private-search-doctrine
6 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23A446 | Jonathan Walker v. Arkansas | Arkansas | 2023-11-17 | Presumed Complete | digital-privacy fourth-amendment hash-value-match private-search-doctrine search-and-seizure warrant-requirement | Whether law enforcement's warrantless viewing of an unopened digital file reported by a private platform through an automated hash value match constit… | |
| 23-5429 | Tywan Sykes v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-08-24 | Denied | IFP | 18-usc-2251 4th-amendment child-exploitation civil-rights fourth-amendment governmental-entity internet-service-provider private-search-doctrine recidivist-enhancement standing statutory-interpretation | Whether the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children is a Governmental Entity |
| 20-1737 | Luke Noel Wilson v. California | California | 2021-06-15 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | electronic-search email email-scanning fourth-amendment google law-enforcement private-search-doctrine search-warrant warrant-requirement | Does the private search doctrine place Google's automated electronic scan of all email on its system outside the protection of the Fourth Amendment fo… |
| 19-618 | Jon Eric Shaffer v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2019-11-14 | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | constitutional-exemption digital-devices digital-privacy fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search fourth-amendment,private-search-doctrine,digital-p government-search private-search-doctrine property-based-test property-rights united-states-v-jacobsen united-states-v-jones virtual-certainty | Does the 'virtual certainty' that reopening 'an ordinary cardboard box' will expose nothing beyond the private actor's earlier search, Jacobsen, 466 U… |
| 18-6734 | Henry Franklin Reddick v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-11-19 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment child-pornography civil-rights digital-privacy digital-search fourth-amendment hash-value private-search private-search-doctrine search-and-seizure warrant-requirement | Does a police officer violate the Fourth Amendment by opening a digital file and viewing an image in it without a warrant to confirm a private company… |
| 18-6505 | Brian Powell v. United States | First Circuit | 2018-11-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment appellate-review district-court first-circuit fourth-amendment fourth-amendment,private-search-doctrine,united-st motion-to-suppress private-search-doctrine search-and-seizure united-states-v-jacobsen | Whether the First Circuit erred when it relied upon the private search doctrine as delineated by this Court in United States v. Jacobsen, 466 U.S. 109… |