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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-1030 | Christopher R. Cummins v. Illinois | Illinois | 2026-03-02 | Pending | Response RequestedResponse Waived | constitutional-protection emergency-exception fourth-amendment police-conduct warrant-requirement warrantless-entry | Will a warrantless entry into a residence by the police be upheld under the "emergency exception" to the warrant requirement of the 4th Amendment when… |
| 25-6224 | Latoya K. Benton, Administrator of the Estate of Xzavier D. Hill, Deceased v. Seth W. Layton, Individually and in His Official Capacity as a State Trooper for the State of Virginia, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-11-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | excessive-force fourth-amendment police-conduct qualified-immunity racial-bias summary-judgment | 1. Whether the Fourth Amendment requires courts to apply a holistic, totality-of-the-circumstances analysis to excessive force claims, including all p… |
| 24-484 | Michigan v. David Allan Lucynski | Michigan | 2024-10-31 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | evidence-suppression fourth-amendment legal-mistake police-conduct probable-cause reasonable-standard | Do all unreasonable mistakes of law by the police constitute deliberate, reckless, or grossly negligent conduct requiring suppression of probative evi… |
| 24-130 | Desiree Martinez v. Channon High | Ninth Circuit | 2024-08-06 | Denied | Amici (2) | circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-violation domestic-violence due-process fair-warning police-conduct police-liability qualified-immunity | Whether an officer can be fairly warned about the unconstitutionality of her conduct even when the facts of previous cases are not materially identica… |
| 23A891 | Vicki Baker v. City of McKinney, Texas | Fifth Circuit | 2024-04-08 | Presumed Complete | civil-rights constitutional-rights equal-protection fourteenth-amendment municipal-liability police-conduct | Question not identified. | |
| 23-991 | City of Long Beach, New York, et al. v. Ricky Joshua Benny | Second Circuit | 2024-03-11 | Denied | Response Waived | circuit-court civil-rights clearly-established-law due-process excessive-force law-enforcement police-conduct qualified-immunity | 1. Whether the Second Circuit departed from this Court's precedents, none of which it cited or discussed, when it concluded that two police officers r… |
| 23-5826 | Mary Ann German v. South Carolina | South Carolina | 2023-10-17 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constitutional-law criminal-procedure davis-good-faith-exception exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception judicial-precedent police-conduct retroactivity | After a decision of this Court makes a state statute unconstitutional under the Fourth Amendment, do the police get a grace period after this Court's … |
| 23-377 | Chris Dutra, et al. v. Kim Jackson | Ninth Circuit | 2023-10-11 | Denied | circuit-court-precedent clearly-established-law excessive-force fourth-amendment ninth-circuit police-conduct qualified-immunity supreme-court-precedent | The meaning of "clearly established" for qualified immunity purposes is not, itself, clearly established. There is a split among this Court's preceden… | |
| 23-150 | Ronald Preston Harper v. North Carolina | North Carolina | 2023-08-16 | Denied | civil-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-speech objective-reasonableness police-conduct swatting | Is it illegal to criticize police in North Carolina? Do citizens, using their God-given rights of life, liberty and pursuing their happiness, have the… | |
| 22-1157 | Craig Roper v. De'On Crane, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2023-05-30 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 4th-amendment civil-rights deadly-force excessive-force objective-reasonableness officer-safety police-conduct police-intervention qualified-immunity use-of-force vehicle-stop | 1. Whether an objective police officer could have believed it reasonable to shoot a person who had warrants for his arrest, had locked the doors and r… |
| 22-7502 | Anthony Gilbert-Brown v. United States | Third Circuit | 2023-05-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment police-conduct seizure sentencing-guidelines standing supreme-court-review use-of-force | 1) Whether Third Cicuit Court of Appeals Erred Affirming Gilbert-Brown was seize when Officer Engle approach Gilber.t-Brown as he attempted to go aro… |
| 22-978 | Jackie Jackson v. Ohio | Ohio | 2023-04-10 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 4th-amendment contraband criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement lower-court-conflict police-conduct precedent probable-cause search search-and-seizure vehicle-search | Where one police officer opens the door of a car, and another officer looks through the open door for contraband, have the police conducted a "search"… |
| 22-728 | Daniel Cameron Wilkey, et al. v. William Eugene Klaver | Sixth Circuit | 2023-02-03 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights clearly-established-law clearly-established-right fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct qualified-immunity reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop | 1. This Court has repeatedly instructed the lower courts that in determining whether a right is clearly established for purposes of qualified immunity… |
