warrantless-entry
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-454 | Ismael Bimbow v. United States | Second Circuit | 2025-10-15 | Denied | Response Waived | fourth-amendment independent-source-doctrine probable-cause search-warrant suppression-hearing warrantless-entry | 1. Did the District Court err in refusing to conduct an evidentiary hearing to determine the legality of the warrantless entry into Petitioner's apart… |
| 24-1244 | David A. McMaster, Jr. v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2025-06-05 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | emergency-aid-exception fourth-amendment law-enforcement-search probable-cause protective-sweep-doctrine warrantless-entry | Whether it is an improper expansion of the "emergency aid exception" and/or "protective sweep doctrine" to authorize a warrantless entry into a home w… |
| 24-7184 | Tricia Liu v. Louie Angel David Feria | California | 2025-05-12 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment police-misconduct restraining-order warrantless-entry | 1. Whether the warrantless entry by El Monte Police Department officers into Petitioner's property, without exigent circumstances or valid legal justi… |
| 23-6920 | Nicholas Morrow v. Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2024-03-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment home-intrusion mental-health mental-health-arrest trespassing trespassing-claim warrantless-entry | 1. Could the need for a mental health arrest, without more, justify intruding upon the Petitioner's home without a warrant? 2. If the dismissal of th… |
| 23-530 | Terrence R. Yoast v. Pottstown Borough, Pennsylvania, et al. | Third Circuit | 2023-11-17 | Denied | excessive-bail false-arrest false-imprisonment fourth-amendment heck-doctrine malicious-prosecution probable-cause qualified-immunity section-1983 warrantless-arrest warrantless-entry | 1. Under the Fourth Amendment's in-presence requirement, a police officer who conducts a warrantless arrest on a person accused of a misdemeanor, or l… | |
| 22-862 | Brooklyn Zavion Johnson v. West Virginia | West Virginia | 2023-03-10 | Denied | Response Waived | 4th-amendment 5th-amendment consent-to-search due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment juvenile-rights probable-cause search-and-seizure warrantless-entry warrantless-search | Whether Petitioner's 4th amendment right against unreasonable search was violated where police made warrantless entry into his hotel on the basis that… |
| 22-6872 | Gustavo Guzman v. California | California | 2023-02-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-conduct fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence government-informant home-surveillance reasonable-suspicion warrantless-entry | 1. Whether or under what circumstances the Fourth Amendment permits a government informant's warrantless entry into a person's home to monitor, transm… |
| 21-6478 | Endalkachew Merid v. Virginia | Virginia | 2021-12-02 | Denied | IFP | caniglia-v-strom community-caretaking exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment police-entry reasonable-belief suicide-intervention warrantless-entry warrantless-search | The police forcibly entered Merid's apartment without a warrant claiming a reasonable basis to conclude that Merid was suicidal and needed assistance … |
| 21-814 | Christopher Castagna, et al. v. Harry Jean, et al. | First Circuit | 2021-12-01 | Denied | 4th-amendment cady-v-dombrowski community-caretaking home-privacy search-and-seizure warrantless-entry | 1. Did th is Cour t's opinion in Cady v. Dombrowski , 413 U.S. 433 (1973) clearly establish that the community caretaking exception applied only to wa… | |
| 21-6140 | Leonard Morrison v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-11-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment community-caretaking consent exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment home-search implied-consent law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure warrantless-entry | Can a court find voluntary "implied consent" to a warrantless home entry when the officer did not request permission to enter and was unaware of any c… |
| 21-341 | William J. Cost, et al. v. Borough of Dickson City, Pennsylvania, et al. | Third Circuit | 2021-09-02 | Denied | 4th-amendment 911-call civil-rights domestic-disturbance due-process emergency-assistance exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment search-and-seizure warrantless-entry | Whether the court of appeals erred when it held exigent circumstances existed based solely on a 911 call about a domestic disturbance from a disgruntl… | |
