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25-588 Donna Elizabeth Summers v. Montana Montana 2025-11-18 Pending Response RequestedResponse Waived constitutional-rights detention fourth-amendment police-questioning seizure traffic-stop Whether a driver who is lawfully stopped for a traffic infraction remains seized for Fourth Amendment purposes when the officer concludes the purpose …
25-5990 Tylee Brown v. United States Third Circuit 2025-10-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP detention fourth-amendment police-encounter reasonable-suspicion terry-stop vehicle-search 1. Whether a passenger in a vehicle, who briefly leaves the vehicle during a police encounter, but is contemporaneously detained with the vehicle and …
24-6983 Markanthony Deleon Sapalasan v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-04-14 Denied IFP detention fourth-amendment inventory-search law-enforcement property-retention search-and-seizure "At the stationhouse, it is entirely proper for police to remove and list or inventory property found on the person or in the possession of an arreste…
24A617 Lola Shalewa Barbara Kasali v. United States Fifth Circuit 2024-12-20 Presumed Complete appeal bond detention due-process fifth-amendment pre-trial-release Question not identified.
24-5396 Pedro Pablo Fuentes v. Steven Harpe Tenth Circuit 2024-08-27 Denied IFP collective-knowledge-doctrine detention fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-stop On a traffic-stop after the Officer, gave the citation to Petitioner, and Petitioner, did not give him consent to search his vehicle. 1.Why does the P…
23A815 Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center, et al. v. Steven McCraw, Director, Texas Department of Public Safety, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-03-04 Presumed Complete detention due-process expedited-removal fourteenth-amendment immigration judicial-review Question not identified.
23-684 Andrew Knapp, et al. v. Janice Brown Sixth Circuit 2023-12-26 Denied Response Waived adverse-effects-for-police clearly-established-law constitutional-rights detention law-enforcement probable-cause probable-cause-determination qualified-immunity sixth-circuit warrantless-arrest 1. Did the Sixth Circuit err in denying qualified immunity to four police officers involved in a warrantless arrest and detention in the absence of cl…
23-6258 Sherman L. Fields v. Donald J. Trump, former President of the United States, et al. District of Columbia 2023-12-14 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights detention due-process federal-court habeas-corpus judicial-review liberty liberty-restraint remedy standing state-prisoner Question not identified.
23-6237 Gregory I. Ezeani v. William Anderson, Warden, et al. Third Circuit 2023-12-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights detention due-process federal-prisoner healthcare-denial immigration immigration-detention medical-negligence medical-treatment retaliation Briefly, the plaintiff who is a native and citizen of Nigeria arrived in United states from Canada for engineering graduate studies. The plaintiff is …
23-623 Martin Akerman v. Nevada National Guard Nevada 2023-12-11 Denied Relisted (2) constitutional-rights detention detention-challenge due-process federal-law habeas-corpus military-jurisdiction nevada-supreme-court 1. Jurisdictional Question: Whether the Nevada Supreme Court made an error in naming the Nevada National Guard as the sole respondent in a habeas corp…
23A441 Trent Drexel Howard v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-11-16 Presumed Complete constitutional-rights detention government-delay pro-se-petition sixth-amendment speedy-trial-act Question not identified.
23-5952 Semaj Lemar Williams v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-11-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment detention evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop I. Mr. Williams moved to suppress the evidence related to the controlled substances because he was unlawfully detained when there was no reasonable su…
22-7853 Carlos Miguel Concepcion-Guliam v. United States First Circuit 2023-06-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP arrest criminal-procedure detention fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure search-warrant Should a writ of certiorari be granted to clarify whether an exception to the Fourth Amendment can be applied randomly or if law enforcement officers …
22-7434 In Re Thomas Kuna-Jacob 2023-05-01 Denied IFP asylum civil-rights constitutional-law detention due-process immigration Question not identified.
22-6989 In Re Irina Collier 2023-03-13 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights contempt-of-court detention due-process standing Question not identified.
