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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A686 Demetrius Green v. United States District of Columbia 2025-12-11 Application fourth-amendment law-enforcement pole-camera privacy search-and-seizure surveillance Question not identified.
25-412 Rolando Antuain Williamson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2025-10-06 Pending Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) curtilage fourth-amendment law-enforcement privacy-expectation search-and-seizure surveillance 1. Whether a "search" occurs when the government takes a purposeful, investigative act directed toward an individual's home and curtilage, regardless …
25A385 Carter Page v. Kash Patel, Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al. District of Columbia 2025-10-02 Presumed Complete civil-rights fbi fourth-amendment statute-of-limitations surveillance time-barred Whether a plaintiff can pursue civil claims for alleged Fourth Amendment violations arising from purported surveillance misconduct when the claims are…
25-5431 Jason Cornell Matlock v. Indiana Indiana 2025-08-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP drug-investigation fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-inference search-warrant surveillance Under the Fourth Amendment, is there a sufficient nexus to support probable cause to search a citizen's house when a drug dealer briefly parks near th…
24A1160 Mohamed Mohamed Mohamud, Issa Doreh, and Ahmed Nasir Taalil Mohamud v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-05-28 Presumed Complete criminal-procedure fisa foreign-intelligence fourth-amendment metadata-collection surveillance Whether the collection of telephony metadata of millions of Americans pursuant to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) constitutes a viola…
24-7027 Charles House v. United States Seventh Circuit 2025-04-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law fourth-amendment law-enforcement privacy-rights search-and-seizure surveillance Whether the installation of a pole camera monitoring a residence for over 13 months violated the Fourth Amendment right to privacy and whether a zoom …
24-250 Samuel Biar Pech v. Central Intelligence Agency Fifth Circuit 2024-09-05 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) agency-misconduct civil-liberties constitutional-rights government-accountability harassment surveillance Whether the CIA violated constitutional rights through alleged long-term surveillance and harassment
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 Whether long-term, warrantless pole camera surveillance of a person's home and curtilage constitutes an unreasonable search under the Fourth Amendment
23-7579 James B. Jordan v. Federal Bureau of Investigation Ninth Circuit 2024-05-28 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process free-speech retaliation surveillance Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights to due process, freedom of speech, and freedom from unreasonable search and seizure were violated by th…
23-6700 Courtney Green v. Walt Disney Company Ninth Circuit 2024-02-08 Dismissed IFP civil-rights electronic-surveillance harassment non-consensual-monitoring privacy privacy-invasion reasonable-privacy spyware surveillance voyeurism Question not identified
23-6201 Courtney Green v. General Mills World Headquarters, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-12-08 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process eavesdropping harassment intellectual-property non-consensual-monitoring privacy-violation reasonable-privacy surveillance unjust-enrichment Did the respondent General mills use these findings to duplicate a breakfast creation for mass production of its breakfast cereal brand?
23-6146 Catherine Denise Randolph v. United States District Court for the District of Maryland Fourth Circuit 2023-12-01 Denied IFP appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-review criminal-procedure due-process free-speech harmless-error ineffective-assistance obscenity standing state-court-decision surveillance Whether the 'Miller test' to prove obscenity violates the First Amendment
22-7151 Courtney Green v. ABC Entertainment Inc. Second Circuit 2023-03-30 Denied IFP civil-rights cyber-stalking data-collection defamation electronic-communications-privacy invasion-of-privacy non-consensual-monitoring privacy racketeering surveillance Whether repeated actions over time arguably abandon coincidence and prove to be the product of orchestrated and intentional scenarios
22-7150 Courtney Green v. Fox Corporation Second Circuit 2023-03-30 Denied IFP civil-rights cyber-stalking defamation defamation-of-character invasion-of-privacy media-exploitation non-consensual-monitoring privacy racketeering surveillance unfair-business-practices Whether repeated actions over time arguably abandon coincidence and prove to be the product of orchestrated and intentional scenarios
22-6769 Thomas L. Fast v. Florida Florida 2023-02-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment free-speech material-support metadata-collection national-security-agency privacy-rights standing surveillance terrorism usa-patriot-act Whether the petitioner's conviction for providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization under 18 U.S.C. § 2339B violates the First Amen…
22-6715 Donnell Bledsoe v. Mark Zuckerberg, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-02-07 Dismissed Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-law due-process free-speech religious-freedom social-media standing statutory-interpretation surveillance Whether the plaintiffs' First Amendment rights were violated by Facebook's surveillance of their religious posts about UFOs
22-6508 Joseph M. Evans v. Amy Helene Zubrensky District of Columbia 2023-01-10 Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-law court-precedent due-process judicial-review legal-interpretation search-and-seizure standing statutory-interpretation surveillance Whether the warrantless surveillance of an individual's cell phone location data violates the Fourth Amendment
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
22-6442 Brennan Thomas Baker v. Wyoming Wyoming 2023-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-of-discretion cell-phone-recording criminal-evidence criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidentiary-abuse-of-discretion fourth-amendment legal-admissibility surveillance surveillance-footage witness-testimony Did the district court abuse its discretion in admitting the state's cell phone recording of surveillance footage?
