedy when part of a warrant is valid, or does the Fourth Amendment also require that the valid sections make up 'the greate… |
| 18-5630 | Hunter Vaughan Eure v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-08-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | computer-privacy exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception particularity-requirement remote-computer-searches remote-search search-and-seizure united-states-v-leon warrant-particularity | Whether an FBI agent can reasonably rely on the validity of a single warrant that authorizes a million searches of 100,000 different computers without… |