privacy-expectation

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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…