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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 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 | Incorporation INaS (12 Whetther Huntington Ingalls Negligence under Vessel owner Underage Employment in 1971 2.)Nhether Ny can be pulled up in Ingall… |
| 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 when there is a written po… |
| 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 | [III] Douse the Department of Children Services "AGENCY "haveany legal right to e a child from the parent / legal garden well the parent / legal garde… |
| 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 | 1. Does the Supreme Court's decision in Riley v. California, 134 S.Ct. 2473 (2014) (regarding the warrantless search of the contents of a cell phone i… |
| 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, by affirming the lower Court's denial of this Petitioner's 28 USC 2255 Motion, fail to preserve his Fourth Am… |
| 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 | (1) Did the Fifth Circuit wrongly hold that Officer Barnes' mistake was "unreasonable" under the Fourth Amendment? (2) In the alternative, did the Fi… |