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23-7773 Christopher Marcel Esqueda v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-06-21 Denied Response WaivedIFP consent Florida-v-Jardines fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search implied-consent implied-license jardines-precedent law-enforcement property-based-test property-rights search search-and-seizure secret-recording undercover-agent Fourth-Amendment-search
23-1242 Taurean Jerome Weber v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-05-24 Denied Response Waived digital-property digital-trespass exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception government-intrusion search terms-of-service trespass warrantless-search Did the Court of Appeals err when it determined Instagram's boilerplate Terms of Service delineated Petitioner's Fourth Amendment rights and held no s…
23-7506 Alicia L'Esperance v. Chloe Thibodeau New Hampshire 2024-05-17 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-fines fair-housing judicial-procedure landlord-tenant notification notification-requirements property search Whether any State or judicial body should be allowed to violate Constitutional Rights
23-7385 Jacob Paul Bermel v. United States Eighth Circuit 2024-05-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP consent electronic-device failure-to-object fourth-amendment implied-consent minor-consent search search-and-seizure warrantless-search Whether the failure to object to law enforcement search establishes implied consent to search for purposes of the Fourth Amendment?
23-1114 Charles R. Hays v. United States Seventh Circuit 2024-04-15 Denied Response Waived automobile-exception contraband criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement passenger probable-cause search search-and-seizure Whether law enforcement has probable cause under the Fourth Amendment's automobile exception to search a driver's vehicle based on a passenger's perso…
23-7065 Michael Adam Carmody v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-03-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-site-location fourth-amendment home-surveillance ip-address ip-address-records privacy privacy-interest property property-rights search warrantless-search Whether the warrantless seizure of a person's historical IP address records, which includes their conduct within their homes, violates an individual's…
23-6909 Arnold D. Holland v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-03-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search search-and-seizure supervised-release totality-of-circumstances Whether the Fourth Amendment applies to the act of searching or the initial decision to search, based on an objective standard considering the totalit…
22-1226 Idaho v. Kirby Anthony Dorff Idaho 2023-06-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 4th-amendment constitutional-protection drug-detection drug-detection-dog fourth-amendment governmental-conduct law-enforcement lawfully-stopped-car physical-intrusion search search-and-seizure Does a drug-detection dog's physical intrusion on a lawfully stopped car constitute an unreasonable search?
22-1155 Douglas E. Wilcox v. Maine Maine 2023-05-30 Denied Response Waived constitutional-provision constitutional-rights field-sobriety-test fourth-amendment law-enforcement lower-courts probable-cause search sobriety-test Whether a field sobriety test is a search for which the Fourth Amendment requires probable cause
22-1031 Constance Westfall v. Jose Luna, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-04-25 Denied 4th-amendment coercive-interrogation consent curtilage fourth-amendment knock-and-talk search seizure warrant warrantless-search Whether the 'knock-and-talk' exception to the Fourth Amendment's protection against unlawful entry onto a person's property permits police officers to…
22-978 Jackie Jackson v. Ohio Ohio 2023-04-10 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 4th-amendment contraband criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement lower-court-conflict police-conduct precedent probable-cause search search-and-seizure vehicle-search Whether a police search of a car occurred under the Fourth Amendment
22-6995 Matthew Patrick Langenberg v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-03-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment apparent-authority cell-phone cell-phone-privacy consent consent-search fourth-amendment privacy riley-precedent search warrantless warrantless-search Whether an employer has 'apparent authority' to consent to a complete search, including a forensic examination, of an employee's cell phone based upon…
22-706 Timothy Howard Spriggs v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-01-30 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance private-property residence rv search sentencing-guidelines utilities warrantless-search Whether the Fourth Amendment permits the warrantless search of an immobile RV
22-6580 Daniel J. Campbell v. Ohio Ohio 2023-01-19 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment cell-phone digital-devices digital-privacy fourth-amendment probation probation-search reasonable-suspicion search search-conditions state-supervision Is a search reasonable under the 4th Amendment when a probation officer lacks required reasonable suspicion and violates state law to search a probati…
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-is-a-fourth-amendment-search
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
