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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 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 … | |
| 25-6535 | James Eric Larremore v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2026-01-09 | Pending | IFP | fourth-amendment law-enforcement-interaction probable-cause reasonable-person-standard seizure traffic-stop | Whether the deputy's instruction to "hang on a sec," particularly in context, communicated to a reasonable person in Larremore's position that he was … |
| 25A696 | Samantha Lee-Ann Sealey v. Arturo Mancias, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2025-12-15 | Application | bodyworn-camera excessive-force fourth-amendment qualified-immunity seizure use-of-force | Question not identified. | |
| 25-588 | Donna Elizabeth Summers v. Montana | Montana | 2025-11-18 | Pending | Response RequestedResponse Waived | constitutional-rights detention fourth-amendment police-questioning seizure traffic-stop | Whether a driver who is lawfully stopped for a traffic infraction remains seized for Fourth Amendment purposes when the officer concludes the purpose … |
| 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. | |
| 25-6051 | Claude Coleman v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2025-11-06 | Pending | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | fourth-amendment high-crime-area misdemeanor reasonable-suspicion seizure terry-stop | The Fourth Amendment protects citizens in public spaces from being seized by law enforcement without reasonable suspicion that they have committed a c… |
| 25A260 | Donna Elizabeth Summers v. Montana | Montana | 2025-09-04 | Presumed Complete | consent fourth-amendment reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure seizure traffic-stop | Question not identified. | |
| 25-182 | Curtis Levar Wells, Jr. v. Javier Fuentes, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-08-15 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights community-caretaker consent-search fourth-amendment reasonable-suspicion seizure | This case concerns a federal law enforcement officer's initial detention of a civilian with a post-hoc explanation of a "welfare check" or "communit… |
| 25-179 | Officer Phillip Reinink, in His Individual and Official Capacity v. Sean Hart, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2025-08-14 | Pending | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | excessive-force fourth-amendment law-enforcement qualified-immunity seizure use-of-force | 1. In the Fourth Amendment reasonableness of a seizure context, whether a law enforcement officer's intended level of force is relevant to determining… |
| 25A184 | Ronald Smith v. Bexar County, Texas, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2025-08-14 | Presumed Complete | fourth-amendment mental-health-detention probable-cause seizure traffic-stop warrantless-search | Question not identified. | |
| 24A735 | Latrisha Winder, as Next Friend of J. W., a Minor and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Stephen Wayne Winder, Deceased, et al. v. Joshua M. Gallardo, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2025-01-27 | Presumed Complete | excessive-force fourth-amendment high-speed-pursuit qualified-immunity seizure use-of-force | a. Whether the Court should reexamine and overrule its precedent on qualified immunity in civil actions under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (Appendix A at 6) in li… | |
| 24-616 | Officer Benjamin M. Bauer v. Ethan Daniel Marks | Eighth Circuit | 2024-12-05 | GVR | Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | fourth-amendment law-enforcement medical-evacuation protest seizure use-of-force | During an emergency medical evacuation amidst a large, violent protest that had become a riot, a six-foot, two-hundred pound man assaulted an officer … |
| 24-5745 | Brian Broussard v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2024-10-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | collective-knowledge constitutional-challenge due-process probable-cause seizure warrantless-search | 1) Whether 18 U.S.C. 922(g)(1) is unconstitutional and, as such, fails to provide probable cause for detaining an American Citizen. 2) To what extent… |
| 24-5397 | Bruce Sanford v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2024-08-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights fourth-amendment freedom-of-movement law-enforcement probable-cause seizure | Whether a citizen is seized within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment when law enforcement impedes the citizen's freedom of movement? |
