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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-6550 | George Madison Kitchen, IV v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2026-01-12 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | evidence-rule-404b federal-appellate-review hearsay-exception reasonable-suspicion rodriguez-standard traffic-stop | 1. WHETHER THE 8TH CIRCUIT ERRED FINDING THAT REASONABLE SUSPICION EXISTED JUSTIFYING THE STOP OF PETITIONER'S VEHICLE AND MISAPPLYING RODRIGUEZ ON WH… |
| 25-6535 | James Eric Larremore v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2026-01-09 | Pending | IFP | fourth-amendment law-enforcement-interaction probable-cause reasonable-person-standard seizure traffic-stop | Whether the deputy's instruction to "hang on a sec," particularly in context, communicated to a reasonable person in Larremore's position that he was … |
| 25-6524 | Aderito Patrick Amado v. United States | First Circuit | 2026-01-08 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | collective-knowledge-doctrine criminal-procedure drug-trafficking evidence-suppression police-investigation traffic-stop | 1. Following a months-long investigation into drug trafficking and while preparing to search an apartment within a large apartment complex, police obs… |
| 25-738 | Nick Kosmalski v. Sherrell King | Sixth Circuit | 2025-12-22 | Denied | Response Waived | excessive-force fourth-amendment handcuffing qualified-immunity reasonableness-standard traffic-stop | Whether the Sixth Circuit's three-factor tight handcuffing test, a brightline rule as stated and as applied in this case to deny qualified immunity, f… |
| 25-629 | Billy Puckett v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-12-03 | Pending | Response RequestedResponse Waived | constitutional-rights fourth-amendment investigatory-questions police-procedure reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop | In Rodriguez v. United States, this Court held that a police officer may not extend a traffic stop, absent reasonable suspicion, to conduct a dog snif… |
| 25-588 | Donna Elizabeth Summers v. Montana | Montana | 2025-11-18 | Pending | Response RequestedResponse Waived | constitutional-rights detention fourth-amendment police-questioning seizure traffic-stop | Whether a driver who is lawfully stopped for a traffic infraction remains seized for Fourth Amendment purposes when the officer concludes the purpose … |
| 25A447 | Billy Puckett v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-10-21 | Application | de-minimis-extension fourth-amendment investigatory-questioning rodriguez-standard seizure-duration traffic-stop | Whether a de minimis extension of a traffic stop through unrelated investigatory questioning violates the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on unreasonab… | |
| 25A455 | Andy H. Williams, Jr. v. City of Aurora, Illinois, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2025-10-21 | Application | badges-and-incidents brady-violation due-process racial-discrimination thirteenth-amendment traffic-stop | Whether the Thirteenth Amendment prohibits racially discriminatory traffic enforcement as a modern badge or incident of slavery | |
| 25A260 | Donna Elizabeth Summers v. Montana | Montana | 2025-09-04 | Presumed Complete | consent fourth-amendment reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure seizure traffic-stop | Whether a traffic stop participant's consent to continued questioning after the stop's purpose has been completed is valid when the officer's prior co… | |
| 25A184 | Ronald Smith v. Bexar County, Texas, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2025-08-14 | Presumed Complete | fourth-amendment mental-health-detention probable-cause seizure traffic-stop warrantless-search | Whether law enforcement may conduct a warrantless emergency mental health detention during a traffic stop based solely on subjective observations of '… | |
| 25-5002 | Juan Carlos Garridoaguilar v. California | California | 2025-07-01 | Denied | IFP | burden-of-proof criminal-procedure fourth-amendment search-and-seizure traffic-stop warrantless-search | Whether the California Court of Appeal improperly shifted the burden of justifying a warrantless search from the State to the defendant |
| 24-7465 | Nikky Nicole Lujan v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-06-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | fourth-amendment investigative-detention law-enforcement-questioning probable-cause reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop | Whether reasonable suspicion exists when an officer relies on a driver's allegedly suspicious answer to an itinerary question without further inquiry,… |
| 24-7229 | DeAndre Jackson v. United States | Third Circuit | 2025-05-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop | Whether the Third Circuit's ruling that an officer's mere suspicion of a suspect's dangerousness absent any additional facts supports an arrest rather… |
| 24-7219 | Martin Devalois v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2025-05-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | drug-dog fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-stop | Does a law enforcement officer violate the Fourth Amendment when he unnecessarily prolongs a traffic stop to conduct a drug dog sniff after completing… |
| 24-6998 | Eric Ellis v. City of White Settlement, Texas, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2025-04-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | fourth-amendment passenger-arrest probable-cause traffic-stop unreasonable-seizure warrantless-seizure | Whether the warrantless seizure of a suspect's children without probable cause during a traffic stop violates the Fourth Amendment; Whether an arrest … |
| 24-863 | Wanda L. Edwards v. South Dakota | South Dakota | 2025-02-12 | Denied | fourth-amendment passenger-rights probable-cause search-warrant traffic-stop vehicle-search | Whether officers must have probable cause to search purses held or worn by passengers during traffic stops | |
| 24-6499 | Michael J. Baniel v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2025-02-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | fourth-amendment narcotics-investigation probable-cause reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop warrantless-search | Whether Trooper Colton Derrick unreasonably extended a traffic stop by focusing on a narcotics investigation without reasonable suspicion or probable … |
| 24A668 | Juventino L. Plancarte v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2025-01-08 | Presumed Complete | drug-sniffing-k9 fourth-amendment investigative-devices probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-stop | Whether the Fourth Amendment permits law enforcement to use a drug-sniffing K9 to detect possessions without probable cause during a traffic stop | |
| 24-6091 | Pedro Pablo Fuentes v. Steven Harpe, Director, Oklahoma Department of Corrections | Tenth Circuit | 2024-12-09 | Denied | IFP | certificate-of-appealability fourth-amendment habeas-corpus judicial-review reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop | Whether the Tenth Circuit unreasonably determined the facts and violated the petitioner's Fourth Amendment rights during a traffic stop |
| 24-6080 | Victor Manuel Ramirez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-12-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights fourth-amendment police-inquiry reasonable-suspicion seizure-duration traffic-stop | Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in creating a bright-line rule permitting police to lengthen a traffic stop by inquiring about a driver's parole or pr… |
| 24-5501 | Victor Manuel Campos-Ayala v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-09-10 | Denied | IFP | controlled-substances-act due-process fourth-amendment miranda-warnings traffic-stop witness-deportation | Whether law enforcement agents must read Miranda warnings during an investigative traffic stop prior to formal arrest, whether possession with intent … |
| 24-5505 | David Brian Larche, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-09-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-suspicion terry-stop traffic-stop warrantless-detention | Whether possession of cash alone constitutes reasonable suspicion to prolong a warrantless detention after a completed traffic stop |
| 24-5396 | Pedro Pablo Fuentes v. Steven Harpe | Tenth Circuit | 2024-08-27 | Denied | IFP | collective-knowledge-doctrine detention fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-stop | Whether law enforcement can detain a suspect and conduct a K-9 search after issuing a traffic citation without additional probable cause or consent |
