| 25-6224 |
Latoya K. Benton, Administrator of the Estate of Xzavier D. Hill, Deceased v. Seth W. Layton, Individually and in His Official Capacity as a State Trooper for the State of Virginia, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-11-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
excessive-force fourth-amendment police-conduct qualified-immunity racial-bias summary-judgment |
1. Whether the Fourth Amendment requires courts to apply a holistic, totality-of-the-circumstances analysis to excessive force claims, including all p… |
| 24-484 |
Michigan v. David Allan Lucynski |
Michigan |
2024-10-31 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
evidence-suppression fourth-amendment legal-mistake police-conduct probable-cause reasonable-standard |
Whether all unreasonable mistakes of law by police constitute deliberate or reckless conduct requiring evidence suppression |
| 24-130 |
Desiree Martinez v. Channon High |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-08-06 |
Denied |
Amici (2) |
circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-violation domestic-violence due-process fair-warning police-conduct police-liability qualified-immunity |
Whether an officer can be fairly warned about the unconstitutionality of her conduct even when the facts of previous cases are not materially identica… |
| 23A891 |
Vicki Baker v. City of McKinney, Texas |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-04-08 |
Presumed Complete |
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civil-rights constitutional-rights equal-protection fourteenth-amendment municipal-liability police-conduct |
Whether a municipality can be held liable under the Fourteenth Amendment for a police officer's alleged violation of a citizen's constitutional rights… |
| 23-991 |
City of Long Beach, New York, et al. v. Ricky Joshua Benny |
Second Circuit |
2024-03-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-court civil-rights clearly-established-law due-process excessive-force law-enforcement police-conduct qualified-immunity |
Whether the Second Circuit departed from this Court's precedents |
| 23-5826 |
Mary Ann German v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2023-10-17 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-law criminal-procedure davis-good-faith-exception exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception judicial-precedent police-conduct retroactivity |
Whether the police get a grace period under the Davis good faith exception after a decision of this Court makes a state statute unconstitutional under… |
| 23-377 |
Chris Dutra, et al. v. Kim Jackson |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-10-11 |
Denied |
|
circuit-court-precedent clearly-established-law excessive-force fourth-amendment ninth-circuit police-conduct qualified-immunity supreme-court-precedent |
Whether this Court's precedents are the only source of clearly established law for purposes of qualified immunity |
| 23-150 |
Ronald Preston Harper v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2023-08-16 |
Denied |
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civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-speech objective-reasonableness police-conduct swatting |
Is it illegal to criticize police in North Carolina? |
| 22-1157 |
Craig Roper v. De'On Crane, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-05-30 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
4th-amendment civil-rights deadly-force excessive-force objective-reasonableness officer-safety police-conduct police-intervention qualified-immunity use-of-force vehicle-stop |
Whether an objective police officer could have believed it reasonable to shoot a person who had warrants for his arrest, had locked the doors and rais… |
| 22-7502 |
Anthony Gilbert-Brown v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-05-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment police-conduct seizure sentencing-guidelines standing supreme-court-review use-of-force |
Whether Third Circuit Court of Appeals erred in affirming Gilbert-Brown was seized |
| 22-978 |
Jackie Jackson v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2023-04-10 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
4th-amendment contraband criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement lower-court-conflict police-conduct precedent probable-cause search search-and-seizure vehicle-search |
Whether a police search of a car occurred under the Fourth Amendment |
| 22-728 |
Daniel Cameron Wilkey, et al. v. William Eugene Klaver |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-02-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights clearly-established-law clearly-established-right fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct qualified-immunity reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop |
Whether the Sixth Circuit defined the right at too high a level of generality |
| 22-164 |
Mark Elliott Stuart v. Douglas Gerlach, Judge, Superior Court of Arizona, Maricopa County, et al. |
Arizona |
2022-08-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech police-conduct prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment speedy-trial vindictive-prosecution |
Whether the State can punish an individual for refusing to obey an unconstitutional order or for peacefully exercising constitutional rights |