22-354 Lorenzo Shelton v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-10-14 Denied Response Waived cell-phone-search circuit-split fourth-amendment law-enforcement parolee parolee-search privacy privacy-protection residence search standing Whether the Fourth Amendment's privacy protections prevent law enforcement from searching places where a parolee has standing but are not unambiguousl…
22-5697 Robert Capelli v. United States Second Circuit 2022-09-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-law criminal-procedure fourth-amendment private-plane search search-and-seizure vehicle-exception warrant-requirement Whether the vehicle exception to the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement applies to the search of a private plane
21-7681 Oniel McKenzie v. United States Second Circuit 2022-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP canine-sniff curtilage fourth-amendment law-enforcement privacy-interest privacy-interests search search-and-seizure storage-unit Whether a warrantless canine sniff of the exterior of a private storage unit to detect contraband inside the unit constitutes a search in violation of…
21-7665 Robert Daniel Solove v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-04-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-phone-records cell-site-location comprehensive-chronicle fourth-amendment government-access ip-address ip-address-tracking privacy-rights search search-and-seizure user-movement Whether the government conducts a search under the Fourth Amendment when it accesses historical IP address records for a mobile app that provide a com…
21-1364 Mordechai Korf, et al. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-04-20 Denied Amici (2) attorney-client-privilege civil-procedure department-of-justice filter-team government-attorneys judicial-review search search-and-seizure work-product-protection Whether filter-team procedures like the ones in this case are invalid because they undermine the attorney-client-privilege
21-975 Idaho v. Aaron James Howard Idaho 2022-01-06 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2) dog fourth-amendment law-enforcement narcotics-detection probable-cause search search-and-seizure seizure vehicle vehicle-search When officers lawfully deploy a narcotics-detection dog on the exterior of a vehicle and, without any direction, prompting, or facilitation by officer…
21-6726 Mark Jason Davis v. Florida Florida 2021-12-23 Denied IFP 4th-amendment drug-detection fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment k9-sniff police-dog private-property probable-cause search search-and-seizure search-warrant Whether an open-air sniff conducted by a police K9 on private property without a warrant or probable cause constitutes a search
21-6600 Willis Wheeler v. United States Third Circuit 2021-12-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split fourth-amendment key-insertion law-enforcement multi-unit-dwelling privacy probable-cause reasonable-expectation 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…
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…
21-6523 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
21-752 Rex Hammond v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-11-19 Denied Amici (1) 4th-amendment carpenter-v-united-states cell-site-location-information exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception real-time-tracking search warrant-requirement wireless-carrier Whether a government agent's direction to a wireless carrier to send a signal to a person's phone, so that the phone reveals the person's precise loca…
21-541 Travis Tuggle v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-10-13 Denied Amici (6) curtilage fourth-amendment home home-privacy law-enforcement privacy search search-and-seizure surveillance Whether long-term, continuous, and surreptitious video surveillance of a home and its curtilage constitutes a search under the Fourth Amendment
21-5736 Brandon Joshua Bailey v. Florida Florida 2021-09-21 Denied IFP fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment gps gps-tracking location-records probable-cause search search-and-seizure vehicle warrant-requirement Whether the government conducts a search under the Fourth Amendment when it accesses a vehicle's historical GPS location records
21-5323 Scott Trader v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-08-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP carpenter-v-united-states cell-phone-records fourth-amendment government-surveillance ip-address privacy privacy-rights search search-and-seizure warrantless-search Whether the Government conducts a search under the Fourth Amendment when it accesses historical I.P. address records for a mobile app that provide a c…
20-1755 Dean Hotop, et al. v. City of San Jose, California Ninth Circuit 2021-06-16 Denied Amici (2) business-records compelled-disclosure criminal-sanctions due-process fourth-amendment judicial-review landlord landlord-rights search search-and-seizure Does City of San Jose Ordinance 30032 require a landlord to produce and transmit business records to the City under threat of criminal sanctions witho…
20-8212 Dany L. Brandao v. United States First Circuit 2021-06-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure fourth-amendment home home-search narcotics narcotics-prosecution probable-cause prosecution search search-and-seizure vehicle Should the Fourth Amendment prohibit a search of a person's home when all drug sales occurred elsewhere?