| 24-5226 | Terry Dwayne Jones v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-08-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof fourth-amendment law-enforcement pacing probable-cause search-and-seizure speed-estimation traffic-stop warrantless-search | Whether an officer's invocation of 'pacing' as a basis for a traffic stop, without any ability to show how he was trained to use such a technique or w… |
| 24A34 | David Brian Larche, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-07-11 | Presumed Complete | fourth-amendment investigatory-detention reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-stop traffic-stop | Whether law enforcement may extend a traffic stop and conduct a search based on mere speculation about criminal activity, contrary to the reasonable s… | |
| 23-7824 | Kwuan Montrell Baker v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-06-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-balancing law-enforcement pretextual-stop probable-cause reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop whren-v-united-states | Whether an admittedly pretextual traffic stop based on reasonable suspicion, rather than probable cause, violates the Fourth Amendment |
| 23-7562 | Ricky Escobedo v. Katherine R. Gutierrez, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2024-05-28 | Denied | Relisted (3)IFP | 4th-amendment 5th-amendment color-of-law constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment law-enforcement search-and-seizure traffic-stop | Whether petitioner's motorvehicle traffic stop by a third-party (State - Local) under federal color of law was the result of a denial of his Fourth Am… |
| 23A1023 | Marques A. Johnson v. Chris Nocco, in His Official Capacity as Sheriff of Pasco County, Florida, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-05-17 | Presumed Complete | fourth-amendment identification law-enforcement passenger-rights qualified-immunity traffic-stop | Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits arresting a passenger in a vehicle for refusing to identify themselves when no reasonable suspicion of criminal… | |
| 23A975 | Kwuan Montrell Baker v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-05-02 | Presumed Complete | criminal-procedure evidence-suppression fourth-amendment reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop | Whether the Fourth Amendment permits the warrantless search of a vehicle during a traffic stop based on an officer's alleged reasonable suspicion of c… | |
| 23-7350 | Raul Zamora-Quinonos v. Illinois | Illinois | 2024-04-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | coercion consent-search exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment involuntary-consent law-enforcement search-and-seizure traffic-stop unreasonable-search | Whether law enforcement violated the petitioner's right to be free from unreasonable search and seizure under the Fourth Amendment |
| 23A863 | Janice Hughes Barnes, Individually and as Representative of the Estate of Ashtian Barnes, Deceased v. Roberto Felix, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2024-03-26 | Presumed Complete | deadly-force fourth-amendment graham-standard reasonableness-test traffic-stop use-of-force | Whether the Fifth Circuit's narrow standard for evaluating the reasonableness of an officer's use of deadly force under the Fourth Amendment impermiss… | |
| 23-6796 | Yanier N. Tellez, aka Yanier Tellez-Crespo v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-02-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment consent consent-search fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure seizure-of-evidence traffic-stop wallet-search warrantless-search | Was the District Court's denial of Petitioner's Motion to Suppress a result of clear error in determining the facts relative to consent for search ver… |
| 23-885 | Mark Wayne Gaddy v. Oklahoma | Oklahoma | 2024-02-16 | Denied | anonymous-phone-call anonymous-tip community-caretaking fourth-amendment reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop | Whether the decision of the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals is an unwarranted extension of the community caretaking function of Cady, and also in d… | |
| 23-6601 | Quentin John Fishburne v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-01-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment criminal-conviction due-process exclusionary-rule firearm-possession fourth-amendment motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-checkpoint traffic-stop | Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in failing to reverse the trial court's order denying the Petitioner's Motion to Suppress the discov… |
| 23-6448 | Stephen Dudley Brunson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-01-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment arrest drug-interdiction fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery law-enforcement pretext probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-stop | Whether officers may cure an unlawfully prolonged traffic stop by arresting the motorist for the traffic violation or claiming inevitable discovery ba… |
| 23-709 | David R. Johnson v. Illinois | Seventh Circuit | 2024-01-02 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | §1983-claim civil-procedure civil-rights court-of-claims default-judgment due-process judicial-misconduct standing state-abuse-of-power traffic-stop | Whether the alleged wrongful traffic stop arose in 2008 or 2009, and the subsequent default proceedings and abuse of power by state officials |
| 23-6352 | LaDerrius Williams v. Illinois | Illinois | 2023-12-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-arrest criminal-procedure due-process owner-driver-inference probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop vehicle-ownership | Whether Glover's owner-driver inference constitutes probable cause to arrest a vehicle's owner for a crime involving the vehicle, even if the police c… |
| 23-499 | Jesus Leonardo Esquivel-Carrizales v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-11-13 | Denied | Response Waived | 4th-amendment companion-suspicion criminal-activity drug-crime fourth-amendment investigative-stop law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop | Whether an investigative stop under the Fourth Amendment is reasonable based solely on an individual's interaction with a suspected criminal companion |
| 23-5982 | Garnet Small v. United States | Third Circuit | 2023-11-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | equal-protection fourth-amendment law-enforcement pretextual-stop probable-cause racial-profiling reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop traffic-stops whren-v-united-states | Whether this Court's decision in Whren v. United States, 517 U.S. 806 (1996), should be overruled |
| 23-5952 | Semaj Lemar Williams v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2023-11-03 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 4th-amendment detention evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop | Did the district court improperly deny suppression and did the appellate court improperly affirm the district court? |
| 23-446 | Junjie Li v. Rhode Island | Rhode Island | 2023-10-27 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 4th-amendment civil-rights decriminalization drug-enforcement fourth-amendment marijuana-odor probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop | Whether the slight odor of marijuana creates reasonable suspicion to prolong a traffic stop |
| 23-5862 | Benancio Castaneda v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-10-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | acceptance-of-responsibility canine-sniff drug-investigation fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop vehicle-search | Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in its rulings on the continued detention and canine search |
| 23-5793 | Phillip Serapio Baca v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-10-16 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment brendlin-precedent circuit-split civil-rights exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment passenger-rights search-and-seizure standing traffic-stop vehicle-detention | Whether a passenger in a vehicle subject to a traffic stop may contest the legality of his detention |
| 23-5743 | Xzavione Taylor v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-10-10 | Denied | IFP | criminal-investigation exit-order fourth-amendment pennsylvania-v-mimms police-detention reasonable-suspicion rodriguez-v-united-states traffic-stop vehicle-search | Whether a police officer detours from the lawful mission of a traffic stop by ordering that the driver of a car exit the vehicle for the sole purpose … |
