police-discretion
5 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-5280 | Philip J. Marquis v. Massachusetts | Massachusetts | 2025-08-05 | Denied | Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constitutional-rights firearms-licensing interstate-travel nonresident-travelers police-discretion second-amendment | 1. Does Massachusetts' firearms licensing regime, which grants a police colonel the power to deny any nonresident traveler a temporary firearms licens… |
| 24-402 | John Lugo v. Alan Burton, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2024-10-10 | Denied | Response Waived | constitutional-rights first-amendment loitering police-discretion public-space reasonable-restriction | Whether federal appellate circuits are bound by Supreme Court precedent in determining the reasonableness of police officers' actions when restricting… |
| 21-7442 | Aaron Matthew Oleston v. Wisconsin | Wisconsin | 2022-03-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights disorderly-conduct due-process fighting-words first-amendment free-speech law-enforcement police-arrest police-discretion | Does the First Amendment protect the right of the people to approach law enforcement and criticize police actions in an opprobrious manner? |
| 20-7268 | Jason P. Briscoe v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-02-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure fourth-amendment police-discretion pretextual-stop pretextual-stops probable-cause traffic-violation whren-v-united-states | Whether this Court's decision in Whren v. United States, 517 U.S. 806 (1996), which permits pretextual traffic stops so long as the police have probab… |
| 18-5987 | Ajohntae Hammond v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-09-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment circuit-split fourth-amendment officer-safety police-discretion pretext probable-cause qualified-immunity reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure totality-of-circumstances totality-of-the-circumstances warrantless-search | Whether a police officer's fear for safety justified a warrantless search |