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25-6752 Jerome Moore v. Texas Texas 2026-02-06 Pending IFP criminal-procedure digital-privacy electronic-device fourth-amendment probable-cause search-warrant Does a search warrant need to allege specific facts about a defendant's electronic device and his use of that device--and not merely allege facts abou…
25-484 Aaron Rayshan Wells v. Texas Texas 2025-10-20 Pending Amici (3)Response RequestedRelisted (2) digital-privacy fourth-amendment geofence-warrant law-enforcement-technology location-tracking search-and-seizure Fourth Amendment rights vary among circuits and state high courts, as well as intrajurisdictionally between Texas federal and Texas state courts, rega…
25A242 Aaron Rayshan Wells v. Texas Texas 2025-08-29 Presumed Complete digital-privacy fourth-amendment geofence-warrant location-tracking probable-cause search-and-seizure Question not identified.
24-7430 Trenton Jared Powell v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-06-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP cellphone-search criminal-procedure digital-privacy evidence-preservation fourth-amendment warrant-requirement Can the police hold a defendant's cellphone seized incident to his arrest until necessary forensic software is developed based upon evidence that the …
24-6281 Zodiac Azucenas v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-01-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP digital-privacy fourth-amendment government-intrusion messenger-communications physical-intrusion warrantless-search Whether the Government's warrantless review of Mr. Azucenas's private written communications on Facebook's Messenger application constitutes a physica…
24-5620 Salvador Salas, Jr. v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-09-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP carpenter-v-united-states container-search digital-privacy fourth-amendment riley-v-california search-and-seizure In light of this Court's recent ly-discuss ed privacy concerns articulated in Riley v. California and Carpenter v. United States , whether the Fourth …
24-89 Cory Johnson v. United States Second Circuit 2024-07-29 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment-search-and-seizure digital-evidence digital-privacy fourth-amendment gps metadata metadata-search probable-cause riley-precedent riley-v-california warrant-requirements warrant-scope QUESTION 1: Does Riley v. California , 573 U.S. 373 (2014) prohibit the Government from searching privacy protected GPS information in the metadata …
24-5092 Moises Orlando Zelaya-Veliz, Jose Eliezar Molina-Veliz, Luis Alberto Gonzales, Gilberto Morales, and Jonathan Rafael Zelaya-Veliz v. United States Fourth Circuit 2024-07-16 Denied IFP digital-privacy facebook-data fourth-amendment government-scrutiny probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant social-media temporal-limitation warrant 1. Does the Fourth Amendment prohibit the issuance of apparent "all-data" warrants for Facebook accounts without any temporal limitation whatsoever, w…
23-893 Jonathan Walker v. Arkansas Arkansas 2024-02-21 Denied 4th-amendment algorithm digital-privacy fourth-amendment law-enforcement law-enforcement-search private-company probable-cause search-and-seizure technology-search warrant-requirement Does the Fourth Amendment require police to get a warrant before they open a digital file that was flagged by a private technology company's computer …
23A676 Kevin McCall v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-22 Denied cloud-storage digital-privacy fourth-amendment good-faith-exception search-and-seizure warrant-requirement Question not identified.
23-6518 Anthony Bailey v. Nevada Parole Board, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-01-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights digital-privacy due-process search-and-seizure standing Question not identified.
23-6264 Ignacio Salcido, Jr. v. United States Tenth Circuit 2023-12-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-phones data-collection digital-privacy fourth-amendment privacy search-and-seizure Question not identified.
23A446 Jonathan Walker v. Arkansas Arkansas 2023-11-17 Presumed Complete digital-privacy fourth-amendment hash-value-match private-search-doctrine search-and-seizure warrant-requirement Question not identified.
23-5985 Russell Wayne Bullock v. Pete Bludworth, Warden, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-11-09 Denied IFP cell-phone-data digital-privacy fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence privacy search-and-seizure Question not identified.