| 23-272 | Winterville Police Department, et al. v. Dijon Sharpe | Fourth Circuit | 2023-09-20 | Denied | Amici (1)Relisted (2) | first-amendment fourth-amendment livestreaming reasonable-time-place-manner seizure traffic-stop | Should the constitutionality of a law enforcement officer's restriction of livestreaming by an occupant of a seized vehicle during a lawfully initiate… |
| 23-5481 | Festus Okwudili Ohan v. Armando B. Fontoura, Sheriff, Essex County, New Jersey, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-08-30 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | civil-rights digital-privacy due-process excessive-force false-arrest fourth-amendment law-enforcement malicious-prosecution probable-cause retaliation traffic-stop warrantless-search | Which legal issues were raised in the SCOTUS petition? |
| 23-5302 | Larry Rederick v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-08-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights eighth-circuit fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-stop traffic-stops unreasonable-search | Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals Decision Authorizes Unreasonably Prolonged Traffic Stops and Unreasonable Searching of a Separate Vehicle … |
| 23-5185 | Yolanda Howard v. United States | First Circuit | 2023-07-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment investigative-detention law-enforcement-procedure probable-cause reasonable-suspicion rodriguez-v-united-states traffic-stop | Did the Maine State Trooper's hunch that 'there were a lot of drugs inthis car' based solely on his initial encounter with Ms. Howard justify delaying… |
| 23-5112 | Kashif M. Robertson v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2023-07-17 | Denied | IFP | fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-rights law-enforcement-procedure motor-vehicle-code probable-cause reasonable-suspicion seizure-duration traffic-stop unrelated-questioning | Whether the State Court's of Pennsylvania Committed Reversible Error |
| 23A31 | Winterville Police Department, et al. v. Dijon Sharpe | Fourth Circuit | 2023-07-13 | Presumed Complete | constitutional-interpretation first-amendment fourth-amendment law-enforcement livestreaming traffic-stop | Whether the constitutionality of a policy prohibiting livestreaming during a lawful traffic stop should be analyzed under the First Amendment or the F… | |
| 23-5022 | Ruben Ramirez-Rivera v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-07-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | drug-sniff fourth-amendment fruit-of-poisonous-tree law-enforcement motion-to-suppress probable-cause traffic-stop | Whether Mr. Ramirez-River's Fourth-Amendment-rights were violated when his motion-to-suppress was denied? |
| 22-1151 | City of Arlington, Texas v. De'On Crane, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2023-05-30 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | arrest-warrant fourth-amendment municipal-liability qualified-immunity reasonable-officer-standard traffic-stop use-of-force whren-v-united-states | Where a suspect with an outstanding felony arrest warrant refuses repeated commands to turn off his car and exit the vehicle, would a reasonable offic… |
| 22-7514 | Joshua Brown v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-05-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment color-discrepancy fourth-amendment high-crime-area probable-cause reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop vehicle-registration | Whether an officer has reasonable suspicion to stop a vehicle based solely on a discrepancy between the vehicle's apparent color and the color listed … |
| 22-7371 | Ryan William Buchheim v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2023-04-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability eighth-circuit fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel rodriguez-standard rodriguez-v-united-states traffic-stop | Whether the district court abused its discretion in denying an evidentiary hearing on ineffective-assistance-of-counsel and unlawful-traffic-stop clai… |
| 22-7253 | Ilse Ivon Solis v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-04-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights detention-duration fourth-amendment law-enforcement motion-to-suppress reasonable-suspicion rodriguez-v-united-states scope-of-justification traffic-stop | Did the officer's inquiries unjustifiably prolong the traffic stop without reasonable suspicion? |
| 22-830 | Corey Forest v. Tennessee | Tennessee | 2023-03-02 | Denied | Response Waived | 4th-amendment citizen-arrest citizen's-arrest civil-rights drug-dog law-enforcement pretextual-stop search-and-seizure seizure traffic-stop | Whether a law enforcement officer acting as a private citizen has the authority to prolong a traffic stop |
| 22-728 | Daniel Cameron Wilkey, et al. v. William Eugene Klaver | Sixth Circuit | 2023-02-03 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights clearly-established-law clearly-established-right fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct qualified-immunity reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop | Whether the Sixth Circuit defined the right at too high a level of generality |
| 22-6484 | Courtney Saunders v. Kyle Thies, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2023-01-09 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-rights discriminatory-intent discriminatory-policing driving-while-black equal-protection fourteenth-amendment law-enforcement racial-discrimination racial-profiling traffic-stop | Whether an Equal Protection claim under the Fourteenth Amendment, based on an incident of discriminatory policing, requires a plaintiff to establish t… |
| 22-6286 | John Yang v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2022-12-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-activity fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop vehicle-seizure | Whether the Fourth Amendment permits a police officer to seize a vehicle and its occupants based on limited information |
| 22-6169 | Shane Alan Nault v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-11-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment fourth-amendment investigatory-stop rodriguez-standard rodriguez-v-united-states search-and-seizure seizure-scope terry-stop traffic-stop | Whether seizing an individual seated in a parked car in a private parking lot should be analyzed in the context of a 'traffic stop' under Rodriguez, o… |
| 22-5925 | Christopher Santillanes Ceja v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-10-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment criminal-investigation drug-trafficking fourth-amendment investigative-duration law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop | Was the traffic stop of Mr. Ceja unreasonably prolonged? |
| 22-5809 | Sirron Moralez v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-10-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights container fourth-amendment law-enforcement-conduct probable-cause search-and-seizure seizure totality-of-the-circumstances traffic-stop vehicle-search | Does an empty container with 'THC' on the cover justify an extended detention in a traffic stop and support the seizure of the driver and search of th… |
| 22-5821 | Felipe Noriega, Jr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-10-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure seizure traffic-stop | Whether the Fourth Amendment allows a police officer to extend a concluded traffic stop based on minimal, if any, suspicious factors |
| 22-5741 | Anthony Delano Hylton, Jr. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-10-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-history criminal-procedure detention-duration fourth-amendment law-enforcement-inquiry prolonged-detention rodriguez-precedent rodriguez-v-united-states traffic-stop | Does This Court's Decision in Rodriguez v. United States permit any criminal history inquiry at any traffic stop no matter how long the inquiry takes? |
| 22-5726 | Veronica Gonzalez-Carmona v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-09-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | credibility drug-interdiction fourth-amendment law-enforcement officer-testimony rodriguez-precedent rodriguez-v-united-states safety-valve-relief traffic-stop | whether-officer's-interspersed-drug-interdiction-questions-extend-traffic-stop |
| 22-5373 | Berenice Del Angel v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-08-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-limits fourth-amendment law-enforcement rodriguez scope-of-detention seizure traffic-stop warrantless-detention | Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits a police officer from continuing his warrantless detention of a motorist after the officer has announced that h… |