| 22-164 | Mark Elliott Stuart v. Douglas Gerlach, Judge, Superior Court of Arizona, Maricopa County, et al. | Arizona | 2022-08-23 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech police-conduct prosecutorial-misconduct sixth-amendment speedy-trial vindictive-prosecution | (1) Whether the State can seek to punish and prosecute an individual for refusing to obey an unconstitutional order from a public official and a polic… |
| 21-8197 | Michael James Bosman v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2022-06-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | alternatives criminal-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement-conduct police-conduct precedent probable-cause reasonableness reasonableness-standard search-and-seizure seizure | Did the Tenth Circuit misapply this Court's precedent, and wrongly reject Mr. Bosman's Fourth Amendment claim, when it dismissed the availability of a… |
| 21-1204 | City of Chico, California, et al. v. Estate of Tyler S. Rushing, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2022-03-03 | Denied | arrest-procedure civil-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct qualified-immunity use-of-force | 1. As a matter of first impression, does the Fourth Amendment prevent law enforcement officers from deploying a Taser to safely arrest a suspect who v… | |
| 21-778 | Selina Marie Ramirez, et al. v. Jeremias Guadarrama, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2021-11-24 | Denied | Amici (1)Relisted (16) | civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force mental-health-crisis motion-to-dismiss police-conduct qualified-immunity section-1983 summary-judgment | To defeat a motion to dismiss in a Section 1983 suit alleging that officers used excessive force, must plaintiffs plead as an element of their claim t… |
| 21-770 | Shelby Hawkins v. Johnny Banks, III | Eighth Circuit | 2021-11-24 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (2) | civil-rights eighth-circuit excessive-force fourth-amendment police-conduct probable-cause qualified-immunity reasonable-force use-of-force | 1. Whether the Eighth Circuit wrongly denied qualified immunity to Officer Hawkins by finding the use of force was not reasonable as a matter of law w… |
| 21-57 | Levi Frasier v. Christopher L. Evans, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2021-07-15 | Denied | Amici (7) | civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech law-enforcement police-conduct police-recording public-conduct qualified-immunity | 1. Whether training or law enforcement policies can be relevant to whether a police officer is entitled to qualified immunity. 2. Whether it has been… |
| 21-5027 | Shane LaGrange v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-07-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-court constitutional-rights exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure law-enforcement police-conduct reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop | WHETHER THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT IMPROPERLY CONCLUDED THAT THE FOURTH AMENDMENT PERMITS THE COURT TO FIND THAT REASONABLE SUSPICION FOR A TRAFFIC STOP EXIST… |
| 20-1766 | In Re John H. Todd | 2021-06-21 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights confession constitutional-safeguards criminal-investigation due-process evidence evidence-exclusion police-conduct search-warrant | Does Oregon's conflicting statutes on search warrants that exist between ORS 133.545(5) which requires a fully trained police officer and ORS 167.345 … | |
| 20-1668 | City of Tahlequah, Oklahoma, et al. v. Austin P. Bond, as Special Administrator of the Estate of Dominic F. Rollice, Deceased | Tenth Circuit | 2021-06-01 | Judgment Issued | Amici (6)Relisted (4) | deadly-force fourth-amendment intoxicated-individual officer-safety police-conduct qualified-immunity seizure use-of-force | 1. Whether use of force that is reasonable at the moment it is employed can nonetheless violate the Fourth Amendment if the officers recklessly or del… |
| 20-1607 | Michigan v. Anthony Michael Owen | Michigan | 2021-05-19 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | circuit-split exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment heien-standard legal-uncertainty police-conduct reasonable-mistake-of-law speed-limit traffic-stop | Respondent was stopped for speeding in a residential street within the village, on a road with a 25 MPH sign going the other way, where almost all the… |
| 20-1519 | Ismael Rivera v. Glennis Gelabert-De-Peguero, et al. | First Circuit | 2021-04-29 | Dismissed | appellate-review civil-procedure civil-rights district-court due-process judicial-doctrine police-conduct police-officer qualified-immunity standing | 1. Whether Police Officer Ismael Rivera was correctly denied his entitlement to qualified immunity? 2. Whether the District Court correctly applied c… | |
| 20-7433 | Randy Philip Chaudron v. Texas | Texas | 2021-03-11 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence identification law-enforcement-misconduct photo-lineup police-conduct witness-identification | I. To THE DUE PROCESS CLAUSE VIOLATED WHEN TEAL COURT ALLOWED EVIDENCE, KNOWING THAT LAW ENFORCEMENT BROKE PROCEDURE OF ART. 3020 CP PHOTO LINEUP IDEN… |
| 20-1247 | Gerald Dix v. Edelman Financial Services, LLC, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2021-03-09 | Denied | Response Waived | 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process eviction eviction-procedure fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct police-seizure seizure | Whether the Fourth Amendment protects a person and property from seizure by police using force and threats to arrest to effect an eviction in contrave… |
