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25-711 Deborah Cooney v. San Diego Gas & Electric, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-12-18 Pending Response Waived constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment free-speech privacy smart-grid Whether the federally-mandated Smart Grid violates constitutional rights through potential infringements on privacy, free speech, religious freedom, a…
25A686 Demetrius Green v. United States District of Columbia 2025-12-11 Application fourth-amendment law-enforcement pole-camera privacy search-and-seizure surveillance Whether the use of a long-term pole camera surveilling the back door of a private residence constitutes a Fourth Amendment search requiring a warrant
25A687 Fort Bend Independent School District v. Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas Texas 2025-12-11 Application cell-phone-logs constitutional-privacy fourth-amendment government-employees privacy telephone-records Whether the Fourth Amendment and the Telephone Records and Privacy Act prohibit compelled disclosure of government employees' personal cell phone call…
24-5185 George Gaio Mano v. Janet Yellen, Secretary of the Treasury, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-07-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP 10th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 9th-amendment bank-secrecy bank-secrecy-act constitutional-privacy data-collection foreign-bank-account-report fourth-amendment privacy privacy-rights Does the US government's mass collection of private banking data violate the 4th, 5th, 9th, and 10th Amendments?
24-5115 Jima Brown v. New York New York 2024-07-19 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment investigative-suspicion law-enforcement privacy probable-cause search-and-seizure warrantless-search Question not identified
24-5107 Myron Motley v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-07-18 Denied IFP 4th-amendment fourth-amendment jurisdictional-split law-enforcement medical-records prescription-data prescription-drugs privacy privacy-expectation search-and-seizure Whether patients hold a reasonable expectation of privacy under the Fourth Amendment in prescription medication records
24-5099 Brandan C. Bellamy v. Chanse Houghton, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-07-17 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process hipaa hipaa-privacy malicious-prosecution privacy section-1983 standing summary-dismissal Whether Petitioner should be given another chance to make another amended complaint
24-5001 Tito Lemont Knox v. Jeffrey Krueger, Warden Fourth Circuit 2024-07-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-claim criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-law habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance privacy probable-cause search-and-seizure state-court-review Question not identified
23-1366 Jenny Jing, et al. v. Joseph Womack, et al. Montana 2024-07-02 Denied adversary-rights constitutional-rights domestic-partner first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech petition-to-redress-grievances privacy probate-court unauthorized-practice-of-law Did the Montana Supreme Court overlook a violation of First and Fourteenth Amendment rights, specifically concerning free-speech, petition-to-redress-…
23-7475 Steve Podkulski v. Illinois Illinois 2024-05-15 Denied IFP 4th-amendment cell-phone-data civil-rights constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction legal-document petition privacy search-and-seizure supreme-court writ-of-certiorari Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable …
23-7413 Adonis Marquis Perry v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-05-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-phone cell-phone-privacy consent constitutional-rights fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation law-enforcement privacy search-and-seizure third-party-consent warrantless-search Whether a third party's personal use and physical possession of Petitioner's cell phone transfer authority to the third party to consent to law enforc…
23-7395 Wesley Carl Panighetti v. California California 2024-05-07 Denied IFP appellate-jurisdiction appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech judicial-review legal-precedent privacy standing statutory-interpretation Whether the state courts' determination of the facts of this case was objectively reasonable?
23-1183 California Herbal Remedies, Inc. v. Sara Perez California 2024-05-02 Denied attorney-client-confidentiality cannabis-employees cannabis-employment class-action controlled-substances discovery-sanctions due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-integrity privacy privacy-rights Does the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process Clause vindicate third-party privacy rights in State class action proceedings?
23-7275 Charles Gary Singletary, III v. Terrie Wallace, Warden Fourth Circuit 2024-04-19 Denied IFP cell-phone-data constitutional-provisions due-process fourth-amendment jurisdiction legal-procedure privacy search-and-seizure standing supreme-court writ Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment
23-7168 Robert J. Plato, Jr. v. Indiana Indiana 2024-04-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment airport-screening civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment privacy search-and-seizure standing tsa-procedures unreasonable-search Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits the warrantless seizure of a person's cell phone data from a third-party service provider
23-7117 Robert Swint v. Supreme Court of the United States, et al. Third Circuit 2024-04-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-phone-data constitutional-law due-process fourth-amendment privacy search-and-seizure Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable …
23-7065 Michael Adam Carmody v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-03-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-site-location fourth-amendment home-surveillance ip-address ip-address-records privacy privacy-interest property property-rights search warrantless-search Whether the warrantless seizure of a person's historical IP address records, which includes their conduct within their homes, violates an individual's…
23-6700 Courtney Green v. Walt Disney Company Ninth Circuit 2024-02-08 Dismissed IFP civil-rights electronic-surveillance harassment non-consensual-monitoring privacy privacy-invasion reasonable-privacy spyware surveillance voyeurism Question not identified
23-6705 Lamar Lovett v. Texas Texas 2024-02-08 Denied IFP cell-phone-data civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment privacy search-and-seizure Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable …
23-6554 Darlene Feiste v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights competent-counsel constitutional-rights court-appointed-counsel due-process employment-discrimination freedom law-enforcement-misconduct liberty privacy Question not identified
23-759 Gary Eugene Maddox, Jr. v. Maryland Parole Commission, et al. Fourth Circuit 2024-01-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) affidavit civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment parole perjury privacy privacy-violation tracking-without-permission Did chairman David R Blumberg unlawfully and knowingly commit perjury?
