police-powers
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-598 | Vishara Video, Inc., et al. v. City of New York, New York, et al. | Second Circuit | 2025-11-21 | Denied | Response Waived | first-amendment free-expression municipal-ordinance police-powers secondary-effects zoning-restrictions | 1. Where there have been substantial changes in the circumstances since a municipality enacted an ordinance under its police powers that impacts fre… |
| 25-376 | Dustin Thomas House Darden v. Crowd Management Service | Ninth Circuit | 2025-09-30 | Denied | Response Waived | 42-usc-1983 constitutional-accountability first-amendment government-contractors police-powers state-action | Under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, private actors constitute state actors when they exercise governmental authority or act jointly with state officials. Courts h… |
| 24-605 | Jason Dee Taylor v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-12-03 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-statute federalism police-powers sex-trafficking states-rights tenth-amendment | Whether The Government's Application Of A Federal Criminal Statute For Sex Trafficking To The Purely Local Crime Of Prostitution Is An Invasion Of The… |
| 23-7462 | Michael Davis v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-05-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-1958 channels-and-instrumentalities channels-of-interstate-commerce commerce-clause congressional-power instrumentalities-of-interstate-commerce interstate-commerce intrastate-activity murder-for-hire police-powers | Whether an indictment chargi ng murder-for-hi re in violation of 18 USC § 1958 by intrastate use of cellphones and an automobi le exceeds the proper l… |
| 21-1495 | Jimmy Baldea v. City of New York License Division of the NYPD | New York | 2022-05-31 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (2) | 2nd-amendment administrative-procedure civil-rights concealed-carry due-process handgun-regulation law-enforcement licensing-rights police-officer police-powers qualified-immunity | 1. Is License Division empowered to deny an unrestricted concealed carry license to a qualified police officer, as defined by 18 U.S.C. § 926B (2017),… |
| 21-664 | Patrick J. Downey v. City of Toledo, Ohio | Sixth Circuit | 2021-11-04 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights declaratory-judgment due-process federalism fourteenth-amendment home-rule municipal-ordinance police-powers statutory-interpretation | Do federal courts have legal authority to alter or amend the plain meaning of a lawfully-enacted statute of a sovereign state or a lawfully-enacted or… |
| 21-348 | Johnson & Johnson, et al. v. Lynn Fitch, Attorney General of Mississippi, ex rel. Mississippi | Mississippi | 2021-09-03 | Denied | Amici (7) | administrative-law agency-action chevron-deference civil-rights due-process notice-and-comment-rulemaking police-powers preemption preemption-clause state-police-powers statutory-interpretation | 1. In Puerto Rico v. Franklin California Tax-Free Trust, this Court held that courts should "not invoke any presumption against pre-emption" when a "s… |
| 20-518 | Darrius Marcel Mastin v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-10-20 | Denied | arrest-warrant bystander-detention constitutional-law fourth-amendment law-enforcement-authority michigan-v-summers police-powers probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure | Whether Michigan v. Summers, 452 U.S. 692 (1981), authorizes police officers executing an arrest warrant to detain a bystander without individualized … | |
| 20-5390 | Michael Betts v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-08-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment police-investigation police-powers reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop warrantless-search | Whether a police officer inquiring about drugs without reasonable suspicion unconstitutionally broadens a traffic investigation. |
| 19-1265 | Friends of Danny DeVito, et al. v. Tom Wolf, Governor of Pennsylvania, et al. | Pennsylvania | 2020-05-05 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | assembly constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech police-powers takings | Whether the Order exceeded the Governor's permissible scope of his police powers and as such violated Petitioners' rights guaranteed by the U.S. Const… |
| 19-8131 | Dwayne B. Sheron v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-03-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-powers probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure vehicle-search warrantless-search | WHETHER a police officer can utter the magic words "I smelled an odor of marihuana" long after he conducted illegal search of a vehicle to justify sai… |
| 19-6980 | John Lyndon Williamson v. City of Wichita, Kansas | Kansas | 2019-12-17 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | citizenship-clause commerce-clause compelled-commerce constitutional-interpretation criminal-sanction dormant-commerce-clause due-process police-powers presumption-of-innocence supreme-court-precedent tenth-amendment welfare-powers | Whether this courts holding against the individual mandate sanction in NFIB v. Sebelious 567 U S 519, 132, S. Ct. 2566, 183, L Ed 2d 450 (2012) on the… |
| 18-9535 | Alexander Ocasio v. William Perez, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-06-05 | Dismissed | IFP | access-to-courts citizens-arrest constitutional-rights due-process Fifth-Amendment-violation First-Amendment-violation fourteenth-amendment Fourteenth-Amendment-violation fourth-amendment Fourth-Amendment-violation inter-local-agreement judicial-bias jurisdictional-limitations liberty-interest nev-rev-stat-289-350 Ninth-Circuit police-powers property-interest unlawful-arrest warrantless-arrest | Is it a violation of the Fourth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution where it is clear to every reasonable police officer that … |
| 18-8943 | David Raphael Concepcion v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-04-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment arrest arrest-incident constitutional-provision criminal-procedure home home-search law-enforcement maryland-v-buie police-powers protective-sweep search-and-seizure | Whether the holding of Maryland v. Buie applies to protective sweeps incident to arrests made just outside a home |
| 18-8785 | Temarco Sartorio Pope, Jr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2019-04-11 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 2nd-amendment civil-rights concealed-carry criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-powers reasonable-suspicion terry-stop | Whether law enforcement can presume any concealed carry of a firearm is unlawful and conduct a Terry stop when the state statute does not criminalize … |
| 18-1166 | Colton W. Sievers v. Nebraska | Nebraska | 2019-03-08 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 4th-amendment-search-and-seizure constitutional-law criminal-procedure criminal-suspect fourth-amendment information-gathering police-investigative-stop police-powers police-stop reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-stop | Whether Illinois v. Lidster allows the police to stop a criminal suspect without reasonable suspicion on the ground that the stop is merely 'informati… |
| 18-1121 | Captain James Linlor v. Michael Polson | Fourth Circuit | 2019-02-27 | Denied | 4th-amendment bivens bivens-action civil-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment police-powers qualified-immunity sexual-battery tsa tsa-screener tsa-screening | Whether the attested-as-intentional excessive and unreasonable force striking of a cooperative passenger's genitals by a TSA screener not meeting mand… | |
| 18-917 | Michael S. Bent v. Pamela Talkin, Marshal, Supreme Court of the United States, et al. | District of Columbia | 2019-01-15 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | civil-rights constitutional-rights courthouse-procedures due-process police-booth police-powers probable-cause separation-of-powers standing statutory-authority | Does the Chief of Police's Police Booth Operation violate the right to be secure in papers and due process? |
| 18-7195 | Eduardo Gomez v. Illinois | Illinois | 2018-12-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment 4th-amendment-jurisprudence criminal-activity firearm-possession investigatory-seizure police-powers reasonable-suspicion | Does suspected possession of a firearm, on its own, provide a police officer with reasonable suspicion of criminal activity to justify an investigator… |
| 18-5406 | Orlando G. McDaniel v. United States | District of Columbia | 2018-08-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights court-of-appeals exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment police-powers precedent probable-cause scope-of-search search-and-seizure search-warrant seizure | Whether the police exceeded the scope of the search warrant and seized additional items in violation of the Fourth Amendment |