third-party-doctrine
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-5977 | Dwayne Ernest Wharton v. Texas | Texas | 2025-10-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure evidence-admissibility fourth-amendment gps-tracking search-warrant third-party-doctrine | Does a violation of the Fourth Amendment, as enunciated in this Court's holdings in Carpenter v. United States, 138 U.S. 2206 (2018) and United States… |
| 25-402 | Mamadou Diaw v. Ohio | Ohio | 2025-10-03 | Denied | Response Waived | fourth-amendment investigative-use location-data privacy-rights third-party-doctrine warrant-requirement | 1. Whether, after Carpenter v. United States, 585 U.S. 296 (2018), the Fourth Amendment permits law enforcement to obtain a single historical location… |
| 24-922 | James Harper v. Michael Faulkender, Acting Commissioner of Internal Revenue Service, et al. | First Circuit | 2025-02-26 | Denied | Amici (12)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | cryptocurrency-records fourth-amendment privacy-rights surveillance-tracking third-party-doctrine warrantless-search | Does the Fourth Amendment permit warrantless searches of customer records held by third-party service providers if the records are contractually owned… |
| 24A549 | James Harper v. Daniel I. Werfel, Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, et al. | First Circuit | 2024-12-05 | Presumed Complete | administrative-procedure-act cryptocurrency financial-privacy fourth-amendment john-doe-summons third-party-doctrine | Whether the Fourth Amendment's third-party doctrine permits the IRS to obtain a 'John Doe' summons compelling a cryptocurrency exchange to disclose pr… | |
| 23-7289 | Robert A. Horse v. South Dakota | South Dakota | 2024-04-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment cell-phone-data civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment search-and-seizure third-party third-party-doctrine warrantless-search | Whether the warrantless search and seizure of a third party's (Google's) cell phone location data violated the Petitioner's Fourth Amendment rights |
| 22-5620 | Ebrahim Kalatehe v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-09-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure criminal-procedure due-process evidence-collection fourth-amendment judicial-review pen-register standing third-party-doctrine waiver | Whether the government may use information obtained through a pen register against an individual over whom the government did not obtain a pen registe… |
| 21-6756 | Tracy Clare Micks-Harm v. William Paul Nichols, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2022-01-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | absolute-immunity administrative-function civil-rights constitutional-rights HIPAA hipaa-immunity judicial-immunity proprietary-functions qualified-immunity retaliation search-and-seizure third-party-doctrine | Whether rie, retaliation, deliberate indifference to the violation of civil-rights, acts committed within the scope of administrative-function, acts c… |
| 21-921 | Mark A. Witaschek v. District of Columbia | District of Columbia | 2021-12-22 | Denied | administrative-summons carpenter-v-united-states digital-privacy fourth-amendment good-faith-exception government-surveillance probable-cause tax-evasion third-party-doctrine | Whether the Fourth Amendment's third-party doctrine should be overruled, limited, or held inapplicable | |
| 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 |
| 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 the third-party doctrine be overruled as inconsistent with Katz v. United States? |
| 20-1442 | Andrew Stoveken v. New Jersey | New Jersey | 2021-04-15 | Denied | Response Waived | fourth-amendment prescription-records privacy-rights state-database statutory-mandate third-party-doctrine warrant-requirement | Does the Third Party Doctrine exempt pharmacy prescription records contained in a State-run database from the warrant requirement of the Fourth Amendm… |
| 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… |
| 20-7241 | Rene Gosselin v. Massachusetts | Massachusetts | 2021-02-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-defendant evidence-law fourth-amendment medical-records privacy privacy-rights standing third-party-doctrine | Does a criminal defendant have a Fourth Amendment right of privacy in his medical provider's records, such that the Third Party Doctrine does not appl… |
| 19-8596 | Ryan Galal VanDyck v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-06-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | digital-surveillance fourth-amendment internet-privacy internet-protocol-address online-privacy probable-cause subscriber-information third-party-doctrine | Does the Fourth Amendment require a warrant to obtain subscriber information associated with an IP address? |
| 19-1142 | Kendall R. Carter v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-03-18 | Denied | Response Waived | 4th-amendment administrative-subpoena carpenter-v-united-states civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment internet-privacy internet-subscriber-information ip-address privacy privacy-interest subpoena third-party-doctrine warrant-requirement | Whether the Fourth Amendment warrant requirement protects a right to privacy in an internet protocol (IP) address and internet subscriber information |
| 19-7439 | Saddam Samaan Daoud Samaan v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-01-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | carpenter-v-united-states expectation-of-privacy fourth-amendment hotel-guest-registration law-enforcement reasonable-search search-and-seizure third-party-doctrine warrantless-search | Did Petitioner have a sufficient expectation of privacy in hotel guest registration information that a warrantless demand to the innkeeper for product… |
| 18-1327 | Christian Vernon Sims v. Texas | Texas | 2019-04-19 | Denied | carpenter-v-united-states cell-site-location-information fourth-amendment privacy privacy-expectation standing surveillance-tracking third-party-doctrine warrant-requirement | Does a person have a legitimate expectation of privacy in historic or real-time cellphone tracking data (CSLI) regardless of the duration of the track… |