20-7542 Calvin Lewis Carter, III v. Illinois Illinois 2021-03-23 Denied IFP court-procedure criminal-procedure defendant-rights evidentiary-rulings fourth-amendment judicial-interpretation legal-challenge privacy procedural-rules search seizure standing Whether the petitioner's observation of 'by' char' from outside a residential building violates the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on unreasonable sea…
20-1299 Eric S. Clark v. City of Williamsburg, Kansas Tenth Circuit 2021-03-19 Denied Response Waived castle curtilage fourth-amendment general-warrant home implied-license law-enforcement physical-intrusion search search-and-seizure warrant-requirement Should the court adopt the original meaning of the Fourth Amendment by holding that a search of a home(castle) is unreasonable when the implied licens…
20-1204 Mark Ringland v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-03-02 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) digital-evidence electronic-privacy fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence reasonable-expectation search search-and-seizure trespass united-states-v-jacobsen Whether compelling someone's emails from his or her electronic service provider and opening them is a trespass, and therefore a 'search,' under the Fo…
20-1202 William J. Miller v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-03-01 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) email-privacy fourth-amendment government-intrusion government-search private-actor property-based property-rights reasonable-expectation search search-and-seizure Whether the property-based approach to the Fourth Amendment applies to the government's warrantless search of email attachments compelled from a priva…
20-982 Sharon Lynn Brown v. Polk County, Wisconsin, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-01-25 Denied Amici (2)Relisted (3) body-cavity-search civil-rights exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment pre-trial-detainee pretrial-detainee probable-cause search search-and-seizure warrant-requirement Whether the Fourth Amendment permits jail officials to conduct a physical, penetrative search of the vagina and/or anus of a pretrial detainee without…
20-6814 Rodney Johnson v. Illinois Illinois 2021-01-08 Denied IFP 4th-amendment family-home fourth-amendment parolee-search parolees police-misconduct privacy-rights samson-precedent search suspicionless-search warrantless-search Whether Illinois has lowered the bar of reasonableness for the search of parolees beyond this Court's holding in Samson v. California, 547 U.S. 843 (2…
20-870 John W. Orem, et ux. v. Matthew Gillmore, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-12-31 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights fourth-amendment medical-privacy probable-cause qualified-immunity search search-and-seizure Whether the Respondent State Trooper's lack of probable cause to search was sufficiently clear, when all reasonable inferences are made in Petitioner'…
20-823 Robert Lee Crider v. Texas Texas 2020-12-17 Denied blood-extraction bodily-intrusion chemical-analysis fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation search search-and-seizure warrant warrant-scope Whether a Fourth Amendment violation occurs when the government extracts a blood sample by compelled intrusion into a person's body and then chemicall…
20-6300 Bryan Mitchell Lietzau v. Arizona Arizona 2020-11-13 Denied IFP cell-phone cell-phone-privacy fourth-amendment privacy-rights probation probation-search reasonable-suspicion search warrantless-search Does the Fourth Amendment require reasonable suspicion for a probation officer to conduct a warrantless search of a probationer's person or property?
20-6172 Yulian Manuel Villavicencio, aka Cristian Rodriguez v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-10-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment due-process fourth-amendment interdiction probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search traffic-stop vehicle-search Whether payment of $630 for a SUV rental in the defendant's home state of Florida to go to North Carolina for a visit, the inability to recall the spe…
20-576 Sharon Darlene Lopez v. California California 2020-10-30 Denied Response Waived blood-draw civil-rights consent constitutional-rights driving-privilege due-process fourth-amendment implied-consent search warrantless-search Can the State of California condition driving upon its public highways upon a motorist's agreement to surrender Fourth Amendment rights for purposes o…
20-5843 Courtney C. Brown v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2020-09-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment constitutional-rights fourth-amendment police-authority reasonable-suspicion rodriguez-v-us search search-and-seizure totality-of-circumstances traffic-stop Should the Court reverse Pennsylvania v. Mimms?
20-5215 Jessica Lang v. Nebraska Nebraska 2020-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP automobile automobile-exception civil-rights fourth-amendment law-enforcement passenger passenger-rights probable-cause search search-and-seizure Whether police officers violate the Fourth Amendment when they search a passenger's purse, while on her lap, inside an automobile where probable cause…
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 Whether a law enforcement officer's warrantless use of Moocherhunter software and a directional antenna to locate a computer in petitioner's apartment…
19-7950 Daejerron L. Valentine v. Nebraska Nebraska 2020-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment ambiguity automobile-exception conjunctive consistency criminal-procedure Did the removal of 'or' create ambiguity? disjunctive fourth-amendment Is a defendant entitled to consistent jury instruc jury-instructions jury-trial legislative-history possession probable-cause reasonableness reasonableness-standard scope-of-search search search-and-seizure search-scope statutory-interpretation warrant-requirement warrantless-search Did the warrantless search of an automobile exceed the scope of the automobile exception?
