knock-and-talk
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-6032 | Thomas E. Nidiffer, et al. v. Officer David Lovato, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2025-11-05 | Denied | IFP | curtilage fourth-amendment knock-and-talk law-enforcement qualified-immunity warrant | 1. Whether a locked gate surrounding the curtilage of a home clearly revokes the implied social license for law enforcement officers to enter the pro… |
| 25-5893 | Frederick M. Hill v. Angela Stuff, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2025-10-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability constitutional-claim fourth-amendment knock-and-talk procedural-due-process sixth-amendment | 1. Should the "one fair shot" and procedural due process require the court of appeals to notify a petitioner that an appeal and briefing schedule is … |
| 24-6245 | Brad A. Smith v. United States | First Circuit | 2025-01-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | fifth-amendment fourth-amendment immigration-law interrogation-rights knock-and-talk sixth-amendment | Did authorities violate The Fourth, Fifth, andSixth Amendments to The United States Constitution when seeking to perform a "knock- and-talk" interroga… |
| 22-1031 | Constance Westfall v. Jose Luna, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2023-04-25 | Denied | 4th-amendment coercive-interrogation consent curtilage fourth-amendment knock-and-talk search seizure warrant warrantless-search | 1. Whether the "knock-and-talk" exception to the Fourth Amendment's protection against unlawful entry onto a person's property permits police officers… | |
| 22-731 | Tyler Brienza v. City of Peachtree, Georgia, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-02-06 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 4th-amendment civil-rights curtilage exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment investigative-detention knock-and-talk law-enforcement seizure voluntary-encounter | When occupants answer a "knock-and-talk" by law enforcement officers and step onto the porch, or curtilage of the home, to address the officers, may t… |
| 21-7874 | William Meyer v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-05-16 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights consent due-process exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment home-entry knock-and-talk search-and-seizure warrantless-search | In a "knock and talk " scenario, "even if an occupant chooses to open the door and speak with the officers, the occupant need not allow the officers t… |
| 21-1403 | Travis Morse, Individually and in His Official Capacity as a Police Officer for the Town of Orono, Maine, et al. v. Christopher French | First Circuit | 2022-05-02 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | circuit-court civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-rights due-process knock-and-talk law-enforcement qualified-immunity warrant-requirement | 1. Did the First Circuit depart from this Court's qualified immunity precedent by defining clearly established law at a high level of generality and f… |
| 21-1318 | Gregory Bogomol v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-04-04 | Denied | Response Waived | 28-usc-2255 evidentiary-hearing federal-procedure fourth-amendment habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel knock-and-talk motion-to-suppress warrantless-search | 1. What is the proper standard for determining when a federal habeas petitioner is entitled to an evidentiary hearing under 28 U.S.C. § 2255? 2. Does… |
| 19-8715 | Timothy Robert Treffinger v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-06-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | curtilage effective-assistance-of-counsel fourth-amendment knock-and-talk law-enforcement privacy-expectation reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure | Question 1: Do law enforcement officers have an implied license to cross the clearly marked and defined curtilage of a home to conduct a "knock and … |
| 19-6296 | Michael Holmes v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-10-17 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | armed-career-criminal-act bright-line-rule burglary-statute curtilage fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure implied-license knock-and-talk no-trespassing-sign property-rights reasonable-expectation-of-privacy reasonable-person-test | (1) Herewith, then, the issue presented is whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals violated this Court's Fourth Amendment precedence and committ… |
| 18-1513 | Michigan v. Michael Frederick, et al. | Michigan | 2019-06-05 | Denied | consent-to-search constitutional-trespass fourth-amendment implied-license knock-and-talk law-enforcement predawn-visit search search-and-seizure trespass | 1. Whether the Fourth Amendment applies to knock and talk encounters. 2. If yes, whether the Michigan Supreme Court correctly held that a predawn vis… | |
| 18-943 | Fairfield County, Ohio, et al. v. Neil A. Morgan, II, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2019-01-18 | Denied | civil-rights constitutional-procedure fourth-amendment knock-and-talk law-enforcement officer-safety perimeter-security search-and-seizure | Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits law enforcement officers from securing the perimeter of a residence, for officer safety, when conducting a lawf… | |
| 18-5901 | Willis Maxi v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-09-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment attenuation-doctrine civil-rights due-process evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment illegal-search knock-and-talk law-enforcement-entry motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-and-seizure | I. Whether the district court erred in denying petitioner's motion to suppress evidence and statement? II. Whether law enforcement may attenuate thei… |
| 18-48 | Minnesota v. Quentin Todd Chute | Minnesota | 2018-07-09 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | curtilage fourth-amendment knock-and-talk plain-view plain-view-doctrine probable-cause reasonable-expectation-of-privacy reasonable-suspicion search search-and-seizure | After Florida v. Jardines, 569 U.S. 1 (2013), and Collins v. Virginia, 138 S.Ct. 1663 (2018), it is unclear - and there is a split in authority on - w… |