| 25-755 |
The Society of Apostolic Church Ministries Bishop, Elizabeth Gardner Corporation Sole and Her Successors v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-12-29 |
Pending |
Response Waived |
church-autonomy church-property first-amendment fourteenth-amendment government-interference ministerial-exemption property-seizure religious-freedom-restoration-act |
I. Whether the Ninth Circuit permitted the government to violate the First Amendment of the Constitution, Religious Freedom Restoration Act, the Estab… |
| 25A616 |
Harriet Nicholson v. Bank of New York Mellon, fka Bank of New York, Trustee for the Certificate Holders of CWMBS, Inc., CWMBS Reforming Loan Remic Trust Certificates Series 005-R2 |
Second Circuit |
2025-11-25 |
Application |
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certiorari constitutional-rights emergency-application pro-se property-seizure time-extension |
Question not identified. |
| 25A611 |
Paul Kenneth Cromar v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-11-24 |
Application |
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criminal-statute pro-se-petition property-seizure statutory-interpretation tax-law tenth-circuit |
Whether 26 U.S.C. § 7212(b), which criminalizes forcible rescue of "property after it shall have been seized under this title," applies to property ju… |
| 25A148 |
Harry Barnett v. City of Chicago, Illinois, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-08-05 |
Presumed Complete |
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fourth-amendment malicious-prosecution probable-cause property-seizure section-1983 warrantless-arrest |
Question not identified. |
| 24A1276 |
Andrew Grimm v. City of Portland, Oregon |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-06-24 |
Presumed Complete |
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constitutional-rights due-process mullane-test predeprivation-notice property-seizure technology-communication |
Question not identified. |
| 24-7002 |
In Re Clifford L. Noll |
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2025-04-16 |
Rehearing |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
debt-collection due-process federal-jurisdiction fifth-amendment fourth-amendment property-seizure |
1.) Did the unwarranted seizure of my real properties and personal savings account by UNITED STATES violate my rights under the 4th Amendment?
2.) Di… |
| 24-6806 |
Torrey-Tyree Lewis v. Wilmington Savings Fund Society |
Pennsylvania |
2025-03-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure procedural-due-process property-seizure replevin |
"Does the seizure of all the Petitioners belongings, without providing notice or obtaining consent, and based on a writ that wasn't addressed to the P… |
| 24-833 |
Aklilu Yohannes v. Olympic Collection Inc. (OCI), et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-02-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-challenge due-process garnishment-statute pre-deprivation-hearing property-seizure state-actor |
In the District Courts of Washington, creditors' attorneys may issue writs of garnishment on behalf of the court, and for the benefit of their client.… |
| 24-6405 |
Sidney Joseph v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2025-01-28 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
due-process federal-enforcement property-seizure restitution separation-of-powers statutory-interpretation |
(1) Does the Fifth Circuit's interpretation of the phrase "all other available and reasonable means" in 18 U.S.C. § 18 U.S.C. § 3664(m)(1)(A)(ii) to m… |
| 24-360 |
Sikousis Legacy, Inc., et al. v. B-Gas Limited, aka Bepalo LPG Shipping Ltd., et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-10-01 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
admiralty-jurisdiction attachment-case equitable-principles judicial-discretion maritime-law property-seizure |
Whether a court exercising jurisdiction in an admiralty attachment case, whereby it must decide the ownership of the property seized based on the equi… |
| 24-326 |
Ricardo Devengoechea v. Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela |
Third Circuit |
2024-09-20 |
Denied |
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circuit-conflict commercial-activity foreign-sovereign-immunities-act implied-waiver judgment-execution property-seizure |
Title 28 U.S.C. § 1610(a)(1) of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act provides that a foreign country which suffers a judgment against it may waive its… |
| 24-5251 |
Keith Vernon Davis v. David Close, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Houtzdale |
Third Circuit |
2024-08-07 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
counsel-conflict due-process judicial-determination probable-cause property-seizure sixth-amendment |
1. WHETHER AN INDEPENDENT JUDICIAL DETERMINATION WAS MADE OF PROBABLE CAUSE OR A WARRANT ISSUED 1/22/2017 AT INCIDENT No. 20170122M1328 PRIOR TO ENTRY… |
| 23-1110 |
Gerald S. Ostipow, Individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Royetta L. Ostipow v. William L. Federspiel |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-04-12 |
Denied |
