| 25-885 |
United States v. Donte J. Carter |
District of Columbia |
2026-01-28 |
Pending |
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constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement racial-profiling seizure |
Whether perceptions of law enforcement that a court attributes to a particular racial group are a relevant factor in the Fourth Amendment analysis of … |
| 23A996 |
Yoel Weisshaus v. Steve Coy Teichelman, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-05-08 |
Presumed Complete |
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circuit-split constitutional-rights qualified-immunity racial-profiling reasonable-suspicion summary-judgment |
Whether the Fifth Circuit improperly altered the summary judgment burden of proof in qualified immunity cases and created an unconstitutional circuit … |
| 23-5982 |
Garnet Small v. United States |
Third Circuit |
2023-11-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
equal-protection fourth-amendment law-enforcement pretextual-stop probable-cause racial-profiling reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop traffic-stops whren-v-united-states |
Whether this Court's decision in Whren v. United States, 517 U.S. 806 (1996), should be overruled |
| 23-5646 |
Abraham Kennedy Jah El v. Town of Palm Beach, Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2023-09-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
aboriginal-rights article-13 citizenship-status civil-rights congressional-petition constitutional-rights due-process human-rights police-brutality racial-profiling standing |
Whether a Moors American National has a constitutional protection against racial profiling, police brutality, and assault under the legal Declaration … |
| 23-5120 |
Clim Eugene Murphy Thomas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights consensual-encounter consent-search due-process fifth-circuit law-enforcement police-encounter racial-profiling totality-of-circumstances |
Whether the Fifth Circuit improperly applied its totality-of-the-circumstances analysis by ignoring race in petitioner's confrontation |
| 22-6484 |
Courtney Saunders v. Kyle Thies, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2023-01-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights discriminatory-intent discriminatory-policing driving-while-black equal-protection fourteenth-amendment law-enforcement racial-discrimination racial-profiling traffic-stop |
Whether an Equal Protection claim under the Fourteenth Amendment, based on an incident of discriminatory policing, requires a plaintiff to establish t… |
| 22-6051 |
Arriba Lewis v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-11-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment career-offender criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance motion-to-suppress racial-profiling selective-enforcement sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment |
Ineffective-assistance-of-counsel |
| 21-7808 |
John Edward McIntyre v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-05-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-interdiction criminal-procedure equal-protection fourth-amendment high-crime-neighborhood high-crime-neighborhoods law-enforcement probable-cause racial-profiling targeted-enforcement traffic-stop |
Whether the holding in Whren v. United States should be overruled in cases where a traffic stop is the result of a targeted criminal interdiction oper… |
| 21-1330 |
Arthur O. Armstrong v. City of Conyers, Georgia |
Eleventh Circuit |
2022-04-06 |
Denied |
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civil-rights due-process equal-protection equal-protection-clause false-reports fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment official-discrimination racial-profiling search-and-seizure warrantless-search |
Whether respondent violated the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments |
| 21-6223 |
Aaron Martin Mercado-Gracia v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-11-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment consent fourth-amendment police-questioning race racial-profiling reasonable-person reasonable-person-standard totality-of-circumstances traffic-stop |
Whether the person's race is a factor in determining if a person objectively believed he could refuse an officer's request to answer more questions af… |
| 20-7102 |
Toheed Ahmed v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-02-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment circuit-split dog-sniff high-crime-area motion-to-suppress racial-profiling tenth-circuit totality-of-circumstances traffic-stop |
Was the Tenth Circuit correct in affirming the denial of Mr. Ahmed's motion to suppress evidence |
| 20-411 |
Traize T. Wash v. Ohio |
Ohio |
2020-09-29 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment automobile-exception civil-rights fourth-amendment law-enforcement pretextual-stop probable-cause racial-profiling reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure whren-v-united-states |
Whether a police officer's subjective intent should be considered in the context of a Fourth Amendment analysis involving a pretextual stop and unreas… |
| 20-5822 |
Eric Terrell Spears v. South Carolina |
South Carolina |
2020-09-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement-bias police-brutality police-interaction race racial-profiling seizure seizure-doctrine |
Whether a court must take into account a Black person's race when determining whether they are seized under the Fourth Amendment |
| 20-5074 |
Robert Banks, III v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-07-15 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights fourth-amendment law-enforcement-discretion pretextual-stop racial-profiling search-and-seizure unreasonable-detention unreasonable-seizure whren-v-united-states |
Should Whren v. United States be overruled to protect against racial profiling and discrimination? |
| 19-7828 |
Ronald Hayward v. Keith J. Foley, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-03-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment box-truck civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause racial-profiling search-and-seizure standing vehicle-search |
Do police officers have probable cause to search a vehicle or box truck without a warrant? |
| 18-9339 |
Anthony Dajuan Yates v. California |
California |
2019-05-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
batson batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky criminal-procedure disparate-impact equal-protection juror-selection jury-selection peremptory-challenge peremptory-challenges race-neutral-explanation racial-profiling |
Does a prosecutor's peremptory challenge of a prospective African-American juror based on the juror's perception of racial profiling by law enforcemen… |
| 18-8784 |
DiAngelo Johnson v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-justice due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct pretextual-stops racial-profiling traffic-stops whren-v-united-states |
Should this Court overrule Whren? |
| 18-8650 |
Ollisha Nicole Easley v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-04-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights consensual-search due-process fourth-amendment interrogation probable-cause race racial-profiling reasonable-person reasonable-person-standard search search-and-seizure |
When examining the totality of the objective circumstances, is a bus passenger's race a factor in understanding how a reasonable person in her positio… |