community-caretaker

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-182 Curtis Levar Wells, Jr. v. Javier Fuentes, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-08-15 Denied Response Waived civil-rights community-caretaker consent-search fourth-amendment reasonable-suspicion seizure This case concerns a federal law enforcement officer's initial detention of a civilian with a post-hoc explanation of a "welfare check" or "communit…
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 …