23-6294 Gregory I. Ezeani v. Bridgett Kelly, Union County College Human Resources Division Third Circuit 2023-12-18 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process employment-records impersonation legal-procedure privacy privacy-rights subpoena subpoena-fraud unlawful-search Whether the pro se's constitutional rights under the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Fourteenth Amendments were violated by the unauthorized disclosure of h…
23-6295 Gregory I. Ezeani v. Jeffrey S. McClain Third Circuit 2023-12-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights document-theft due-process federal-procedure fraud impersonation privacy privacy-rights subpoena-fraud Whether the attorney's use of fraudulent means to obtain the plaintiff's personal employment records without consent violated the plaintiff's due proc…
23-6264 Ignacio Salcido, Jr. v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-12-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-phones data-collection digital-privacy fourth-amendment privacy search-and-seizure Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment
23-6213 Robert Poliero, aka Charlie v. United States First Circuit 2023-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-phone-data civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment privacy search-and-seizure Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable …
23-496 Sharan Garlapati v. Brigham & Women's Hospital, et al. First Circuit 2023-11-09 Denied Response Waived access-to-courts civil-rights coercion constitutional-protections cyberstalking due-process obstruction-of-justice privacy privacy-rights stalking-by-proxy Does the fundamental right to privacy still exist in our modern digital age, and do conspiracies against civil-rights, cyberstalking, stalking-by-prox…
23-5985 Russell Wayne Bullock v. Pete Bludworth, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-11-09 Denied IFP cell-phone-data digital-privacy fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence privacy search-and-seizure Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable …
23-5963 John Roberts v. Jason Hollar, Chief Executive Officer of Cardinal Health, et al. Ohio 2023-11-06 Denied IFP bodily-integrity chips civil-rights consumer-protection due-process illegal-search illegal-seizure legal-claim manufacturing-defect privacy product-liability Whether the petitioner has standing to challenge the alleged involuntary implantation of RFID chips
23-5748 James M. Holman v. Ohio Adult Parole Authority Ohio 2023-10-11 Denied IFP but no text was provided for analysis. Without th but no text was provided for me to analyze. Witho I cannot generate the requested output. If you wo please provide the full text of the petition. 4th-amendment 4th-amendment-jurisprudence cell-phone-data digital-privacy privacy search-and-seizure Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on unreasonable sear…
23-5676 Terry Wayne King, II v. Texas Texas 2023-09-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment criminal-procedure employer-property employment fourth-amendment incarceration privacy privacy-expectation search-and-seizure transportation trucking-industry Does a person have a legitimate expectation of privacy in a tractor trailer truck cab that serves as his home while he is on the road working for an e…
23-5525 Clarence B. Jackson v. Mark Goodwin, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-09-06 Dismissed IFP 14th-amendment civil-rights color-of-law due-process judicial-conspiracy palko-v-connecticut privacy property-rights Does the State Court Judge, Mark Goodwin and the other defendants First Financial Bank and Davis and Delanois Law Firm have the right to invade Claren…
23-5144 In Re Donald Lynn Martin 2023-07-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP cell-phone-data fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence privacy reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable …
23-5021 Jerry A. Smith v. John Galipeau, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-07-03 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process free-speech humane-treatment privacy security Possible violation of civil rights
22-7782 Stephanie Morgan v. Prime Wimbledon SPE, LLC, et al. Oregon 2023-06-13 Denied Relisted (3)IFP covid-19 covid-19-shutdowns disability-discrimination fourteenth-amendment housing-protections mental-health-disability privacy privacy-rights reasonable-accommodation reasonable-accommodations Whether COVID-19 shutdowns, along with proof of a Mental Health Disability and Reasonable Accommodations on file with the landlord, allow the tenant p…
22-7759 Shirley Douglas v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-06-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-protection contract contract-law due-process government-intrusion medical-consent medical-privacy plea-agreement privacy Is a plea proffer agreement and defense counsel retainer fee agreement legally enforceable contracts?
22-7720 Toni Marie Davis v. University of Maryland, et al. Maryland 2023-06-06 Denied IFP bodily-autonomy civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process experimental-vaccine medical-privacy privacy public-university vaccine-mandate Did the University of Maryland including Towson University break the laws by mandating/making a new law forcing their employees and students to tell t…
22-7656 In Re Brad Edmonds 2023-05-26 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment gps-tracking habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-negotiations privacy search-and-seizure standing Whether the warrantless installation and use of a GPS tracking device on a vehicle violates the Fourth Amendment
22-7150 Courtney Green v. Fox Corporation Second Circuit 2023-03-30 Denied IFP civil-rights cyber-stalking defamation defamation-of-character invasion-of-privacy media-exploitation non-consensual-monitoring privacy racketeering surveillance unfair-business-practices Whether repeated actions over time arguably abandon coincidence and prove to be the product of orchestrated and intentional scenarios
22-7151 Courtney Green v. ABC Entertainment Inc. Second Circuit 2023-03-30 Denied IFP civil-rights cyber-stalking data-collection defamation electronic-communications-privacy invasion-of-privacy non-consensual-monitoring privacy racketeering surveillance Whether repeated actions over time arguably abandon coincidence and prove to be the product of orchestrated and intentional scenarios
22-6995 Matthew Patrick Langenberg v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-03-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment apparent-authority cell-phone cell-phone-privacy consent consent-search fourth-amendment privacy riley-precedent search warrantless warrantless-search Whether an employer has 'apparent authority' to consent to a complete search, including a forensic examination, of an employee's cell phone based upon…
22-6949 Christopher Maurice McDowell v. Carlton W. Reeves Fifth Circuit 2023-03-07 Denied IFP cell-phone-data fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence privacy reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable …
22-6948 Robert E. Spiker v. Robert E. Erskines, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-03-06 Denied IFP cell-phone-data constitutional-claims deliberate-indifference digital-privacy federal-jurisdiction fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence habeas-corpus medical-care prisoner-rights privacy search-and-seizure Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable …
22-6832 James L. Mahaffey v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2023-02-22 Denied IFP cell-phones criminal-procedure digital-evidence fourth-amendment privacy search-and-seizure Whether the government's warrantless search of a person's cell phone violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable searches and seiz…
22-6473 Michael Dewayne Dennis v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-01-06 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment privacy privacy-rights reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search sentencing-disparities surveillance warrantless-search whether-long-term-police-use-of-a-surveillance-camera-is-a-fourth-amendment-search
22-609 Carsten Igor Rosenow, aka Carlos Senta v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-01-04 Denied Response Waived circuit-split electronic-communication electronic-communications fourth-amendment government-action privacy private-search search-and-seizure statutory-interpretation Whether the Ninth Circuit's rigid multi-pronged test for determining government action in relation to electronic communication service providers compo…