| 24-5197 | Curtis Mitchell Paul v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2024-07-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-investigation empirical-evidence fourth-amendment officer-mistake probable-cause reasonable-suspicion seizure terry-stop terry-v-ohio totality-of-the-circumstances | Whether a police officer violates the Fourth Amendment when he seizes for criminal investigation a pedestrian walking in the vicinity of a recent robb… |
| 24-5150 | Toyrieon Sessions v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-07-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | Due-Process fourth-amendment law-enforcement mobile-device Mobile-Devices Probable-Cause Riley-v-California search-and-seizure Seizure warrant-requirement Warrantless-Search | Following Riley v. California, 573 U.S. 373 (2014), may law enforcement seize a person's mobile telephone—without probable cause and without a warrant… |
| 23-1254 | Stephen Ollar, et al. v. District of Columbia, et al. | District of Columbia | 2024-05-31 | Denied | Response Waived | bodily-integrity evidence-fabrication fabricated-evidence fifth-amendment fourth-amendment medical-procedure parental-consent parental-rights seizure state-action | Whether the Fourth Amendment assures parents that, in the absence of parental consent or judicial authorization, painful and medically unnecessary pro… |
| 23-950 | Michael J. Lindell, et al. v. United States, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2024-02-29 | Denied | Response Waived | 4th-amendment cell-phone-seizure civil-rights electronic-data fourth-amendment free-speech legal-precedent preliminary-injunction retaliation seizure warrant-particularity | The extraordinary number of conclusions in the opinion below that conflict starkly with applicable precedents smacks of a judicial process that strain… |
| 23-931 | J. W., et al. v. Elvin Paley | Fifth Circuit | 2024-02-27 | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 14th-amendment 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment school-official school-seizure seizure student-rights | The question presented is whether a claim that a school official has used excessive force against a student that meets the definition of a Fourth Amen… |
| 23-6523 | Mark David Galloway v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-01-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-split fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion seizure terry-stop | Whether the Ninth Circuit has unjustifiably expanded the Terry exception to the probable cause requirement by creating a new category of exempt seizur… |
| 23-400 | Travis Palmer Curran, et al. v. Janet Turner O'Kelley, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-10-17 | Dismissed | Response Waived | civil-rights curtilage due-process exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment objective-reasonableness qualified-immunity seizure | 1. Whether the Fourth Amendment objective reasonableness standard for exigency, and the availability of qualified immunity itself, remain questions of… |
| 23-5717 | Ronnie Shahar v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2023-10-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights coin-seizure due-process expert-testimony forfeiture forfeiture-proceedings import-regulations metallurgical-evidence probable-cause seizure standing summary-judgment | I. What is the level of proof required from the US Government when it seizes mutilated or damaged coins imported from Chinese recycling factories and… |
| 23-272 | Winterville Police Department, et al. v. Dijon Sharpe | Fourth Circuit | 2023-09-20 | Denied | Amici (1)Relisted (2) | first-amendment fourth-amendment livestreaming reasonable-time-place-manner seizure traffic-stop | Should the constitutionality of a law enforcement officer's restriction of livestreaming by an occupant of a seized vehicle during a lawfully initiate… |
| 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… |
| 22-1031 | Constance Westfall v. Jose Luna, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2023-04-25 | Denied | 4th-amendment coercive-interrogation consent curtilage fourth-amendment knock-and-talk search seizure warrant warrantless-search | 1. Whether the "knock-and-talk" exception to the Fourth Amendment's protection against unlawful entry onto a person's property permits police officers… | |
| 22-848 | James Douglas Fox v. Mark Campbell, et ux. | Sixth Circuit | 2023-03-08 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | county-of-sacramento-v-lewis excessive-force fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment graham-v-connor law-enforcement qualified-immunity seizure self-defense unreasonable-force | Petitioner James Fox performed a welfare check at the home of Respondents Mark Campbell and Sherrie Campbell. Mark stated through the closed front doo… |
