reasonable-expectation-of-privacy

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24-271 Jerry Arnold Westrom v. Minnesota Minnesota 2024-09-10 Denied Response Waived confrontation-clause effective-assistance-of-counsel fourth-amendment reasonable-expectation-of-privacy shed-dna sixth-amendment A. Whether society is prepared to recognize a reasonable expectation of privacy under the Fourth Amendment in an individual's shed DNA, as evidenced b…
24-72 Bruce L. Hay v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-07-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) curtilage curtilage-search founding-era-expectations fourth-amendment home home-privacy law-enforcement-surveillance mosaic-theory reasonable-expectation-of-privacy warrantless-surveillance Whether the Government's warrantless, long term video camera surveillance of an individual's home and curtilage constitutes a "search" for Fourth Amen…
23A1075 Bruce L. Hay v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-05-31 Presumed Complete curtilage fourth-amendment pole-camera reasonable-expectation-of-privacy surveillance warrantless-search Question not identified.
23-7580 Joseph Moraga v. Texas Texas 2024-05-29 Denied IFP 4th-amendment advisory-opinion contemporaneous-to-arrest custodial-arrest fourth-amendment possession probable-cause reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-incident-to-arrest warrantless-search PETITIONER AT TRIAL FILED A MOTION TO SUPPRESS EVIDENCE THAT THE STATE ADMITS WAS FOUND DURING A WARRANTLESS SEARCH. Petitioner's MOTION WAS BASED ON …
23-7131 Joel Michael Guy, Jr. v. Tennessee Tennessee 2024-04-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-acts exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment minnesota-v-olson overnight-guest reasonable-expectation-of-privacy 1. Does an overnight guest lose his or her reasonable expectation of privacy under Minnesota v. Olson by engaging in criminal acts within the house? …
23-826 Antony Junior Harris, aka Anthony Harris v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-31 Denied Response Waived alias-name alias-shipping contraband-detection fourth-amendment law-enforcement-procedure private-shipping-facility reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure standing I. Does an individual possess a reasonable expectation of privacy in a package shipped under an alias name, such that the individual has standing to a…
23-6032 James William Thomas, III v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-11-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment common-law-presumption-of-ownership fourth-amendment property-seizure reasonable-expectation-of-privacy reasonable-expectation-privacy search-and-seizure search-warrant standing trespassory-test Whether a defendant has standing to challenge the search of property seized from his residence pursuant to a search warrant based upon both the common…
23-5144 In Re Donald Lynn Martin 2023-07-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP cell-phone-data fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence privacy reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure 1. Are inferior courts required to follow Circuit precedent? Proposed Aanswer: YES 2. Are all executive and judicial Officers required to support th…
22-6949 Christopher Maurice McDowell v. Carlton W. Reeves Fifth Circuit 2023-03-07 Denied IFP cell-phone-data fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence privacy reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure Question not identified.
22-6900 Tony Deng v. Ryan Thornell, Director, Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-03-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-phone-search coercion confession-voluntariness deception-tactics due-process habeas-corpus law-enforcement-interrogation reasonable-expectation-of-privacy right-to-counsel will-overborne-standard 1. Whether the "will overborne" standard or analysis, which requires the finding of Violence, or threats of Violence, dumbfounding a person's will, sh…
22-6473 Michael Dewayne Dennis v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-01-06 Denied IFP criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment privacy privacy-rights reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search sentencing-disparities surveillance warrantless-search Whether long-term police use of a surveillance camera targeted at a person's home and curtilage is a Fourth Amendment search. Whether the Due Process…
22-6312 Kristian Jones v. United States Third Circuit 2022-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment circuit-split constitutional-law criminal-procedure fourth-amendment hotel-guest hotel-guest-rights privacy reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure standing This case involves an important issue in which there is a split of authority in the lower courts regarding whether there is a reasonable expectation o…
22-481 Daphne Moore v. United States First Circuit 2022-11-22 Denied Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) curtilage fourth-amendment home home-curtilage police-technology reasonable-expectation-of-privacy reasonable-expectation-privacy search search-and-seizure surveillance surveillance-camera Whether long-term police use of a surveillance camera targeted at a person's home and curtilage is a Fourth Amendment search.