22-6312 Kristian Jones v. United States Third Circuit 2022-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment circuit-split constitutional-law criminal-procedure fourth-amendment hotel-guest hotel-guest-rights privacy reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure standing Whether there is a reasonable expectation of privacy in the hotel room of a non-registered guest
22-6271 Courtney Green v. Midwest Genealogy Center Eighth Circuit 2022-12-09 Denied IFP civil-rights cyber-stalking cybersecurity data-disclosure electronic-communications electronic-communications-privacy-act invasion-of-privacy personal-information-breach privacy stored-communications-act unfair-business-practices Whether these actions repeated in sequence over a course of time support claims of improper use of company software to carry out direct violations of …
22-6272 Courtney Green v. Kansas City Public Library, Trails West Branch Eighth Circuit 2022-12-09 Denied IFP civil-rights cyber-stalking cybersecurity data-protection defamation electronic-communications invasion-of-privacy personal-information-disclosure privacy privacy-violation unfair-business-practices Whether these actions repeated in sequence over a course of time support claims of improper use of company software to carry out direct violations of …
22-6273 Courtney Green v. Kansas City Public Library, Waldo Branch Eighth Circuit 2022-12-09 Denied IFP civil-rights cyber-stalking cybersecurity electronic-communications-privacy electronic-communications-privacy-act information-security invasion-of-privacy personal-information-disclosure privacy stored-communications-act unfair-business-practices Whether these actions repeated in sequence over a course of time support claims of improper use of company software to carry out direct violations of …
22-6127 In Re Harry Sur Green, III, et ux. 2022-11-21 Denied IFP cell-phone-data fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence privacy reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure Whether the government's warrantless seizure of a person's cell phone location data violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable se…
22-6075 Raheem Davis, aka Raheen Davis v. United States Second Circuit 2022-11-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-phone-data constitutional-law fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence privacy search-and-seizure Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable …
22-5898 Daren W. Phillips v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-10-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights fourth-amendment government-search physical-trespass privacy privacy-expectation property-rights search-and-seizure search-warrant trespass Whether a wholly privacy-based exception to the Fourth Amendment's search warrant requirement can apply to exempt the government's search when it is a…
22-354 Lorenzo Shelton v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-10-14 Denied Response Waived cell-phone-search circuit-split fourth-amendment law-enforcement parolee parolee-search privacy privacy-protection residence search standing Whether the Fourth Amendment's privacy protections prevent law enforcement from searching places where a parolee has standing but are not unambiguousl…
22-355 Kathy Lynn Carter v. Department of Defense Federal Circuit 2022-10-14 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure agency-action cell-phone-data due-process fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence merit-system privacy reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure telework-agreement unexcused-leave Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on unreasonable sear…
22-5573 Anne P. Mulligan v. Alaska, et al. Alaska 2022-09-14 Denied IFP civil-rights corruption criminal-investigation due-process hipaa hipaa-violation hospital-records medical-privacy privacy sovereign-immunity Whether the respondent's conduct in investigating the petitioner and making allegations against her violated her constitutional rights, including her …
22-5205 Layla Coriz v. New Mexico New Mexico 2022-07-27 Denied IFP cell-phone-data due-process fourth-amendment privacy search-and-seizure standing Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable …
22-5065 O. L. v. Liliana Jara, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-07-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-phone-search consent digital-duplication fourth-amendment possessory-interest privacy search-and-seizure seizure When a crime victim's cell phone is searched, what is the scope of consent?
22-27 Alyssa Jones v. Riot Hospitality Group, LLC, nka Noatoz LLC, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-07-08 Denied Response Waived appellate-jurisdiction cell-phone-privacy cell-phones civil-litigation civil-rights due-process injunctive-relief privacy privacy-interests riley-v-california standing sua-sponte-order Whether orders requiring the turn over of cell phones for cloning and global searching have the practical effect of granting or denying an injunction …
22-5044 Richard Anthony Siler v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-07-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights consumer-protection data-protection direct-appeal due-process frivolous-claims habeas-corpus judicial-procedure privacy standing writ-of-certiorari Is it legal for a legitimate leads company to sell personal identities under any circumstance?
21-8275 James Lawrence v. Hearst Communications, Inc. Second Circuit 2022-06-29 Denied IFP arrest-reporting civil-rights criminal-characterization defamation due-process free-speech journalistic-ethics media-defamation media-law privacy substantial-truth warrant-interpretation Can a media organization repeatedly dox a past arrest insinuating conviction without clarifying if the arrest ever became a conviction?
21-8037 Larry Blakney v. South Carolina Law Enforcement Division, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-06-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights due-process electronic-privacy fourth-amendment privacy probable-cause search-and-seizure standing traffic-stop warrantless-search Whether the court erred in allowing the warrantless surveillance and search of the petitioner's cell, which violated his Fourth Amendment rights
21-8023 Xingfei Luo v. California California 2022-06-01 Denied IFP content-based-restriction content-based-restrictions dating-relationship effective-assistance-of-counsel first-amendment fourteenth-amendment nude-photography nudity privacy privacy-expectation Where an individual does not have a reasonable expectation of privacy in an image, the State's interest in protecting the individual's privacy interes…
21-1481 John Destin Alexander v. Department of the Army, et al. Fourth Circuit 2022-05-25 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process freedom-of-speech government-overreach imprisonment involuntary-servitude privacy privacy-violation Can the government impose and maintain thirty years of involuntary servitude imprisonment upon an American citizen without filing any charges against …
21-7934 Robert Cash Scheuerman v. Kansas Kansas 2022-05-20 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment fourth-amendment passenger-rights privacy probable-cause search-and-seizure standing vehicle-search Whether passengers are categorically unable to challenge the search of a car in which they are the riding unless they can show an ownership or possess…
21-7779 Gilberto Juarez v. California California 2022-05-04 Denied Relisted (2)IFP cell-phone-data digital-privacy fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence privacy search-and-seizure Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable …
21-1308 J. Martin Robertson v. Larkspur Courts, et al. California 2022-03-31 Denied Response Waived due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment medicaid medicare medicare-reporting privacy settlement-disclosure social-security social-security-privacy Whether Section 111 of the Medicare, Medicaid, and SCHIP Extension Act of 2007 requires settlement or judgment debtors to report the Social Security n…
21-1289 Foster Taft v. Ventura County Medical Center, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-03-24 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process federal-regulation hipaa hipaa-privacy privacy privacy-act private-cause-of-action private-right-of-action state-actor Does 42 U.S.C. §1983 confer a private cause of action for privacy violations of HIPAA, in particular 164.502(a)?