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
22-5186 Brandon Richardson v. Brandon Belote, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-07-26 Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fisa standing surveillance Whether the Unconstitutional Surveillance Practices of the FBI and DOJ violated the Fourth Amendment rights of the petitioners by using FISA warrants …
21-7881 In Re Justin Paul Sulzner 2022-05-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights covert-operations due-process foreign-intelligence injunctive-relief national-intelligence national-security religious-freedom religious-organization standing surveillance surveillance-court Whether the FISC should have followed its own established rules concerning action taken on the Movant's two complaints and should have granted emergen…
21-7432 Magdaly Suleydy Perez-Velasquez and Jenifer Miladis Alvarado-Diaz v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-03-23 Denied IFP border-security criminal-law due-process immigration statutory-interpretation surveillance Whether entry under 8 U.S.C. § 1325(a) requires freedom from official restraint
21-1190 Ramon Rios, III v. Texas Texas 2022-02-28 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 4th-amendment arrest fourth-amendment home-search law-enforcement plain-view-doctrine protective-sweep surveillance warrantless-search Does the Fourth Amendment prohibit a warrantless protective sweep of a home following the arrest of a resident outside his home under surveillance?
21-7067 Kimmie Dwayne Baker v. Arizona Arizona 2022-02-08 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certiorari-review criminal-procedure due-process electronic-surveillance evidence exculpatory-evidence government-misconduct government-response judicial-procedure new-trial new-trial-motion surveillance Whether the government was obligated to respond and contest the merits of the July 3, 2022 motion, rather than moving to dismiss on the basis of untim…
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 a reasonable expectation of privacy when meeting with clients in the jail attorney visitation room
21-924 Michael R. Atraqchi, et ux. v. United States, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2021-12-22 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-question frivolous-dismissal in-forma-pauperis pro-se standing statutory-interpretation surveillance wiretapping Whether the opinion of the Eleventh Circuit affirming the lower Court's decision in dismissing the Pro se, federal question in forma pauperis complain…
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
20-7662 Jaime Luevano v. Lee Yeakel, Judge, United States District Court for the Western District of Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-04-06 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process privacy standing surveillance Whether the government's warrantless surveillance of a person's location and movements through their cell phone violates the Fourth Amendment's protec…
20-7323 Salvatore J. Moretti v. Borough of Paramus, New Jersey New Jersey 2021-03-05 Dismissed IFP civil-rights criminal-history due-process judicial-misconduct military-control political-economics standing state-court-procedure surveillance takings veterans-exemption issue-being-raised
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…
20-5718 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…
19-7460 David Wright v. United States First Circuit 2020-01-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-general-discretion civil-rights constitutional-review constitutional-rights-4th-amendment due-process fisa-surveillance foreign-intelligence-surveillance-act national-security standing surveillance terrorism terrorism-conspiracy warrantless-search warrantless-surveillance Whether FISA's emergency provision is unconstitutional
19-7046 Elvis Wayne Jones v. C. Overstreet, Commissioner, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-12-23 Denied IFP administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights due-process standing surveillance Question not identified
19-6602 Carey Ackies, aka Boyd v. United States First Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment cell-phone cell-phone-tracking criminal-procedure direct-review drug-offense first-step-act law-enforcement-surveillance location-tracking search-and-seizure sentencing-thresholds surveillance Whether a cell phone is a 'tracking device' under 18 U.S.C. § 3117(b)
19-448 Glen Plourde v. Jane Doe Maine 2019-10-03 Denied assassination-attempts civil-rights constitutional-law due-process government-surveillance harassment international-law standing surveillance torture Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated due to harassment, surveillance, and alleged torture by government agents
19-5764 Ola D. Dickens v. Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-08-30 Denied IFP 7th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process free-speech judicial-procedure jurisdiction seventh-amendment standing surveillance Whether circuit court made a mistake on order filed 12/04/2017, finding no basis in documents or records filed 11/07/2017, to conclude that any of Pla…
18-8667 Donald James Anson v. United States Second Circuit 2019-04-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights digital-privacy dismissal due-process fourth-amendment opportunity-to-be-heard probable-cause search-and-seizure standing surveillance Does an appellate court err in dismissing an appeal because 'it lacks an arguable basis in law or fact' without first providing the petitioner an oppo…
18-7980 Joseph Michael Ladeairous v. Department of Justice District of Columbia 2019-02-14 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure criminal-proceeding due-process foia-request foreign-intelligence-surveillance foreign-intelligence-surveillance-act freedom-of-information freedom-of-information-act national-security standing summary-judgment surveillance terrorist-designation Whether petitioner had a right to confront respondent under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
18-7103 Rene Garcia-Montejo, aka Bibian Garcia-Montejo v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-12-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-law criminal-law due-process found-in-doctrine illegal-entry immigration-authorities immigration-law official-restraint official-restraint-doctrine statutory-interpretation surveillance Whether the 'official restraint' doctrine precludes the possibility that a defendant can be illegally 'found in' the United States, for purposes of Ti…
18-619 Gamada A. Hussein v. Matthew G. Whitaker, Acting Attorney General, et al. Eighth Circuit 2018-11-14 Denied Response Waived bodily-integrity civil-rights dna-testing due-process faith-based-discrimination false-imprisonment fourth-amendment fourth-amendment,false-imprisonment,due-process,wa sovereign-immunity surveillance warrantless-monitoring Whether implanting chips in Petitioner's body and monitoring the Petitioner and Petitioner's family life activities for a decade without warrant and d…
18-5588 Juan Manuel Sanchez-Jara v. United States Seventh Circuit 2018-08-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-site-simulator fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search privacy probable-cause residence surveillance warrant Whether location of a cell phone user in his residence through use of a cell site simulator, without a probable cause warrant, but with a 'warrant and…
18-5093 Stanley J. Caterbone v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. Third Circuit 2018-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights cointelpro due-process mind-control obstruction-of-justice remote-neural-monitoring social-security-disability standing surveillance targeted-individuals Is the pro se petitioner's claims of victimization of U.S. sponsored mind control a reality or a delusion?