| 22-5273 | Bradley Beauchamp v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-08-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment criminal-procedure due-process evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule illegal-traffic-stop reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure sentencing-enhancement suppression-of-evidence traffic-stop venue-violation | Whether the District Court caused reversible error by not suppressing evidence obtained by an illegal traffic stop where the officer lacked articulabl… |
| 22-5213 | Clifford Lavern Stokes v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-07-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment attenuation-doctrine civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment intervening-circumstance reasonable-suspicion rodriguez-standard search-and-seizure traffic-stop warrant-check | Whether a warrant check of a passenger that extends a valid traffic stop is a per se 'fishing expedition' under the attenuation doctrine |
| 22-13 | Nicholas James Imhoff v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-07-05 | Denied | Response Waived | 4th-amendment fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-suspicion rental-car search-and-seizure traffic-stop vehicle-search | Whether a person driving a rental car is sufficient factual basis during a routine traffic stop to create reasonable suspicion to perform a vehicle se… |
| 21-8037 | Larry Blakney v. South Carolina Law Enforcement Division, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2022-06-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights due-process electronic-privacy fourth-amendment privacy probable-cause search-and-seizure standing traffic-stop warrantless-search | Whether the court erred in allowing the warrantless surveillance and search of the petitioner's cell, which violated his Fourth Amendment rights |
| 21-7919 | Raul Ambriz-Villa, Jr. v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2022-05-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment police-questioning search-and-seizure traffic-stop | Does the Fourth Amendment limit police questioning during a traffic stop? |
| 21-7889 | Zahkuan Bailey-Sweeting, aka Zahkuan Sweeting-Bailey v. Massachusetts | Massachusetts | 2022-05-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment 4th-amendment fourth-amendment individualized-suspicion pat-frisk police-hunch police-stop reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop unreasonable-search | Did the pat-frisk of Mr. Bailey-Sweeting violate his right to be free from unreasonable searches under the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment? |
| 21-7808 | John Edward McIntyre v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-05-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-interdiction criminal-procedure equal-protection fourth-amendment high-crime-neighborhood high-crime-neighborhoods law-enforcement probable-cause racial-profiling targeted-enforcement traffic-stop | Whether the holding in Whren v. United States should be overruled in cases where a traffic stop is the result of a targeted criminal interdiction oper… |
| 21-7724 | Anthony Fields v. United States | District of Columbia | 2022-04-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment court-of-appeals evidence-suppression Faretta-v-California fourth-amendment Koon-v-United-States legal-error precedent-interpretation self-representation traffic-stop | Whether the court of appeals' decision affirming the denial of Petitioner's request to exercise his right to self-representation while ignoring comple… |
| 21-7585 | Jayson McNeil v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2022-04-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment motion-to-suppress search-and-seizure traffic-stop | Did the Trial Court err in denial of the Petitioner's Motion to Suppress evidence from a traffic stop and resulting search and seizure that was uncons… |
| 21-7416 | Trevor Dawson Ewers v. Virginia | Virginia | 2022-03-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights concerted-action constitutional-rights fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment pretextual-stop reasonable-suspicion seizure traffic-stop | Where officers work together in concerted action to 'produce' reasonable suspicion when there is none to affect a traffic stop with the sole purpose o… |
| 21-7313 | Domonick Deshay Wright v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-03-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-misconduct probable-cause qualified-immunity reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop | Whether the lower courts have sanctioned a dangerous expansion of qualified immunity that shields police officers from liability for violating clearly… |
| 21-7279 | Charlie Foster v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-03-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-law detention due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-stop | Whether a law enforcement officer may extend a traffic stop by asking for a driver's license and registration after confirming no traffic violation oc… |
| 21-1165 | Janhoi Cole v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2022-02-23 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment investigation officer-conduct rodriguez-rule rodriguez-v-united-states traffic-stop unrelated-crimes | Whether the extension of a traffic stop for an officer to ask detailed questions about the driver's travel plans violates the Fourth Amendment |
| 21-7153 | Arthur Miles v. United States | First Circuit | 2022-02-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights fourth-amendment inception-of-stop law-enforcement narrow-shoulder probable-cause reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop weather-conditions | Can facts observed or learned by a police officer after he decided to initiate a traffic stop, which traffic stop was delayed a short distance only ba… |
| 21-1125 | Matthew Schantz v. Benny Deloach | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-02-15 | Denied | Response Waived | 4th-amendment civil-rights deadly-force fourth-amendment objective-reasonableness police-pursuit qualified-immunity summary-judgment traffic-stop use-of-force | Does the Fourth Amendment allow police to use deadly force to prevent the escape of a joyriding motorcyclist? |
| 21-6857 | Reginald E. Blandford v. New York | New York | 2022-01-14 | Denied | IFP | drug-sniff founded-suspicion fourth-amendment law-enforcement new-york reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop vehicle-search | Whether the Fourth Amendment allows police to extend a traffic stop to conduct a drug sniff without reasonable suspicion of criminal activity |
| 21-952 | Lamont Lendell Bagley v. Virginia | Virginia | 2021-12-29 | Denied | detention fourth-amendment investigatory-detention protective-search protective-search-exception roadside-encounter terry-stop traffic-stop unoccupied-vehicle vehicle-search warrant-requirement | Whether the protective search exception to the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement extends to an unoccupied vehicle if the former occupant is detai… | |
| 21-6628 | Frank McNabb v. Texas | Texas | 2021-12-15 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment consent-search consent-to-search detention-extension fishing-expedition fourth-amendment official-coercion retroactive-forgiveness traffic-stop warrant-exception | Whether consent to search retroactively forgives any and all violations by police prior to consent |
| 21-6458 | David A. Callison v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-11-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 8th-circuit civil-procedure due-process law-enforcement proof-of-insurance rodriguez-analysis traffic-stop trial-record | Whether the 8th Circuit erred by refusing to perform a Rodriguez analysis |
| 21-6251 | Jason Wattie Buzzard and Paul William Martin v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-11-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-investigation fourth-amendment police-questioning prolonged-detention reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop unlawful-detention | Whether a police officer conducting a traffic stop unlawfully prolongs that stop, in violation of the Fourth Amendment, by asking the occupants of the… |