| 22-830 | Corey Forest v. Tennessee | Tennessee | 2023-03-02 | Denied | Response Waived | 4th-amendment citizen-arrest citizen's-arrest civil-rights drug-dog law-enforcement pretextual-stop search-and-seizure seizure traffic-stop | 1. Whether a law enforcement officer acting as a private citizen who initiates a traffic stop with no intention of ever attempting to complete the "mi… |
| 22-793 | Paul Donald Davis, et al. v. Paul Waller, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-02-22 | Denied | circuit-split civil-rights deadly-force due-process hostage law-enforcement non-suspect-seizure qualified-immunity seizure use-of-force | Whether the Eleventh Circuit misapplied the test for the constitutional use of deadly force set forth by this Court in Tennessee v. Garner, 471 U.S. 1… | |
| 22-731 | Tyler Brienza v. City of Peachtree, Georgia, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-02-06 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 4th-amendment civil-rights curtilage exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment investigative-detention knock-and-talk law-enforcement seizure voluntary-encounter | When occupants answer a "knock-and-talk" by law enforcement officers and step onto the porch, or curtilage of the home, to address the officers, may t… |
| 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… |
| 22-6441 | 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… |
| 22-6430 | Alex Bugno v. Ohio | Ohio | 2022-12-30 | Denied | IFP | evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment good-faith-exception particularity search-warrant seizure | (I) Are Search warrants that fail to include command sections authorizing the seizure of particular items facially and fatally defective, requiring su… |
| 22-6008 | David Jay Tyson v. Federal Bureau of Investigation, et al. | Second Circuit | 2022-11-07 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-rights due-process law-enforcement property-rights return-of-property seizure | Question not identified. |
| 22-5809 | Sirron Moralez v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2022-10-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights container fourth-amendment law-enforcement-conduct probable-cause search-and-seizure seizure totality-of-the-circumstances traffic-stop vehicle-search | Does an empty container with "THC" on the cover justify an extended detention in a traffic stop and support the seizure of the driver and search of th… |
| 22-5821 | Felipe Noriega, Jr. v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2022-10-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure seizure traffic-stop | 1. Whether the Fourth Amendment allows a police officer to extend a concluded traffic stop based on minimal, if any, suspicious factors. 2. Whether t… |
| 22-5373 | Berenice Del Angel v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-08-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-limits fourth-amendment law-enforcement rodriguez scope-of-detention seizure traffic-stop warrantless-detention | Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits a police officer from continuing his warrantless detention of a motorist after the officer has announced that h… |
| 22-5074 | Kurtis D. Worley v. Illinois | Illinois | 2022-07-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process ineffective-assistance plea-negotiations post-conviction-relief seizure settlements | 1. Whether Petitioners lost Conviction Petition 2. Whether Trial Counsel Rendered Ineffective Assistance of Counsel lhere he falled to advance the Ar… |
| 22-5065 | O. L. v. Liliana Jara, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2022-07-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | cell-phone-search consent digital-duplication fourth-amendment possessory-interest privacy search-and-seizure seizure | When government officials seek to rely upon consent to justify the lawfulness of a search or seizure, the burden is on them to show by clear and posit… |
| 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… |
| 21-7502 | 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? |
| 21-7416 | Trevor Dawson Ewers v. Virginia | Virginia | 2022-03-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights concerted-action constitutional-rights fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment pretextual-stop reasonable-suspicion seizure traffic-stop | Where officers work together in concerted action to "produce" reasonable suspicion when there is none to affect a traffic stop with the sole purpose o… |
| 21-1181 | Lyndsey Ballinger, et al. v. City of Oakland, California | Ninth Circuit | 2022-02-28 | Denied | Amici (3) | dolan-v-city-of-tigard due-process fourth-amendment nollan-v-california-coastal-commission property-rights seizure state-action takings tenant-rights unconstitutional-conditions | 1. Whether the unconstitutional conditions tests in Nollan v. California Coastal Commission, 483 U.S. 825 (1987), and Dolan v. City of Tigard, 512 U.S… |