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civil-procedure civil-rights criminal-investigation criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment just-compensation property-rights property-seizure taking takings |
Does the non-return and indefinite retention of non-forfeited private property (or its monetary equivalent), when initially seized for a criminal inve… |
| 23A722 |
Luis Sanchez, et al. v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-02-05 |
Presumed Complete |
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article-iii-standing civil-forfeiture concrete-injury pleading-amendment property-seizure section-853(n) |
Whether (1) a District Court has the discretion to provide a civil forfeiture claimant an opportunity to amend a timely-filed 21 U.S.C. § 853(n) petit… |
| 23-6465 |
Lewis Slaughter v. New York |
New York |
2024-01-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review certiorari civil-procedure due-process judicial-process legal-petition notice opportunity-to-be-heard property-seizure supreme-court takings |
Question not identified. |
| 23A604 |
Zehava Friedman, et al. v. Republic of Hungary, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2024-01-02 |
Presumed Complete |
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foreign-sovereign-immunities holocaust-survivors international-law jurisdiction property-seizure world-war-two |
Question not identified. |
| 23-6145 |
Daniel E. Salley v. United States |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-12-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process internal-revenue-service mental-competency mental-health-defense property-rights property-seizure statute-of-limitations tax-law treasury-offset-program |
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| 23-6032 |
James William Thomas, III v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-11-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment common-law-presumption-of-ownership fourth-amendment property-seizure reasonable-expectation-of-privacy reasonable-expectation-privacy search-and-seizure search-warrant standing trespassory-test |
Whether a defendant has standing to challenge the search of property seized from his residence pursuant to a search warrant based upon both the common… |
| 23-5898 |
Christian Hayward v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-10-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
criminal-procedure due-process equal-protection privacy-interest property-seizure search-and-seizure standing texas-v-brown united-states-v-place |
1) DID THE LOWER COURT VIOLATE DUE PROCESS AND/OR EQUAL PROTECTION BY
FAILING BY FAILING TO RECOGNIZE THAT HAYWARD HAD A PRIVACY POSSESSORY
INTEREST I… |
| 23-5756 |
David Davalos, Sr. v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
criminal-forfeiture criminal-law due-process Fifth-Circuit forfeiture Honeycutt-v-United-States property-rights property-seizure statutory-interpretation tainted-property |
Whether Honeycutt v. United States, 581 U.S. 443 (2017) and its progeny require the Fifth Circuit to limit forfeiture to tainted property the defendan… |
| 22-7602 |
James Franklin Snyder v. Idaho |
Idaho |
2023-05-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-protections due-process judicial-review police-misconduct property-seizure qualified-immunity standing state-court-jurisdiction |
Question not identified. |
| 22-6631 |
Larry Welenc v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
District of Columbia |
2023-01-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
administrative-law administrative-procedure due-process internal-revenue-service irs notice-of-intent property-rights property-seizure seizure tax-law tax-levy taxpayer-rights |
1,) Can the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service issue a NON Final Intent of
Notice for immediate payment of Amount Due, to be paid within a d… |
| 22-603 |
Jevarreo Kelley-Lomax v. City of Chicago, Illinois |
Seventh Circuit |
2022-12-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bailee-duty bailment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment pre-trial-detention property-rights property-seizure |
May a municipality, consistent with the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments, sell or destroy property seized for safekeeping from an arrestee, merely bec… |
| 22-6305 |
Kaleb L. Basey v. United States |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-12-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment campbell-ewald civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process fourth-amendment government-liability property-rights property-seizure rule-41g standing |
This petition presents the following question:
Whether a person seeking return of illegally seized property under Fed. R. Crim. P. Rule 41(e) has an … |
| 22-427 |
William Verrinder v. City of Lewiston, Maine |
Maine |
2022-11-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment due-process fourteenth-amendment hearing-fee municipal-law notice-of-violation property-rights property-seizure statutory-fines |
Whether the City of Lewiston, Maine, in violation of
the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth
