| 25-6359 |
Travis Tuggle v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-12-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
effective-assistance-of-counsel fourth-amendment plain-view-doctrine sixth-amendment technological-advances unreasonable-search |
1. Whether the petitioner's Sixth Amendment right to the effective assistance of counsel was infringed upon when counsel failed to argue that, in orde… |
| 25-6057 |
Katrina Lawson v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-11-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
cell-phone-seizure exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment search-warrant unreasonable-search warrantless-search |
1. Whether the i warrantless seizure of a cell phone from
a private closet during a lawful arrest, without either a
warrant, or the owner's consent … |
| 24-372 |
William Robert Taft v. Colorado |
Colorado |
2024-10-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
criminal-procedure fourth-amendment probable-cause protective-sweep unreasonable-search warrant-requirement |
Thirty-four years ago, in Maryland v. Buie , 494 U.S. 325 (1990), this Court ruled that the protective sweep exception to the warrant requirement allo… |
| 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 TO THE UNITED STATE… |
| 23-1158 |
Ryan Morrison v. Alvaro Ramos, Individually and in His Official Capacity, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-04-24 |
Denied |
|
42-usc-1983 civil-rights fourth-amendment home-privacy privacy-rights qualified-immunity search-and-seizure section-1983 unreasonable-search |
Whether a federal court deciding a civil rights claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for deprivation of rights can find that the Officers were entitled to qua… |
| 23-7168 |
Robert J. Plato, Jr. v. Indiana |
Indiana |
2024-04-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment airport-screening civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment privacy search-and-seizure standing tsa-procedures unreasonable-search |
Question not identified. |
| 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 |
1) Whether the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals Decision Authorizes Unreasonably Prolonged Traffic Stops and Unreasonable Searching of a Separate Vehic… |
| 22-6523 |
Alfonzo Johnlouis v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-01-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
fourth-amendment government-action government-actor mail-carrier postal-service search-and-seizure standing unreasonable-search unreasonable-searches warrantless-search |
Is the warrantless search of a First Class sealed mail Priority package by a United States Postal Service mail carrier during the course and scope of … |
| 22-5863 |
Arlandis Shy v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-10-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment 6th-amendment apprendi-v-new-jersey due-process fair-trial fourth-amendment jury-instruction probable-cause search-warrant sixth-amendment unreasonable-search |
I. Whether the district court clearly erred by failing to properly instruct the jury, in violation of the holding in Apprendi v. New Jersey, 530 U.S. … |
| 22-5013 |
In Re Megan Kyte |
|
2022-06-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment due-process false-arrest fourth-amendment habeas-corpus malicious-prosecution search-and-seizure sixth-amendment unreasonable-search |
1. Was petitioner denied her Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution right to a pro se habeas corpus in the US district of Oregon?
2. Was petitione… |
| 21-8069 |
Billy Wayne Lewis v. Texas |
Texas |
2022-06-06 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment appellate-review circuit-split constitutional-interpretation criminal-procedure fourth-amendment rodriguez-precedent rodriguez-v-united-states search-and-seizure supreme-court-guidance unreasonable-search |
I.
QUESTION ONE: U.S. CONSTITUTION 1\J AMENDMENT
RULE 10. Rules of the United States Supreme Court at (C);
Has the Tenth Court of Appeals of the State… |
| 21-1486 |
Nancy Catherine Powers v. Alabama |
Alabama |
2022-05-25 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
fourth-amendment premises-warrant probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant totality-of-the-circumstances unreasonable-search visitor visitor-rights warrantless-search |
1. Whether the search of a purse in the possession of a visitor present at a residence during the execution of a premises warrant violates the Fourth … |
| 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 |
Mr. Zahkuan Bailey-Sweeting was a passenger in a car stopped by three police officers for a minor traffic infraction. At the time of the traffic stop,… |
| 21-7821 |
Mandrail Jamar Woodberry v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-05-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-law digital-privacy due-process fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining probable-cause sentencing unreasonable-search warrantless-search |
Question not identified. |
| 21-7502 |
William Dallas Elmore v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-03-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights conflict-among-courts constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement personal-property property-seizure seizure unreasonable-search |
Does the Fourth Amendment prohibit an unreasonable and ongoing seizure of personal property? |
| 21-1251 |
Eric Ibarguen v. New York |
New York |
2022-03-16 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response Waived |
circuit-split constitutional-rights fourth-amendment home-invasion home-privacy law-enforcement privacy-rights search-and-seizure social-guests unreasonable-search |
Whether, or under what circumstances, social guests are entitled to the Fourth Amendment's protection against unreasonable searches of the home that t… |
| 21-7182 |
Ernest Judge Smith, III v. Florida |
Florida |
2022-02-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
due-process exigent-circumstances fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment knock-and-announce law-enforcement-tactics probable-cause search-and-seizure unreasonable-search warrantless-arrest |
1. Isn 't the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments violated when exigent circumstances are created through police officers use of unreasonable law enforce… |
| 20-1319 |
Victor Manuel Solorzano v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-03-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment judicial-integrity judicial-review plain-error search-and-seizure unreasonable-search |
For the first time on appeal, Mr. Solorzano raised a Fourth Amendment claim objecting to a state order to place a tracking device on his vehicle. He c… |
| 20-6873 |
Joshua Harrell v. California |
California |
2021-01-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment seizure unreasonable-search unreasonable-seizure |
Whether the unreasonable search pnd seizure pig judicially viol? ted
the fourth pnd fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution ?