| 21-975 | Idaho v. Aaron James Howard | Idaho | 2022-01-06 | Denied | Response RequestedRelisted (2) | dog fourth-amendment law-enforcement narcotics-detection probable-cause search search-and-seizure seizure vehicle vehicle-search | When officers lawfully deploy a narcotics-detection dog on the exterior of a vehicle and, without any direction, prompting, or facilitation by officer… |
| 21-6599 | Jeffrey Clinton Michalik v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2021-12-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights custodial-interrogation fifth-amendment fourth-amendment law-enforcement-seizure miranda-warnings seizure | 1. Does the holding in Torres v. Madrid, 141 S. Ct. 989 (2021) that the torching of an individual by law enforcement to guide or restrain movement is … |
| 21-6615 | Fabian I. Sanchez v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-12-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights detention fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure seizure | Once objective facts have dispelled the officer's suspicions, may a person still be detained on a hunch? |
| 21-700 | Keith Smith v. City of Chicago, Illinois, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2021-11-12 | GVR | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | 42-usc-1983 accrual-rule bail bail-conditions circuit-split civil-rights fourth-amendment legal-procedure pretrial-detention seizure seizure-definition | 1. Does a claim brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 seeking damages for wrongful pre-trial detention caused by the fabrication of evidence accrue upon the … |
| 21-6177 | Richard Leroy Parker v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-11-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | and whether complying with that order is valid co causation civil-rights consent due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement medical-examiner seizure | (1) Whether a law enforcement officer's order to "just kinda stay here" results in a seizure under the Fourth Amendment, and whether complying with th… |
| 21-5913 | Desmond S. Gaines v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2021-10-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment 911-tip anonymous-tip anonymous-tips corroboration drug-sales reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure seizure terry-stop totality-of-circumstances | An anonymous tip must either be reliable on its own or be adequately corroborated before it can provide reasonable suspicion to seize a person. This C… |
| 21-5828 | Brandon Aaron Thomas v. California | California | 2021-09-30 | Denied | IFP | apartment-search constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment gang-evidence illegal-search illegal-searches illegal-seizures motion-to-proceed-in-forma-pauperis seizure | Question not identified. |
| 21-5528 | Gabriel Samar Martinez v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-08-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | can give rise to reasonable suspicion to justify standing alone 4th-amendment 4th-amendment-jurisprudence anonymous-tip corroboration fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion seizure terry-stop vehicle-stop | Whether an uncorroborated anonymous tip, standing alone, can give rise to reasonable suspicion to justify a seizure. |
| 21-5362 | Robert Lee Crawford v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-08-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause due-process fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation law-enforcement-misconduct misrepresentation pretextual-stop seizure warrantless-search | A. Is the Fourth Amendment violated when a warrantless off-site forced entry search of a gunsafe is preceded by a warrantless seizure of the gunsafe f… |
| 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 … |
| 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… |
| 21-5176 | De'Undre Rashad Robert Turner v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-07-22 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment federal-courts noncriminal-violation reasonable-suspicion seizure state-courts | 1. Whether a seizure can be initiated upon reasonable suspicion of a noncriminal violation. 2. Whether law enforcement officers have reasonable suspi… |
| 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… |
| 20-8187 | Christopher Takhvar v. Florida | Florida | 2021-06-01 | Denied | IFP | 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights due-process property seizure | Question not identified. |
