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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
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?