22-6441 James D. Dayvault v. Kansas Kansas 2023-01-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights consensual-encounter custody detention due-process family-law fourth-amendment law-enforcement photography reasonable-person reasonable-person-standard seizure 1. Did the Kansas Court of Appeals err when it affirmed the trial court's decision regarding custody for the purposes of Miranda, and does the court e…
22-474 Laddie Huffman, et al. v. Rachel Harris Fifth Circuit 2022-11-18 Dismissed Response RequestedResponse Waived civil-rights constitutional-duties criminal-procedure detention due-process fifth-circuit mental-health qualified-immunity schizophrenic-inmate section-1983 In a Section 1983 action against county sheriffs arising from the detention of an incompetent criminal defendant, a court must grant qualified immunit…
22-5767 Silas Kendricks v. Okeechobee Correctional Institution, et al. Florida 2022-10-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights detention due-process equal-protection florida-statute legal-adherence procedural-violation respondent-liability WHEM THERE 18 8 PULSE OF OPPLILEABLE haa) § 944.176) FLORZLDA STATUS , ADD THE RECORD OF THE CASE RUEVIGALS THAT ADHERENCE OF THAT APPLLLABLE LAW LS U…
22-307 Michigan v. Marcus Martell McCloud and Bruce Cliffin Edwards Michigan 2022-09-29 Denied Response Waived commonsense-judgments criminal-procedure detention frisk human-behavior law-enforcement officer-experience probable-cause reasonable-suspicion terry-stop weapons-frisk Police preparing to enter a suspected unlicensed after-hours drinking establishment to make an under-cover purchase removed the two respondents from j…
21-7596 Janai Meeks v. Butte County District Attorney, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-04-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-provisions detention due-process equal-protection judicial-review jurisdictional-issues juvenile-justice legal-interpretation procedural-rules standing statutory-provisions Specifically designated for 401 &602 cases held in Juvenile court and the later placed in Minors coster Is the Family Court of Law Judge of minors due…
21-7279 Charlie Foster v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-03-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-law detention due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-stop Consistent with the Fourth Amendment, may a law enforcement officer extend a traffic stop by asking for a driver's license and registration after the …
21-7038 Jeremy William Lillich v. United States Eighth Circuit 2022-02-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure detention fourth-amendment identification reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-stop warrant-execution Petitioner Jeremy Lillich pleaded guilty, pursuant to a conditional plea agreement, to violation of 21 U.S.C. § 841(a)(1), 21 U.S.C. § 841(b)(1)(A), 2…
21-6939 Clarence Tramiel Beard v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-01-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP detention fourth-amendment investigatory-detention law-enforcement-procedure mail mail-seizure package-transportation reasonable-suspicion transportation united-states-v-place 1. Whether the investigatory detention, and subsequent transportation to a new location, of an item seized from the mail intrudes on a possessory inte…
21-6890 Robert William Moats v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-01-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights consensual-encounter consent constitutional-rights criminal-procedure detention fourth-amendment police-detention probable-cause search-and-seizure Whether the majority opinion of the Unit ed States Fourth Circuit of Appeals, which held that the defendant had a consensual encounter with police and…
21-952 Lamont Lendell Bagley v. Virginia Virginia 2021-12-29 Denied detention fourth-amendment investigatory-detention protective-search protective-search-exception roadside-encounter terry-stop traffic-stop unoccupied-vehicle vehicle-search warrant-requirement Whether the protective search exception to the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement extends to an unoccupied vehicle if the former occupant is detai…
21-6615 Fabian I. Sanchez v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-12-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights detention fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure seizure Once objective facts have dispelled the officer's suspicions, may a person still be detained on a hunch?