19-7371 Larry Bentley, Jr. v. United States Seventh Circuit 2020-01-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP conflict-of-interest constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment narcotics-detection prejudice retroactive-application retroactivity search search-and-seizure Question not identified
19-6887 In Re Brad K. Edmonds 2019-12-09 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment 4th-circuit carpenter-v-united-states civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment gps-tracking probable-cause retroactivity search search-and-seizure suppression warrantless-search Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits warrantless GPS tracking of a vehicle, and whether the retroactive application of the Supreme Court's decision …
19-6533 Kaleb L. Basey v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2703(f) digital-evidence digital-privacy email-privacy fourth-amendment government-request internet-service-provider search seizure warrantless-search Whether the warrantless preservation of private emails by an Internet Service Provider pursuant to a government request under 18 U.S.C. §2703(f) amoun…
19-6267 Michael E. Goynes, Jr. v. Nebraska Nebraska 2019-10-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment affidavit cell-phone cell-phone-privacy crime-investigation criminal-investigation fourth-amendment nexus probable-cause search search-and-seizure search-warrant warrant-requirement Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits the search of the content of a suspect's cell phone when the affidavit in support of the search provides no nex…
19-398 LMP Services, Inc. v. City of Chicago, Illinois Illinois 2019-09-24 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment competition due-process food-truck-regulation fourth-amendment gps-tracking licensure municipal-ordinance privacy-rights restaurants search unreasonable-search Whether Chicago's requirement that licensed food trucks install GPS devices that create comprehensive records of their movements in order to protect r…
19-5431 DeAndre Cherry v. United States Seventh Circuit 2019-08-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel eighth-amendment exclusionary-rule fifth-amendment fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation probable-cause search search-and-seizure vehicle-search Was the petitioner's Fourth Amendment right infringed upon when the officers conducted an illegal search of his vehicle absent probable cause?
19-21 Gregory Owens v. United States First Circuit 2019-07-03 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-protection due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement-procedure property property-rights search search-and-seizure standing warrant warrant-requirement Does the Fourth Amendment protect a person's property from a search without a warrant?
19-5008 Jamie B. Johnson v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2019-06-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP digital-age digital-data fourth-amendment gps gps-tracking location-data privacy privacy-rights probation probation-conditions search warrantless-search Whether the warrantless search, unsupported by any individualized suspicion of criminal wrongdoing, of a former probationer's historical GPS location …
18-1513 Michigan v. Michael Frederick, et al. Michigan 2019-06-05 Denied consent-to-search constitutional-trespass fourth-amendment implied-license knock-and-talk law-enforcement predawn-visit search search-and-seizure trespass Whether the Fourth Amendment applies to knock and talk encounters
18-1478 Ryan Lawrence Steck v. Maryland Maryland 2019-05-28 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment drug-dog-search drug-sniffing-dog fourth-amendment law-enforcement-procedure police-investigation police-procedure probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search search-and-seizure vehicle-search Does an indication of a drug-sniffing dog being 'in odor' without an alert provide probable cause for a search?
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…
18-1219 Illinois v. Derrick Bonilla Illinois 2019-03-20 Denied Amici (1) apartment apartment-building apartment-search common-area dog-sniff drug-detection-dog exclusionary-rule florida-v-jardines fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause search search-and-seizure Whether a sniff by a drug-detection dog conducted in the common area of an apartment building is a Fourth Amendment search under Florida v. Jardines
18-1099 Janie L. Robinson v. State Compensation Mutual Insurance Fund Montana 2019-02-22 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process grand-bargain medical-examination new-york-central-v-white search search-and-seizure state-authority unconstitutional-conditions workers-compensation Unreasonable medical examinations in workers' compensation system violate Fourth Amendment, exceed 'Grand Bargain' limits, and improperly condition be…
18-7179 Trevelle J. Taylor v. Nebraska Nebraska 2018-12-27 Denied IFP 4th-amendment arrest-standards civil-rights confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search witness-testimony Whether a person's mere proximity to others independently suspected of criminal activity, without more, gives rise to probable cause to search that pe…
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…
18-7095 Miguel Robinson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment circumstances circumstantial-evidence criminal-procedure drug-trafficking due-process fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-search rigid-legal-rules rule-of-law search search-and-seizure search-warrant Did the Court of Appeals violate the principle that rigid legal rules are ill-suited to an analysis of probable cause by relying on a rule to find a m…
18-6422 Larry Norton v. United States Seventh Circuit 2018-10-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment mistake-of-law perjury police-misconduct pretext pretextual-stop search search-and-seizure traffic-stop Does a mistake of law by police in the stopping of a vehicle render the subsequent search violative of the Fourth Amendment?
18-6137 Steven Doyle Burton v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-09-28 Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment probation probation-search probation-searches reasonable-suspicion search search-condition standing Whether the Fourth Amendment allows probation searches without reasonable suspicion
18-6116 Anthony Allen Jean v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-09-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment computer-searches exclusionary-rule good-faith-exception law-enforcement search search-and-seizure standing united-states-v-leon void-ab-initio warrant warrant-validity Can the good-faith exception to the exclusionary rule apply to warrants void ab initio?
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 …