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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-6295 Rashawn Tyriq Perkins v. United States Fourth Circuit 2025-01-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-phone fourth-amendment location-data particularity-requirement reasonable-reliance search-warrant 1. Whether the court of appeals correctly determined that a search warrant for collection of real time location data from Petitioner's cell device ove…
23-7413 Adonis Marquis Perry v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-05-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-phone cell-phone-privacy consent constitutional-rights fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation law-enforcement privacy search-and-seizure third-party-consent warrantless-search 1. Whether a third party's personal use and physical possession of Petitioner's cell phone transfer authority to the third party to consent to law enf…
23-7374 David Allen v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-05-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-phone commerce-clause constitutional-interpretation original-meaning sixth-amendment sixth-circuit speedy-trial statutory-interpretation substantial-effects-test supreme-court-precedent I. Whether the broad rule adopted by the Sixth Circuit, that the Commerce Clause gives congress the power to regulate all conduct incidentally using a…
23-6990 Kristopher Dean Putnam v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-03-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-phone cell-phone-search exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause search-warrant In Riley v. California, 573 U.S. 373 (2014), the Court held that police officers must generally obtain a warrant before searching a cell phone seized …
22-7098 Rashid Turner v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-03-24 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment bank-robbery-act cell-phone cell-phone-search double-jeopardy exclusionary-rule good-faith good-faith-exception hobbs-act search-and-seizure warrant warrant-requirement Whether good faith should apply when law enforcement agency has a policy, written or unwritten, where the officer who conducts a search of a cell phon…
22-6995 Matthew Patrick Langenberg v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-03-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment apparent-authority cell-phone cell-phone-privacy consent consent-search fourth-amendment privacy riley-precedent search warrantless warrantless-search Whether an employer has "apparent authority" to consent to a complete search, including a forensic examination, of an employee's cell phone based upon…
22-6777 Fharis Denane Smith v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-02-14 Denied IFP cell-phone circuit-split digital-privacy fourth-amendment good-faith law-enforcement-procedure probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant warrant-requirement To search a target's phone, does probable cause and good faith require a nexus between the target's phone and the crime demonstrated by case-specific …
22-6766 Michael A. Weis v. Illinois Illinois 2023-02-13 Denied IFP cell-phone cell-phone-privacy civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment search-and-seizure warrantless-search Petitioner's Fourth Amendment I. Did the Illinois courts violate Right to be free from illegal search and seizore when the police seized his cl phone …
22-6580 Daniel J. Campbell v. Ohio Ohio 2023-01-19 Denied Response RequestedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment cell-phone digital-devices digital-privacy fourth-amendment probation probation-search reasonable-suspicion search search-conditions state-supervision 1. Is a search reasonable under the 4th Amendment when a probation officer who lacks required reasonable suspicion and is in violation of Ohio Revised…
22-486 Texas v. John Wesley Baldwin Texas 2022-11-22 Denied 4th-amendment cell-phone cell-phone-search criminal-conspiracy fourth-amendment illinois-v-gates organized-crime probable-cause riley-standard riley-v-california search-warrant warrant-requirements In Illinois v. Gates, this Court held that a warrant's issuance "cannot be a mere ratification of the bare conclusions of others," but also that "warr…
22-236 Jake J. McGovern v. Nebraska Nebraska 2022-09-13 Denied Response Waived cell-phone cell-phone-search exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception overbroad probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-scope 1. Is a warrant to search a cell phone overbroad, in violation of the Fourth Amendment, if it authorizes the search of evidence on the phone in additi…
21-8150 Lorenzo Shelton v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-06-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment cell-phone cell-phone-privacy exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment parole parole-conditions reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure warrantless-search (1) Whether the lower courts erred in allowing the Petitioner's cell phone to be searched just because he was on State parole from the State of Tennes…
21-6994 Fernando Lara v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-01-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-phone exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment privacy probable-cause search-and-seizure Question not identified.