Amendment to the Constitution of the United States
of Am… |
| 22-5772 |
Rollie Andre Lott v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2022-10-05 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appeal appeal-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process hearing-request inmate-mail-system property-forfeiture property-seizure seizure-and-forfeiture |
PETITIONER REQUESTED A HEARING REGARDING SEIZURE AND FORFEITURE NOV, 21,2021 .PETITIONER SENT THE REQUIRED DOCUMENTS TO THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY AND ONE … |
| 21-8071 |
Brala Beverly v. Riverside County Public Administrator, et al. |
California |
2022-06-07 |
Rehearing |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
7th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial probate-court property-seizure seventh-amendment standing |
Did the California Riverside County Superior Court and Fourth Appellate District Division Two in California violate the seventh amendment of the U.S. … |
| 21-7502 |
William Dallas Elmore v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-03-31 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights conflict-among-courts constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement personal-property property-seizure seizure unreasonable-search |
Does the Fourth Amendment prohibit an unreasonable and ongoing seizure of personal property? |
| 21-7319 |
Abraham A. Augustin v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2022-03-08 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
ancillary-jurisdiction civil-action criminal-investigation due-process equity federal-court property-seizure return-of-property rule-41(g) rule-41g |
I. WHETHER THE UNITED STATES INDICTMENT OF A DEFENDANT WHO'S PROPERTY WAS SEIZED BY THE STATE AND FBI DURING THE CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION OF A CASE PROS… |
| 21-898 |
Blake Conyers, et al. v. City of Chicago, Illinois |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-12-17 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
circuit-split due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment inventory-search municipal-policy property-rights property-seizure |
May a municipality, consistent with the Fourth and Fifth Amendments and pursuant to an explicit policy, destroy or sell property seized during the inv… |
| 21-5384 |
William A. Masters v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-08-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process executive-taking fourteenth-amendment property-rights property-seizure standing state-remedies takings |
A. Must a Citizen exhaust his State's remedies before filing in the Federal Court for a decision upon a Constitutional issue?
B. When a State makes a… |
| 20-7771 |
Anthony J. Bator v. David Nilsson, et al. |
California |
2021-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process legal-jurisdiction property-rights property-seizure siskiyou-county supreme-court-rulings takings |
The petitioner was wrongfully convicted of multiple felonies in a highly unfair trial by a group pf bureaucrats that work in the legal community of Si… |
| 20-7560 |
Hakim Jakuin Morris v. Jocelyn B. Cate, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-03-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-liberties civil-procedure civil-rights color-of-law due-process equal-protection property-rights property-seizure standing strict-scrutiny |
Why was I denied Substantive & Procedural Due process to challenge the validity of the alleged claims made by DMV, DSS and court officials? Why was pr… |
| 20-7027 |
Susanne Stephanie Nikola Kynast v. Florida |
Florida |
2021-02-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights custodia-legis due-process evidence evidence-custodian motion-to-suppress nolle-prosequi property property-seizure search-and-seizure writ-of-mandamus |
Is Petitioner entitled to the return of property taken as evidence without a warrant and held in custodia legis subsequent to a motion to suppress in … |
| 20-460 |
Richard E. Boggs v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-10-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
5th-amendment administrative-determination due-process fifth-amendment irs property-seizure tax-liability withholding-certificate |
1) Did the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) deprive the
petitioner of his Constitutional Fifth Amendment
right to due process when it failed to offer a … |
| 20-5690 |
Darrick Michael Loff v. Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-09-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process evidence-tampering false-arrest fourth-amendment law-enforcement malicious-prosecution probable-cause property-seizure search-and-seizure warrantless-search |
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| 20-151 |
Joe Blessett v. Beverly Ann Garcia |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-13 |
Denied |
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civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights contract-law due-process federal-contract federal-court-jurisdiction homestead-exemption property-seizure standing title-iv-d |
