privacy-expectation
19 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25A672 | Michael Sharpe v. Connecticut | Connecticut | 2025-12-09 | Application | dna-collection forensic-genealogy fourth-amendment privacy-expectation shed-dna warrantless-search | Whether the warrantless collection, extraction, and forensic analysis of a person's shed DNA from discarded personal items constitutes an unreasonable… | |
| 25-412 | Rolando Antuain Williamson v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-10-06 | Pending | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | curtilage fourth-amendment law-enforcement privacy-expectation search-and-seizure surveillance | Whether a purposeful investigative act directed toward an individual's home constitutes a 'search' under the Fourth Amendment, regardless of reasonabl… |
| 25-340 | Stepup Funny, L.L.C., dba Stepup Funny, dba AA7 Days v. Newsweek Digital, L.L.C. | Fifth Circuit | 2025-09-23 | Denied | arbitration-clause docket-sealing media-intervention precedent-interpretation privacy-expectation subject-matter-jurisdiction | Whether the district court docket should be sealed due to improper purposes and privacy expectations under Nixon v. Warner Communications precedent | |
| 24-6747 | Juventino L. Plancarte v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2025-03-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | cbd-legalization constitutional-rights drug-sniffing-dogs fourth-amendment privacy-expectation warrantless-search | Whether a warrantless sniff by a dog trained to reliably alert to legal possessions constitutes a search under the Fourth Amendment |
| 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 |
| 23-7748 | Jacob W. Barron v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-06-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | compliance-check criminal-procedure fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-expectation-of-privacy law-enforcement privacy-expectation probable-cause probation probation-search warrantless-search | Did the warrantless search of Mr. Barron's home that was not related to monitoring his compliance with his probation offend his Fourth Amendment expec… |
| 23-6580 | Charles Ramon, III, aka Charles Roger Ramon v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-01-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | evidence fourth-amendment privacy-expectation probation probation-conditions reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure supervised-release warrantless-search | Whether the Fourth Amendment required U.S. Probation to conform its conduct to the text of the release condition imposed on Petitioner |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| 21-6523 | Edward Soybel v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2021-12-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | carpenter-v-united-states fourth-amendment internet-protocol ip-address pen-register privacy-expectation probable-cause reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search third-party-doctrine | Whether the use of a pen register to identify internet protocol (IP) addresses is a Fourth Amendment search requiring a warrant |
| 21-5670 | Elijah Vines v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2021-09-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | cell-phone-seizure circuit-split expectation-of-privacy fourth-circuit law-enforcement password-protected password-protection privacy-expectation tenth-circuit third-party-consent | Whether a third-party possesses authority to consent to the seizure of another's cell phone when that phone is password-protected, the owner has denie… |
| 20-8321 | William Mixton v. Arizona | Arizona | 2021-06-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-subpoena carpenter-exception carpenter-v-united-states fourth-amendment katz-standard katz-v-united-states positive-law-model privacy-expectation reasonable-expectation-of-privacy third-party-doctrine | Should the third-party doctrine be overruled as inconsistent with Katz v. United States? |
| 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? |
| 20-1441 | George Beecher v. New Jersey | New Jersey | 2021-04-15 | Denied | Response Waived | 4th-amendment fourth-amendment patient-privacy patient-records prescription-monitoring privacy-expectation reasonable-expectation-of-privacy reasonable-search state-pdmp-laws third-party-doctrine | Did the New Jersey Supreme Court err in adopting a ruling that a defendant prescriber does not have a reasonable expectation of privacy in patient pre… |
| 20-6701 | Benjamin Pedraza, III v. Ohio | Ohio | 2020-12-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | cell-phone-data constitutional-rights criminal-procedure eighth-amendment fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment law-enforcement-procedure privacy-expectation search-and-seizure warrantless-search | Whether a third party has expectation of privacy in cell-phone data obtained without a warrant |
| 19-8715 | Timothy Robert Treffinger v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-06-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | curtilage effective-assistance-of-counsel fourth-amendment knock-and-talk law-enforcement privacy-expectation reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure | Do law enforcement officers have an implied license to conduct a 'knock and talk' in the curtilage of a home? |
| 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… | |
| 18-430 | 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… |