warrantless-seizure

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
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'…