23-5840 Alvaro Castillo, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-10-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP border-search cell-phone-search cell-phones constitutional-rights customs-and-border-protection digital-privacy fourth-amendment search-and-seizure u.s-border warrantless-search Whether, or under what circumstances, the Fourth Amendment permits customs officers to conduct a warrantless search of the digital contents of a perso…
23-5827 Keiron K. Sneed v. Illinois Illinois 2023-10-17 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP contents-of-mind digital-privacy fifth-amendment fisher-v-united-states foregone-conclusion passcode passcode-compulsion search-warrant self-incrimination Petitioner Keiron Sneed was charged with forgery related to the mobile deposit of two checks from a Dairy Queen at which his wife was employed. Police…
23-5748 James M. Holman v. Ohio Adult Parole Authority Ohio 2023-10-11 Denied IFP but no text was provided for analysis. Without th but no text was provided for me to analyze. Witho I cannot generate the requested output. If you wo please provide the full text of the petition. 4th-amendment 4th-amendment-jurisprudence cell-phone-data digital-privacy privacy search-and-seizure 1. The Supreme Court of Ohio failed to exercise its supervisory power in protecting/defending the 14 Amendment, which is the petitioner's constitution…
23-5481 Festus Okwudili Ohan v. Armando B. Fontoura, Sheriff, Essex County, New Jersey, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-08-30 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights digital-privacy due-process excessive-force false-arrest fourth-amendment law-enforcement malicious-prosecution probable-cause retaliation traffic-stop warrantless-search Question not identified.
22-7592 Grace Woodham v. Tucker Scheffer New Hampshire 2023-05-18 Denied IFP abuse-of-discretion civil-rights digital-privacy due-process electronic-communications equal-protection fourth-amendment free-speech probable-cause search-and-seizure standing warrantless-search The OCR text provided is too degraded and illegible to accurately extract the "Question(s) Presented" section. While a section header labeled "QUESTIO…
22-6948 Robert E. Spiker v. Robert E. Erskines, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-03-06 Denied IFP cell-phone-data constitutional-claims deliberate-indifference digital-privacy federal-jurisdiction fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence habeas-corpus medical-care prisoner-rights privacy search-and-seizure Neither the Overruled court nor the State Supreme Court of Appeals lacks a Post of Docket to the court by not Providing a Full Litigation Without Judi…
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 …
22-6580 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…
22-549 Raymond J. Liddy v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-12-15 Denied Response Waived digital-privacy electronic-evidence fourth-amendment internet-subscriber-information law-enforcement-search personal-data search-and-seizure subscriber-information warrant-requirement Does Internet subscriber information constitute a digital "paper" or "effect" under the Fourth Amendment? If so, must law enforcement obtain a warrant…
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…
21-7821 Mandrail Jamar Woodberry v. United States Fourth Circuit 2022-05-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-law digital-privacy due-process fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining probable-cause sentencing unreasonable-search warrantless-search Question not identified.
21-7779 Gilberto Juarez v. California California 2022-05-04 Denied Relisted (2)IFP cell-phone-data digital-privacy fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence privacy search-and-seizure Question not identified.
21-7654 Gregory Munoz v. Superior Court of California, Orange County, et al. California 2022-04-19 Denied IFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment appellate-procedure cell-phone-search civil-rights constitutional-rights digital-evidence digital-privacy due-process search-and-seizure supreme-court-review (1) WHETHER THE CALIFORNIA SUPREME COURT ERRED WHEN IT "DENIED" PETITIONER'S "REQUEST FOR REVIEW" ON THE SUMMARY DENIAL OF PETITIONER'S WRIT OF MANDAT…
21-7274 Kaleb L. Basey v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-03-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2703 digital-privacy electronic-communications email-preservation fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-jurists search-and-seizure warrantless-search Whether reasonable jurists could disagree with the district court's decision that the initial and continuous, nine-month warrantless preservation of B…
21-6913 Timothy Dewayne Littlejohn v. Sergeant Bowman, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2022-01-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP cell-phone-data complaint-amendment digital-privacy district-court-discretion fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence judicial-error leave-to-amend privacy pro-se-pleading procedural-due-process search-and-seizure 1. PA AmLiis alto poe bef t reac the istrict Ju twas corrected be fore his decisiow or his review the magishate cart fding. Divcew Litigtion histy was…