21-7417 James Ray Davis v. Christopher Morledge, Judge, et al. Eighth Circuit 2022-03-18 Denied IFP cell-phone-data civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment privacy search-and-seizure Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable …
21-7100 Alkiohn Dunkins v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2022-02-10 Denied IFP cellsite-information constitutional-protections criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement privacy privacy-rights search-and-seizure standing Whether the lower courts erred by denying the petitioner's motion to suppress cell-site information
21-6994 Fernando Lara v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-01-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-phone exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment privacy probable-cause search-and-seizure Whether the result of an alleged search of Petitioner's cell phone violated his Fourth Amendment rights
21-6912 Jamar Jones v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-01-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review cell-phone-data constitutional-rights counsel-performance criminal-procedure fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence ineffective-assistance plea-withdrawal privacy reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable …
21-6913 Timothy Dewayne Littlejohn v. Sergeant Bowman, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-01-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP cell-phone-data complaint-amendment digital-privacy district-court-discretion fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence judicial-error leave-to-amend privacy pro-se-pleading procedural-due-process search-and-seizure Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable …
21-6783 Broderick J. Warfield v. Department of the Air Force, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-01-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights discrimination due-process employment employment-retaliation federal-tort national-origin privacy privacy-act race-discrimination retaliation Whether a claim of race discrimination under 42 U.S.C. § 1981 fails in the absence of but-for causation
21-6600 Willis Wheeler v. United States Third Circuit 2021-12-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split fourth-amendment key-insertion law-enforcement multi-unit-dwelling privacy probable-cause reasonable-expectation search warrantless-search Whether a law enforcement officer's warrantless insertion of keys into a locked apartment door, within a secured multi-unit dwelling, to gain informat…
21-617 Christopher N. Payne v. Jahal Taslimi, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-10-27 Denied Amici (2)Response Waived circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment inmate-privacy medical-confidentiality penological-interests prejudice privacy qualified-immunity Do inmates have a constitutional right to privacy in their HIV status?
21-541 Travis Tuggle v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-10-13 Denied Amici (6) curtilage fourth-amendment home home-privacy law-enforcement privacy search search-and-seizure surveillance Whether long-term, continuous, and surreptitious video surveillance of a home and its curtilage constitutes a search under the Fourth Amendment
21-5902 Alhakka Campbell v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-10-05 Denied IFP cell-phone-search cell-phones digital-privacy electronic-data-seizure fourth-amendment law-enforcement-search particularity-requirement privacy search-and-seizure warrant-particularity warrant-requirements Whether a warrant that authorizes police to seize a smart phone and search it for 'all electronic data' is invalid because it is insufficiently partic…
21-5707 Jamaal Gittens v. Melissa T. Pavlack, Judge, Court of Common Pleas of Pennsylvania, Lehigh County Third Circuit 2021-09-17 Denied Relisted (2)IFP cell-phone-data fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence privacy reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable …
21-5679 Toye Tutis v. United States Third Circuit 2021-09-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-site-simulator criminal-procedure fourth-amendment plea-agreement plea-bargaining privacy privacy-rights search-and-seizure wiretap wiretap-order Whether employment of a 'cell-site simulator' constituted a Fourth Amendment violation?
21-5602 Charles E. Garza, Jr. v. Nebraska Nebraska 2021-09-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment constitutional-rights expectation-of-privacy fourth-amendment privacy probable-cause residence search-and-seizure vehicle-search warrant warrant-scope Whether petitioner had expectation of privacy in parked vehicle
21-5506 Michael G. Peters v. Dinah Huffman, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-08-27 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process free-speech privacy standing takings Whether the right to informational privacy is protected by the Constitution
21-5487 Norman Michael Achin v. Virginia Virginia 2021-08-26 Denied IFP 4th-amendment 6th-amendment due-process electronic-surveillance fourth-amendment impersonation law-enforcement-conduct privacy privacy-rights warrant-requirement Does intercepting private electronic messages and cell phone communications without a warrant by impersonating another adult or by impersonating an im…
21-208 Merrilee Stewart v. IHT Insurance Agency Group, LLC Welfare Benefits Plan, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-08-12 Denied affordable-care-act americans-with-disabilities-act arbitration civil-rights constitutional-protections disability-rights due-process employment-law erisa privacy Question not identified
21-5323 Scott Trader v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-08-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP carpenter-v-united-states cell-phone-records fourth-amendment government-surveillance ip-address privacy privacy-rights search search-and-seizure warrantless-search Whether the Government conducts a search under the Fourth Amendment when it accesses historical I.P. address records for a mobile app that provide a c…
21-123 Marguerite T. Martin v. Teleperformance Inc. Eleventh Circuit 2021-07-29 Denied Response Waived americans-with-disabilities-act civil-rights disability disability-rights employment employment-discrimination medical-condition privacy reasonable-accommodation security-breach termination wrongful-termination Whether the plaintiff's anemia condition and privacy concerns were properly considered in the termination of her employment due to a security breach
21-5205 Eddie Mendia v. Abby Harman, et al. Kansas 2021-07-26 Denied IFP civil-liberties civil-rights due-process equal-protection geolocation-tracking privacy privacy-rights probable-cause racial-justice search-warrant virtual-trespass Whether private citizens require probable cause and search warrants to obtain geolocation data, lacking these amounts to violating constitutional righ…
20-1646 Steven K. Stanley v. Angel Quiros, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Correction Connecticut 2021-05-26 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment criminal-procedure evidence fourth-amendment habeas-corpus phone-number-obfuscation privacy privacy-expectation res-judicata search-and-seizure Does the intentional use of the *67 feature create a justifiable expectation of privacy?
20-7662 Jaime Luevano v. Lee Yeakel, Judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-04-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process privacy standing surveillance Whether the government's warrantless surveillance of a person's location and movements through their cell phone violates the Fourth Amendment's protec…
20-7568 L. E. Pauli Coffey v. South Carolina Seventh Circuit 2021-03-25 Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection privacy sovereign-immunity standing Do Americans have the inalienable 14th Amendment right to Due Process?
