police-encounter
10 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25A557 | United States v. Donte J. Carter | District of Columbia | 2025-11-13 | Application | consensual-stop fourth-amendment police-encounter race-consideration reasonable-person seizure | Whether the Fourth Amendment permits consideration of a suspect's race as a factor in determining whether a reasonable person would have felt seized d… | |
| 25-5990 | Tylee Brown v. United States | Third Circuit | 2025-10-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | detention fourth-amendment police-encounter reasonable-suspicion terry-stop vehicle-search | 1. Whether a passenger in a vehicle, who briefly leaves the vehicle during a police encounter, but is contemporaneously detained with the vehicle and … |
| 25-71 | Matthew Farney, et al. v. Michael Rose, as Personal Representative for the Estate of Bradley Rose and on Behalf of all Statutory Beneficiaries of Bradley Rose, Deceased | Ninth Circuit | 2025-07-21 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | deadly-force excessive-force fourth-amendment police-encounter qualified-immunity summary-judgment | 1. This Court has never applied the obvious case exception to qualified immunity's second prong in the Fourth Amendment context. Although the Court ha… |
| 23-5120 | Clim Eugene Murphy Thomas v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-07-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights consensual-encounter consent-search due-process fifth-circuit law-enforcement police-encounter racial-profiling totality-of-circumstances | Whether the Fifth Circuit improperly applied its totality-of-the-circumstances analysis by ignoring race in petitioner's confrontation |
| 19-8486 | Quincy Tremayne Bloodworth v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-05-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights fourth-amendment law-enforcement marijuana-legalization police-encounter probable-cause search-and-seizure standard-of-review unreasonable-seizures | Are minott ties and pool people in America provided adequate protection from unreasonable Searches and Seizures? |
| 19-452 | Gregory Clark v. Austin Clark | Eighth Circuit | 2019-10-04 | Denied | Response Waived | excessive-force fourth-amendment police-encounter reasonable-suspicion seizure voluntary-interaction | Whether a voluntary interaction with police becomes an unconstitutional seizure when the officer runs the subject's ID |
| 19-345 | Dorian Johnson v. City of Ferguson, Missouri, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2019-09-17 | Denied | civil-rights constitutional-rights fourth-amendment move-on-order police-encounter public-space reasonable-person-standard seizure totality-of-circumstances use-of-force | Whether a person can be 'seized' when he is not confined to a particular space | |
| 19-5554 | Andres Soto v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-08-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 5th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights custody due-process fifth-amendment miranda-custody miranda-v-arizona police-encounter reasonable-person-test sixth-amendment | Whether courts must give significant weight to whether an accused person reasonably feels free to leave a police encounter when determining if they ar… |
| 18-1035 | Keithrick Thomas v. Texas | Texas | 2019-02-07 | Denied | curtilage driveway plain-view-exception probable-cause search-and-seizure warrantless-search curtilage fourth-amendment plain-view-doctrine police-encounter probable-cause search-and-seizure standing vehicle-search warrantless-search | Warrantless search of passenger's pockets in driveway violates Fourth Amendment | |
| 18-7256 | Amin De Castro v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-01-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement-interaction police-encounter police-seizure probable-cause reasonable-person reasonable-person-standard seizure terry-stop | whether a reasonable person would feel free to refuse a police officer's polite request to take his hands out of his pockets |