| 21-6223 | Aaron Martin Mercado-Gracia v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-11-09 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment consent fourth-amendment police-questioning race racial-profiling reasonable-person reasonable-person-standard totality-of-circumstances traffic-stop | Whether the person's race is a factor in determining if a person objectively believed he could refuse an officer's request to answer more questions af… |
| 21-6150 | Jacques S. Gholston v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2021-11-03 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constitutional-rights fourth-amendment illinois-v-caballes police-investigation rodriguez-v-united-states time-extension traffic-stop unreasonable-seizure | Whether a traffic stop unreasonably prolonged beyond the time needed to address the purpose of the stop violates the Fourth Amendment regardless of wh… |
| 21-6158 | Delilah Colarte v. Florida | Florida | 2021-11-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment constitutional-limits fourth-amendment passenger-identification rodriguez-limits rodriguez-v-united-states seizure-duration traffic-stop warrant-check | Whether law enforcement can require passengers to identify themselves during a traffic stop |
| 21-5768 | Jeffrey William Forget v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-09-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | drug-interdiction fourth-amendment inventory-search k-9-unit passenger-seat-belt traffic-stop warrantless-search | Whether the traffic stop was unlawfully extended |
| 21-383 | Wyoming v. William Thomas Mahaffy, V | Wyoming | 2021-09-09 | Denied | constitutional-law de-minimis-extension duration-of-stop fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence police-inquiry reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop unrelated-questioning | Did the Rodriguez Court's rejection of de minimis extensions to traffic stops abrogate or limit Johnson, thereby prohibiting officers from posing any … | |
| 21-374 | Steven Edward Struve v. Iowa | Iowa | 2021-09-08 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | cellphone-use civil-rights fourth-amendment investigatory-stop law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion texting-while-driving traffic-stop | Whether police officers have reasonable suspicion under the Fourth Amendment to initiate a traffic stop for briefly holding a cellphone |
| 21-5612 | Geontay Patterson v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-09-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment constitutional-rights controlled-substances prolonged-detention reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop | Whether the district court and appellate court improperly found justification for the search and seizure of Mr. Patterson |
| 21-5518 | John Perez v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-08-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | atascosa-county base-offense-level criminal-procedure drug-distribution drug-quantity mass-marketing relevant-conduct sentencing-enhancement sentencing-guidelines traffic-stop | Was it improper for the Court to find the base offense level was 34 because Mr. Perez should only have been held accountable for the 15 pounds of 'bot… |
| 21-5433 | Alex White v. California | California | 2021-08-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights fourth-amendment law-enforcement mistake-of-law pretext pretext-stop reasonable-mistake traffic-stop vehicle-code vehicle-equipment | Where police officers admitted that their equipment violation stop of the vehicle in which petitioner was a passenger was a pretext to conduct gang in… |
| 21-5287 | Cherosco Brewer v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-08-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights fourth-amendment reasonable-suspicion rodriguez-v-united-states terry-v-ohio traffic-stop | Whether a traffic stop that is otherwise lawful fails the duration test of Rodriguez v. United States and is unconstitutionally prolonged, even if the… |
| 21-5027 | Shane LaGrange v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-07-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-court constitutional-rights exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure law-enforcement police-conduct reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop | Whether the Fourth Amendment permits reasonable suspicion for a traffic stop based on facts the officers did not believe created reasonable suspicion |
| 20-8445 | Christian Kalen Crawford v. Florida | Florida | 2021-06-29 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment 5th-amendment blood-draw criminal-procedure detention due-process fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-stop | Whether law enforcement officers may extend the detention of a driver involved in an accident resulting in the death of another person in order to wai… |
| 20-8179 | Chad Alan Soderman v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-06-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation investigative-detention police-investigation reasonable-suspicion rodriguez-standard rodriguez-v-united-states supervisory-power traffic-stop | Whether the Fourth Amendment was violated under Rodriguez v. United States, 575 U.S. 348 (2015) where individual acts by police to investigate a crime… |
| 20-8180 | Benjamin Ross v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-06-01 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 4th-amendment 4th-amendment-violation fourth-amendment pretextual-stop probable-cause reasonable-suspicion rodriguez-precedent rodriguez-v-united-states traffic-stop | Whether the Fourth Amendment requires reasonable, articulable suspicion and probable cause to justify a pretextual traffic stop? |
| 20-8156 | Ricardo Renteria v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-05-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-procedure constitutional-rights fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion specific-facts statute-violation traffic-stop | Whether reasonable suspicion to support a traffic stop under the Fourth Amendment requires a showing of specific facts that the suspect violated the r… |
| 20-1607 | Michigan v. Anthony Michael Owen | Michigan | 2021-05-19 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | circuit-split exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment heien-standard legal-uncertainty police-conduct reasonable-mistake-of-law speed-limit traffic-stop | Should this Court resolve a split on whether Heien v. North Carolina applies to situations where the law is clear but the circumstances make applying … |
| 20-7996 | Roland Leroy Reese-Bey v. Juan Guerrero, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2021-05-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment jurisdiction right-to-travel summary-judgment traffic-stop | Where jurisdiction was questioned and never established, in an arrest and prosecution resulting from an alleged and unwarranted traffic stop with viol… |
| 20-1314 | Joshua Gregory Richardson v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-03-22 | Denied | Response Waived | constitutional-rights effective-assistance-of-counsel evidence-suppression ineffective-assistance-of-counsel investigation legal-procedure paid-citation sixth-amendment traffic-stop unlawful-search | Whether Counsel's decision not to suppress evidence unlawfully seized from a traffic stop because a traffic citation was paid, then relying on that pa… |
| 20-7444 | Toddrey Bruce v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-03-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | anonymous-911-call circuit-split fourth-amendment high-crime-area law-enforcement navarette-v-california probable-cause reasonable-suspicion second-amendment traffic-stop | Whether the 'absence of additional suspicious conduct' can dispel reasonable suspicion of unlawful gun use |
| 20-7436 | Frederick Dale Knight v. Florida | Florida | 2021-03-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-expectation-privacy search-and-seizure traffic-stop | Does a noncriminal traffic stop and subsequent observation through the window of a stopped vehicle revealing a cylindrical brown object give rise to p… |
| 20-7416 | James Lee Herman, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-03-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment driving-under-the-influence exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery inevitable-discovery-doctrine probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-stop | Whether police officers who violated a driver's Fourth Amendment rights had probable cause to arrest the driver for driving under the influence and wo… |
| 20-7329 | Justin L. Knight v. Nebraska | Nebraska | 2021-03-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-conviction criminal-procedure evidence-suppression fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment investigative-stop reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop | Whether the police had reasonable suspicion for an investigative stop |