21-921 Mark A. Witaschek v. District of Columbia District of Columbia 2021-12-22 Denied administrative-summons carpenter-v-united-states digital-privacy fourth-amendment good-faith-exception government-surveillance probable-cause tax-evasion third-party-doctrine 1. Whether the Fourth Amendment's third-party doctrine should be overruled, limited, or held inapplicable when the government collects massive digital…
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…
21-6392 Janet Berry v. William Paul Nichols, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-11-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment bivens-claim civil-rights digital-privacy fourth-amendment medical-records search-and-seizure standing state-actors warrantless-search Where a right created by the Panied with private entities acting as state actors under the color of law, via an invalid warrantless search and seizure…
21-6290 George Steven Burch v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2021-11-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP consent consent-search data-retention digital-privacy fourth-amendment law-enforcement search-and-seizure smartphone-data warrantless-search After the government obtains consent to search specific information on an individual's smart phone, whether or to what extent the Fourth Amendment tol…
21-5902 Alhakka Campbell v. United States Fourth Circuit 2021-10-05 Denied IFP cell-phone-search cell-phones digital-privacy electronic-data-seizure fourth-amendment law-enforcement-search particularity-requirement privacy search-and-seizure warrant-particularity warrant-requirements I. In Riley v. California, 573 U.S. 373 (2014), this Court clarified Fourth Amendment protections for the contents of cell phones seized incident to a…
21-5223 Donnell Bledsoe v. CBS Television Network, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-07-28 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights content-moderation copyright-infringement data-collection digital-privacy fair-use fourth-amendment intellectual-property privacy-policy social-media user-consent The lower counts over looked The plant Statement on isty fhis appents Shrerdd v ge forwacd. the lowee couts wever reviewed the hodging Of EXIBET LLL A…
20-8243 Spencer Richard Andrews v. Michigan Michigan 2021-06-08 Denied IFP 4th-amendment appellate-review consent consent-scope digital-privacy fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel privacy-rights search-and-seizure smartphone smartphone-search I. DID THE MICHIGAN COURT OF APPEALS ERRONEOUSLY EXPAND THE DEFENDANT'S CONSENT TO RETRIEVE A TELEPHONE NUMBER FROM HIS SMARTPHONE INTO A CONSENT TO S…
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'…
20-995 Anthony Vetri v. United States Third Circuit 2021-01-26 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment aiding-and-abetting cellphone-data cellphone-privacy criminal-procedure digital-privacy evidence-search fourth-amendment particularity probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-requirements 1. Whether the Fourth Amendment requires more stringent privacy considerations in authorizing a warrant for the seizure of a cellphone and the manner …
20-6725 Larry Durant v. South Carolina South Carolina 2020-12-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP brady-violation cell-phone-data criminal-sexual-conduct digital-privacy fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence judicial-instruction jury-coercion privacy search-and-seizure sixth-amendment trial-procedure I. The jurors deliberating about Larry Durant's guilt or innocence informed the trial judge they were splint eight to convict, three to acquit, with o…
20-6704 Agustin Calderon v. Texas Texas 2020-12-23 Denied IFP cell-phone-data digital-privacy fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence privacy search-and-seizure Question not identified.
20-6194 Brian E. Vodicka v. Michael B. Tobolowsky, Executor of the Estate of Ira E. Tobolowsky, et al. Texas 2020-11-03 Denied IFP 4th-amendment carpenter-v-united-states cell-phone-data civil-rights digital-privacy due-process fourth-amendment mandamus-petition riley-v-california search-and-seizure supreme-court-precedent warrantless-search 1. Whether, in holding that a private citizen can lawfully search and seize the digital contents of a cell phone without a warrant, the state supreme …
20-6086 Brittan Kettles v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-10-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-phone-data digital-privacy fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence privacy search-and-seizure I. THE DISTRICT COURT ERRED WHEN IT DENIED MR. KETTLES' MOTION TO ADMIT EVIDENCE PURSUANT TO F.R.E. 608 AND 412 AND THE CIRCUIT T RECOGNIZED THIS ERRO…
20-412 Mark Stanford Katzman v. Michigan Michigan 2020-10-01 Denied digital-privacy digital-trespass fourth-amendment police-impersonation reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure standing standing-to-challenge trespass Whether the Fourth Amendment permits the police to undetectably impersonate the owner of a phone via text message, and arrest another person by means …
20-25 Isidoro Rodriguez v. Virginia State Bar Disciplinary Board Virginia 2020-07-15 Denied Response Waived cell-phone-data digital-privacy fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence privacy search-and-seizure Question not identified.