21-6135 Jesus Ramirez-Barrera v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-11-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP bail community-danger criminal-procedure detention district-court-review due-process extraordinary-reasons judicial-discretion public-safety relief-standard sentencing sentencing-review I. WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT ERRED IN DECIDING THAT PETITIONER HAS NOT SHOWN EXTRAORDINARY AND COMPELLING REASONS; AND THAT HE WAS A DANGER TO THE CO…
20-8445 Christian Kalen Crawford v. Florida Florida 2021-06-29 Denied IFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment blood-draw criminal-procedure detention due-process fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure traffic-stop Whether law enforcement officers may extend the detention of a driver involved in an accident resulting in the death of another person in order to wai…
20-7942 Darryl C. Daniels v. Florida Florida 2021-05-05 Denied IFP civil-commitment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights detention due-process florida-law free-speech habeas-corpus standing takings How Can FLORIDA STATUTE 394.910 (The Involuntary Civil Commitment of Sexually Violent Predators Act) (i.e. hereinafter The Act) be considered "constit…
20-1358 Arthur O. Armstrong v. United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit Fourth Circuit 2021-03-26 Denied 14th-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights conspiracy constitutional-violation deprivation-of-liberty detention due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment 1. Whether appellees acted in a conspiracy to deprive appellant of liberty or property without due process of law in violation of the Fourth and Fourt…
20-7208 Bruce Harold Hendler v. United States Fifth Circuit 2021-02-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split detention exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment search-and-seizure supervisory-powers Whether the decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ("Fifth Circuit")–which affirmed the District court's denial of a mot…
20-888 Abdul Razak Ali v. Joseph R. Biden, Jr., President of the United States, et al. District of Columbia 2021-01-04 Denied Amici (1) constitutional-rights detention due-process foreign-nationals guantanamo guantanamo-detention habeas-corpus military-commissions Whether the Due Process Clause of the Constitution applies to the detentions of foreign nationals at Guantánamo.
20-6580 Joseph W. Peeples, III v. United States Second Circuit 2020-12-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP arrest civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure detention due-process evidence-admissibility fourth-amendment search-and-seizure travel warrantless-search Does the long standing commitment on U.S. Constitution Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment to right with Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure 3, 5, 5.1, 7,…
20-6480 Maurice Freeman v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-11-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment bailey-v-united-states detention fourth-amendment immediate-vicinity michigan-v-summers police-authority premises-search probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure search-warrant 1. Does the rule of Michigan v. Summers, 452 U.S. 692 (1981), which permits police officers executing a search warrant to detain occupants of a reside…
20-6467 Craig Howard v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-11-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment co-tenant co-tenant-consent consent-to-search detention fernandez fourth-amendment law-enforcement physical-presence randolph reasonable-search search-and-seizure (1) Does the lawful detention of an objecting co-tenant in a squad car on the premises to be searched make him absent such that another co-tenant may …
20-595 Dennis Lemma, Sheriff, Seminole County, Florida v. Seana Barnett Eleventh Circuit 2020-11-05 Denied 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-reasonableness detention detention-duration due-process dui dui-arrest fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause 1. Is it constitutionally unreasonable for a jail to detain for eight hours any driver arrested with probable cause for driving under the influence of…
20-234 Immigration and Customs Enforcement, et al. v. Yolany Padilla, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-08-27 GVR 5th-amendment classwide-injunction credible-fear detention due-process expedited-removal immigration immigration-detention statutory-interpretation 1. Whether 8 U.S.C. 1225(b)(l)(B)(ii) —which authorizes the government to detain aliens who are placed in expedited removal proceedings, but who then …
20-202 Robert Massie v. Basilea Mena Ninth Circuit 2020-08-21 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights clearly-established-law detention excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct qualified-immunity use-of-force (1) Under the particular facts and circumstances of this case, did the Ninth Circuit err in finding that Massie's actions constitute an excessive use …
20-5242 Maurice Miles v. CDCR Correctional Officers, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-07-31 Denied IFP asylum civil-rights detention due-process habeas-corpus immigration Question not identified.
19-1309 Kari Janae Phipps v. Idaho Idaho 2020-05-21 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 4th-amendment detention detention-authority fourth-amendment michigan-v-summers probation probation-search reasonable-suspicion residence-check search-and-seizure search-warrant summers-doctrine Whether the "limited authority to detain" during the execution of a judicially approved search warrant for contraband, Michigan v. Summers, 452 U.S. 6…
19-8249 Rodney Jackson v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-04-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP bell-v-wolfish constitutional-rights detention fourth-amendment handcuffed-individual minor-offense public-search search-and-seizure strip-search unreasonable-search 1. Whether a public strip search of a handcuffed, detained individual suspected of a minor offense violates one's Fourth Amendment right to be free fr…
19-8163 In Re Marie Joy Tanamor-Steffan 2020-04-02 Denied IFP administrative-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights detention due-process executive-authority habeas-corpus immigration immigration-detention Question not identified.