| 20-8030 | Reginald Tremaine Wilson v. North Carolina | North Carolina | 2021-05-14 | Denied | IFP | civil-asset-forfeiture civil-rights constitutional-challenge criminal-procedure due-process evidence fourth-amendment property-rights seizure sentencing standing | CCuf\ 4fW- (jO li'StiVnr'ScoW\^ \*> Qo^-eJbz uocAa -fa cmJ cUV^TOV/U CoC-^ •C \J&% i v<eyvess <3^y\ Cx/\ ofifar 4o 4^ -&l<zJ■Ad°V'vc1 U<^3■0 i-s \-\- … |
| 20-7542 | Calvin Lewis Carter, III v. Illinois | Illinois | 2021-03-23 | Denied | IFP | court-procedure criminal-procedure defendant-rights evidentiary-rulings fourth-amendment judicial-interpretation legal-challenge privacy procedural-rules search seizure standing | Question not identified. |
| 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… |
| 20-1166 | Jorel Shophar, et ux. v. United States, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2021-02-24 | Denied | Response Waived | 14th-amendment 4th-amendment child-welfare child-welfare-act constitutional-rights due-process federal-courts fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment seizure state-seizures | 1. Is the 1974 Child Welfare Act of Child Protective Services violating U.S. Citizens Constitutional Rights of the Fourth Amendment, Fourteenth Amendm… |
| 20-1006 | City of Hayward, California, et al. v. Jessie Lee Jetmore Stoddard-Nunez | Ninth Circuit | 2021-01-27 | Denied | Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | civil-rights due-process excessive-force fourth-amendment qualified-immunity section-1983 seizure use-of-force | 1. Whether an accelerating fleeing driver's sudden turn deprives a threatened shooting officer of qualified immunity? 2. Whether an unintended victim… |
| 20-6873 | Joshua Harrell v. California | California | 2021-01-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment seizure unreasonable-search unreasonable-seizure | Whether the unreasonable search pnd seizure pig judicially viol? ted the fourth pnd fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution ? Whethe… |
| 20-6728 | Jarvis O'Neil Adams v. Georgia Office of the Governor, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-12-30 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment arrest civil-rights criminal-procedure law-enforcement narcotics officer-opinion probable-cause search-and-seizure seizure | 1. Whether probable cause pursuant to the 4th Amendment can be established solely upon an officer's opinion of smelling narcotics. 2. Whether seizure… |
| 20-6693 | Tarcisio Valencia-Barragan v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-12-22 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | attenuation-doctrine flight fourth-amendment illegal-stop police-authority seizure | 1. Whether a suspect's flight alone, after submitting to police authority, is sufficient to establish attenuation from an illegal stop and seizure to … |
| 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… |
| 20-137 | Prescott McCurdy v. Maine | Maine | 2020-08-07 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-misconduct mens-rea personal-liberty seizure state-statute takings unfair-trial | 1) Has the 'peoples' right to 'personal liberty' been suspended? Whereas the State; through statutes; is criminalizing 'personal liberty ' while aut… |
| 19-8594 | Justin Harrington Darrell v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-06-03 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment high-crime-area illinois-v-wardlow officer-safety reasonable-suspicion seizure terry-stop terry-v-ohio | Whether "officer safety" can justify the seizure of a person for a Terry stop, instead of pointing to specific, articulable facts that lead him to rea… |
| 19-8087 | Sharla Jenkins v. Helen Forbes Fields, as Administrator of the Estate of Elase Jenkins | Ohio | 2020-03-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | due-process fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-rights privacy seizure warrantless-search | APPENDIX A11121). because there is no transcript of the probate court's hearing on Fields application we presume the court initially considered the pr… |
| 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. |
| 19-7667 | Robert Tremaine Williams v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2020-02-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment coercion detainment due-process fourth-amendment k-9-search law-enforcement search-and-seizure seizure traffic-stop video-evidence | WHETHER THE PROMISE TO BE FREE TO LEAVE AFTER CLEARANCE OF DRIVERS LICENSE, VEHICLE PAPERS, AND WARRANTS — with issuance of a warning traffic citati… |
| 19-7657 | Marion L. Sherrod v. Sidney D. Harkelroad, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2020-02-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 8th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment probable-cause qualified-immunity seizure seizure-disorder standing warrantless-search | Whether the s. Corto Appes appction f the discretona waiver doctrine prejidiced M. Sherod a pro e petitionn Whether under Artice of the Constittion o… |