19-8194 Jonathan Crupi v. New York New York 2020-04-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights data-collection digital-privacy electronic-devices exploratory-searches fourth-amendment particularity particularity-doctrine search-and-seizure Qla. Should this Court's Carpenter decision on the amount of data collected from CSLI equate and extend to the amount of data collected from all digit…
19-8077 Arnold Anderson v. Gilberto Valenzuela, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-03-23 Denied IFP criminal-procedure digital-privacy forensic-evidence fourth-amendment property-rights search-and-seizure IS fT 'tei -ter cv o tetecrr te OJ c^OTcuv'i~ ">\rrV\^c(.e uj c VVi OcjV ol o^~V (Xv^-^vvci vvui^ V- VIv#5 _ W ^ ~VWrr^ a -for o>iVou->rV wzurt- 7
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…
19-7601 Craig K. Garrett v. Joseph Madder, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-02-10 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure digital-privacy due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel law-enforcement probable-cause prosecutorial-misconduct public-defender right-to-counsel search-and-seizure state-attorney Question not identified.
19-618 Jon Eric Shaffer v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2019-11-14 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) constitutional-exemption digital-devices digital-privacy fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search fourth-amendment,private-search-doctrine,digital-p government-search private-search-doctrine property-based-test property-rights united-states-v-jacobsen united-states-v-jones virtual-certainty 1. Does the "virtual certainty" that reopening "an ordinary cardboard box" will expose nothing beyond the private actor's earlier search, Jacobsen, 46…
19-6533 Kaleb L. Basey v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-11-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 18-usc-2703(f) digital-evidence digital-privacy email-privacy fourth-amendment government-request internet-service-provider search seizure warrantless-search Whether the warrantless preservation of private emails by an Internet Service Provider pursuant to a government request under 18 U.S.C. §2703(f) amoun…
19-5173 Johnny Kirkland v. Huntington Ingalls, Incorporated Fifth Circuit 2019-07-15 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights digital-privacy due-process electronic-device fourth-amendment patent probable-cause standing takings unreasonable-search warrantless-search Incorporation INaS (12 Whetther Huntington Ingalls Negligence under Vessel owner Underage Employment in 1971 2.)Nhether Ny can be pulled up in Ingall…
19-5081 David Morel, Jr. v. United States First Circuit 2019-07-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment computer-location computer-search digital-privacy expectation-of-privacy fourth-amendment internet-activity-tracking ip-address law-enforcement reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure warrantless-search Whether the warrantless search for personal IP address information related to images that Morel privately uploaded to Imgur, an image-hosting website,…
18-8667 Donald James Anson v. United States Second Circuit 2019-04-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-procedure constitutional-rights digital-privacy dismissal due-process fourth-amendment opportunity-to-be-heard probable-cause search-and-seizure standing surveillance DOES AN APPELLATE COURT ERR WHEN IT DISMISSES AN APPEAL, BECAUSE "IT LACKS AN ARGUABLE BASIS IN LAW OR FACT" WITHOUT FIRST PROVIDING THE PETITIONER AN…
18-7824 John C. Killingbeck v. United States Second Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights computer-search digital-privacy due-process first-amendment free-speech government-search internet-forums internet-speech interstate-commerce prosecution search-and-seizure standing title-28-usc Question not identified.
18-6866 Thomas Edward Sperber v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2018-11-28 Denied IFP 4th-amendment cellular-phone civil-rights digital-privacy fourth-amendment privacy probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-requirement warrantless-search DOES THE ACT OF ACCESSING ANY INFORMATION FROM A CELLULAR PHONE WITHIOUT A WARRANT CONTRAVENE THIS COURT'S DECISION,.. THE UNITEO STATES SUPREME COURT…
18-6734 Henry Franklin Reddick v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-11-19 Denied IFP 4th-amendment child-pornography civil-rights digital-privacy digital-search fourth-amendment hash-value private-search private-search-doctrine search-and-seizure warrant-requirement I. Does a police officer violate the Fourth Amendment by opening a digital file and viewing an image in it without a warrant to confirm a private comp…