reasonable-belief

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-6715 Robert Keshaun Turner v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-03-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-belief search-incident-to-arrest vehicle-search warrant-exception Whether the Fourth Circuit's application of the vehicle search incident-to-arrest exception to the warrant requirement resolved the meaning of 'reason…
23-7734 Reshod Jamar Everett v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-rights law-enforcement maryland-v-buie probable-cause protective-sweep reasonable-belief warrantless-search fourth-amendment
23-728 Janice Hargrove Warren v. Mike Kemp, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-01-05 Denied Response Waived employment-discrimination facilities objective-standard protected-activity reasonable-belief retaliation title-vii working-conditions workplace-facilities Is providing discriminatory working conditions or facilities based on race or sex an unlawful employment practice?
21-1133 Charles Abrahamsen v. Department of Veterans Affairs Eleventh Circuit 2022-02-16 Denied Response Waived administrative-law anesthesia anesthesia-risks bullying-healthcare medical-disclosure orthopedic-surgery public-health-safety reasonable-belief whistleblower-protection whistleblower-protections Whether the scope of the substantial and specific danger to public health and safety provision in 5 U.S.C. § 2302(b)(8) was erroneously limited
21-6558 Keith Anthony Rosario v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2021-12-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP apparent-authority consent consent-search fourth-amendment law-enforcement reasonable-belief residence search warrant-requirement Does the apparent authority exception to the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement permit a police officer to reasonably believe a seventeen-year-old…
21-6478 Endalkachew Merid v. Virginia Virginia 2021-12-02 Denied IFP caniglia-v-strom community-caretaking exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment police-entry reasonable-belief suicide-intervention warrantless-entry warrantless-search Whether the warrantless entry and search of Merid's apartment violated the Fourth Amendment
21-6154 Shawn Ford v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-11-03 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment apparent-authority consent-to-search criminal-procedure fourth-amendment reasonable-belief residence search-and-seizure third-party-consent Whether a third party's apparent authority to consent to a search of a criminal suspect's residence requires that the police reasonably believe that t…
20-1781 Frederick B. Wright v. Department of Labor, Administrative Review Board Fifth Circuit 2021-06-23 Denied Response Waived adverse-action federal-water-pollution-control-act motivating-factor reasonable-belief safe-drinking-water-act whistleblower-protection Whether an employer's professing motivating factor should override a whistleblower employee's reasonable belief of retaliation
20-5589 Wali Ross v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-09-03 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP arrest-warrant fourth-amendment hotel-eviction hotel-room payton possessory-interest probable-cause reasonable-belief search-and-seizure Whether officers must have probable cause to believe a suspect is present to justify entry into a hotel room to execute an arrest warrant
19-6826 Jennifer Castro v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-12-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP affirmative-defenses age-of-consent criminal-law criminal-statute human-trafficking mens-rea minor minor-victims prostitution prostitution-law reasonable-belief sex-trafficking statutory-interpretation strict-liability Is 18 U.S.C. § 1591(a) a strict liability offense?
19-585 Robert Leigh Stoltz v. Virginia Virginia 2019-11-04 Denied Response Waived age-of-consent criminal-intent criminal-procedure due-process jury-instructions mens-rea reasonable-belief statutory-interpretation undercover-operations Is due process violated where the judge instructs the jury such that even if the jury finds that the defendant knew the alleged victim (an undercover …
19-272 Willie Lee Cooks v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-30 Denied Response Waived emergency-aid-exception exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment home-entry home-privacy home-search probable-cause reasonable-belief warrant-requirement warrantless-search Whether the emergency-aid exception permits a warrantless, nonconsensual search of a private home based upon officers' inability to 'rule out the poss…
18-7534 Tylon Hudson v. Illinois Illinois 2019-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment parolee probable-cause reasonable-belief search-and-seizure warrant Does a Police officer who without reasonable belief that a parolee is inside his residence and repeatedly enters the parolee's unoccupied residence, i…