personal-property

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-7488 Richard W. Kelley v. Maine Maine 2025-06-24 Denied IFP fourth-amendment government-surveillance gps-tracking personal-property privacy-interest vehicle-search Does a regular passenger in a vehicle being GPS tracked by the Government have a Fourth Amendment privacy interest in his movements and the vehicle, w…
23-1297 Michael Roane v. Tina Ray Fourth Circuit 2024-06-12 Denied clearly-established-law fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-seizure objective-reasonableness personal-property qualified-immunity self-defense summary-judgment unreasonable-seizure 1. Whether Roane's act had to be the "necessary" or "unavoidable" act, rather than within a range of objective reasonableness, to be considered an act…
23-6583 Muhammad Khan v. SAP Labs, LLC Ninth Circuit 2024-01-26 Denied IFP 9th-circuit appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment judicial-review notice-of-appeal personal-property special-needs time-limitation unreasonable-searches-and-seizures warrantless-seizure Question not identified.
22-7544 Eliu Elixander Lorenzana-Cordon v. United States District of Columbia 2023-05-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights fourth-amendment indefinite-retention personal-property unreasonable-searches-and-seizures warrantless-seizure IS IT A HABEAS CORPUS PETITIONER ENTITLE TO BE RELEASE ON BAIL WHILE AWAITING RESOLUTION OF HIS HABEAS CORPUS PETITON, IF HE PRESENT MERITORIOUS CLAIM…
22-7196 Arthur Scott Prelle v. Chief Executive Officer of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2023-04-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-credit civil-procedure due-process equity equity-rights personal-property property property-ownership res-judicata standing 1) Will the US Federal Courts allow USA certificate of full faith and credit, personal property and equitable interest to be dissipated or destroyed w…
22-25 Roy Lynn McCutchen, et al. v. United States Federal Circuit 2022-07-08 Denied Amici (2) agency-authority agency-rulemaking fifth-amendment government-power legislative-delegation legislative-rulemaking personal-property physical-taking property-rights redressability takings-clause For purposes of the Fifth Amendment's Taking Clause, does a delegation of general legislative rulemaking authority to an agency constitute an inherent…
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?
21-685 Alexander Khochinsky v. Republic of Poland District of Columbia 2021-11-09 Denied Response Waived bad-faith bad-faith-litigation civil-rights diplomatic-immunity extradition foreign-sovereign-immunities-act foreign-sovereign-immunity personal-property religion-ethnicity sovereign-immunity Whether a foreign state that seeks to resolve title to moveable personal property because it is owned by an individual of a particular religion or eth…
21-5994 Choo Washburn v. John Nunez, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-10-19 Denied IFP civil-rights constitution constitutional-interpretation diversity-jurisdiction divorce-proceedings due-process erie-doctrine personal-property property-rights real-property takings 1. Does the meaning of the word, "PROPERTY" that is in the "Due Process Clause" and "Taking Clause", in the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution of th…
21-5270 Robert Stanard v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-08-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights commerce-clause constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process firearms judicial-interpretation legal-challenge personal-property state-law takings 1. Does the taxing powers oF Congress negahes Operson's Possessory Vakeresd in Suineralip of A Ciena, A. Where doos Ivhersioke Commern bean ond end W…
21-5078 James Michael Johnson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-07-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment government-overreach personal-property search-and-seizure Whether the Fourth Circuit erred by failing to find that the District Court erred in denying Mr. Johnson's Motion for Release on Bond pending appeal?
20-8112 Richard Knider Jackson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-05-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP due-process fourth-amendment indefinite-retention personal-property search-and-seizure warrantless-seizure Question not identified.
20-855 Maryland Shall Issue, Inc., et al. v. Lawrence J. Hogan, Jr., Governor of Maryland Fourth Circuit 2020-12-29 Denied Amici (3) certification certification-doctrine constitutional-interpretation due-process horne-v-department-of-agriculture maryland-constitution personal-property property-rights takings-clause 1. Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in ruling that this Court's holding in Horne that appropriations of personal property and real property must be tr…
20-6495 Michael Alford v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-12-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment government-seizure personal-property property-return property-rights riley-v-california search-and-seizure 1. Whether the court erred in refusing to return personal property. 2. Whether a person has a constitutional right to obtain their own "personal and …
20-5351 Terry Alexander Wade v. Stanley Williams, Warden Eleventh Circuit 2020-08-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process personal-property search-and-seizure I. A CERTIFICATE OF APPEALABILITY WAS WRONGFULLY DENIED BY THE ELEVENTH CIRCUIT AS TO THE ISSUES OF CONFLICTED, INEFFECTIVE TRIAL AND APPELLATE/POST C…
19-8254 Samuel Dowell v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-04-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP commerce-clause constitutional-rights consumer-rights due-process eighth-amendment first-amendment fourteenth-amendment personal-property religious-freedom stream-of-commerce takings 1) Can Congress Regulate the private and personal property of the ultimate consumer for eturnity through The Commerce Clause simply because that ite…
19-392 Martin A. Armstrong v. Securities and Exchange Commission, et al. Second Circuit 2019-09-24 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) asset-forfeiture asset-freezing civil-enforcement constitutional-right-to-counsel counsel-of-choice criminal-defendant criminal-procedure due-process parallel-civil-enforcement parallel-proceedings personal-property property-rights right-to-counsel 1. Whether the constitutional right to counsel of choice extends to cases where a criminal defendant's assets are frozen as part of a parallel civil e…
18A1233 Donaveon Lightbourn v. J. Ray Ormond, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-05-29 Presumed Complete correctional-facilities due-process habeas-corpus legal-resources personal-property transfer Whether a federal habeas corpus petitioner's access to legal resources and personal property constitutes a due process violation when transferred betw…
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 defendants violate the plaintiffs' Fourth Amendment rights?
18-530 Congregation Jeshuat Israel v. Congregation Shearith Israel First Circuit 2018-10-24 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) charitable-trusts diversity-jurisdiction erie-doctrine establishment-clause evidence federalism free-exercise free-exercise-clause personal-property property property-dispute religious-liberty secular-evidence trust trust-law In ordinary trust and property disputes, does the Establishment Clause preclude courts from considering secular evidence that is relevant and admissib…
18-6225 Scott Mitchell Bummer v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-10-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-procedure due-process equal-protection standing civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment hearing-absence indefinite-retention motion-to-suppress personal-property telephonic-conference unreasonable-search-and-seizure warrantless-seizure Whether the government's warrantless seizure and indefinite retention of a person's personal property violates the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on u…