| 20-7271 | Ramon A. Boyce v. Ohio | Ohio | 2021-02-26 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment illinois-v-caballes k9-deployment rodriguez-v-united-states search-and-seizure traffic-stop | Whether the rule in Illinois v. Caballes, 543 U.S. 405, 135 S.Ct. 834, 160 L.Ed. 2d 842 applies to the deployment of a K9 during a traffic stop |
| 20-7102 | Toheed Ahmed v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-02-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment circuit-split dog-sniff high-crime-area motion-to-suppress racial-profiling tenth-circuit totality-of-circumstances traffic-stop | Was the Tenth Circuit correct in affirming the denial of Mr. Ahmed's motion to suppress evidence |
| 20-7003 | Justin Anthony Kudla v. Minnesota | Minnesota | 2021-02-01 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment criminal-activity criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-intrusion reasonable-suspicion terry-stop terry-v-ohio traffic-stop | Did the district court error by denying the suppression motion? |
| 20-1027 | Joshua Coleman v. Louisiana | Louisiana | 2021-01-28 | Denied | Response Waived | dog-sniff fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop unreasonable-seizure unreasonable-seizures | Does the Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable seizures tolerate a dog sniff which prolongs a stop, which occurs after all purposes for the… |
| 20-993 | Jeremy Mickens v. Arkansas | Arkansas | 2021-01-26 | Denied | Response Waived | 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure dog-sniff due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop | Whether a police officer may extend a traffic stop to conduct a dog sniff |
| 20-6472 | Raquel Cortez v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2020-12-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment border-patrol civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop | Whether the same rule applies when an officer extends a traffic stop to allow border patrol agents to arrive without reasonable suspicion or other law… |
| 20-6454 | Mark David Zimmerman v. Texas | Texas | 2020-11-25 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment constitutional-law constitutional-rights fourth-amendment fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree k-9-search probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop | Whether the lower court erred in denying Petitioner's motion to suppress evidence obtained during a traffic stop under the Fourth Amendment search-and… |
| 20-564 | Rodney Carlisle, Jr. v. Kentucky | Kentucky | 2020-10-30 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | circuit-split criminal-history-check fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-requirements law-enforcement officer-safety probable-cause traffic-stop | Whether the Fourth Amendment permits law enforcement to prolong every traffic stop by performing a criminal history check, or whether the Fourth Amend… |
| 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… |
| 20-6149 | Jose Sanchez v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-10-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-stop unreasonable-search | Whether an unlawful search of a vehicle performed by law enforcement after an improperly conducted dog sniff constitutes an unreasonable extension of … |
| 20-5991 | Mayra Yurivia Reyes v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-10-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment canine-sniff detention-extension drug-enforcement fourth-amendment law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop | Whether Reyes' 4th Amendment Rights were violated |
| 20-5967 | John Elisha Mayville v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2020-10-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-history-check dog-sniff fourth-amendment officer-safety out-of-state-plates reasonable-suspicion tenth-circuit traffic-stop | Whether an officer can conduct unrelated investigations during a traffic stop |
| 20-5918 | Leonard F. Locke, Jr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-10-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights defense-counsel due-process fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel police-misconduct probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-stop warrantless-search | Question not identified |
| 20-5829 | Jerry Fruit v. United States | Third Circuit | 2020-09-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement officer-safety probable-cause rodriguez-precedent search-and-seizure traffic-stop | Whether police may delay a traffic stop, in the interest of officer safety, absent probable cause, in order to conduct a search? |
| 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? |
| 20-5747 | Ryan Nicholas Haynes v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-09-17 | Denied | Relisted (4)IFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process law-enforcement passenger-rights passenger-search plain-error-review search-and-seizure traffic-stop | Whether a traffic stop of a bus for a minor traffic violation allows law enforcement to order all passengers off the bus to be searched? |
| 20-5555 | Franklin C. Edwards v. Illinois | Illinois | 2020-09-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment investigatory-stop kansas-v-glover law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop vehicle-search | Whether the traffic stop was lawful where the police had no idea who the driver was but knew the registered owner of the vehicle was neither involved … |
| 20-5390 | Michael Betts v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-08-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment police-investigation police-powers reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop warrantless-search | Whether a police officer inquiring about drugs without reasonable suspicion unconstitutionally broadens a traffic investigation |
| 20-134 | Abilio Hernandez, et al. v. Jason Boles, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2020-08-07 | Denied | appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-law due-process fourth-amendment jury-deference jury-instructions standard-of-review traffic-stop warrant-check | Should a federal appellate court grant deference to a jury's conclusions of law about constitutional issues in a civil rights lawsuit? | |
| 20-5187 | Thomas Lee Brennan v. Josh Stein, Attorney General of North Carolina | Fourth Circuit | 2020-07-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel motion-to-suppress post-conviction-relief procedural-default reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop | Whether the trial court erred in denying the defendant's motion for appropriate relief based on ineffective assistance of counsel for failing to file … |
| 19-8250 | Michael Thomas Gaussiran v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-04-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop unreasonable-searches unreasonable-searches-and-seizures vehicle-search | Whether the Fourth Amendment's Right To Be Free From Unreasonable Searches And Seizures Requires Reversal When There Is No Evidence To Support Reasona… |
| 19-1200 | Johndrell Elliott v. Ohio | Ohio | 2020-04-08 | Denied | 4th-amendment dog-handler dog-sniff drug-offense drug-sniffing-dog fourth-amendment probable-cause rodriguez-standard rodriguez-v-us search-and-seizure traffic-stop warrantless-search | Was the drug offense arrest based on the facts of the traffic stop and use of the drug-sniffing dog valid under Rodriguez v. U.S.? | |
| 19-8212 | Santiago Soto-Garcia v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-04-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-stop witness-testimony | Did the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals err in concluding that the mere presence or possession of guns/weapons seen in plain view and registered to the l… |
| 19-1161 | Justin Hawkins v. Ohio | Ohio | 2020-03-23 | Denied | Response Waived | 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion stolen-vehicle traffic-stop vehicle-registration vehicle-search | Whether a report that a car's color is different from the color listed on the car's registration—without any additional facts—gives a police officer r… |
| 19-7716 | Timmy Wallace v. United States | Second Circuit | 2020-02-20 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 4th-amendment database-search fourth-amendment police-database reasonable-suspicion rodriguez-precedent rodriguez-v-united-states search-and-seizure traffic-stop vehicle-identification | Does Rodriguez v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 1609 (2015) permit a traffic stop to be extended based on a suspicion that had already been dispelled by p… |