Whethe… |
| 20-6859 |
Jonathon Ray Swan v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2021-01-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process search-seizure standing unreasonable-search |
Did fourth amendment rights of mine, get violated throughout this case? Did the surveillance, tracking device affidavit to the traffic stop or search … |
| 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 |
When an improperly performed drug-dog sniff of a vehicle fails to provide probable cause to search for contraband, but law enforcement officers search… |
| 20-5978 |
Yoder Austin Blalock v. Alaska |
Alaska |
2020-10-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 4th-amendment 6th-amendment constitutional-amendments criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process equal-protection self-incrimination unreasonable-search |
1) The decision of the State of Alaska, and the Alaska Court of Appeals are inconsistent with the United States Fifth Amendment rights providing that … |
| 20-5637 |
Limmia Page v. New York |
New York |
2020-09-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
citizen-arrest citizen's-arrest civil-rights color-of-law customs-and-border-patrol federal-preemption fourth-amendment law-enforcement search-and-seizure unreasonable-search vehicle-stop |
Whether a citizen loses the right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures because an on-duty federal agent acting under color of law makes … |
| 20-5195 |
Gilbert Carrasco v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-07-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment 4th-amendment-violation border-patrol contraband-search fourth-amendment immigration-checkpoint immigration-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure suspicion-less-stops unreasonable-search |
In United States v. Martinez-Fuerte, 428 U.S. 543 (1976), this Court held that the special need of immigration enforcement made it constitutionally pe… |
| 19-1286 |
In Re Nina Shahin |
|
2020-05-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process standing takings criminal-procedure fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-application fourth-amendment-interpretation search-and-seizure unreasonable-search |
1. How "narrow " Statute of Removal should be
interpreted, especially in situations like the Petitioner 's?
2. Does, the Petitioner 's situation mee… |
| 19-8249 |
Rodney Jackson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-04-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bell-v-wolfish constitutional-rights detention fourth-amendment handcuffed-individual minor-offense public-search search-and-seizure strip-search unreasonable-search |
1. Whether a public strip search of a handcuffed, detained individual suspected of a minor offense violates one's Fourth Amendment right to be free fr… |
| 19-7628 |
Glen Gary Guyn v. Jason Kent, Warden |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-02-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment cause-and-prejudice comity due-process finality fourth-amendment fundamental-injustice incarceration search-and-seizure unreasonable-search unreasonable-search-and-seizure |
1.) Whether Mr. Guyn 's Fourth Amendment right against unreasonable searches and
seizures was violated.
2.) Whether the principles of comity and fin… |
| 19-7311 |
Alphonso Vernell Frazier, II v. City of Omaha Police Department, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2020-01-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights color-of-law due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment search-and-seizure section-1983 unreasonable-search unreasonable-search-and-seizure |
This case is here by upon writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of the United States. Honoring the life, liberty and property of CORPORATION ex-rel … |
| 19-7241 |
William Gene Cox, Jr. v. Louisiana |
Louisiana |
2020-01-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
armed-assault civil-rights confidential-informant confidential-informants constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement pretext search-and-seizure unreasonable-search |
Should law enforcement be allowed to utilize armed assaults by confidential informants as pretext for circumventing the Fourth Amendment guarantee aga… |
| 19-6573 |
Garron Gonzalez v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-11-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment cell-phone cell-phone-privacy civil-rights constitutional-rights digital-evidence effective-assistance-of-counsel fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel probation probation-search search-and-seizure suppression-of-evidence unreasonable-search |
Whether the Fourth Amendment required suppression of evidence found during Warrantless interception of Cell phone?