| 21-8197 |
Michael James Bosman v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-06-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
alternatives criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement-conduct police-conduct precedent probable-cause reasonableness reasonableness-standard search-and-seizure seizure |
Did the Tenth Circuit misapply this Court's precedent, and wrongly reject Mr. Bosman's Fourth-Amendment-claim, when it dismissed the availability of a… |
| 21-1204 |
City of Chico, California, et al. v. Estate of Tyler S. Rushing, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-03-03 |
Denied |
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arrest-procedure civil-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct qualified-immunity use-of-force |
Does the Fourth Amendment prevent law enforcement officers from deploying a Taser to safely arrest a suspect who violently attacked the officers but w… |
| 21-778 |
Selina Marie Ramirez, et al. v. Jeremias Guadarrama, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-24 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (16) |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force mental-health-crisis motion-to-dismiss police-conduct qualified-immunity section-1983 summary-judgment |
Whether plaintiffs must plead an available alternative that 'would have' avoided harm to defeat a motion to dismiss in a Section 1983 excessive-force … |
| 21-770 |
Shelby Hawkins v. Johnny Banks, III |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-11-24 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights eighth-circuit excessive-force fourth-amendment police-conduct probable-cause qualified-immunity reasonable-force use-of-force |
Whether the use of force was reasonable |
| 21-57 |
Levi Frasier v. Christopher L. Evans, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-07-15 |
Denied |
Amici (7) |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech law-enforcement police-conduct police-recording public-conduct qualified-immunity |
Whether training or law enforcement policies can be relevant to whether a police officer is entitled to qualified immunity |
| 21-5027 |
Shane LaGrange v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-07-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court constitutional-rights exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure law-enforcement police-conduct reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop |
Whether the Fourth Amendment permits reasonable suspicion for a traffic stop based on facts the officers did not believe created reasonable suspicion |
| 20-1766 |
In Re John H. Todd |
|
2021-06-21 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights confession constitutional-safeguards criminal-investigation due-process evidence evidence-exclusion police-conduct search-warrant |
Does Oregon's conflicting statutes on search warrants provide the same level of constitutional safeguards for suspects in a criminal investigation? |
| 20-1668 |
City of Tahlequah, Oklahoma, et al. v. Austin P. Bond, as Special Administrator of the Estate of Dominic F. Rollice, Deceased |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-06-01 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (6)Relisted (4) |
deadly-force fourth-amendment intoxicated-individual officer-safety police-conduct qualified-immunity seizure use-of-force |
Whether use-of-force that is reasonable can nonetheless violate the Fourth-Amendment |
| 20-1607 |
Michigan v. Anthony Michael Owen |
Michigan |
2021-05-19 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment heien-standard legal-uncertainty police-conduct reasonable-mistake-of-law speed-limit traffic-stop |
Should this Court resolve a split on whether Heien v. North Carolina applies to situations where the law is clear but the circumstances make applying … |
| 20-1519 |
Ismael Rivera v. Glennis Gelabert-De-Peguero, et al. |
First Circuit |
2021-04-29 |
Dismissed |
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appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process judicial-doctrine police-conduct police-officer qualified-immunity standing |
Whether Police Officer Ismael Rivera was correctly denied his entitlement to qualified-immunity |
| 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… |
| 20-1247 |
Gerald Dix v. Edelman Financial Services, LLC, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-03-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eviction eviction-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct police-seizure seizure |
Whether the Fourth Amendment protects a person and property from seizure by police using force and threats to arrest to effect an eviction in contrave… |
| 20-715 |
Jibriil A. Hersi v. Ed Sheldon, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-11-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-procedure due-process evidence jury-authorization jury-trial police-conduct police-misconduct prosecutorial-discretion right-to-counsel trial-records |
whether-i-am-entitled-to-get-the-missing-records |
| 20-202 |
Robert Massie v. Basilea Mena |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-08-21 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights clearly-established-law detention excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct qualified-immunity use-of-force |