1. Has the Court decision denied Blessett 's U.S. Constitution protected right not to contract into Title IV-D services?
2. Did the 5th Appellate Cou… |
| 20-5260 |
In Re Kenton G. Findlay |
|
2020-08-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
11-usc-362 14th-amendment 5th-amendment bankruptcy bankruptcy-code bankruptcy-stay constitutional-violation court-jurisdiction due-process foreclosure property-seizure |
Whether the Florida Supreme Court and the Third District Court of Appeal of Florida ("the Third DCA") violated the due process protection of the 5th a… |
| 19-8277 |
Abraham A. Augustin v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-04-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
ancillary-jurisdiction bivens-action civil-procedure constructive-possession criminal-investigation criminal-procedure fed-r-crim-p-16 fed-r-crim-p-41 jurisdiction property-seizure |
1. Whether the district court had ancillary jurisdiction over
property seized during the criminal investigation of an
offense prosecuted in said dis… |
| 19-7836 |
Tajuddin Salahuddin v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-03-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights criminal-forfeiture criminal-procedure due-process federal-statute property property-rights property-seizure restitution restitution-lien seizure third-party third-party-rights |
1) When the United States of America seizes innocent third-party property and cash; applies 21 U.S.C 853 to forfeit the property but applies a separat… |
| 19-1021 |
Micah Jessop, et al. v. City of Fresno, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-02-18 |
Denied |
Amici (12)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
civil-rights constitutional-rights fourth-amendment law-enforcement police-misconduct property-rights property-seizure qualified-immunity search-and-seizure search-warrant seizure |
Whether it is clearly established that the Fourth Amendment prohibits police officers from stealing property listed in a search warrant. |
| 19-494 |
David Zachary Morgan v. Washington |
Washington |
2019-10-17 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment government-search plain-view-doctrine plain-view-exception probable-cause property-seizure search-and-seizure warrant-requirement |
Whether a government official who would like to seize someone's personal property, and has both probable cause and the time to obtain a warrant, must … |
| 19-5365 |
Michael Joseph DeMarco, Jr. v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-07-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
color-of-state-law constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection government-misconduct prisoner-rights property-rights property-seizure retaliation witness-defense |
1. Whether a prisoner has due process and equal protection under the Constitution when a guard deliberately, willfully and maliciously seizes a prison… |
| 18-1466 |
County of Sonoma, California, et al. v. Rafael Mateos Sandoval, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-24 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
4th-amendment constitutional-rights continued-detention detention due-process fourth-amendment lawful-seizure monell-liability municipal-liability property-rights property-seizure public-safety section-1983 seizure vehicle-impound |
This petition presents three issues of first impression in this Court, all of which arise out of a judgment for damages under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against… |
| 18-1339 |
Mark Anthony Fornesa, et al. v. Fifth Third Mortgage Company |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-25 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
' 'appeals' ' 'bankruptcy-law" ' 'civil-rights" ' 'constitutional-law" ' 'foreclosure" ' 'fraud" automatic-stay bankruptcy bankruptcy-stay constitutional-rights constitutional-validity constitutional-violation damages debtor-rights eviction foreclosure foreclosure-fraud fraud-allegation mortgage-dispute mortgage-law property-seizure |
Under Federal law, 11 U.S.C. § 362(a), do Fifth Third Mortgage company and Fifth Third Bank ("Fifth Third") have a right to seize a property from debt… |
| 18-8478 |
Sheila Halousek v. Yuba County Animal Care Services |
California |
2019-03-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-procedure civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process notice-requirement privacy property-rights property-seizure redress seizure |
With regard to the violation of Petitioner's rights to receive advance notice for due process, prior to the Respondents' seizure of private property: … |
| 18-7615 |
Michael Alexander Bacon v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-01-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
circuit-court-split criminal-justice-process criminal-procedure evidentiary-inquiry fact-finding factual-dispute federal-rule-41 federal-rule-of-criminal-procedure-41(g) government-possession post-conviction-motion property-return property-seizure rule-41g seized-property |
Courts widely recognize the general rule that seized property, other than contraband, should be returned to its rightful owner once criminal proceedin… |
| 18-5311 |
Jack Reid v. United States |
Second Circuit |
2018-07-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure criminal-forfeiture criminal-procedure drug-forfeiture drug-offenses due-process eighth-amendment excessive-fines property-rights property-seizure sentencing standing substantial-connection |
Under 21 U.S.C. §853 (a)(2), a person convicted of violating a federal drug law must forfeit to the government "any of the person's property used, or … |