20-7542 Calvin Lewis Carter, III v. Illinois Illinois 2021-03-23 Denied IFP court-procedure criminal-procedure defendant-rights evidentiary-rulings fourth-amendment judicial-interpretation legal-challenge privacy procedural-rules search seizure standing Whether the petitioner's observation of 'by' char' from outside a residential building violates the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on unreasonable sea…
20-1275 Vesuvius USA Corporation, et al. v. Royston Phillips Ohio 2021-03-15 Denied blocking-statutes comity comity-principles data-privacy foreign-discovery gdpr hague-convention international-discovery privacy u.s.-discovery When compliance with discovery obligations in an American court is prohibited by the General Data Privacy Regulation, whether principles of comity req…
20-7319 Jamaa I. Johnson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-03-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-phone-data fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence privacy reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable …
20-1198 Jerry Wiltz v. Texas Texas 2021-03-01 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment abandonment abandonment-doctrine cell-phone cell-phone-privacy civil-rights fourth-amendment privacy privacy-rights search-and-seizure standing warrant-requirement Whether a person can abandon their privacy right to an item by merely leaving it behind without evidence of intentional abandonment
20-7241 Rene Gosselin v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2021-02-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-defendant evidence-law fourth-amendment medical-records privacy privacy-rights standing third-party-doctrine Does a criminal defendant have a Fourth Amendment right of privacy in his medical provider's records, such that the Third Party Doctrine does not appl…
20-1123 Lenwood Hamilton v. Lester Speight, et al. Third Circuit 2021-02-16 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights commercial-speech first-amendment free-speech likeness-rights privacy privacy-rights property-rights right-of-publicity transformative-use video-game-law Whether the First Amendment right to free speech protects using a person's actual likeness without permission when weighed against that person's prope…
20-7154 Robert Earl Ramseur v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-02-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence-seizure government-surveillance judicial-misconduct mental-health privacy racial-discrimination sentencing veterans-rights Whether the systematic circulation of a private loan statement among multiple agencies with a personal photo (a practice of prejudice) violates the 4t…
20-1075 John Robert Reichard, et ux. v. Russell A. Brown, Chapter 13 Trustee Ninth Circuit 2021-02-08 Denied administrative-law administrative-procedure bankruptcy bankruptcy-procedure chapter-13-bankruptcy due-process federal-statutory-interpretation local-rules privacy privacy-protection tax-return-confidentiality tax-returns Whether the privacy protections due Chapter 13 bankruptcy debtors' income tax returns can be denied by a local rule of bankruptcy procedure
20-6989 Rodney Louis Sims v. Kimberly A. Seibel, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-phone-data criminal-appeal due-process evidence-admissibility fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence ninth-circuit privacy prosecutorial-conduct reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure witness-testimony Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on unreasonable sear…
20-6725 Larry Durant v. South Carolina South Carolina 2020-12-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation cell-phone-data criminal-sexual-conduct digital-privacy fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence judicial-instruction jury-coercion privacy search-and-seizure sixth-amendment trial-procedure Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable …
20-6704 Agustin Calderon v. Texas Texas 2020-12-23 Denied IFP cell-phone-data digital-privacy fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence privacy search-and-seizure Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable …
20-6678 Larry David Davis v. Dexter Payne, Director, Arkansas Department of Correction Eighth Circuit 2020-12-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process government-surveillance privacy standing Whether the government's seizure and retention of an individual's personal information without a warrant violates the Fourth Amendment's protections a…
20-6648 Gezo Goeong Edwards, aka Gezo Edwards, aka Zo v. United States District of Columbia 2020-12-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment habeas-corpus privacy search-and-seizure standing state-court-conviction Whether the government's warrantless acquisition of cell-site location information violates the Fourth Amendment
20-6544 Randall S. Overton v. Matt Macauley, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-phone-data fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence privacy reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable …
20-6392 Peter Gakuba v. United States District of Columbia 2020-11-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights declaratory-relief electronic-communications federal-circuit-court privacy privacy-protection search-and-seizure standing statutory-interpretation telecommunications Whether the Carpenter v. United States decision extends to cell-site location information obtained from a third-party cell phone provider without a wa…
20-6265 Alfredo Aguilar Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-11-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment border-search cell-phone cell-phone-privacy forensic-examination fourth-amendment privacy riley-precedent riley-v-california warrant warrantless-search Whether a warrantless forensic search of a cell phone at a border port of entry is an unreasonable search
20-6200 Randall Gray Webb v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-11-03 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment cell-site-location-information constitutional-law privacy search-and-seizure standing Whether the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable searches and seizures apply to the government's acquisition of historical cell-site lo…
20-6181 Hasan Shareef v. Captain Moore, et al. Third Circuit 2020-11-02 Denied IFP cell-phone-data constitutional-law fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence privacy search-and-seizure Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable …
20-6178 William Scott Davis, Jr. v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-10-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-rights criminal-liability design-standard due-process evidence-tampering family-rights government-overreach privacy product-liability regulatory-interpretation statutory-authorization Whether the right to marry, have children, and raise a family free from unwarranted invasion of familial privacy and confidentiality is protected unde…
20-6086 Brittan Kettles v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-10-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-phone-data digital-privacy fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence privacy search-and-seizure Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable …
20-6068 Willie Gross, Jr. v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2020-10-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-phone-data fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence privacy reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable …
20-99 Elliott Schuchardt v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. Third Circuit 2020-07-30 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights electronic-surveillance fourth-amendment government-overreach government-surveillance national-security privacy privacy-rights standing warrant-requirement Whether Schuchardt has presented sufficient factual evidence of Defendants' bulk collection of e-mail to establish a prima facie case for violation of…
20-25 Isidoro Rodriguez v. Virginia State Bar Disciplinary Board Virginia 2020-07-15 Denied Response Waived cell-phone-data digital-privacy fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence privacy search-and-seizure Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable …
19-1468 Brian Anthony Wiley v. Tennessee Tennessee 2020-07-07 Denied Response Waived campsite-privacy civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement-conduct privacy private-property probable-cause search-and-seizure vehicle-search warrantless-search Whether the Fourth Amendment permits warrantless entry and search of a rented campsite