| 19-7667 | Robert Tremaine Williams v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-02-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment coercion detainment due-process fourth-amendment k-9-search law-enforcement search-and-seizure seizure traffic-stop video-evidence | Whether the promise to be free to leave after clearance of driver's license, vehicle papers, and warrants with issuance of a warning traffic citation … |
| 19-7507 | Tommy Gurule v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2020-01-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment consent consent-search detention fourth-amendment passenger-rights passengers search-and-seizure traffic-stop vehicle-search | If the driver of a car consents to its search, may officers frisk non-consenting passengers and detain them for the duration of the search? |
| 19-7432 | Edwin David Calligan v. Indiana | Indiana | 2020-01-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights fourth-amendment michigan-v-long officer-safety protective-sweep reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop vehicle-search | Whether officers can reasonably fear a suspect will retrieve a weapon after being told he is free to go |
| 19-6885 | Antonio Escobar v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-12-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alleyne-v-united-states criminal-law criminal-procedure drug-offenses drug-statute due-process flores-figueroa-v-united-states fourth-amendment mens-rea statutory-interpretation traffic-stop | Whether the mens rea requirement in 21 U.S.C. § 841(a) applies to drug type and quantity |
| 19-6587 | Jose Joel Helguera-Del Rio v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-11-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure evidence evidence-law fourth-amendment plain-view-doctrine probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-stop | Does an officer's seizure of an object only after crouching down, carefully examining it for several seconds, and obtaining another officer's second o… |
| 19-6414 | Miguel Angel Vega-Torres v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-10-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-conflict due-process eighth-circuit federal-law fifth-circuit fourth-amendment immigration-checkpoint rodriguez-standard rodriguez-v-united-states traffic-stop traffic-stops | Do the standards for traffic stops articulated in Rodriguez v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 1609 (2015), apply to immigration checkpoint stops? |
| 19-6332 | Walter Glenn v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-10-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment consent-to-search criminal-procedure fourth-amendment leadership-role obstruction-of-justice rental-vehicle search-and-seizure sentencing-guidelines standing standing-civil-procedure standing-doctrine traffic-stop | Whether a relief driver of a rental vehicle had standing to challenge evidence seized from the car |
| 19-6233 | Alshaqah Tariq Powell v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-10-09 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment civil-procedure consent consent-search consent-to-search constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process expectation-of-privacy fourth-amendment involuntary-consent traffic-stop vague-consent-form vagueness | Whether Petitioner had the Fourth Amendment rights as a United States Citizen to be advised of his rights to the 'expectation of privacy' during a det… |
| 19-5953 | Jose Juan Vallejo v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-09-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | border-patrol constitutional-seizure eighth-circuit federal-law fifth-circuit immigration-checkpoint rodriguez-standard rodriguez-v-united-states traffic-stop traffic-stops | Do the standards for traffic stops articulated in Rodriguez v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 1609 (2015), apply to immigration checkpoint stops? |
| 19-5347 | Joshua Frederick Davis v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-07-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights dog-sniff due-process probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-stop traffic-stop | Whether the Court should revisit Florida v. Harris to clarify what the dog's 'alert' means and whether the dog is trained to display an alert for any … |
| 19-5306 | Born Murray v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-07-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights detention fourth-amendment investigation investigative-detention law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion seizure time-frame traffic-stop | Where a police officer admittedly abandons the initial basis for a traffic stop to pursue a new investigation unsupported by reasonable suspicion, doe… |
| 18-1577 | Pennsylvania v. Edward Adams | Pennsylvania | 2019-06-25 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | 4th-amendment 4th-amendment-law civil-rights conflict-with-other-jurisdictions fourth-amendment investigative-detention law-enforcement-encounter pennsylvania-supreme-court probable-cause reasonable-suspicion seizure terry-stop traffic-stop | Whether the Pennsylvania Supreme Court erred in finding that Adams was subjected to an unreasonable seizure in violation of the 4th Amendment |
| 18-9631 | Erickson Meko Campbell v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-06-11 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 4th-amendment exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception reasonable-suspicion rodriguez-v-united-states seizure-doctrine traffic-stop united-states-v-griffin | Whether the exclusionary rule should apply when the only precedent the officer could rely on was not directly on point, explicitly rejected a bright-l… |
| 18-1486 | Zachariah J. Marshall v. Indiana | Indiana | 2019-05-29 | Denied | Response Waived | 4th-amendment federal-precedent fourth-amendment law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion speeding traffic-stop vehicle-movement vehicle-speed warrantless-stop | Whether the Fourth Amendment requires reasonable suspicion of speeding based on an officer's ability to provide actual or estimated vehicle speed or o… |
| 18-1435 | Matthew Wayne Minard, Individually and in His Official Capacity as a Taylor Police Officer v. Debra Lee Cruise-Gulyas | Sixth Circuit | 2019-05-15 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights constitutional-rights discretion discretionary-action discretionary-enforcement due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech law-enforcement qualified-immunity retaliation retaliatory-arrest traffic-stop | Whether a police officer can immediately initiate a second traffic stop in response to a driver's offensive speech to change the original discretionar… |
| 18-8754 | Richard D. Pomeroy v. Municipality of Anchorage, Alaska | Alaska | 2019-04-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment blood-test breath-test civil-penalties civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure minor-traffic-infraction probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-infraction traffic-stop | Should civil penalties be imposed on petitioner for refusal to submit to a breath test when an intrusive blood test was administered |
| 18-8411 | Lecephrus Pierce v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-03-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | conviction criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement search-and-seizure supreme-court-precedent traffic-stop vehicle-search warrantless-search | Whether the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals abandoned established Supreme Court precedent in affirming the petitioner's conviction despite finding no … |
| 18-1188 | Jeffrey A. Jacobi v. Wisconsin | Wisconsin | 2019-03-13 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourth-amendment intoxication intoxication-determination intoxication-inference law-enforcement law-enforcement-inference police-inference probable-cause reasonable-suspicion traffic-accident traffic-stop vehicle-collision | Whether it is reasonable for police to infer that a driver was intoxicated at the time of a collision based solely on the fact that the driver was fou… |
| 18-8293 | Rodolfo Rivero Garcia, Jr. v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-03-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment border-patrol border-search drug-interdiction drug-trafficking fourth-amendment reasonable-suspicion terry-stop traffic-stop vehicle-search vehicle-stop | Whether the stop of Mr. Garcia's vehicle was supported by reasonable suspicion under the Fourth Amendment |