| 19-885 | Jamie Swartz, et ux. v. Heartland Equine Rescue, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2020-01-16 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment livestock livestock-seizure post-seizure-hearing pre-seizure-hearing rooker-feldman-doctrine section-1983 seizure subject-matter-jurisdiction | Did the 7th Circuit err by finding the Rooker-Feldman doctrine applied when the complained of and appealed violation was a seizure of livestock on fal… |
| 19-797 | City of St. Louis, Missouri, et al. v. Mary R. Meier | Eighth Circuit | 2019-12-23 | Denied | 14th-amendment 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment civil-rights fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment municipal-liability probable-cause section-1983 seizure wanted-bulletin warrantless-seizure | Every year, thousands of automobiles are identified in law enforcement databases as stolen or wanted in connection with crimes. Warrants for seizure o… | |
| 19-6744 | Kevin M. Merck v. Minnesota Supreme Court, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2019-11-25 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | bank-account-seizure civil-procedure civil-rights color-of-law court-record-manipulation due-process fraud jurisdiction jurisdictional-dispute procedural-irregularity racketeering seizure standing subject-matter-jurisdiction | Jurisdictional questions Color of law questions Questions of fraud Questions of racketeering |
| 19-6533 | Kaleb L. Basey v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-11-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-2703(f) digital-evidence digital-privacy email-privacy fourth-amendment government-request internet-service-provider search seizure warrantless-search | Whether the warrantless preservation of private emails by an Internet Service Provider pursuant to a government request under 18 U.S.C. §2703(f) amoun… |
| 19-576 | Interior Glass Systems, Inc. v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-11-01 | Denied | Response Waived | administrative-hearing due-process hearing irs iRS-collection penalties seizure statutory-interpretation tax tax-penalties vagueness vagueness-doctrine | 1. Is the collection of tax penalties an exception to the requirements of due process, or does a citizen have a right to a hearing before the IRS seiz… |
| 19-551 | Ronald Calzone v. Eric Olson, Superintendent, Missouri State Highway Patrol | Eighth Circuit | 2019-10-28 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | administrative-discretion civil-rights closely-regulated-industry constitutional-rights fourth-amendment search-and-seizure seizure warrantless-search | 1) Does the "closely regulated industry" exception to the Fourth Amendment apply to persons who have not chosen to involve themselves in any business … |
| 19-540 | Andre Jenkins v. City of Cleveland, Ohio | Ohio | 2019-10-24 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-procedure civil-rights concurrent-jurisdiction criminal-procedure due-process forfeiture forfeiture-procedure in-rem-jurisdiction property-rights seizure standing warrantless-seizure | I. The questions presented here centralize issues related to whether the warrantless seizure here of money for forfeiture (by local police) can be jus… |
| 19-452 | Gregory Clark v. Austin Clark | Eighth Circuit | 2019-10-04 | Denied | Response Waived | excessive-force fourth-amendment police-encounter reasonable-suspicion seizure voluntary-interaction | 1. During a voluntary interaction in which the subject hands a police officer his ID, if the officer runs the subject is it an unconstitutional seizur… |
| 19-384 | Harmon L. Taylor v. City of Sherman, Texas, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2019-09-23 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights compelled-commerce compelled-consent consent-doctrine due-process fourth-amendment illegal-seizure probable-cause seizure transfer-of-venue transportation-code vehicle-definition | Compelled consent - "transportation " 1. Is the Tex. TRANSP. Cope "unconstitutional, " as applied? Compelled commerce - Illegal seizure 2. Did Respon… |
| 19-365 | John Barth v. United States | First Circuit | 2019-09-19 | Denied | Response Waived | 4th-amendment civil-rights compensation constitutional-rights copyright copyright-law due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction seizure sovereign-immunity takings takings-clause | 1. Violation of Constitutional Rights Did acts of a federal court in publishing sealed documents of investigation rather than returning them, violate… |
