racial-profiling
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-885 | United States v. Donte J. Carter | District of Columbia | 2026-01-28 | Pending | constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement racial-profiling seizure | Whether perceptions of law enforcement that a court attributes to a particular racial group are a relevant factor in the Fourth Amendment analysis of … | |
| 23A996 | Yoel Weisshaus v. Steve Coy Teichelman, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2024-05-08 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split constitutional-rights qualified-immunity racial-profiling reasonable-suspicion summary-judgment | Question not identified. | |
| 23-5982 | Garnet Small v. United States | Third Circuit | 2023-11-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | equal-protection fourth-amendment law-enforcement pretextual-stop probable-cause racial-profiling reasonable-suspicion traffic-stop traffic-stops whren-v-united-states | Whether this Court's decision in Whren v. United States, 517 U.S. 806 (1996), should be overruled. |
| 23-5646 | Abraham Kennedy Jah El v. Town of Palm Beach, Florida, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-09-26 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | aboriginal-rights article-13 citizenship-status civil-rights congressional-petition constitutional-rights due-process human-rights police-brutality racial-profiling standing | 7on$h /}** tr*can /Vaf/vnaj £ askyh? ave. <t rpM to Consf!tufi' mftt^py-facf'ivn , 2, I 0M rtjiskmd'a 5 cm Aboriginal Pio or Ah fitnenura\ CUss A~d … |
| 23-5120 | Clim Eugene Murphy Thomas v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2023-07-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights consensual-encounter consent-search due-process fifth-circuit law-enforcement police-encounter racial-profiling totality-of-circumstances | WHETHER THE UNITED STATE FIFTH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS IMPROPERLY APPLIED ITS TOTALITY OF THE CIRCUMSTANCES ANALYSIS OF PETITIONER'S CHALLENGE TO THE… |
| 22-6484 | Courtney Saunders v. Kyle Thies, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2023-01-09 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-rights discriminatory-intent discriminatory-policing driving-while-black equal-protection fourteenth-amendment law-enforcement racial-discrimination racial-profiling traffic-stop | 1. Whether an Equal Protection claim under the Fourteenth Amendment, based on an incident of discriminatory policing, requires a plaintiff to establis… |
| 22-6051 | Arriba Lewis v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2022-11-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment 5th-amendment 6th-amendment career-offender criminal-procedure ineffective-assistance motion-to-suppress racial-profiling selective-enforcement sentencing-enhancement sixth-amendment | QUESTON NUMBER ONE: Petitioner Lewis' ex-lawyer provided him with ineffective assistance of counsel by a Motion to Quash and Suppress and failing to c… |
| 21-7808 | John Edward McIntyre v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-05-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-interdiction criminal-procedure equal-protection fourth-amendment high-crime-neighborhood high-crime-neighborhoods law-enforcement probable-cause racial-profiling targeted-enforcement traffic-stop | In Whren v. United States, 517 U.S. 806 (1996), this Court held that for purposes of the Fourth Amendment, a police officer's subjective motivation fo… |
| 21-1330 | Arthur O. Armstrong v. City of Conyers, Georgia | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-04-06 | Denied | civil-rights due-process equal-protection equal-protection-clause false-reports fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment official-discrimination racial-profiling search-and-seizure warrantless-search | Whether respondent on July 5, 2002, transgressed the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution of the United States when respondent acted w… | |
| 21-6223 | Aaron Martin Mercado-Gracia v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-11-09 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment consent fourth-amendment police-questioning race racial-profiling reasonable-person reasonable-person-standard totality-of-circumstances traffic-stop | Once an officer issues a traffic citation and tells the person he may leave, the Fourth Amendment requires consent to then delay departure to ask more… |
| 20-7102 | Toheed Ahmed v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-02-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment circuit-split dog-sniff high-crime-area motion-to-suppress racial-profiling tenth-circuit totality-of-circumstances traffic-stop | Was the Tenth Circuit correct in affirming the denial of Mr. Ahmed's motion to suppress evidence seized during and derived from an August 26, 2015 tra… |
| 20-411 | Traize T. Wash v. Ohio | Ohio | 2020-09-29 | Denied | Response Waived | 4th-amendment automobile-exception civil-rights fourth-amendment law-enforcement pretextual-stop probable-cause racial-profiling reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure whren-v-united-states | 1. Whether a police officer's subject ive intent should be considered in the context of a Fourth Amendment analysis involving a pretextual stop and un… |
| 20-5822 | Eric Terrell Spears v. South Carolina | South Carolina | 2020-09-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement-bias police-brutality police-interaction race racial-profiling seizure seizure-doctrine | Because of centuries of inequitable treatment at the hands of the police, must a court take into account a Black person's race when determining whethe… |
| 20-5074 | Robert Banks, III v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-07-15 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights fourth-amendment law-enforcement-discretion pretextual-stop racial-profiling search-and-seizure unreasonable-detention unreasonable-seizure whren-v-united-states | 1. Should Whren v. United States, 517 U.S. 806 (1996), be overruled for permitting unconstitutional detentions of Black Americans and people-of-color … |
| 19-7828 | Ronald Hayward v. Keith J. Foley, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2020-03-02 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment box-truck civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause racial-profiling search-and-seizure standing vehicle-search | 1. Do a police officer have probable cause to search a vehicle or a box truck without a search warrant? 2. Do citizens has the protection of the Four… |
| 18-9339 | Anthony Dajuan Yates v. California | California | 2019-05-20 | Denied | IFP | batson batson-challenge batson-v-kentucky criminal-procedure disparate-impact equal-protection juror-selection jury-selection peremptory-challenge peremptory-challenges race-neutral-explanation racial-profiling | I. Does a prosecutor's peremptory challenge of a prospective African-American juror based on the juror's perception of racial profiling by law enforce… |
| 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 … |
| 18-8650 | Ollisha Nicole Easley v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2019-04-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights consensual-search due-process fourth-amendment interrogation probable-cause race racial-profiling reasonable-person reasonable-person-standard search search-and-seizure | When examining the totality of the objective circumstances, is a bus passenger's race a factor in understanding how a reasonable person in her positio… |