22-6127 In Re Harry Sur Green, III, et ux. 2022-11-21 Denied IFP cell-phone-data fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence privacy reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure THE RULING ON THE NINTH AMENDMENT OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION, TREATIES LAWS, DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHT, GENEVA CONVENTION, ARTICLE. 1. STATES,…
22-355 Kathy Lynn Carter v. Department of Defense Federal Circuit 2022-10-14 Denied Response Waived administrative-procedure agency-action cell-phone-data due-process fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence merit-system privacy reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure telework-agreement unexcused-leave Under due process under first Amendment, fourth Amendment and four amendments under the constitution can they reject petitioner procedure affidavit de…
21-7101 Martavis Shawn Demar James v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-site-location-information fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search fourth-amendment-seizure reasonable-expectation-of-privacy standing Question not identified.
21-6912 Jamar Jones v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-01-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review cell-phone-data constitutional-rights counsel-performance criminal-procedure fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence ineffective-assistance plea-withdrawal privacy reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure liE TItetZ ntElZE E)(1 sr A- SLIFF x cr-c-ry T E577.1SLtsli P8 - 7ri n on/ PLEA oF Gu I . L Ptiaulinrr m caw -r ON& (*I Che-rded vio La,.1-7 o Ai Cam-…
21-976 Gregory Thomas Wilson v. Florida Florida 2022-01-06 Denied attorney-client-privilege civil-rights expectation-of-privacy fourth-amendment jail-visitation legal-rights reasonable-expectation-of-privacy sixth-amendment surveillance Whether an attorney has reasonable "expectation of privacy" when meeting with clients in the jail attorney visitation room - thereby rendering the act…
21-6546 Jorge Delgado-Rivera v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2021-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-phone-privacy constitutional-rights digital-privacy evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure text-messages Does the Fourth Amendment prevent the government from using a person's sent text messages against them when those messages are obtained through an unc…
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 opinion of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, deciding a constitutional issue of first impression for the Circuit, erroneously ruled th…
21-6186 Faruq Rose v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-11-04 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-court-of-appeals constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure warrantless-search Whether the majority opinion of the United States Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, which held that the petitioner had no reasonable expectation of pri…
21-6117 Joshua Drake Howard v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP carpenter-v-united-states fourth-amendment gps-monitoring gps-tracking law-enforcement-monitoring location-data reasonable-expectation-of-privacy reasonable-expectation-privacy united-states-v-jones united-states-v-knotts warrantless-surveillance Thirty-eight years ago, in United States v. Knotts, 460 U.S. 276, 285 (1983), this Court held that a person does not have a reasonable expectation of …
21-5707 Jamaal Gittens v. Melissa T. Pavlack, Judge, Court of Common Pleas of Pennsylvania, Lehigh County Third Circuit 2021-09-17 Denied Relisted (2)IFP cell-phone-data fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence privacy reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure This is matter is a continuance of Jamaal Gittens v Elizabeth Kelly which is currently pending in this court 19-8404. Judge Kelly transferred the stat…
21-5653 In Re Matthew Phillips 2021-09-14 Denied IFP criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure Matthew Sherman Phillips did not receive the "effective assistance of counsel," as guaranteed by the Sixth Amendment of the United States of America's…
21-5224 Julian Terence Martin, Jr. v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2021-07-27 Denied IFP criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure 1. When a state court grants a motion for a competency haering, but convicts a defendant without holding one, is a defendant's due process of law deni…
21-16 Robert Paul Magtulis Cledera v. United States, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-07-08 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment bivens civil-rights constitutional-law due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement reasonable-expectation-of-privacy redressability search-and-seizure standing In Carpenter v United States, No. 16-402, 585 U. S. _ (2018), this court held that the Government 's acquisition of Carpenters cell-site records was a…
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 this Court overrule the third-party doctrine as stated in Miller and Smith as being inconsistent with a reasonable expectation of privacy under…
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…
20-7319 Jamaa I. Johnson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-03-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-phone-data fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence privacy reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure 1. Does an acquittal under a Pinkerton liability question safeguard against the acquitted conduct from being calculated into the sentencing guidelines…