| 19-345 | Dorian Johnson v. City of Ferguson, Missouri, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2019-09-17 | Denied | civil-rights constitutional-rights fourth-amendment move-on-order police-encounter public-space reasonable-person-standard seizure totality-of-circumstances use-of-force | A "seizure" occurs under the Fourth Amendment when, under the totality of the circumstances, "a reasonable person would believe he was not free to dec… | |
| 19-292 | Roxanne Torres v. Janice Madrid, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2019-09-04 | Judgment Issued | Amici (13)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | apprehension circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-law detention excessive-force fourth-amendment physical-force police-force seizure | Is an unsuccessful attempt to detain a suspect by use of physical force a "seizure" within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment, as the Eighth, Ninth, … |
| 19-174 | Jeri Lynn Rich, Representative for Gavrila Covaci Dupuis-Mays, an Incapacitated Person v. Michael Palko, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2019-08-07 | Denied | Relisted (2) | civil-rights clearly-established collateral-order collateral-order-doctrine excessive-force fourth-amendment material-facts qualified-immunity seizure | The Court's "collateral order" doctrine permits interlocutory appeal with a two- pronged test for a government official's claim to qualified immunity:… |
| 19-5306 | Born Murray v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2019-07-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights detention fourth-amendment investigation investigative-detention law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion seizure time-frame traffic-stop | Where a police officer admittedly abandons the initial basis for a traffic stop to pursue a new investigation unsupported by reasonable suspicion, doe… |
| 19-5178 | Howard Lester v. Ohio | Ohio | 2019-07-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confrontation-clause criminal-procedure essential-element expert-testimony firearms-examination fourth-amendment prosecutor-summation report-admission seizure substitute-analyst summation witness-testimony | I. Whether the admission of a report authored by a non-testifying firearms examiner, and expert testimony from a substitute analyst concerning the fin… |
| 18-1577 | Pennsylvania v. Edward Adams | Pennsylvania | 2019-06-25 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | 4th-amendment 4th-amendment-law civil-rights conflict-with-other-jurisdictions fourth-amendment investigative-detention law-enforcement-encounter pennsylvania-supreme-court probable-cause reasonable-suspicion seizure terry-stop traffic-stop | The question presented is whether the Pennsylvania Supreme Court erred in finding that Adams was subjected to an unreasonable seizure in violation of … |
| 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… |
| 18-9058 | Juan L. Garcia v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2019-05-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment cell-phone-data civil-rights consent fourth-amendment home-search lawful-arrest probable-cause search-and-seizure seizure unreasonable-search warrantless-search | 1. Does the Supreme Court's decision in Riley v. California, 134 S.Ct. 2473 (2014) (regarding the warrantless search of the contents of a cell phone i… |
| 18-1287 | Alexander L. Baxter v. Brad Bracey, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2019-04-10 | Denied | Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (11) | 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process excessive-force police-misconduct police-use-of-force qualified-immunity search-and-seizure seizure | 1. Does binding authority holding that a police officer violates the Fourth Amendment when he uses a police dog to apprehend a suspect who has surrend… |
| 18-1252 | Rev. Barry D. Bilder v. Rev. Beth Mathers, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2019-03-29 | Denied | civil-rights dna dna-collection due-process fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-rights reasonableness right-to-counsel search-warrant seizure sixth-amendment | Is a Search Warrant (for DNA) "reasonable" under the Fourth (4th) Amendment? Was the Petitioner's Sixth (6th) Amendment, "Right to Counsel," violated… | |
| 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: … |
| 18-8377 | Walter D. Booker v. T. Johnson, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2019-03-11 | Dismissed | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 42-usc-1983 civil-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment investigative-detention probable-cause qualified-immunity reasonable-suspicion section-1983 seizure | WHETHER THE OFFICERS HAD REASONABLE SUSPICION TO SEIZE MR. BOOKER SHABAZZALLAH? WHETHER THE OFFICERS HAD PROBABLE CAUSE TO CONVERT SEIZURE INTO AN AR… |