20-7914 Danny Ray Williams v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-05-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment cell-phone cell-phone-search consent consent-search custodial-interrogation digital-privacy forensic-evidence forensic-search fourth-amendment search-and-seizure During a custodial interrogation, a police detective asked for the password to Danny Williams' cell phone, which had been seized incident to Williams'…
20-1198 Jerry Wiltz v. Texas Texas 2021-03-01 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment abandonment abandonment-doctrine cell-phone cell-phone-privacy civil-rights fourth-amendment privacy privacy-rights search-and-seizure standing warrant-requirement In the present case, a man's cell phone was searched without a warrant and the trial court ruled that the phone was abandoned and that the Defendant h…
20-6445 Cristofer Jose Gallegos-Espinal v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-11-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment cell-phone cell-phone-search consent consent-form forensic-search fourth-amendment government-surveillance perpetuity riley-precedent riley-v-california Whether verbal consent to "look through" a cell phone, followed by written consent on an outmoded pre-Riley consent form, permits the government to pe…
20-6300 Bryan Mitchell Lietzau v. Arizona Arizona 2020-11-13 Denied IFP cell-phone cell-phone-privacy fourth-amendment privacy-rights probation probation-search reasonable-suspicion search warrantless-search Does the Fourth Amendment require reasonable suspicion for a probation officer to conduct a warrantless search of a probationer's person or property? …
20-6265 Alfredo Aguilar Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2020-11-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment border-search cell-phone cell-phone-privacy forensic-examination fourth-amendment privacy riley-precedent riley-v-california warrant warrantless-search 1. Whether a warrantless forensic search of a cell phone at a border port of entry is an unreasonable search. 2. Whether, in the light of the privacy…
19-1102 Dontae Small v. United States Fourth Circuit 2020-03-09 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived abandonment-exception carjacking-statute cell-phone cell-phone-privacy cell-phones digital-contents digital-privacy digital-search fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-warrant-requirement mens-rea riley-v-california search-incident-to-arrest 1. In Riley v. California, 573 U.S. 373 (2014), this Court held that the "search incident to arrest" exception to the Fourth Amendment's warrant requi…
19-6602 Carey Ackies, aka Boyd v. United States First Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment cell-phone cell-phone-tracking criminal-procedure direct-review drug-offense first-step-act law-enforcement-surveillance location-tracking search-and-seizure sentencing-thresholds surveillance I. Whether a cell phone, when used by law enforcement to obtain "precise location information," is a "tracking device" under 18 U.S.C. § 3117(b). II.…
19-6595 Raymond Tavelle Holmes v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-13 Denied IFP cell-phone civil-procedure civil-procedure-28-usc-636 due-process fair-trial florida-statute-934.23 fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment ineffective-counsel inevitable-discovery magistrate-judge objection procedural-error report-and-recommendation search-and-seizure severance similar-fact-evidence sixth-amendment standing third-party warrantless-search Whether the failure to sever counts deprived the P Whether the warrantless search and seizure of text williams-rule (1). Whether this Court should exercise its discretionary certiorari jurisdiction and grant certiorari, vacate the judgment below, and remand the case…
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…
19-6267 Michael E. Goynes, Jr. v. Nebraska Nebraska 2019-10-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment affidavit cell-phone cell-phone-privacy crime-investigation criminal-investigation fourth-amendment nexus probable-cause search search-and-seizure search-warrant warrant-requirement Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits the search of the content of a suspect's cell phone when the affidavit in support of the search provides no nex…
19-6154 Joanthony Deaundre Johnson v. Missouri Missouri 2019-10-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-phone criminal-procedure digital-evidence fifth-amendment fourth-amendment particularity-requirement search-and-seizure self-incrimination warrant-particularity 1. Whether a warrant authorizing the search of a cell phone and describing the things to be seized as "all data/software" pertaining to the crimes is …
19-5766 Tham Bui v. California California 2019-08-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment cell-phone cell-phone-location-data cell-phone-privacy fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search gps gps-tracking location-data privacy reasonable-expectation-of-privacy telecommunications Did petitioner have a reasonable expectation of privacy in the contemporaneous Global Positioning System coordinates transmitted by the petitioner's c…
19-5414 Arthur Whitley v. Texas Texas 2019-07-31 Denied IFP 4th-amendment affidavit cell-phone cell-phone-data cell-phone-search criminal-investigation evidence-nexus fourth-amendment murder-investigation nexus-requirement probable-cause riley-precedent riley-v-california search-warrant search-warrant-precedent Whether the Fourth Court of Appeals' legal analysis of the nexus between evidence about a murder investigation and information in the Petitioner's cel…
18-8307 Dockery Cleveland v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-03-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment-search-and-seizure 6th-amendment-jury-trial appellate-review cell-phone cell-phone-search equal-protection fourth-amendment jury-selection ongoing-intrusion peremptory-challenge race-neutral-basis search-and-seizure suppression suppression-of-evidence time-limitation warrant warrant-limitation whether-defendant-must-renew-objection-to-perempto I. Because of the unique nature of a cell phone, the intrusion into the owner of the device will be ong oing as long as the device has the ability to …
18-211 Steven Morris Hurd v. California California 2018-08-17 Denied Response Waived cell-phone cell-phone-search criminal-procedure digital-data fourth-amendment physical-objects riley-v-california robinson-precedent search-incident-to-arrest supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-robinson warrant-requirement Whether this Court's 1970s search incident to arrest precedent involving physical objects applied to non-physical objects such as digital data prior t…
18-5536 Joseph P. Pacheco v. United States Tenth Circuit 2018-08-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment cell-phone cell-phone-search cell-phones civil-rights exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception riley-v-california search-warrant search-warrants The petition is an opportunity for this Court to clear up several issues related to search warrants on cell phones. The questions presented include: (…
18-5306 Ramiah Jefferson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2018-07-20 GVR Relisted (3)IFP cell-phone cell-phone-search fourth-amendment gang-activity probable-cause riley-v-california search-warrant zurcher-v-stanford-daily I. In this case, the district court denied Petitioner's pre-trial motion to suppress numerous photos and social media seized from his cell phone in an…