| 18-8213 | Hector Santillan v. United States | Second Circuit | 2019-03-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment fourth-amendment minority-communities police-interrogation police-investigation prolonged-detention reasonable-suspicion reid-v-georgia rodriguez-standard rodriguez-v-united-states traffic-stop | Whether an officer may prolong a traffic stop to investigate other matters |
| 18-8177 | Julia Augusta Constan Macri v. Illinois | Illinois | 2019-02-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment circuit-split constitutional-rights criminal-procedure deviation fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure illinois-v-caballes law-enforcement original-purpose reasonable-suspicion rodriguez-v-united-states traffic-stop | Whether under the Fourth Amendment the reasonable articulable suspicion necessary to extend a traffic stop must be formed before the officer's deviati… |
| 18-8054 | Michael Kenneth Young v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-02-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment crack-cocaine-seizure criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-joinder fair-trial firearm-seizure fourth-amendment joinder motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-and-seizure severance traffic-stop | Did the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals err in upholding the denial of Petitioner Michael Young's motion to sever his unrelated charges arising out of… |
| 18-1006 | Michael Kevin Adams v. Texas | Texas | 2019-02-01 | Denied | Response Waived | 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights community-caretaking criminal-procedure fourth-amendment impoundment interrogation law-enforcement minor-offense probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-stop vehicle-impoundment vehicle-search | Michael-Kevin-Adams |
| 18-924 | Michael Antonio Bullock v. North Carolina | North Carolina | 2019-01-16 | Denied | Response Waived | 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-limits due-process fourth-amendment mission-scope police-conduct police-investigation reasonable-duration rodriguez-v-united-states traffic-stop | Whether any activities unrelated to the mission of a traffic stop inherently prolong it, and what activities fall within the mission of a stop? |
| 18-7124 | Ruben Geovanni Hernandez v. Texas | Texas | 2018-12-19 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fishing-expedition fourth-amendment law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion scope-of-detention search-and-seizure traffic-stop vehicle-search | Does the Fourth Amendment protect against a 'fishing expedition' to develop 'reasonable suspicion' to exceed the scope of an initial stop in order to … |
| 18-6963 | Muhammed Tariq Camran v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-12-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 11th-circuit 11th-circuit-split 4th-amendment 4th-circuit 4th-circuit-split circuit-split drug-corridor fourth-amendment law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion rental-vehicle search-and-seizure traffic-stop vehicle-rental | Should this court resolve the split between the Fourth and Eleventh Circuit about the probity of the fact that a vehicle is a rental in the reasonable… |
| 18-6908 | Livingston Manners v. Ronald Cannella, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-12-04 | Denied | IFP | 42-U.S.C.-1983 Excessive-Force fleeing-and-eluding fourth-amendment Fourth-Amendment-Violation probable-cause qualified-immunity reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop | Is there a violation of the fourth amendment where the arrest of a civilian stems from an illegal traffic stop |
| 18-667 | Lonnie Charles Williams, III v. Texas | Texas | 2018-11-21 | Denied | Response Waived | driving-while-intoxicated drug-detection fourth-amendment intoxication-signs law-enforcement odor-of-alcohol probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop | Whether reasonable suspicion under the Fourth Amendment can exist in a driving while intoxicated context when officers do not detect the odor of alcoh… |
| 18-6664 | Daniel David Garza v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-11-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment law-enforcement motion-to-suppress probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop | Whether the lower courts erred in denying Mr. Garza's Motion to Suppress based on the erroneous finding that the officer had reasonable suspicion to i… |
| 18-6484 | Markus Davis v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-10-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights fourth-amendment pat-down police-procedure prior-incidents reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop | Whether factors based largely on prior incidents, some years old, can provide a police officer with the reasonable suspicion the Fourth Amendment requ… |
| 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? |
| 18-6412 | Jaiyanah Bey v. Elmwood Place Police Department, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2018-10-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment 4th-amendment-search-and-seizure administrative-search civil-rights commercial-activity constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure standing traffic-stop | Can a police randomly stop and force you off the road to randomly inspect your private property without probable cause to impose a program on people t… |
| 18-6310 | LeShawn Lawson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-10-12 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights drug-activity due-process fourth-amendment investigative-questioning pretextual-stop prolonged-detention reasonable-suspicion rodriguez-rule rodriguez-v-united-states traffic-stop | Whether five minutes of drug-related investigative questioning of a driver at the beginning of an admittedly pretextual traffic stop violates the rule… |
| 18-5824 | James Eugene Larive, Jr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-08-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-procedure discovery due-process entrapment evidence fair-trial fourth-amendment parallel-construction search-and-seizure traffic-stop | Whether the government's use of 'parallel construction' to conceal the true source of evidence violates the defendant's right to a fair trial |
| 18-5585 | Karen Mackey v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-08-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | border-patrol due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment gender-discrimination traffic-stop unreasonable-search-and-seizure unreasonable-seizure vehicle-search | Whether the Fifth Circuit erred in holding that a driver's gender may be a factor in the U.S. Border Patrol's decision to stop and search the person's… |
| 18-145 | Stepheno Jemain Alston v. South Carolina | South Carolina | 2018-07-31 | Denied | Response Waived | 4th-amendment automobile-detention civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion seizure traffic-stop | Does South Carolina's reasonable suspicion analysis, in the context of prolonged automobile detentions, violate due process when it fails to sufficien… |
| 18-5292 | Armando Angeles v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2018-07-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-court-interpretation circuit-split criminal-procedure fourth-amendment lane-maintenance search-and-seizure state-court-interpretation state-federal-court-tension statutory-interpretation suppression-motion traffic-laws traffic-statute traffic-stop | Whether the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals erred in applying the Kansas Supreme Court's interpretation of a Kansas traffic statute governing the failu… |
| 18-13 | Juan Francisco Maldonado v. Texas | Texas | 2018-07-02 | Denied | Response Waived | canine-sniff civil-procedure consent-to-search constitutional-rights fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop | Whether the court of appeals erred in applying the incorrect Fourth Amendment standard to Mr. Maldonado's traffic stop, where reasonable suspicion did… |
| 18-5016 | George Eli Brown, Jr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2018-06-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment driver's-license due-process fourth-amendment inchoate-hunch law-enforcement motorist-rights police-investigation reasonable-suspicion sentencing traffic-stop | Whether a police officer's belief that a motorist does not have a driver's license diminishes to an inchoate hunch or suspicion when another officer s… |