| 18-8283 | Terry A. Burlison v. Pam Angus, Individually and in Her Official Capacity as a Marion County, Florida Court Deputy Clerk | Eleventh Circuit | 2019-03-05 | Denied | IFP | 42-usc-1983 absolute-immunity civil-rights clearly-established-law due-process immunity official-liability pre-seizure-conduct property-loss property-rights section-1983 seizure | Under 42 U.S.C. 1983 when a public official violates clearly established law though her pre-seizure conduct and the conduct caused the loss of propert… |
| 18-870 | Ilyas V. Ibragimov v. Wisconsin | Wisconsin | 2019-01-08 | Denied | Response Waived | fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation law-enforcement search-and-seizure seizure seizures unreasonable-search unreasonable-searches vehicle-stop warrantless-search | Whether Petitioner's Fourth Amendment right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures was violated when his vehicle was stopped by law enforc… |
| 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… |
| 18-6994 | Cleveland McDowell Meador, IV v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-12-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | consent-search consent-to-search felon-in-possession fourth-amendment home-search police-procedure probable-cause search-and-seizure seizure supervision supervision-of-search withdrawal-consent withdrawal-of-consent | Whether police officers violate the Fourth Amendment when they obtain consent to search a person's home, then keep that person outside the home, preve… |
| 18-6820 | Robert Paul Langley, Jr. v. Jeff Premo, Superintendent, Oregon State Penitentiary | Oregon | 2018-11-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-violation ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-authorization particularity particularity-requirement search-warrant seizure sixth-amendment | 1. Does the Fourth Amendment require that a search warrant particularly describe the things to be seized? 2. Does the Fourth Amendment require that a… |
| 18-6242 | Billy Wayne Locke v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2018-10-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights due-process property-rights takings civil-rights compensation due-process property seizure takings | The Fed. gavetnmant The RighT am cF My Property Thay hale posgessicy search Mnarrawt anod The Fedigou Deny Thet S For TaTe p2k.18820 waS GM AT.F. AgN… |
| 18-437 | Dmitri I. Medvedev v. Henrico County | Virginia | 2018-10-05 | Denied | 4th-amendment civil-rights driver's-license due-process dui fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-suspicion seizure terry-stop terry-v-ohio | Under Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1 (1968), a police officer can briefly detain a person based on reasonable suspicion that the person is involved in crim… | |
| 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 … |
| 18-195 | William S. Poff v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2018-08-14 | GVR | exemption exemptions federal-seizure-law government-seizure incarceration-payments mandatory-victims-restitution-act restitution restitution-enforcement seizure service-connected-disability statutory-exemption statutory-interpretation substantial-resources veterans-disability-benefits | Petitioner is a disabled military veteran currently serving a federal prison sentence. While incarcerated, Petitioner is entitled to approximately $13… | |
| 18-5406 | Orlando G. McDaniel v. United States | District of Columbia | 2018-08-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights court-of-appeals exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment police-powers precedent probable-cause scope-of-search search-and-seizure search-warrant seizure | Whether this court should grant this petition for a writ of certiorari to consider whether petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when the p… |
| 18-145 | Stepheno Jemain Alston v. South Carolina | South Carolina | 2018-07-31 | Denied | Response Waived | 4th-amendment automobile-detention civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-suspicion seizure traffic-stop | Does South Carolina's reasonable suspicion analysis, in the context of prolonged automobile detentions, violate due process when it fails to sufficien… |
| 18-5291 | Martin Louis Ballard v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-07-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | deprived him of his right under the Sixth Amendme without any hearing 5th-amendment 6th-amendment bank-account bank-account-seizure civil-rights counsel-of-choice due-process fifth-amendment pretrial-seizure procedural-due-process seizure sixth-amendment | Whether the pretrial seizure of petitioner's bank account, without any hearing, deprived him of his right under the Sixth Amendment to the United Stat… |