| 21-5364 | Tyrone Cammon v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2021-08-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment arrest-warrant civil-rights fourth-amendment minnesota-v-olson payton-v-new-york probable-cause protective-sweep search-and-seizure steagald-v-united-states third-party-residence warrantless-entry | Whether, in light of Minnesota v. Olson, 495 U.S. 91, 96-97 (1990), the lower courts erred in holding that Payton v. New York, 445 U.S. 573 (1980) con… |
| 20-6400 | Kenneth Lamont Sanders v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-11-20 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (4)IFP | child-welfare civil-rights community-caretaker community-caretaker-exception domestic-intervention domestic-violence fourth-amendment law-enforcement-procedure warrantless-entry welfare-check | Whether the community caretaker exception to the Fourth Amendment allowed law enforcement to make warrantless entry into the home of Mr. Sanders, his … |
| 20-659 | Larry Thompson v. Pagiel Clark, et al. | Second Circuit | 2020-11-13 | Judgment Issued | Amici (17)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | circuit-split civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process exigent-circumstances favorable-termination fourth-amendment section-1983 standing warrantless-entry | I. Whether the rule that a plaintiff must await favorable termination before bringing a Section 1983 action alleging unreasonable seizure pursuant to … |
| 20-253 | Christopher Castagna, et al. v. Harry Jean, et al. | First Circuit | 2020-09-01 | Denied | community-caretaking fourth-amendment home-sanctity police-intrusion qualified-immunity sanctity-of-home search-and-seizure warrantless-entry | The Third and Seventh Circuits have held that the community caretaking exception established by Cady v. Dombrowski, 413 U.S. 433 (1973) does not apply… | |
| 20-5279 | William Dale Wooden v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-08-05 | Judgment Issued | Amici (6)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure standing warrantless-entry warrantless-search | DID THE WARRANTLESS ENTRY AND SEARCH OF PETITIONER'S HOME VIOLATE HIS FOURTH AMENDMENT RIGHT TO BE FREE FROM ILLEGAL SEARCH AND SEIZURE? DID THE SIXT… |
| 20-18 | Arthur Gregory Lange v. California | California | 2020-07-14 | Judgment Issued | Amici (19)Relisted (2) | 4th-amendment exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment home-search misdemeanor misdemeanor-pursuit probable-cause search-and-seizure warrantless-entry | Does pursuit of a person who a police officer has probable cause to believe has committed a misdemeanor categorically qualify as an exigent circumstan… |
| 19-7610 | Luciano Camberos-Villapuda v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-02-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | automobile-exception collins-v-virginia curtilage Due-Process exigent-circumstances Expectation-of-Privacy fourth-amendment payton-v-new-york probable-cause Warrantless-Entry warrantless-search | Does "exigent circumstances" needs justification when officers conducted a warrantless entry onto the curtilage unlawfully? And whether a warrantless … |
| 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… |
| 19-202 | Solomon McLemore v. City of Shoreline, Washington | Washington | 2019-08-16 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 4th-amendment civil-rights community-caretaking due-process fourth-amendment free-speech obstruction obstruction-of-justice probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-requirement warrantless-entry warrantless-search | In the middle of the night, police officers came to McLemore's home and banged on the door, demanding entry without a warrant to investigate a loud ar… |
| 18-8508 | Charles Edward Cooper, Jr. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-03-21 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | curtilage evidence-suppression fourth-amendment gated-community home police-procedure privacy privacy-rights privacy-wall search-and-seizure warrant warrantless-entry | Whether the Fourth Amendment's protection of the home and its curtilage extends to the entrance of a privately gated community, surrounded by an eight… |
| 18-6587 | David James Matthew v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-11-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | anticipatory-warrant conditional-warrant florida-v-jardines fourth-amendment knock-and-announce probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant united-states-v-grubbs warrantless-entry | Whether agent Waldo's initial warrantless entry into the enclosed 'screened front patio' of Matthew's residence violated the Fourth Amendment |