| 20-715 | Jibriil A. Hersi v. Ed Sheldon, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2020-11-24 | Denied | Response Waived | criminal-procedure due-process evidence jury-authorization jury-trial police-conduct police-misconduct prosecutorial-discretion right-to-counsel trial-records | 1) Whether I am entitled to get the missing records from my trial in Medina County, Ohio for statements made by the judge outside the hearing of the j… |
| 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 … |
| 20-83 | Jacob Jones, et al. v. Wayne Duke Kalbaugh | Tenth Circuit | 2020-07-29 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (2) | civil-rights clearly-established-law excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement objective-reasonableness police-conduct qualified-immunity tenth-circuit | I. Did the Tenth Circuit improperly focus on the knowledge and intentions of the suspect, rather than the facts knowable to the officers, in reversing… |
| 19-1266 | H. B., a Minor, Individually and as Successor in Interest to Michelle Lee Shirley, By and Through His Guardian ad Litem, Ronnie Shirley v. City of Torrance, California, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2020-05-05 | Denied | Response Waived | 4th-amendment civil-rights excessive-force fourth-amendment objective-reasonableness police-conduct qualified-immunity scott-v-harris summary-judgment use-of-force | In a 42 USC § 1983 action where videos capturing the claimed use of excessive force are open to multiple interpretations as to whether the use of leth… |
| 19-1067 | Neal N. Browder, et al. v. S. R. Nehad, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2020-02-28 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | civil-rights deadly-force due-process emergency-response fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct police-shooting qualified-immunity use-of-force | Shortly before midnight on April 29, 2015, a bookstore clerk saw Fridoon Rawshan Nehad in an alley. Nehad, who was incoherent, pulled a knife out of h… |
| 19-889 | Kaufman County, Texas, et al. v. Eunice J. Winzer, Individually and on Behalf of the Statutory Beneficiaries of Gabriel A. Winzer, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2020-01-16 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fifth-circuit law-enforcement police-conduct qualified-immunity summary-judgment use-of-force | 1. Did the Fifth Circuit panel majority err in reversing Kaufman County's summary judgment after concluding Officer Hinds did not violate clearly esta… |
| 19-7171 | Samuel Turner v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-01-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | arrest civil-rights conviction-and-sentence criminal-procedure criminal-procedure-4th-amendment-search-and-seizur drug-possession due-process exculpatory-evidence fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure investigative-reports police-conduct probable-cause search-and-seizure subpoena-duces-tecum supervisory-power | 1.) Whether, the lower courts erred by upholding the arrest of Mr. Turner? 2.) Whether the lower courts erred in denying and upholding the denial of … |
| 19-7043 | John A. Toth v. Mark S. Inch, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-12-20 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 4th-amendment abuse-of-discretion attenuation civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance plea-bargaining police-conduct post-conviction-relief | Question not identified. |
| 19-6924 | William D. Thomas v. Mark McCullick, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2019-12-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bail civil-procedure confrontation confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process eyewitness-identification identification indictment officer-activity police-conduct preliminary-hearing warrant-inquiry whether a state's failure to meet the reciprocal r | a one on one Confrontation during a preliminary hearng tanted by prior police activity is Sufficient to warrant a Caurt's reliability inquiry. II. Wh… |
| 19-694 | Heather Baker, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Kyle Baker, Deceased v. City of Trenton, Michigan, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2019-12-02 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment home-invasion police-conduct police-procedure search-and-seizure second-amendment self-defense standing warrantless-search | I. 1. Whether, consistent with the Second Amendment right to bear arms, police can conduct a warrantless search of a private home based on the residen… |
| 19-609 | Erin J. Shepherd, et al. v. Angela Studdard | Sixth Circuit | 2019-11-12 | Denied | Relisted (3) | 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct qualified-immunity sixth-circuit summary-judgment use-of-force | 1. Police officers are entitled to qualified immunity unless they violate constitutional rights in factual situations squarely governed by controlling… |
| 19-327 | Jaonte Hairston v. Ohio, et al. | Ohio | 2019-09-10 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | aggregate-facts constitutional-rights fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-reasonableness law-enforcement limited-search police-conduct reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure terry-stop | This dispute turns on the proper interpretation of the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution. In a jurisdiction where citizens are entitl… |
| 19-5736 | Khalida Jalaly Ahadzadah v. Superior Court of California, Contra Costa County | California | 2019-08-28 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process free-speech police-conduct police-misconduct standing unlawful-arrest | Why The Con Cord police Dept Did not provide pou I rop the Camera Luv me ProoF mentioned? all the things the o officer us citizen & we have rights am … |