20-7265 Jonathan Lindsey v. Illinois Illinois 2021-03-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP curtilage dwelling-search fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-rights narcotics-detection reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure warrantless-search Whether the government's warrantless use of a narcotic detection dog on a dwelling without curtilage violates the resident's Fourth Amendment right ag…
20-6989 Rodney Louis Sims v. Kimberly A. Seibel, Warden Ninth Circuit 2021-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-phone-data criminal-appeal due-process evidence-admissibility fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence ninth-circuit privacy prosecutorial-conduct reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure witness-testimony .IN APPENDIX H.PETITONER NOTICE OF APPEAL DID PETITIONE SHOW "SUFFICIENT EVIDENCE AND FACTS" OF AL THREE WITNESS'S WHO"SWEAREC UNDER OATH TO TELI THE …
20-6905 Christopher Payton May-Shaw v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-01-22 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP curtilage fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence pole-camera reasonable-expectation-of-privacy surveillance warrantless-search Was the warrantless long-term surveillance of the parking lot and carport adjacent to Petitioner's apartment building through the use of a pole camera…
20-6544 Randall S. Overton v. Matt Macauley, Warden Sixth Circuit 2020-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-phone-data fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence privacy reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure I. Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, in denying Petitioner's appeal, resulted in a decision of an important federal qu…
20-6238 Demon O'Neil Parker v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-11-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion cell-site-location-information constitutional-review criminal-sentencing first-step-act fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation reasonable-expectation-of-privacy rehabilitation search-and-seizure sentence-reduction standing Question not identified.
20-6068 Willie Gross, Jr. v. Darrel Vannoy, Warden Fifth Circuit 2020-10-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-phone-data fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence privacy reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure 1. a a federal habeas court finds a constitutional error and that error had a substantial and injurious effect or influence in determining the jury's …
20-412 Mark Stanford Katzman v. Michigan Michigan 2020-10-01 Denied digital-privacy digital-trespass fourth-amendment police-impersonation reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure standing standing-to-challenge trespass Whether the Fourth Amendment permits the police to undetectably impersonate the owner of a phone via text message, and arrest another person by means …
20-5718 Raheim Abdullah Trice v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-09-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP apartment-building covert-surveillance fourth-amendment law-enforcement privacy-rights reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure surveillance unlawful-search warrant-requirement warrantless-search Whether a law enforcement official entering an unlocked apartment building, without permission and without a warrant, placing a "covert camera" disgui…
19-8782 Lisa Graham v. Alabama Alabama 2020-06-22 Denied IFP due-process fifth-amendment functional-equivalent-interrogation marital-communications-privilege miranda-warnings pereira-v-united-states reasonable-expectation-of-privacy wolfle-v-united-states 1. Can a court, consistent with Wolfle and its progeny, utilize the "reasonable expectation of privacy" doctrine to defeat the marital communications …
19-8749 Paul Anthony Crayton v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2020-06-18 Denied Relisted (2)IFP administrative-law cell-phone-data civil-rights constitutional-law fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence judicial-review legal-procedure privacy reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure statutory-interpretation was the pirosented Statement made in the Newspaper hommbul evoug to wannt a mistial? 2 D (cRaytaw) Anmendent. Presene his 6tll N3) boovove Dio the De…
19-1374 Arturo Fernando Shaw Gutierrez v. California California 2020-06-15 Denied Relisted (3) electronic-communications electronic-privacy exceptions-to-warrantless-searches fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-protection-electronic-communicati law-enforcement-search miller-doctrine privacy-rights reasonable-expectation-of-privacy stored-communications-act suppression warrant-requirement warrantless-searches Does the Fourth Amendment protect individuals who send or receive stored electronic communications (emails) as provided under federal law through the …
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 Question 1: Do law enforcement officers have an implied license to cross the clearly marked and defined curtilage of a home to conduct a "knock and …
19-8509 Joaquin Gonzales v. California California 2020-05-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP alpr automated-license-plate-reader evidence-standard fourth-amendment license-plate physical-movements reasonable-expectation-of-privacy reasonable-expectation-privacy search-and-seizure warrantless-search Did a detective's warrantless search of an ALPR database for images and locations of Petitioner's license plate violate petitioner's Fourth Amendment …
19-1301 Clyde S. Bovat v. Vermont Vermont 2020-05-20 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (3) 4th-amendment curtilage exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure warrant-requirement Whether a police officer can access "semiprivate" areas within a home's curtilage to conduct an investigation without a warrant.