19-8749 Paul Anthony Crayton v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-06-18 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law cell-phone-data civil-rights constitutional-law fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence judicial-review legal-procedure privacy reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure statutory-interpretation Whether the government's warrantless search and seizure of a person's cell phone location data violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unre…
19-8246 Gregory Thomas v. Tom Corbett, et al. Pennsylvania 2020-04-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP cellmate-discrimination civil-rights conjugal-visit due-process fourth-amendment institutionalized-persons-act prison-policy privacy property-rights religious-exercise religious-land-use search-and-seizure Whether the government's warrantless search of a person's home and seizure of their personal property violates the Fourth Amendment's protection again…
19-8087 Sharla Jenkins v. Helen Forbes Fields, as Administrator of the Estate of Elase Jenkins Ohio 2020-03-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-rights privacy seizure warrantless-search Whether the government's warrantless seizure and indefinite retention of a person's private information violates the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on…
19-8060 John Doe v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-03-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights court-disclosure cruel-and-unusual-punishment eighth-amendment harassment medical-history medical-privacy prisoner-rights privacy Should a Convicted Felon be Subject to Additional Harassment Above and Beyond Their Prison Sentence Due to a Court's Disclosure of Their Medical Histo…
19-1142 Kendall R. Carter v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-03-18 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment administrative-subpoena carpenter-v-united-states civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment internet-privacy internet-subscriber-information ip-address privacy privacy-interest subpoena third-party-doctrine warrant-requirement Whether the Fourth Amendment warrant requirement protects a right to privacy in an internet protocol (IP) address and internet subscriber information
19-1059 Angela Hamm, et vir v. Tennessee Tennessee 2020-02-26 Denied Amici (1) 4th-amendment fourth-amendment home-invasion home-search law-enforcement-search privacy privacy-rights probation probation-condition reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure warrantless-search Whether police violate the Fourth Amendment when they conduct a suspicionless search of a probationer's home
19-1029 Bethany Austin v. Illinois Illinois 2020-02-19 Denied Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) content-based first-amendment free-speech non-consensual-dissemination privacy revenge-porn strict-scrutiny technology Whether strict First Amendment scrutiny applies to a criminal law that prohibits nonconsensual dissemination of non-obscene nude or sexually-oriented …
19-1006 Facebook, Inc., et al. v. Superior Court of California, San Francisco County, et al. California 2020-02-11 Denied communication-contents constitutional-rights constitutional-subpoena contempt criminal-defendant-rights privacy privacy-protection service-provider-disclosure service-providers stored-communications-act subpoena Whether a criminal defendant has a constitutional right to subpoena service providers and force them to turn over the contents of their account holder…
19-7631 Regina Wolgamott v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-02-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment circuit-split civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment garrison-v-hudson law-enforcement privacy privacy-rights probable-cause residential-search search-and-seizure search-warrant standing If when executing a search warrant of a single-family residence, officers discover multiple occupants with their own private rooms, are officers requi…
19-7373 Sanjay Tyagi v. Marc D. Smith, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-01-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-abuse-registry child-seizure due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment interrogation medical-self-defense parental-rights privacy search-and-seizure Does seizure, physical examination, privacy and interrogation of minor children at public school without parental consent, exigency, or court order vi…
19-7075 Matthew Rouse v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-12-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP age-of-consent child-pornography criminal-conduct first-amendment privacy sexual-conduct Whether the child pornography exception to the First Amendment applies to the private exchange of images depicting lawful, sexual conduct between indi…
19-6737 Leonard L. Little, Jr. v. Florida Florida 2019-11-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment appellate-review carpenter-v-united-states constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure due-process evidence federal-law fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure jurisdiction legal-standards privacy search-and-seizure sixth-amendment-confrontation-clause standing supreme-court-precedent Did the Second District Court of Appeal apply federal law issued by the United States Supreme Court in a way that frustrates and undermines its holdin…
19-6642 Michael Allen Channel v. Benjamin Marquez, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech privacy search-and-seizure standing technology Whether the warrantless search and seizure of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable searches and …
19-600 Jon Krakauer v. Clayton T. Christian, Montana Commissioner of Higher Education Montana 2019-11-07 Denied Amici (1) civil-rights due-process ferpa free-speech gonzaga-v-doe higher-education judicial-discretion privacy privacy-rights public-interest public-records student-privacy student-records university-athlete Does FERPA confer an individual right to privacy sufficient to block a court from ordering the release of personally identifiable information about a …
19-6193 Franklin C. Smith v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia Fourth Circuit 2019-10-08 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP administrative-law cell-phone-data civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment incident-to-arrest judicial-review legal-procedure privacy search-and-seizure standing statutory-interpretation takings warrant-requirement Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits the warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data incident to arrest when the phone is not immed…
19-6162 Sean V. Terry v. Swift Transportation Fourth Circuit 2019-10-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP bodily-autonomy civil-rights due-process employee-rights employment medical-ethics medical-examination privacy privacy-violation regulations workplace-conduct Question not identified
19-6040 Ruthen James Weems III v. Baylor Scott & White Medical Center - Hillcrest Texas 2019-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process expert-report medical-liability medical-privacy privacy standing takings Whether the trial court abused its discretion in dismissing Weems' claims against Baylor, Scott and White-Interest for failure to meet the expert repo…
19-5972 Dimitri Bernard Robinson v. Michigan Michigan 2019-09-18 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights federal-courts jurisdiction pen-register petition privacy probable-cause supreme-court trap-and-trace writ-of-certiorari Was petitioner's Fourth Amendment right to privacy and protection violated without probable cause, when law enforcement obtained an unreasonable order…
19-5766 Tham Bui v. California California 2019-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment cell-phone cell-phone-location-data cell-phone-privacy fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search gps gps-tracking location-data privacy reasonable-expectation-of-privacy telecommunications Did petitioner have a reasonable expectation of privacy in the contemporaneous Global Positioning System coordinates transmitted by the petitioner's c…
19-5731 Angel Mesa Madueno v. California California 2019-08-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights consensual-encounter consent fourth-amendment independent-contractor privacy property-rights search-and-seizure standing trespass warrantless-entry Whether an independent contractor legitimately working in another's back yard has standing to contest a warrantless and non-exigent entry onto the pro…
19-5720 Melinda Scott v. Joshua Moon, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-08-27 Denied IFP 47-usc-230 civil-liability civil-procedure civil-rights due-process immunity internet-law invasion-of-privacy legal-standing privacy section-230 standing tort-liability Has Plaintiff Scott stated sufficient facts to support an Invasion of Privacy claim against Defendants Moon and Zaiger?