Whether Officer Massie's actions constituted excessive force in violation of the Fourth Amendment |
| 20-83 |
Jacob Jones, et al. v. Wayne Duke Kalbaugh |
Tenth Circuit |
2020-07-29 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights clearly-established-law excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement objective-reasonableness police-conduct qualified-immunity tenth-circuit |
Did the Tenth Circuit improperly focus on the knowledge and intentions of the suspect, rather than the facts knowable to the officers, in reversing th… |
| 19-1266 |
H. B., a Minor, Individually and as Successor in Interest to Michelle Lee Shirley, By and Through His Guardian ad Litem, Ronnie Shirley v. City of Torrance, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-05-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment civil-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment objective-reasonableness police-conduct qualified-immunity scott-v-harris summary-judgment use-of-force |
In a 42 USC § 1983 action where videos capturing the claimed use of excessive force are open to multiple interpretations as to whether the use of leth… |
| 19-1067 |
Neal N. Browder, et al. v. S. R. Nehad, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-28 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights deadly-force due-process emergency-response fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct police-shooting qualified-immunity use-of-force |
Did the Ninth Circuit err in denying qualified immunity to a police officer who responded to a midnight emergency call about a suspect threatening oth… |
| 19-889 |
Kaufman County, Texas, et al. v. Eunice J. Winzer, Individually and on Behalf of the Statutory Beneficiaries of Gabriel A. Winzer, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-01-16 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fifth-circuit law-enforcement police-conduct qualified-immunity summary-judgment use-of-force |
Did the Fifth Circuit panel majority err in reversing Kaufman County's summary judgment after concluding Officer Hinds did not violate clearly establi… |
| 19-7171 |
Samuel Turner v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-01-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arrest civil-rights conviction-and-sentence criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-4th-amendment-search-and-seizur drug-possession due-process exculpatory-evidence fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure investigative-reports police-conduct probable-cause search-and-seizure subpoena-duces-tecum supervisory-power |
Whether the lower courts erred by upholding the arrest of Mr. Turner? |
| 19-7043 |
John A. Toth v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-12-20 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
4th-amendment abuse-of-discretion attenuation civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining police-conduct post-conviction-relief |
Whether police custodial interrogation on less than probable cause for arrest held violative of 18 U.S.C. §§ 241-242 and Petitioner's 4th Amendment ri… |
| 19-6924 |
William D. Thomas v. Mark McCullick, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-12-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bail civil-procedure confrontation confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification identification indictment officer-activity police-conduct preliminary-hearing warrant-inquiry whether a state's failure to meet the reciprocal r |
Whether an identification resulting from a show-up confrontation during a preliminary hearing raised by prior police activity is sufficient to warrant… |
| 19-694 |
Heather Baker, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Kyle Baker, Deceased v. City of Trenton, Michigan, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-12-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment home-invasion police-conduct police-procedure search-and-seizure second-amendment self-defense standing warrantless-search |
Whether the Second Amendment right to bear arms precludes warrantless home searches based on lawful firearm possession |
| 19-609 |
Erin J. Shepherd, et al. v. Angela Studdard |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-11-12 |
Denied |
Relisted (3) |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct qualified-immunity sixth-circuit summary-judgment use-of-force |
Whether police officers are entitled to qualified immunity for shooting a knife-wielding suspect on open ground based on a case involving a shooting-t… |
| 19-327 |
Jaonte Hairston v. Ohio, et al. |
Ohio |
2019-09-10 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
aggregate-facts constitutional-rights fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-reasonableness law-enforcement limited-search police-conduct reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-stop |
Whether facts that do not individually show or permit an inference of a connection between a person and a crime that had been committed nearby may, in… |
| 19-5736 |
Khalida Jalaly Ahadzadah v. Superior Court of California, Contra Costa County |
California |
2019-08-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech police-conduct police-misconduct standing unlawful-arrest |
Whether the Concord Police Dept. violated the petitioner's constitutional rights by not providing proof of the alleged violations |
