unreasonable-seizure

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-6799 Salena Nicole Glenn v. Erin Maldonado, Warden Sixth Circuit 2026-02-12 Pending IFP constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment probable-cause unreasonable-seizure warrantless-search 1. Does the warrantless seizure, arrest, and no search warrant of a legally parked vehicle occupant-without probable cause or reasonable suspicion! vi…
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 …
23-1297 Michael Roane v. Tina Ray Fourth Circuit 2024-06-12 Denied clearly-established-law fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-seizure objective-reasonableness personal-property qualified-immunity self-defense summary-judgment unreasonable-seizure Whether Roane's act had to be the 'necessary' or 'unavoidable' act, rather than within a range of objective reasonableness, to be considered an act of…
23-336 Keith Allen Kiefer v. Isanti County, Minnesota Eighth Circuit 2023-09-29 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment mens-rea postconviction-incarceration section-1983 unreasonable-seizure Whether the analytical home for § 1983 unreasonable seizure claims involving only postconviction incarceration for 'violating' an inapplicable law is …
22-7474 Quinton Markis Cuthbertson, aka Quinton Marquis Cuthbertson v. United States Fourth Circuit 2023-05-05 Denied IFP due-process fourth-amendment police-misconduct police-provocation spoliation subterfuge suppression-hearing unreasonable-seizure Do police violate a person's Fourth Amendment rights against unreasonable seizure when they provoke, through subterfuge and intimidation, a person to …
21-8210 Ralph William Lee, III v. Maryland Maryland 2022-06-23 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights confidential-documents constitutional-law constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment right-to-counsel unreasonable-seizure waiver warrantless-search Did the lower court violate Maryland Rule 4-215 and Appellant's constitutional rights by failing to ensure that he knowingly and voluntarily waived hi…
21-7089 LeAndre Jordan v. Ohio Ohio 2022-02-09 Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-reasonableness exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause unreasonable-seizure warrant-requirement warrantless-arrest Are warrantless, probable cause arrests reasonable when no exigency or contemporaneous crimes are present to excuse the failure to obtain a warrant?
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…
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…
20-6901 Antonio Sierra v. Jack Daneri, et al. Pennsylvania 2021-01-15 Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment habeas-corpus rules-of-court standing state-court-error unreasonable-seizure Whether petitioner sufficiently asserted federal rights in the case being heard by state courts who defeated by rules of court, in error, petitioner's…
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 and seizure prejudicially violated the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution?
20-5074 Robert Banks, III v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-07-15 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights fourth-amendment law-enforcement-discretion pretextual-stop racial-profiling search-and-seizure unreasonable-detention unreasonable-seizure whren-v-united-states Should Whren v. United States be overruled to protect against racial profiling and discrimination?
19-5475 Mitchell Taebel v. Maricopa County Attorney's Office, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-08-06 Denied Relisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-misconduct qualified-immunity standing unreasonable-seizure Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated
18-693 Steven Crain v. Nevada, et al. Ninth Circuit 2018-11-28 Denied Response Waived civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment legal-process malicious-prosecution unreasonable-seizure Does an individual's Fourth Amendment right to be free from unreasonable seizure continue beyond legal process so as to allow a malicious prosecution …
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…