19-5454 Melinda Scott v. Andrew Carlson, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-08-07 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment free-speech information-disclosure online-publication privacy privacy-act standing state-action state-actor Are private citizens, who take over functions normally left to the state, by publishing information, on the Internet, about others from (a) courts not…
19-145 Vincent Mastanduno v. National Freight Industries, et al. North Carolina 2019-07-31 Denied Response Waived civil-rights compelling-state-interest constitutional-rights due-process health-information informational-privacy privacy public-disclosure public-interest state-action state-agency state-disclosure transparency Does a person have a constitutional right to privacy over his personal health information; and where the State publishes a person's private health inf…
19-5165 Michelle Stopyra Yaney v. Superior Court of California, San Bernardino County California 2019-07-12 Dismissed IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection personal-liberty privacy privacy-rights procedural-due-process ssi-discrimination Should this court review this case because all citizens of our country must have the freedom to find their own individual way of accessing the constit…
19-5008 Jamie B. Johnson v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2019-06-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP digital-age digital-data fourth-amendment gps gps-tracking location-data privacy privacy-rights probation probation-conditions search warrantless-search Whether the warrantless search, unsupported by any individualized suspicion of criminal wrongdoing, of a former probationer's historical GPS location …
18-9727 Shanta G. Phillips-Berry v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-06-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights conspiracy due-process government-overreach medical-implants privacy standing technology Whether the petitioner's civil rights were violated by imprisonment without a fair trial, sentencing, or due process, and the use of unauthorized medi…
18-9610 Keith Wromas, Jr. v. Florida Florida 2019-06-11 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-law data-protection due-process federal-jurisdiction free-speech privacy standing Whether the petitioner's alleged unlimited access to any and all modal and personal data under Florida law violates federal constitutional rights
18-1519 Jason Correa v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-06-06 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) electronic-devices fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-protections law-enforcement multi-unit-buildings privacy privacy-rights search-incident-to-arrest secured-common-areas warrantless-search Whether the Fourth Amendment permits law enforcement to conduct a warrantless search of an individual's garage door remote, key fob, and seized key to…
18-1483 Gene N. Barry v. Scott M. Freshour, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-05-29 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment administrative-law administrative-search civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment medical-records privacy privacy-interest property-rights section-1983 standing Must doctors have an ownership interest in their medical practices in order to have cognizable privacy or property interests in medical records that (…
18-9398 Ali Cisse v. New York New York 2019-05-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2511 circuit-court-split circuit-split civil-rights consent fourth-amendment mitchell-v-wisconsin privacy privacy-rights statutory-interpretation title-iii wiretapping wiretapping-consent Does knowledge of wiretapping establish 'consent' to wiretapping under 18 U.S.C. § 2511(2)(c)?
18-9371 Lawrence Dusean Adkinson v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-05-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment adhesion-contract cellular-service civil-rights consent csli due-process fourth-amendment historical-csli location-tracking privacy privacy-policy standing Whether a defendant necessarily consents to disclosure of historical CSLI data tracking his physical location in excess of seven days simply by utiliz…
18-9172 Wendy Darlene Pitts v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-05-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights conflicting-information disaster-assistance due-process fema jurisdiction plea-bargain privacy privacy-act special-needs standing Did FEMA error in releasing funds without due process of the Privacy Act law on FEMA Form 009-0-37?
18-9177 Robert Murphy v. Ron Neal, Superintendent, Indiana State Prison Seventh Circuit 2019-05-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation cell-phones criminal-procedure digital-evidence due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel miranda-rights privacy search-and-seizure sixth-amendment Whether the government's warrantless search of a person's cell phone violates the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable searches and seiz…
18-9012 Marc Anthony Lowell Endsley, aka Marc Endsley v. Edmund G. Brown, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-detention civil-rights due-process freedom-of-association fundamental-rights informed-consent privacy professional-judgment reproductive-choice youngberg-v-romeo Do civilly detained persons retain their fundamental rights to engage in voluntary sexual relations
18-1327 Christian Vernon Sims v. Texas Texas 2019-04-19 Denied carpenter-v-united-states cell-site-location-information fourth-amendment privacy privacy-expectation standing surveillance-tracking third-party-doctrine warrant-requirement Does a person have a legitimate expectation of privacy in historic or real-time cellphone tracking data (CSLI) regardless of the duration of the track…
18-1321 Edward Ronald Ates v. Gurbir Grewal, Attorney General of New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2019-04-18 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment attorney-client-privilege civil-rights due-process federalism fourth-amendment interstate-communications jurisdictional-authority law-enforcement-surveillance out-of-state-interception phone-call-interception privacy state-jurisdiction wiretap-statute wiretapping Whether the New Jersey Wiretap Statute violates the Fourth Amendment by permitting law enforcement to intercept phone calls of out-of-state individual…
18-8697 Frederick H. Banks v. Pennymac Holdings, LLC, fka Pennymac Mortgage Investment Trust Holdings I, LLC Pennsylvania 2019-04-04 Denied IFP civil-procedure document-submission due-process electronic-filing fifth-amendment immigration institutional-barriers judicial-access land-use pacer prisoner-litigation privacy privacy-policy property-rights regulatory-takings social-security takings Whether the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment prohibits the government from requiring a property owner to provide a public easement as a condition…
18-8508 Charles Edward Cooper, Jr. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-03-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP curtilage evidence-suppression fourth-amendment gated-community home police-procedure privacy privacy-rights privacy-wall search-and-seizure warrant warrantless-entry Whether the Fourth Amendment's protection of the home and its curtilage extends to the entrance of a privately gated community, surrounded by an eight…
18-8478 Sheila Halousek v. Yuba County Animal Care Services California 2019-03-20 Denied IFP administrative-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process notice-requirement privacy property-rights property-seizure redress seizure Violation of due process rights, seizure of private property
18-7892 Sheila J. Halousek v. California Public Employees' Retirement System California 2019-02-11 Denied IFP autonomy civil-rights due-process employment-retaliation osha osha-protections privacy privacy-rights whistleblower workplace-safety What is required for the consistent application of civil rights to be 'free and independent,' 'enjoying and defending life and liberty,' and 'pursuing…
18-985 BMP Family Limited Partnership, et al. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-01-29 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process financial-records fourth-amendment internal-revenue-code katz-v-united-states neece-v-irs non-party-clients preemption privacy right-to-financial-privacy right-to-privacy standing summons-privacy tax-summons Whether the issuance of summonses under 26 U.S.C. § 7609 preempts the privacy rights of non-party clients
18-7604 Jacques Paul Villafana v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections Fourth Circuit 2019-01-28 Denied IFP civil-rights confidentiality confidentiality-statute due-process mailroom-search medical-records medical-records-privacy prisoner-rights privacy privacy-rights veterans-affairs veterans-benefits Whether privacy rights extend to a prisoner's military medical records
18-7187 Willis Wheeler v. United States Third Circuit 2018-12-27 GVR Relisted (4)IFP circuit-split curtilage exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment key-insertion privacy reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search warrantless-search Whether a law enforcement officer's warrantless insertion of keys into a locked apartment door, within a secured multi-unit dwelling, to gain informat…
18-6928 Asia Johnson v. Christopher Wylie, et al. Third Circuit 2018-12-06 Denied IFP civil-rights compensation data-misuse data-privacy data-protection due-process facebook-litigation government-surveillance personal-information privacy privacy-violation social-media standing third-party-access Was the petitioner's Facebook account improperly accessed and their personal information obtained and used without authorization?
