trespass
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25A342 | Amanda Norris, et vir v. Safeguard Properties, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-09-24 | Presumed Complete | appellate-review breach-of-contract invasion-of-privacy jury-trial pro-se trespass | Whether pro se plaintiffs can challenge a district court judgment affirmed by an appellate court after a jury trial involving claims of breach of cont… | |
| 25-64 | Iron Bar Holdings, LLC v. Bradly H. Cape, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2025-07-18 | Denied | Amici (3) | corner-crossing eminent-domain land-grant preemption property-rights trespass | Whether the Unlawful Inclosures Act implicitly preempts private landowners' state-law property right to exclude in an area covering millions of acres … |
| 24-5008 | Glynzo Clark v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-07-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burglary circuit-split criminal-law generic-burglary sentencing statutory-interpretation taylor-precedent taylor-v-united-states trespass | Whether Texas burglary, defined to include a trespass followed by the commission of a reckless crime, constitutes generic 'burglary' under 18 U.S.C. §… |
| 23-1242 | Taurean Jerome Weber v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-05-24 | Denied | Response Waived | digital-property digital-trespass exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception government-intrusion search terms-of-service trespass warrantless-search | Did the Court of Appeals err when it determined Instagram's boilerplate Terms of Service delineated Petitioner's Fourth Amendment rights and held no s… |
| 23-7390 | In Re Guy Lewis Coulston, Jr. | 2024-05-06 | Denied | IFP | criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection exclusionary-rule interrogation-tactics involuntary-confession miranda-rights trespass | Did Detective trespass on private property and violate Miranda rights and make an Involuntary Confession during Interrogation by ignoring invoking cou… | |
| 23-6455 | Darrel R. Fisher v. United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri | Eighth Circuit | 2024-01-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 42-usc-1981 42-usc-1982 4th-amendment civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-protections due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement property-rights trespass warrantless-search | Whether the police officer's warrantless trespassing on the petitioner's private property was justified, and whether the petitioner's subsequent reque… |
| 22-1148 | North Carolina Farm Bureau Federation, Inc. v. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Inc., et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2023-05-26 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4) | breach-of-loyalty content-neutral-statute first-amendment newsgathering private-property-rights property-rights trespass | Whether a worker planted in a business to collect information for their true employer, and who does so in nonpublic areas of the business, is immunize… |
| 22-5898 | Daren W. Phillips v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-10-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights fourth-amendment government-search physical-trespass privacy privacy-expectation property-rights search-and-seizure search-warrant trespass | Whether a wholly privacy-based exception to the Fourth Amendment's search warrant requirement can apply to exempt the government's search when it is a… |
| 21-8115 | Latoya Nicole Carter v. Virginia | Virginia | 2022-06-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights fourth-amendment home-entry law-enforcement search-and-seizure trespass unlawful-arrest use-of-force | Whether the Fourth Amendment forbids a law enforcement officer from trespassing into a resident's home by shoving his foot into the doorway through th… |
| 21-760 | Laura Kelly, Governor of Kansas, et al. v. Animal Legal Defense Fund, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2021-11-22 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (3) | animal-facilities constitutional-law criminal-statute first-amendment free-speech property-rights trespass viewpoint-discrimination | Whether Kan. Stat. Ann. § 47-1827(b), (c), and (d) violate the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment |
| 21-5819 | Rahem Lipford v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2021-09-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | curtilage fourth-amendment home-privacy search-and-seizure trash-pull trespass | Whether a trash pull which took place at Lipford's home, from a location where trash cans were not kept when they were put out for regular collection,… |
| 20-7834 | Steven Cooper v. Florida | Florida | 2021-04-22 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP | adverse-possession constitutional-rights criminal-mischief criminal-procedure due-process grand-theft mandamus pro-se-representation self-representation trespass | Whether it is unconstitutional for a defendant's pro per Motion to Discharge Counsel and Waiver of Right to Counsel to be dismissed for the only reaso… |
| 20-7835 | Steven Cooper v. Florida | Florida | 2021-04-22 | Denied | IFP | adverse-possession circuit-court constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process mandamus right-to-counsel trespass | Whether a defendant has the right to waive presence at pretrial conferences |