19-7901 Thomas Powers v. Travis Smith, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-03-06 Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-procedure-rules due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction standing access-to-courts civil-rights detention due-process filing-fees indigency WHETHER THE DISTRICT COURT IS DENYING AN INDIGENT CIVIL DETAINEE (PRE TRIAL DETAINEE'') FOR SEVEN YEARS (JUNE 26,2012) FROM ACCESSING THE COURT WHEN P…
19-7507 Tommy Gurule v. United States Tenth Circuit 2020-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment consent consent-search detention fourth-amendment passenger-rights passengers search-and-seizure traffic-stop vehicle-search If the driver of a car consents to its search, may officers frisk non-consenting passengers and detain them for the duration of the search?
19-897 Tae D. Johnson, Acting Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, et al. v. Maria Angelica Guzman Chavez, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-01-21 Judgment Issued Amici (7)Relisted (2) 8-usc-1226 8-usc-1231 administrative-law detention immigration-detention immigration-law immigration-procedure removal-order statutory-interpretation withholding-of-removal withholding-removal Whether the detention of an alien who is subject to a reinstated removal order and who is pursuing withholding or deferral of removal is governed by 8…
19-6655 Terrence Leonard Mathis v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-11-18 Denied IFP certiorari criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-rights detention due-process fifth-amendment habeas-corpus interrogation rehaif-standard rehaif-v-united-states remand right-to-counsel 1. Whether the Court should grant certiorari, vacate the judgment below, and remand for reconsideration in light of Rehaif v. United States, 189 S. Ct…
19-292 Roxanne Torres v. Janice Madrid, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-09-04 Judgment Issued Amici (13)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) apprehension circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-law detention excessive-force fourth-amendment physical-force police-force seizure Is an unsuccessful attempt to detain a suspect by use of physical force a "seizure" within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment, as the Eighth, Ninth, …
19-294 Usama Jamil Hamama, et al. v. Rebecca Adducci, et al. Sixth Circuit 2019-09-04 Denied Relisted (2) country-conditions deportation detention due-process ethnic-minorities immigration-court immigration-law removal-orders removal-proceedings suspension-clause torture torture-convention torture-protection Petitioners are Iraqis with final orders of removal who lived for years or decades in the United States under orders of supervision, because Iraq woul…
19-5697 Felipe Vinagre-Hernandez v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-08-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP criminal-procedure detention detention-motion federal-rules-of-criminal-procedure indictment judicial-interpretation jurisdiction legal-timing pretrial-motion speedy-trial-act Whether a motion for detention filed before an indictment or information charging a person has been obtained is a pretrial motion within the meaning o…
19-188 Ikechukwu Hyginus Okorie v. Virginia M. Crawford, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-08-13 Denied administrative-search arrest arrest-without-probable-cause detention detention-standards fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation law-enforcement-conduct probable-cause qualified-immunity search-warrant standard-of-review tolan-v-cotton A search of a medical clinic pursuant to an administrative search warrant that resulted in the doctor being detained for three to four hours under cir…
19-5306 Born Murray v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights detention fourth-amendment investigation investigative-detention law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion seizure time-frame traffic-stop Where a police officer admittedly abandons the initial basis for a traffic stop to pursue a new investigation unsupported by reasonable suspicion, doe…
18-9492 Valentin Spataru v. Rick Ramsay Florida 2019-05-31 Denied IFP 8th-amendment battery civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment detention due-process eighth-amendment intentional-infliction-of-emotional-distress law-enforcement-detention Whether 30' transportation to jail in a law-enforcement hyperthermic, "cooking" car is cruel and unusual punishment which the U.S. Const. Amend. VIII …
18-1466 County of Sonoma, California, et al. v. Rafael Mateos Sandoval, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-05-24 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 4th-amendment constitutional-rights continued-detention detention due-process fourth-amendment lawful-seizure monell-liability municipal-liability property-rights property-seizure public-safety section-1983 seizure vehicle-impound This petition presents three issues of first impression in this Court, all of which arise out of a judgment for damages under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against…