18-6866 Thomas Edward Sperber v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2018-11-28 Denied IFP 4th-amendment cellular-phone civil-rights digital-privacy fourth-amendment privacy probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-requirement warrantless-search Does the act of accessing any information from a cellular phone without a warrant contravene the Supreme Court's decision in Riley v. California and U…
18-658 Joel Doe, et al. v. Boyertown Area School District, et al. Third Circuit 2018-11-21 Denied Amici (11)Relisted (11) civil-rights constitutional-privacy due-process gender-identity privacy privacy-interest school-policy sex-discrimination title-ix transgender transgender-rights Whether a public school has a compelling interest in authorizing students who believe themselves to be members of the opposite sex to use locker rooms…
18-6681 Mark Anthony Rios, et al. v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2518 electronic-surveillance federal-surveillance federalism investigative-procedures necessity necessity-requirement privacy state-wiretaps title-iii wiretap-necessity wiretapping-surveillance Is the availability of less-intrusive state wiretaps a material consideration for federal judges when evaluating Title III necessity under 18 U.S.C. §…
18-6354 Cheryl Lynn Jossie v. CVS Pharmacy Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-17 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP civil-rights consent discrimination healthcare-information healthcare-information-processing healthcare-information-sharing healthcare-privacy herzing-university hipaa-violation license-practical-nurse licensing medical-information-sharing patient-consent privacy privacy-rights Why is CVS Pharmacy being allowed to break the law by sharing my Healthcare information? My consent was not given or authorized to be included in thei…
18-6290 Damon John White Bird Solgado v. Colby Braun, Warden Eighth Circuit 2018-10-12 Rehearing IFP 4th-amendment compulsory-process constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment insufficient-evidence privacy search-and-seizure Whether violation of Petitioner's 4th Amendment Constitutional rights occurred when Police illegally searched and seized Petitioner's files and record…
18-451 Aloha Bed & Breakfast v. Diane Cervelli, et al. Hawaii 2018-10-11 Denied Amici (5)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) due-process fair-notice first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-exercise intimate-association privacy prohibitory public-accommodation public-accommodations quasi-criminal religious-beliefs religious-liberty stigmatizing Whether holding a homeowner liable for refusing to host a same-sex couple violates due process and free exercise rights
18-445 Tanya Ramirez v. Texas Texas 2018-10-10 Denied civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-law criminal-statute due-process equal-protection fundamental-right fundamental-rights intimacy legal-infringement privacy procreation sexual-conduct sexual-relationship texas-penal-code Is Texas Penal Code §21.12, which criminalizes an otherwise legal sexual relationship, unconstitutional in its infringement upon a constitutionally-pr…
18-430 Rashaud Jones v. United States Second Circuit 2018-10-03 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment automobile-exception curtilage fourth-amendment multi-family-dwelling multi-family-homes privacy privacy-expectation search-and-seizure warrant-requirement Whether dwellers in multi-family homes have a legitimate expectation of privacy in the curtilage of their home that would be regarded as curtilage und…
18-350 Lamar Sequan Brown v. South Carolina South Carolina 2018-09-18 Denied Response Waived abandonment abandonment-doctrine cell-phone-privacy cell-phones digital-data fourth-amendment privacy reasonable-expectation-of-privacy reasonable-expectation-privacy search-and-seizure search-warrant warrant-requirement Whether police must obtain a warrant before searching cell phone data on a lost but passcode-protected phone
18-354 Stanley Weiss v. New Jersey Third Circuit 2018-09-18 Denied 4th-amendment due-process federalism interstate-law jones-case jones-v-united-states judicial-interpretation legal-uniformity privacy property-rights search-and-seizure supreme-court-precedent trespass Whether United States v Antoine Jones is the law of the land and should be followed in all states?
18-267 Electronic Privacy Information Center v. Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, et al. District of Columbia 2018-08-31 Denied article-iii article-iii-standing civil-rights congressional-intent due-process federal-election-commission-v-akins federal-question federal-statute informational-injury injury-in-fact judicial-review munsingwear-doctrine munsingwear-vacatur privacy public-disclosure standing standing-injury-in-fact statutory-interpretation Does a plaintiff suffer an Article III injury in fact when the plaintiff fails to obtain information which must be publicly disclosed pursuant to a st…
18-5829 Arika Matelyan v. Atlantic Records WMG, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights copyright due-process free-speech patent privacy standing takings Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in its decision regarding the issues presented under 18 U.S.C. 2257
18-5759 Daniela Castellanos v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-08-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2518 electronic-surveillance fourth-amendment illinois-v-gates investigative-procedures officer-conclusions-opinions privacy privacy-invasion probable-cause wiretap-warrant wiretapping wiretapping-procedures-18-usc-2518 Whether the facts required to establish probable cause include conclusions and opinions of the officer applying for the wiretap warrant
18-225 Zappos.com, Inc. v. Theresa Stevens, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-08-22 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2) article-iii article-iii-standing circuit-split civil-rights concrete-injury cybersecurity data-breach due-process future-injury judicial-standing personal-information privacy standing Whether individuals whose personal information is held in a database breached by hackers have Article III standing simply by virtue of the breach even…
18-5633 Michael A. Kennedy v. Michigan State Treasurer Michigan 2018-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-phone-data civil-procedure due-process fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence index list-of-parties privacy question-presented reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure standing Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on unreasonable sear…
18-5588 Juan Manuel Sanchez-Jara v. United States Seventh Circuit 2018-08-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-site-simulator fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search privacy probable-cause residence surveillance warrant Whether location of a cell phone user in his residence through use of a cell site simulator, without a probable cause warrant, but with a 'warrant and…
18-5019 Bohdan G. Seniw v. Connecticut General Assembly, et al. Second Circuit 2018-06-28 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process government-misconduct hipaa-violation hippa law-enforcement medical-information medical-privacy medical-records privacy public-records retaliation whistle-blower whistle-blower-protection whistleblower-protection Why it was done Purposely?