cell-phone-privacy
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-6373 | Latonia Smith v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2025-12-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | cell-phone-privacy electronic-evidence fourth-amendment riley-precedent search-and-seizure warrant-particularity | In Riley v. California, 573 U.S. 373 (2014), this Court established that cell phones require enhanced Fourth Amendment privacy protections. The questi… |
| 25-112 | Okello T. Chatrie v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2025-07-30 | Granted | Amici (2)Relisted (2) | cell-phone-privacy exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment geofence-warrant law-enforcement-search probable-cause | 1. Whether the execution of the geofence warrant violated the Fourth Amendment. 2. Whether the exclusionary rule should apply to the evidence derived… |
| 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… |
| 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… |
| 22-6766 | 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 … |
| 22-5298 | Seth Anthony Johnson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-08-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | cell-phone-privacy fourth-amendment homeland-security homeland-security-search privacy-interest probation-condition probation-officer search-condition supervised-release warrantless-search | Whether the Ninth Circuit improperly ruled that Mr. Johnson's supervised release search condition substantially diminished his weighty privacy interes… |
| 22-27 | Alyssa Jones v. Riot Hospitality Group, LLC, nka Noatoz LLC, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2022-07-08 | Denied | Response Waived | appellate-jurisdiction cell-phone-privacy cell-phones civil-litigation civil-rights due-process injunctive-relief privacy privacy-interests riley-v-california standing sua-sponte-order | 1. Whether Orders requiring the turn over of the cell phones themselves for cloning and global searching are Orders having the practical effect of gra… |
| 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… |
| 21-1525 | Antonio Daron Futrell v. Virginia | Virginia | 2022-06-03 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | abandonment abandonment-exception cell-phone-privacy cell-phones digital-data digital-privacy fourth-amendment riley-precedent riley-v-california search-and-seizure warrantless-search | Police conducted a warrantless search of the digital data on a cell phone appellant left at a restaurant. The lower courts held that the search did no… |
| 21-6546 | Jorge Delgado-Rivera v. Massachusetts | Massachusetts | 2021-12-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | cell-phone-privacy constitutional-rights digital-privacy evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure text-messages | Does the Fourth Amendment prevent the government from using a person's sent text messages against them when those messages are obtained through an unc… |
| 21-5321 | Jerome Kieffer v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-08-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | cell-phone-privacy civil-rights constitutional-procedure criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech government-seizure standing | (1) Does the unconstitutionally vague language, stack down, as by the Court in USC 10@) Apply to 18 USC 72a¢g)(L)? (2) May a Stipulation Suffice to C… |
| 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… |
| 20-6300 | 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… |
| 19-7605 | Vincent Kane v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2020-02-07 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | 4th-amendment abandonment abandonment-doctrine cell-phone-privacy cell-phones fourth-amendment intent-to-reclaim password-protected property-rights public-place reasonable-expectation search-and-seizure | I. WHETHER THE DOCTRINE OF ABANDONMENT APPLIES TO PASSWORD PROTECTED CELL PHONES FOUND IN A PUBLIC PLACE? II. WHETHER THE DOCTRINE OF ABANDONMENT APP… |
| 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… |
| 19-5766 | 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… |
| 18-6918 | Samantha Christine Velazquez v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-12-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment border-search cell-phone-privacy cell-phone-search civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment probable-cause riley-precedent riley-v-california search-and-seizure warrantless-search | Whether a warrantless, post-arrest cell phone search is permissible under the Fourth Amendment, simply because it takes place near the United States b… |
| 18-6512 | Jabril Jones v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-11-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment appeals cell-phone-privacy civil-procedure civil-rights due-process exclusionary-rule false-imprisonment Fourth-Amendment jurisdiction jury-trial probable-cause search-incident-to-arrest sentencing standing warrantless-search | (1) HAVE petitioner BEEN ARREStEd − without PRobabolE CAUSE (2) whether MOUANTS ARREST WARRANT ViolAtE the SECoNd ClAUSE JO The Fourth AmendmeNt (3)… |
| 18-350 | Lamar Sequan Brown v. South Carolina | South Carolina | 2018-09-18 | Denied | Response Waived | abandonment abandonment-doctrine cell-phone-privacy cell-phones digital-data fourth-amendment privacy reasonable-expectation-of-privacy reasonable-expectation-privacy search-and-seizure search-warrant warrant-requirement | Fourth Amendment doctrine permits police to freely search ordinary objects deemed "abandoned." No suspicion, or warrant, or exigency is required. But … |
| 18-5690 | Darren Taylor v. Thomas Schweitzer, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2018-08-22 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment 4th-amendment 5th-amendment cell-phone-privacy constitutional-rights due-process evidence-suppression fourth-amendment gps-data search-and-seizure warrantless-search | Whether Petitioner was denied his constitutional right to a full and fair opportunity to litigate his claim of being denied his constitutional right t… |
| 18-5085 | Teon Jamell Williams v. North Carolina | North Carolina | 2018-07-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment cell-phone-privacy collateral-estoppel constitutional-rights criminal-procedure direct-appeal double-jeopardy effective-assistance-of-counsel fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel search-and-seizure sixth-amendment state-law warrantless-search | WAS THE PETITIONER'S RIGHT TO AFFECTIVE ASSISTANCE OF COUNSEL IN HIS FIRST DIRECT APPEAL OF RIGHT VIOLATED WHEN COUNSEL REFUSED TO BRIEF HIS FOURTH AM… |