18-8361 Arturo Sarli v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-03-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights consent-to-search custodial-interrogation detention due-process fourth-amendment fruit-of-the-poisonous-tree law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure search-consent vehicle-search Police officers stopped Arturo Sarli as he drove his truck. The officers had received a tip about Sarli and used their traffic-enforcement authority t…
18-1157 Edwin A. Vega v. Ohio Ohio 2019-03-07 Denied detention fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion rodriguez-v-united-states search-and-seizure united-states-v-ross usps vehicle-search 1. In its decision in the above captioned matter did the Ohio Supreme Court reverse this honorable Court's decision in Rodriguez v. United States, 135…
18-8015 In Re Michael Ojegba Agbonifo 2019-02-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP appeal constitutional-rights criminal-detention criminal-procedure criminal-proceedings detention due-process indefinite-detention judicial-misconduct legal-representation not-guilty right-to-counsel right-to-trial trial Is it Constitutional for a District Court Judge to Hold an accused in an alleged criminal proceedings indefinitely in detention without TRIAL when the…
18-797 Brian M. Burmaster v. Stephen J. Herman, et al. Seventh Circuit 2018-12-21 Denied Response Waived civil-rights detention detention-without-trial due-process enforced-disappearance habeas-corpus international-law rome-statute rome-statutes seventh-circuit Is being detained without a trial for two years as frivolous, per , the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals or is it an international case of enforced disapp…
18-740 Moath Hamza Ahmed al-Alwi v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. District of Columbia 2018-12-11 Denied Relisted (5) armed-conflict authorization-for-use-of-military-force constitutional-limits detention detention-authority due-process enemy-combatant guantanamo-bay habeas-corpus law-of-war military-detention In Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, 542 U.S. 507, 520 (2004), this Court understood the Authorization for Use of Military Force to include implicit authority to det…
18-6925 Warren Tarver v. Florida Florida 2018-12-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP capital-felony detention due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment noncapital-offense pro-se-claim WHETHER IT IS A VIOLATION OF DUE PROCESS UNDER THE FOURTHEENTH AMENDMENT FOR A PERSON TO BE DETAINED FOR AN OFFENSE THAT IS LEGISLATIVELY DESIGNATED A…
18-689 Mariano Moya, et al. v. Robert Garcia, Sheriff, Santa Fe County, New Mexico, et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-11-26 Denied 42-usc-1983 arraignment causation civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights detention due-process section-1983 standing state-court When a jailer detains a person for an extended period with no access to a court hearing for arraignment and bail review, in violation of his or her Du…
18-6122 Sheri Lee Pualani Kapahu v. United States Ninth Circuit 2018-09-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP boarding-a-plane consensual-encounter detention drug-possession federal-agent fourth-amendment law-enforcement-interaction reasonable-person reasonable-person-standard search-and-seizure A police-citizen encounter does not implicate the Fourth Amendment when consensual. Once a reasonable person would no longer feel free to ignore the p…
18-6091 In Re Steven A. Walcott, Jr. 2018-09-25 Denied IFP bail civil-rights criminal-procedure detention due-process equal-protection ineffective-assistance-of-counsel pretrial-detention release speedy-trial 1. Did thE distriet cout Enr in Not granting thE AcauksEd A probAble cAUsE to hotd hEAriNg AF ATAIMEN? WithDIT (DURKE/? 3. MAy thE SHAtE FMEE I LAWy…
18-5617 Gregory Bartunek v. United States Eighth Circuit 2018-08-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-3142 18-usc-3156 bail bail-denial constitutional-violations crimes-of-violence detention detention-order due-process presumption-of-innocence pretrial-detention speedy-trial IS IT UNCONSTITUTIONAL FOR THE LEGISLATURE TO DEFINE ALL CHAPTER 110 CRIMES OF 18 UNITED STATES CODE (18 U.S.C.), IN PARTICULAR § 2252, AND 2252A, AS …
18-177 Kenneth Jerome Dawson v. Board of County Commissioners of Jefferson County, Colorado, et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-08-09 Denied bond-release constitutional-rights criminal-procedure detention detention-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fundamental-liberty fundamental-right judicial-scrutiny liberty-interest reasonably-related strict-scrutiny substantive-due-process When a criminal defendant has posted bond and is entitled to be released from jail subject only to administrative processing, does the defendant's rig…
18-5423 Seungjin Kim v. United States Customs and Border Protection District of Columbia 2018-08-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP asylum asylum-seekers border-entry constitutional-law criminal-activity detention detention-conditions due-process equal-protection immigration-detention immigration-law presidential-authority presidential-powers visa-restrictions Whether under 8 U.S.C. §1225(b)(1)(B)(ii), inadmissible aliens who are Asylum Seekers include immigrant victim who is not an applicant for, or is not …