| 19-222 | Paul Anthony Valderas v. City of Lubbock, Texas, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2019-08-20 | Denied | 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights deadly-force due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct police-use-of-force qualified-immunity reasonable-force reasonable-inference use-of-force | Whether an officer on the scene constrained by what he observes to use any force creates a reasonable inference that deadly force is excessive? | |
| 19-39 | Quintin Antonio Bell v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-07-05 | Denied | Response Waived | 5th-amendment categorical-match criminal-procedure custody due-process fifth-amendment interrogation miranda-interrogation miranda-v-arizona officer-subjective-test police-conduct sentencing-enhancement state-court-prosecution | 1. Whether the court of appeals correctly applied a subjective, officer-focused test to determine whether a suspect was interrogated for purposes of M… |
| 18-1326 | Justin Shultz, et al. v. Jason Cole | Third Circuit | 2019-04-19 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights clearly-established-law due-process first-amendment individual-assessment law-enforcement legal-standard police-conduct qualified-immunity retaliation summary-judgment | 1. When multiple police officers seek qualified immunity on a summary judgment motion, should their entitlement to qualified immunity be evaluated ind… |
| 18-8784 | DiAngelo Johnson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-04-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights criminal-justice due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct pretextual-stops racial-profiling traffic-stops whren-v-united-states | Because Whren v. United States1/ permits pretextual traffic stops, it has become notorious for its effective legitimation of racial profiling . Whren … |
| 18-8146 | Jamie Geer v. Florida | Florida | 2019-02-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment interstate-police-action jurisdiction jurisdictional-violation minor-consent out-of-state-jurisdiction police-conduct wire-communication wiretap-act | WHETHER THE MINORS CONSENT FOR THE INTERCEPTION OF WIRE COMMUNICATION IS LEGALLY AND CONSTITUTIONALLY VALID, WHEN SECURED BY POLICE ACTING OUTSIDE OF … |
| 18-924 | Michael Antonio Bullock v. North Carolina | North Carolina | 2019-01-16 | Denied | Response Waived | 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-limits due-process fourth-amendment mission-scope police-conduct police-investigation reasonable-duration rodriguez-v-united-states traffic-stop | Under Rodriguez v. United States, 135 S. Ct. 1609 (2015), a police officer may not prolong a traffic stop beyond the time required to complete the mis… |
| 18-913 | Joshua Brennan v. James Dawson, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2019-01-15 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (9) | civil-liability civil-procedure civil-rights common-law constitutional-rights due-process law-enforcement liability police-conduct qualified-immunity reasonable-reliance | Whether a police officer may reasonably rely on a narrow exception to a specific and clearly established right to shield him from civil liability when… |
| 18-6203 | Larry Hayes v. Marvin Plumley, Warden | Fourth Circuit | 2018-10-03 | Denied | IFP | 5th-amendment confession-evidence criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation due-process false-confession miranda-rights miranda-waiver miranda-warning police-conduct police-interrogation voluntariness | First, what constitutes a promise of leniency that destroys the voluntariness of a subsequent confession? Second, given what we now know about the pre… |
| 18-323 | Suzan Evans, Individually and as Wife and Next of Kin of Scott Evans, Deceased v. United States, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2018-09-12 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | circuit-split constitutional-law excessive-force fourth-amendment graham-v-connor police-conduct reasonableness-standard tennessee-v-garner totality-of-circumstances use-of-force | Whether the totality of the circumstances test for assessing the reasonableness of a use of force under this Court's decisions in Tennessee v. Garner,… |
| 18-236 | Paul Weddle v. Alan Nutzman, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2018-08-23 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct qualified-immunity seizure standing use-of-force | (1) Whether under a qualified immunity analysis there existed clearly established precedent that taking down Weddle when he had surrendered, posed no … |
| 18-5613 | Ladina Sykes v. Illinois | Illinois | 2018-08-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-law custody fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct private-individual search-and-seizure state-action state-actors | Whether on-duty police officers are state actors for Fourth Amendment purposes when they assist a private individual in searching a suspect in police … |
| 18-46 | City of Middletown, Connecticut, et al. v. William McKinney | Second Circuit | 2018-07-09 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | 4th-amendment active-resistance civil-rights clearly-established constitutional-rights detainee-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-conduct qualified-immunity reasonable-officer use-of-force | Police officers were attempting to transfer a detainee to a padded cell where he could be appropriately monitored after he repeatedly obstructed the v… |