19-8178 Alexander Nathan Norris v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-04-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP electronic-privacy fourth-amendment home-privacy kyllo-v-united-states law-enforcement-surveillance reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search sense-enhancing-technology technology warrantless-search In Kyllo v. United States, the Court held that "obtaining by sense-enhancing technology any information regarding the interior of the home that could …
19-7656 Michael Huntoon v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment affidavit computer-privacy computer-search fourth-amendment franks-hearing magistrate probable-cause reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure search-warrant 1. Whether or under what ci rcumstances i s this Court's rul ing in Jacobsen applicabl e to computers i n that a person l oses any reasonabl e expecta…
19-7392 Demetrius Darrell Davis, aka Meatman v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 4th-amendment-search-and-seizure abandonment abandonment-doctrine criminal-procedure disclaimer-of-ownership fourth-amendment incriminating-statement incriminating-statements police-questioning property-rights reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure Whether a mere disclaimer of ownership in an effort to avoid making an incriminating statement in response to police questioning should not alone be d…
19-7106 Peter Woodley v. United States Third Circuit 2019-12-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment consent consent-to-search lawful-possession reasonable-expectation-of-privacy rental-car search-and-seizure standing In Byrd v. United States, 138 S. Ct. 1518 (2018), the Court held that, "as a general rule, someone in otherwise lawful possession and control of a ren…
19-6296 Michael Holmes v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-10-17 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP armed-career-criminal-act bright-line-rule burglary-statute curtilage fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure implied-license knock-and-talk no-trespassing-sign property-rights reasonable-expectation-of-privacy reasonable-person-test (1) Herewith, then, the issue presented is whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals violated this Court's Fourth Amendment precedence and committ…
19-6060 Vincent Scott Mathews v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-09-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure fourth-amendment gps-monitoring parole parole-conditions reasonable-expectation-of-privacy reasonable-expectation-privacy search-and-seizure warrant warrant-requirement warrantless-search (1) Does U.S. v. Knights, 534 u.s.1 12,122 s. ct.587,151 L. ed. 2d. 497 (2001) and Griffin v. Wisconsin, 483 u.s. 868,873,107 s. ct. 3164, 971, ed. 2d…
19-5837 Terri McGuire Mollica v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-09-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP detention-cell Evidentiary-Hearing Exclusionary-Rule Fourth-Amendment Fruit-of-the-Poisonous-Tree Fruits-of-Poisonous-Tree ineffective-assistance Ineffective-Assistance-of-Counsel Reasonable-Expectation-of-Privacy section-2255 unreasonable-search Unreasonable-Search-and-Seizure Warrantless-Search 1. Was Petitioners guilty plea sustained in violation of the Fourth Amendment, Unreasonable Search and Seizure, where law enforcement conducted a wa…
19-5766 Tham Bui v. California California 2019-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment cell-phone cell-phone-location-data cell-phone-privacy fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search gps gps-tracking location-data privacy reasonable-expectation-of-privacy telecommunications Did petitioner have a reasonable expectation of privacy in the contemporaneous Global Positioning System coordinates transmitted by the petitioner's c…
19-5671 James Lyle v. United States Second Circuit 2019-08-22 Denied IFP byrd-v-united-states community-caretaking driver's-license exclusive-possession exclusive-possession-and-control fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure non-criminal-control reasonable-expectation-of-privacy rental-vehicle trunk-access vehicle-search warrant-exception Under the Fourth Amendment and Byrd v. United States, 584 U.S. (2018), may a person who operates a rental vehicle without a valid driver's license nev…
19-5670 Thomas James v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment byrd-doctrine exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment passenger-rights passenger-standing rakas-v-illinois reasonable-expectation-of-privacy reasonable-expectation-privacy search-and-seizure standing vehicle-search A passenger's Fourth Amendment expectation of privacy does not emanate solely from the concept of real or personal property. It is derived from the ex…