Did the Probationer's search condi… |
| 19-398 |
LMP Services, Inc. v. City of Chicago, Illinois |
Illinois |
2019-09-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment competition due-process food-truck-regulation fourth-amendment gps-tracking licensure municipal-ordinance privacy-rights restaurants search unreasonable-search |
Whether Chicago's requirement that licensed food trucks install GPS devices that create comprehensive records of their movements in order to protect r… |
| 19-5837 |
Terri McGuire Mollica v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-09-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
detention-cell Evidentiary-Hearing Exclusionary-Rule Fourth-Amendment Fruit-of-the-Poisonous-Tree Fruits-of-Poisonous-Tree ineffective-assistance Ineffective-Assistance-of-Counsel Reasonable-Expectation-of-Privacy section-2255 unreasonable-search Unreasonable-Search-and-Seizure Warrantless-Search |
1. Was Petitioners guilty plea sustained in violation of the
Fourth Amendment, Unreasonable Search and Seizure,
where law enforcement conducted a wa… |
| 19-5555 |
Reginald Lacey v. David Gomez, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-08-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement search-and-seizure statutory-authority unreasonable-search void-order warrant-validity warrantless-search |
Specifically, Chicago Police Department Badge No. JAA4 1A0eS, which was used to arrest the Petitioner was created and issued without any Statutory aut… |
| 19-5180 |
Lesa L. Chaney v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-07-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation government-agents probable-cause search-and-seizure unreasonable-search warrant |
Whether a generally worded warrant permitting government agents to rummage through and seize papers, documents and records for which no probable cause… |
| 19-5173 |
Johnny Kirkland v. Huntington Ingalls, Incorporated |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-15 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights digital-privacy due-process electronic-device fourth-amendment patent probable-cause standing takings unreasonable-search warrantless-search |
Whether Hunks nian 'EM As Kncocpyehion Was Ned h\\igence Under Nesse\\ Quoner + |
| 19-5139 |
Alauna Gaye Morris v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-07-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights fourth-amendment impound inventory-search investigative-stop law-enforcement policy pretext search-and-seizure unreasonable-search vehicle-impoundment |
Whether the Government meets its burden of proving the existence of a clear written policy for searching impounded vehicles |
| 18-9722 |
Jonathan Edward Meier v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-06-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights fourth-amendment investigative-stop law-enforcement law-enforcement-detention pat-down probable-cause prolonged-detention reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure unreasonable-search weapons-search |
Whether law enforcement violates the Fourth Amendment right against unreasonable search and seizure when it holds an individual for a prolonged period… |
| 18-9702 |
Cathrin Funk-Vaughn v. Tennessee Department of Children's Services |
Tennessee |
2019-06-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
agency-overreach child-custody child-jurisdiction child-removal diversion-plea document-fraud due-process evidence-suppression federal-funding first-amendment food-recall free-speech interstate-custody jurisdiction kidnapping law-enforcement parental-rights rescission unreasonable-search |
Does the Department of Children Services have the legal right to remove a child from a parent/legal guardian while the parent/legal guardian was on va… |
| 18-9058 |
Juan L. Garcia v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-05-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment cell-phone-data civil-rights consent fourth-amendment home-search lawful-arrest probable-cause search-and-seizure seizure unreasonable-search warrantless-search |
Whether the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on unreasonable searches and seizures applies to the search of a person's home and belongings when the pers… |
| 18-870 |
Ilyas V. Ibragimov v. Wisconsin |
Wisconsin |
2019-01-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation law-enforcement search-and-seizure seizure seizures unreasonable-search unreasonable-searches vehicle-stop warrantless-search |
Whether Petitioner's Fourth Amendment right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures was violated when his vehicle was stopped by law enforc… |
| 18-7214 |
Waymon Scott McLaughlin v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-01-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
arrestee-access arrestee-rights fourth-amendment law-enforcement-procedure probable-cause search-incident-to-arrest unreasonable-search vehicle-search warrant-requirement warrantless-search |
Whether the Fourth Amendment permits officers to search objects carried by an arrestee without a warrant even after they have eliminated any realistic… |
| 18-6163 |
Randy A. Jones v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-10-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-2255 cell-site-simulator electronic-surveillance fourth-amendment pen-register search-and-seizure surveillance-log unreasonable-search unreasonable-search-and-seizure |
Did the Eighth Circuit Court Of Appeals fail to preserve the petitioner's Fourth Amendment right? |
| 18-5332 |
Davon Merkiese Kemp v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2018-07-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment criminal-procedure drug-crimes drug-trafficking evidence fourth-amendment home-search probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant unreasonable-search |
Whether a police officer's generalized opinion that drug dealers often keep drugs and other evidence of their trafficking activities in their homes is… |
| 18-99 |
Johnny Barnes v. Joseph Gerhart, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-23 |
Denied |
Response RequestedRelisted (3) |
civil-rights confidential-informant drug-surveillance due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement law-enforcement-action police-misconduct qualified-immunity search-and-seizure unreasonable-search |
Did the Fifth Circuit wrongly hold that Officer Barnes' mistake was 'unreasonable' under the Fourth Amendment? |