| 19-222 |
Paul Anthony Valderas v. City of Lubbock, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-08-20 |
Denied |
|
4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights deadly-force due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct police-use-of-force qualified-immunity reasonable-force reasonable-inference use-of-force |
Whether an officer on the scene constrained by what he observes to use any force creates a reasonable inference that deadly force is excessive? |
| 19-39 |
Quintin Antonio Bell v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-07-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
5th-amendment categorical-match criminal-procedure custody due-process fifth-amendment interrogation miranda-interrogation miranda-v-arizona officer-subjective-test police-conduct sentencing-enhancement state-court-prosecution |
Whether the court of appeals correctly applied a subjective, officer-focused test to determine whether a suspect was interrogated for purposes of Mira… |
| 18-1326 |
Justin Shultz, et al. v. Jason Cole |
Third Circuit |
2019-04-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights clearly-established-law due-process first-amendment individual-assessment law-enforcement legal-standard police-conduct qualified-immunity retaliation summary-judgment |
When multiple police officers seek qualified immunity on a summary judgment motion, their entitlement to qualified immunity should be evaluated indivi… |
| 18-8784 |
DiAngelo Johnson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-justice due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct pretextual-stops racial-profiling traffic-stops whren-v-united-states |
Should this Court overrule Whren? |
| 18-8146 |
Jamie Geer v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-02-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment interstate-police-action jurisdiction jurisdictional-violation minor-consent out-of-state-jurisdiction police-conduct wire-communication wiretap-act |
Whether the minors consent for the interception of wire communication is legally and constitutionally valid, when secured by police acting outside of … |
| 18-924 |
Michael Antonio Bullock v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2019-01-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-limits due-process fourth-amendment mission-scope police-conduct police-investigation reasonable-duration rodriguez-v-united-states traffic-stop |
Whether any activities unrelated to the mission of a traffic stop inherently prolong it, and what activities fall within the mission of a stop? |
| 18-913 |
Joshua Brennan v. James Dawson, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-01-15 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (9) |
civil-liability civil-procedure civil-rights common-law constitutional-rights due-process law-enforcement liability police-conduct qualified-immunity reasonable-reliance |
Whether a police officer may reasonably rely on a narrow exception to a specific and clearly established right to shield him from civil liability when… |
| 18-6203 |
Larry Hayes v. Marvin Plumley, Warden |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-10-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
5th-amendment confession-evidence criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation due-process false-confession miranda-rights miranda-waiver miranda-warning police-conduct police-interrogation voluntariness |
What constitutes a promise of leniency that destroys the voluntariness of a subsequent confession? |
| 18-323 |
Suzan Evans, Individually and as Wife and Next of Kin of Scott Evans, Deceased v. United States, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-09-12 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split constitutional-law excessive-force fourth-amendment graham-v-connor police-conduct reasonableness-standard tennessee-v-garner totality-of-circumstances use-of-force |
Whether the totality of the circumstances test for assessing the reasonableness of a use of force under Tennessee v. Garner and Graham v. Connor requi… |
| 18-236 |
Paul Weddle v. Alan Nutzman, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct qualified-immunity seizure standing use-of-force |
Whether there was clearly established precedent that the officers' use of force against Weddle, who had surrendered and posed no immediate threat, vio… |
| 18-5613 |
Ladina Sykes v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2018-08-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law custody fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct private-individual search-and-seizure state-action state-actors |
Whether on-duty police officers are state actors for Fourth Amendment purposes when they assist a private individual in searching a suspect in police … |
| 18-46 |
City of Middletown, Connecticut, et al. v. William McKinney |
Second Circuit |
2018-07-09 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
4th-amendment active-resistance civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-rights detainee-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct qualified-immunity reasonable-officer use-of-force |
Did the Second Circuit Court of Appeals improperly find a constitutional violation in failing to consider the reasonableness of the use of force from … |