investigative-stop

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-248 District of Columbia v. R.W. District of Columbia 2025-09-03 Pending Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6) fourth-amendment investigative-stop judicial-review law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion totality-of-circumstances 1. Whether a court assessing the existence of reasonable suspicion under the Fourth Amendment may exclude a fact known to the officer, or instead must…
25A63 District of Columbia v. R.W. District of Columbia 2025-07-16 Presumed Complete fourth-amendment investigative-stop probable-cause reasonable-suspicion terry-stop totality-of-circumstances 1. This case involves an important question regarding the constitutional standard for a police officer to conduct an investigative stop. It is well es…
24-7288 Quaid Akeem Cornell v. Roberto A. Arias, Warden Ninth Circuit 2025-05-27 Denied IFP fourth-amendment group-detention ineffective-assistance investigative-stop reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure 1. May police officers detain and search all members of group on grounds that the behavior of one person was suspicious? 2. Is trial counsel constitu…
24-152 Michael Pina v. Estate of Jacob Dominguez Ninth Circuit 2024-08-15 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) armed-robbery excessive-force fourth-amendment investigative-stop police-use-of-force qualified-immunity San Jose police stopped decedent Jacob Dominguez, who was wanted for armed robbery, after tailing the ordered Dominguez to put his hands up. Dominguez…
23-499 Jesus Leonardo Esquivel-Carrizales v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-11-13 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment companion-suspicion criminal-activity drug-crime fourth-amendment investigative-stop law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop While out shopping five days before Christmas, Petitioner had a brief interaction in the public parking lot of a shopping center with a man agents sus…
21-7375 Rodolfo Rodriguez, Jr. v. United States Tenth Circuit 2022-03-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment appellate-review consensual-encounter consent criminal-procedure investigative-detention investigative-stop law-enforcement-interaction search-and-seizure standard-of-review voluntary-consent 1. What is the appropriate standard to be applied in determining whether an encounter with police was consensual or an investigative stop? 2. Whether…
21-5835 Guillermo Gonzalez-Zea v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-09-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights identity immigration investigative-stop reasonable-suspicion terry-v-ohio I. Pursuant to Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1, 22 (1968) and its progeny, law enforcement officers may conduct a brief, investigative stop when, under the …
20-7329 Justin L. Knight v. Nebraska Nebraska 2021-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-conviction criminal-procedure evidence-suppression fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment investigative-stop reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure traffic-stop Whether, under the totality-of-the circumstances test, the police officers in this case had reasonable suspicion that justified an investigative stop …
20-5405 Jaroderick Hardy v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2020-08-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure fourth-amendment high-crime-area investigative-stop law-enforcement probable-cause proximity reasonable-suspicion terry-stop Pursuant to Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1, 22 (1968) and its progeny, law enforcement officers may conduct a brief, investigative stop when, under the tot…
19-5139 Alauna Gaye Morris v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-07-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights fourth-amendment impound inventory-search investigative-stop law-enforcement policy pretext search-and-seizure unreasonable-search vehicle-impoundment Whether the Government meets its burden of proving the existence of a clear written policy for searching impounded vehicles when there is a written po…
18-9722 Jonathan Edward Meier v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-06-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights fourth-amendment investigative-stop law-enforcement law-enforcement-detention pat-down probable-cause prolonged-detention reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure unreasonable-search weapons-search Whether law enforcement violates the Fourth Amendment right against unreasonable search and seizure when it holds an individual for a prolonged period…
18-8631 Bekim Fiseku v. United States Second Circuit 2019-03-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights fourth-amendment handcuffing investigative-stop police-procedure probable-cause terry-stop terry-v-ohio unusual-circumstances Whether in concluding that, where a suspect presented no discernable threat of physical violence and police had nothing beyond mere speculation that c…
18-556 Kansas v. Charles Glover Kansas 2018-10-29 Judgment Issued Amici (10)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) 4th-amendment fourth-amendment habitual-violator investigative-stop law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion registered-owner traffic-law traffic-laws vehicle-registration vehicle-stop A Kansas officer ran a registration check on a pickup truck and learned that the registered owner's license had been revoked. Suspecting that the owne…