reasonable-person
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25A557 | United States v. Donte J. Carter | District of Columbia | 2025-11-13 | Application | consensual-stop fourth-amendment police-encounter race-consideration reasonable-person seizure | Question not identified. | |
| 23-1238 | Chinyere Ogbonna-McGruder v. Austin Peay State University, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2024-05-24 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure civil-rights color-of-state-law employment-law hostile-work-environment motion-to-amend motion-to-dismiss notice-pleading reasonable-person retaliation retaliation-claim | Whether Petitioner's claim for retaliation required her to prove she suffered severe or pervasive conduct by her supervisor rather than conduct which … |
| 22-7623 | Arquimedes Mendoza v. Jeff Macomber, Secretary, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation | Ninth Circuit | 2023-05-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-right criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel padilla-standard padilla-v-kentucky plea-bargaining reasonable-defendant reasonable-person | Whether, it is enough for a defendant claiming ineffective assistance of counsel in the plea context to back his claim with substantial contemporaneou… |
| 22-7007 | Axel Domingo Diego v. Indiana | Indiana | 2023-03-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights custody-determination due-process jdb-v-north-carolina law-enforcement-interrogation miranda-custody-rule miranda-rights reasonable-officer reasonable-person reasonable-person-standard translated-interrogation translation-context | When law enforcement officers use a translator during an interrogation, does Miranda's custody rule consider the unique circumstances presented by the… |
| 22-6441 | James D. Dayvault v. Kansas | Kansas | 2023-01-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights consensual-encounter custody detention due-process family-law fourth-amendment law-enforcement photography reasonable-person reasonable-person-standard seizure | 1. Did the Kansas Court of Appeals err when it affirmed the trial court's decision regarding custody for the purposes of Miranda, and does the court e… |
| 22-138 | Billy Raymond Counterman v. Colorado | Colorado | 2022-08-11 | Judgment Issued | Amici (20)Relisted (5) | first-amendment free-speech objective-standard reasonable-person speech-protection subjective-intent true-threats | Whether, to establish that a statement is a "true threat" unprotected by the First Amendment, the government must show that the speaker subjectively k… |
| 21-7151 | Quentin Jackson v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2022-02-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split criminal-law criminal-statute elements-clause mens-rea predicate-offense reasonable-person sentencing sentencing-enhancement statutory-interpretation threat-of-force | QUESTION ONE: The circuit courts agree that a conviction under 18 U.S.C. § 2113(a) will be sustained even if the defendant was not aware that his cond… |
| 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… |
| 21-198 | Anthony W. Knights v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-08-11 | Denied | Amici (2) | constitutional-analysis eleventh-circuit fourth-amendment free-to-leave free-to-leave-test race race-consideration reasonable-person reasonable-person-standard seizure | A Fourth Amendment seizure occurs when, "in view of all the circumstances surrounding the incident, a reasonable person would have believed that he wa… |
| 20-1040 | Michael Aaron Strickland v. Oregon | Oregon | 2021-01-29 | Denied | Response Waived | 2nd-amendment constitutional-rights due-process prior-experiences reasonable-person second-amendment self-defense state-of-mind | Did the Oregon courts err in holding that there is no Constitutional right of self-defense except for when someone like the judge would have behaved t… |
| 20-5395 | Marcus Tyler Sheffield v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2020-08-24 | Denied | IFP | 5th-amendment criminal-procedure custodial-interrogation due-process miranda-rights police-questioning reasonable-person reasonable-person-standard self-incrimination | Whether the police detective's assurance to Sheffield that he is free to leave on the condition that he make a truthful statement would lead a reasona… |
| 20-27 | Jennifer Paskert v. Kemna-ASA Auto Plaza, Inc., dba Auto Smart of Spirit Lake, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2020-07-20 | Denied | circuit-split civil-rights employment-discrimination hostile-work-environment reasonable-person reasonable-person-standard sexual-harassment title-vii | Assuming the other elements of a Title VII claim are present, is sexual harassment (1) unlawful if a reasonable person would conclude, in light of all… | |
| 19-7361 | Edward Shevtsov v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-01-22 | Denied | IFP | actual-decisionmaker circuit-split civil-procedure decisionmaker-test federal-fraud federal-prosecution fraud fraud-statute materiality materiality-standard private-victim reasonable-person reasonable-person-standard | The federal mail, wire, and bank fraud statutes proscribe material misrepresentations. The circuits are divided over the standard for proving material… |
| 19-6242 | Imanol Pineda Penaloza v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-10-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof civil-rights employment-discrimination question-not-identified racial-discrimination reasonable-person title-vii | Whether sentencing enhancements that are not found by a jury beyond a reasonable doubt violate the Sixth Amendment, and whether the advisory nature of… |
| 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… |
| 18-949 | Jamal Knox v. Pennsylvania | Pennsylvania | 2019-01-22 | Denied | Amici (8)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | criminal-threat first-amendment free-speech reasonable-person speech-protection subjective-intent terroristic-threats true-threat true-threats | Under Watts v. United States, 394 U.S. 705 (1969) (per curiam), the First Amendment does not protect "true threats." Federal courts of appeals and sta… |
| 18-7256 | Amin De Castro v. United States | Third Circuit | 2019-01-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement-interaction police-encounter police-seizure probable-cause reasonable-person reasonable-person-standard seizure terry-stop | A police officer "seizes" a person under the Fourth Amendment if he makes a request that a reasonable person would not feel free to refuse, and the pe… |
| 18-6122 | Sheri Lee Pualani Kapahu v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-09-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | boarding-a-plane consensual-encounter detention drug-possession federal-agent fourth-amendment law-enforcement-interaction reasonable-person reasonable-person-standard search-and-seizure | A police-citizen encounter does not implicate the Fourth Amendment when consensual. Once a reasonable person would no longer feel free to ignore the p… |
| 18-5982 | Todd F. Britton-Harr v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2018-09-18 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-procedure guilty-plea ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel lee-v-united-states prejudice prejudice-standard reasonable-person sixth-amendment | Does the Court's decision in Lee v. United States, 137 S.Ct. 1958 (2017) allow lower courts to require a showing that a "reasonable person" would have… |