19-5081 David Morel, Jr. v. United States First Circuit 2019-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment computer-location computer-search digital-privacy expectation-of-privacy fourth-amendment internet-activity-tracking ip-address law-enforcement reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure warrantless-search Whether the warrantless search for personal IP address information related to images that Morel privately uploaded to Imgur, an image-hosting website,…
18A1347 John M. Wasson v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-06-21 Presumed Complete bivens-action due-process fourth-amendment property-rights reasonable-expectation-of-privacy warrantless-search Whether the Fourth Amendment protects an individual's reasonable expectation of privacy when law enforcement photographs a property through an unobstr…
18-9485 Dante Taylor v. New York New York 2019-05-30 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP cell-site-location cell-site-location-information exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment privacy-interest reasonable-expectation-of-privacy secure-communications-act statutory-violation suppression-remedy warrantless-search Whether the warrantless acquisition of cell site location information from a cell phone provider violates the Fourth Amendment
18-8166 Bruce Dwayne Winston v. United States Fourth Circuit 2019-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment carpenter-v-united-states cell-site-data evidence-admissibility pretextual-stop reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure terry-stop unlawful-search-and-seizure Did the District Court err in admitting evidence obtained from an illegal Terry/pretextual stop in violation of the 4th Amendment?
18-7187 Willis Wheeler v. United States Third Circuit 2018-12-27 GVR Relisted (4)IFP circuit-split curtilage exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment key-insertion privacy reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search warrantless-search Whether a law enforcement officer's warrantless insertion of keys into a locked apartment door, within a secured multi-unit dwelling, to gain informat…
18-6715 Cortney John Edstrom v. Minnesota Minnesota 2018-11-19 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment apartment-dwellers apartment-search circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights curtilage drug-detection-dog drug-detection-dogs due-process first-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech reasonable-expectation-of-privacy standing Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims for violation of their First Amendment rights
18-350 Lamar Sequan Brown v. South Carolina South Carolina 2018-09-18 Denied Response Waived abandonment abandonment-doctrine cell-phone-privacy cell-phones digital-data fourth-amendment privacy reasonable-expectation-of-privacy reasonable-expectation-privacy search-and-seizure search-warrant warrant-requirement Whether police must obtain a warrant before searching cell phone data on a lost but passcode-protected phone
18-5633 Michael A. Kennedy v. Michigan State Treasurer Michigan 2018-08-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-phone-data civil-procedure due-process fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence index list-of-parties privacy question-presented reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure standing Whether the government's warrantless seizure and search of a person's cell phone data violates the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on unreasonable sear…
18-5509 Randy David Makell v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-08-08 Denied IFP 4th-amendment curtilage drug-dog drug-dog-search florida-v-jardines fourth-amendment home-search jardines-standard katz-v-united-states reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure Does the use of a trained drug dog to sniff the doorway of a residence violate the resident's reasonable expectation of privacy?
18-48 Minnesota v. Quentin Todd Chute Minnesota 2018-07-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) curtilage fourth-amendment knock-and-talk plain-view plain-view-doctrine probable-cause reasonable-expectation-of-privacy reasonable-suspicion search search-and-seizure Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits police officers from engaging in knock-and-talks to gather evidence, and whether officers can inspect evidence …
18-5004 Tremayne Antwane Mitchell v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-06-28 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment curtilage evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment franks-hearing franks-v-delaware good-faith-exception police-search probable-cause reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure standing warrantless-search Whether the police officers unlawfully searched the petitioner's apartment by trespassing on the curtilage and sniffing the window and doorframe