| 25-6564 |
Ambreia Washington v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2026-01-13 |
Pending |
Response WaivedIFP |
fifth-amendment fourth-amendment plain-view-exception probable-cause self-incrimination warrantless-seizure |
Whether information obtained in violation of the Fifth Amendment's Self-Incrimination Clause can establish the probable cause necessary to authorize a… |
| 25-6444 |
Rashid Muhammad Abdullah v. City of Plant City, Florida, et al. |
Florida |
2025-12-30 |
Pending |
IFP |
collateral-estoppel double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment warrantless-seizure |
The doctrine of collateral estoppel or the Double Jeopardy Clause precludes a municipality from re-litigating factual determinations resolved in the p… |
| 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 … |
| 24-5540 |
Mykel Lee McMillion v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-09-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure firearm-possession fourth-amendment open-carry warrantless-seizure |
Whether the possession of a firearm in an open-carry state, combined with other wholly innocent factors, is sufficient to justify a warrantless seizur… |
| 23-6583 |
Muhammad Khan v. SAP Labs, LLC |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-01-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
9th-circuit appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment judicial-review notice-of-appeal personal-property special-needs time-limitation unreasonable-searches-and-seizures warrantless-seizure |
Whether the government's warrantless seizure and indefinite retention of a person's personal property, without any showing of exigent circumstances or… |
| 22-7544 |
Eliu Elixander Lorenzana-Cordon v. United States |
District of Columbia |
2023-05-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights fourth-amendment indefinite-retention personal-property unreasonable-searches-and-seizures warrantless-seizure |
Whether the government's warrantless seizure and indefinite retention of a person's personal property violates the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on u… |
| 22-5806 |
Jessica Lynne Gould v. Isaiah Ben Johnson |
Missouri |
2022-10-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment child's-passport due-process fourth-amendment international-travel parental-rights passport-restriction state-court-authority state-courts warrantless-seizure |
Does the 4th Amendment protect parents against the warrantless seizure of their child's passport by state courts |
| 22-5790 |
David Delva v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-10-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-counsel due-process fifth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel precedent section-2255 sua-sponte warrantless-seizure |
Whether appellate counsel was ineffective for failing to argue that Petitioner's Fifth Amendment right to be heard and due process were violated when … |
| 22-5754 |
Jamal Laurent v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2022-10-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-924c crime-of-violence criminal-conviction district-court insufficient-evidence joint-trial joint-trials missing-witness missing-witness-instruction rico-act rico-statute unavailable-witness warrantless-seizure witness-statement |
Whether RICO is a crime of violence under 18 U.S.C. §924(c) |
| 21-1216 |
Yan Ping Xu v. Suffolk County, New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2022-03-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment frivolous frivolous-claim privacy-invasion rooker-feldman rooker-feldman-doctrine standing state-court-order warrantless-seizure |
Whether the appeal has been properly dismissed because it 'lacks an arguable basis either in law or in fact' Neitzke v. Williams, 490 U.S. 319, 325 (1… |
| 21-6449 |
Pizarro Thomas v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-11-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment criminal-conduct criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement-conduct police-policy reasonable-suspicion terry-stop terry-v-ohio warrantless-seizure |
Was there reasonable suspicion for Terry stop? |
| 20-8112 |
Richard Knider Jackson v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-05-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
due-process fourth-amendment indefinite-retention personal-property search-and-seizure warrantless-seizure |
Whether the government's warrantless seizure and indefinite retention of a person's personal property violates the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on u… |
| 20-7503 |
Mark Randall Jones v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2021-03-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence-admissibility fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation gut-feeling mail-chute post-office warrantless-search warrantless-seizure |
Whether the Warrantless Seizure of Packages from the Mail Chute at the U.S. Post Office Based on Nothing More than a 'Gut Feeling' Violates the Fourth… |
| 20-7234 |
Kerrin Barrett v. PAE Government Services, Inc., et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-02-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
community-caretaking emergency-doctrine exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure warrantless-seizure warrantless-seizures |
Whether the temporal scope of the emergency doctrine governing warrantless seizures for 'community caretaking' extends beyond the immediate circumstan… |
| 19-1112 |
Stephanie Jones v. Jeremy Eder, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-03-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-rights fourth-amendment interstate-commerce-clause preemption prescription-drugs prescription-medication probable-cause search-and-seizure supremacy-clause warrantless-seizure |
Does the Fourth Amendment, the Supremacy Clause, or the Interstate Commerce Clause prohibit state actors from warrantlessly seizing the People and the… |
| 19-797 |
City of St. Louis, Missouri, et al. v. Mary R. Meier |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-12-23 |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment civil-rights fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment municipal-liability probable-cause section-1983 seizure wanted-bulletin warrantless-seizure |
Whether a municipality can be held liable under 42 U.S.C. §1983 for a warrantless seizure of an automobile based on probable cause |
| 19-6973 |
Taiwan Wiggins, et al. v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-12-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof civil-forfeiture civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment standing warrantless-seizure |
Where a DEA agent stops two air travelers, who had been cleared, to board their flights, and takes from them (in a warrantless seizure) a sum of money… |
| 19-540 |
Andre Jenkins v. City of Cleveland, Ohio |
Ohio |
2019-10-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights concurrent-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process forfeiture forfeiture-procedure in-rem-jurisdiction property-rights seizure standing warrantless-seizure |
Whether the warrantless seizure of money for forfeiture can be justified |
| 18-7786 |
Roy Shotwell v. Kevin Genovese, Warden |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-02-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure critical-stage dna-analysis dna-evidence dna-testing due-process effective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel procedural-due-process prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment standing warrantless-seizure |
Whether the Tennessee courts abused their discretion in denying Petitioner's DNA and post-conviction relief |
| 18-643 |
Janette Dunkle v. Jennifer Dale, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-11-19 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment 4th-amendment child-seizure circuit-court-precedent circuit-split civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment qualified-immunity warrantless-seizure |
Whether the Ninth Circuit erred in applying the narrow approach from Kirkpatrick, and whether Circuit-level opinions stating that an emergency is requ… |
| 18-531 |
Terry Lee Coffman v. Iowa |
Iowa |
2018-10-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
cady-v-dombrowski cady-v-drombrowski community-caretaking constitutional-law exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment immediate-need objective-facts police-assistance probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure warrant-requirement warrantless-seizure |
Whether the Court's holding in Cady v. Dombrowski permits a warrantless seizure under the Fourth Amendment without objective facts establishing an imm… |
| 18-6225 |
Scott Mitchell Bummer v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-10-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-procedure due-process equal-protection standing civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment hearing-absence indefinite-retention motion-to-suppress personal-property telephonic-conference unreasonable-search-and-seizure warrantless-seizure |
Whether the government's warrantless seizure and indefinite retention of a person's personal property violates the Fourth Amendment's prohibition on u… |
| 18-5667 |
Matthew Desmond Browne v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
anonymous-tip civil-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement-procedure location-prediction probable-cause reasonable-suspicion vehicle-identification vehicle-search warrantless-seizure |
Is the Fourth Amendment violated when a warrantless seizure is carried out based on an anonymous tip that correctly identifies a vehicle and a driver'… |