law-enforcement-authority
5 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-869 | James T. Weiss v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2026-01-21 | Denied | Response Waived | custodial-interrogation detention-scope due-process law-enforcement-authority miranda-warnings search-warrant | In Michigan v. Summers, 452 U.S. 692, 704–05 (1981), this Court held that pursuant to a lawfully executed search warrant, officers have a limited auth… |
| 23-5151 | Tony A. Berger v. Wood County Sheriff's Department, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2023-07-20 | Denied | IFP | brady-rule consent-to-search due-process exculpatory-evidence law-enforcement-authority minor-interrogation parental-rights prosecutorial-misconduct search-and-seizure witness-credibility | Would assistant district attorney have authority to deny exculpatory evidence brought to his office? Do deputies have authority to say someone who ha… |
| 21-5352 | Vernon D. Nelson v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-08-12 | Denied | IFP | border-patrol circuit-split criminal-activity drug-offense fourth-amendment immigration-enforcement law-enforcement-authority search-and-seizure seizure | Whether a Fourth Amendment violation occurs when Border Patrol agents seize a person solely on suspicion of a drug-related offense, with no suspicion … |
| 20-518 | Darrius Marcel Mastin v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-10-20 | Denied | arrest-warrant bystander-detention constitutional-law fourth-amendment law-enforcement-authority michigan-v-summers police-powers probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure | Whether Michigan v. Summers, 452 U.S. 692 (1981), authorizes police officers executing an arrest warrant to detain a bystander without individualized … | |
| 19-1414 | United States v. Joshua James Cooley | Ninth Circuit | 2020-06-24 | Judgment Issued | Amici (13)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction fourth-amendment indian-law indian-tribe-authority law-enforcement-authority non-indian non-indian-rights public-lands public-right-of-way reservation reservation-jurisdiction search-and-seizure state-and-federal-law tribal-law-enforcement | Whether the lower courts erred in suppressing evidence on the theory that a police officer of an Indian tribe lacked authority to temporarily detain a… |