| 20-7701 | Samuel Alex Gann v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-04-09 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act burglary burglary-statute circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute sentencing specific-intent statutory-interpretation trespass | Whether a burglary statute that omits the element of specific intent qualifies as generic 'burglary' for purposes of the Armed Career Criminal Act |
| 20-1204 | Mark Ringland v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-03-02 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | digital-evidence electronic-privacy fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence reasonable-expectation search search-and-seizure trespass united-states-v-jacobsen | Whether compelling someone's emails from his or her electronic service provider and opening them is a trespass, and therefore a 'search,' under the Fo… |
| 20-7090 | Michael David Omondi v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-02-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | authorized-entry civil-rights common-law criminal-law due-process federal-statute jurisdictional-boundary military-installation section-1382 trespass | Does Section 1382 codify the common law of trespass, such that Petitioner could be convicted for unlawfully entering a military installation when he c… |
| 20-6207 | Steven Cooper v. Bay County, Florida, et al. | Florida | 2020-11-03 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | adverse-possession constitutional-vagueness due-process judicial-review mandamus property-rights statutory-interpretation takings trespass vagueness | Whether the Florida Statute for Adverse Possession without Color of Title section 95.18 is unconstitutionally vague |
| 20-412 | Mark Stanford Katzman v. Michigan | Michigan | 2020-10-01 | Denied | digital-privacy digital-trespass fourth-amendment police-impersonation reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure standing standing-to-challenge trespass | Whether the Fourth Amendment permits the police to undetectably impersonate the owner of a phone via text message, and arrest another person by means … | |
| 20-72 | Janet L. Himsel, et al. v. 4/9 Livestock, LLC, et al. | Indiana | 2020-07-24 | Denied | Amici (1) | due-process eminent-domain environmental-regulation nuisance nuisance-law property-rights takings-clause trespass | Does a state statute violate the Takings Clause when it provides immunity from nuisance and trespass liability for an industrial-scale hog facility th… |
| 19-8466 | Branch William Niehouse v. Brigitte Amsberry | Ninth Circuit | 2020-05-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law evidence force legal-sufficiency lost-and-found property-rights robbery robbery-evidence speculative-testimony trespass trespassing use-of-force | Whether the evidence of robbery was legally sufficient when the only evidence of threatened use of force was speculation about sunglasses that may hav… |
| 19-326 | Melinda Mitchell, et al. v. City of New York, et al. | Second Circuit | 2019-09-10 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights fourth-amendment malice material-facts objective-reasonableness perjury police-misconduct qualified-immunity trespass wrongful-seizure | Did the Second Circuit err in applying District of Columbia v. Wesby to grant qualified immunity to the police defendants who arrested the plaintiff p… |
| 19-5731 | Angel Mesa Madueno v. California | California | 2019-08-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights consensual-encounter consent fourth-amendment independent-contractor privacy property-rights search-and-seizure standing trespass warrantless-entry | Whether an independent contractor legitimately working in another's back yard has standing to contest a warrantless and non-exigent entry onto the pro… |
| 18-1513 | Michigan v. Michael Frederick, et al. | Michigan | 2019-06-05 | Denied | consent-to-search constitutional-trespass fourth-amendment implied-license knock-and-talk law-enforcement predawn-visit search search-and-seizure trespass | Whether the Fourth Amendment applies to knock and talk encounters | |
| 18-1388 | Susan Lloyd v. City of Streetsboro, Ohio, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2019-05-03 | Denied | Response Waived | abuse-of-power civil-rights due-process government-misconduct property-damage qualified-immunity retaliation trespass wiretapping | Are public officials allowed to show a repeated pattern of abuse and dereliction of duties and still maintain immunity towards a private citizen? |
| 18-1215 | Alvin S. Kanofsky v. City of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2019-03-19 | Denied | Response Waived | abuse-of-power civil-rights code-enforcement conflict-of-interest conservatorship due-process government-corruption government-misconduct judicial-misconduct municipal-liability property-rights trespass | Whether the City of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania acted fraudulently and corruptly in its treatment of the petitioner, Alvin S. Kanofsky, and violated his p… |
| 18-354 | Stanley Weiss v. New Jersey | Third Circuit | 2018-09-18 | Denied | 4th-amendment due-process federalism interstate-law jones-case jones-v-united-states judicial-interpretation legal-uniformity privacy property-rights search-and-seizure supreme-court-precedent trespass | Whether United States v Antoine Jones is the law of the land and should be followed in all states? |