third-party-doctrine

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-5977 Dwayne Ernest Wharton v. Texas Texas 2025-10-28 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure evidence-admissibility fourth-amendment gps-tracking search-warrant third-party-doctrine Does a violation of the Fourth Amendment, as enunciated in this Court's holdings in Carpenter v. United States, 138 U.S. 2206 (2018) and United States…
25-402 Mamadou Diaw v. Ohio Ohio 2025-10-03 Denied Response Waived fourth-amendment investigative-use location-data privacy-rights third-party-doctrine warrant-requirement 1. Whether, after Carpenter v. United States, 585 U.S. 296 (2018), the Fourth Amendment permits law enforcement to obtain a single historical location…
24-922 James Harper v. Michael Faulkender, Acting Commissioner of Internal Revenue Service, et al. First Circuit 2025-02-26 Denied Amici (12)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) cryptocurrency-records fourth-amendment privacy-rights surveillance-tracking third-party-doctrine warrantless-search The Internal Revenue Service used a subpoena to obtain without a warrant from a cryptocurrency exchange three years of transaction records concerning …
24A549 James Harper v. Daniel I. Werfel, Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, et al. First Circuit 2024-12-05 Presumed Complete administrative-procedure-act cryptocurrency financial-privacy fourth-amendment john-doe-summons third-party-doctrine Question not identified.
23-7289 Robert A. Horse v. South Dakota South Dakota 2024-04-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment cell-phone-data civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment search-and-seizure third-party third-party-doctrine warrantless-search Whether the State Supreme Court opinion violated the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments by allowing law enforcement to obtain access to a third party (G…
22-5620 Ebrahim Kalatehe v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-09-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure criminal-procedure due-process evidence-collection fourth-amendment judicial-review pen-register standing third-party-doctrine waiver 1.May the government use information obtained through a pen register against an individual over whom the government did not obtain a pen register orde…
21-6756 Tracy Clare Micks-Harm v. William Paul Nichols, et al. Sixth Circuit 2022-01-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP absolute-immunity administrative-function civil-rights constitutional-rights HIPAA hipaa-immunity judicial-immunity proprietary-functions qualified-immunity retaliation search-and-seizure third-party-doctrine I. Does iralice, retaliation, deliberate indifference to the constitutional rights, acts committed within the scope of administrative function, acts c…
21-921 Mark A. Witaschek v. District of Columbia District of Columbia 2021-12-22 Denied administrative-summons carpenter-v-united-states digital-privacy fourth-amendment good-faith-exception government-surveillance probable-cause tax-evasion third-party-doctrine 1. Whether the Fourth Amendment's third-party doctrine should be overruled, limited, or held inapplicable when the government collects massive digital…
21-6523 Edward Soybel v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-12-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP carpenter-v-united-states fourth-amendment internet-protocol ip-address pen-register privacy-expectation probable-cause reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search third-party-doctrine Whether the opinion of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, deciding a constitutional issue of first impression for the Circuit, erroneously ruled th…
20-8321 William Mixton v. Arizona Arizona 2021-06-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-subpoena carpenter-exception carpenter-v-united-states fourth-amendment katz-standard katz-v-united-states positive-law-model privacy-expectation reasonable-expectation-of-privacy third-party-doctrine Should this Court overrule the third-party doctrine as stated in Miller and Smith as being inconsistent with a reasonable expectation of privacy under…
20-1442 Andrew Stoveken v. New Jersey New Jersey 2021-04-15 Denied Response Waived fourth-amendment prescription-records privacy-rights state-database statutory-mandate third-party-doctrine warrant-requirement Does the Third Party Doctrine exempt pharmacy prescription records contained in a State run database from the warrant requirement of the Fourth Amendm…
20-1441 George Beecher v. New Jersey New Jersey 2021-04-15 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment fourth-amendment patient-privacy patient-records prescription-monitoring privacy-expectation reasonable-expectation-of-privacy reasonable-search state-pdmp-laws third-party-doctrine Did the New Jersey Supreme Court err in adopting a ruling that a defendant prescriber does not have a reasonable expectation of privacy in patient pre…
20-7241 Rene Gosselin v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2021-02-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-defendant evidence-law fourth-amendment medical-records privacy privacy-rights standing third-party-doctrine 1. Does a criminal defendant have a Fourth Amendment right of privacy in his medical provider's records, such that the Third Party Doctrine does not a…
19-8596 Ryan Galal VanDyck v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-06-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP digital-surveillance fourth-amendment internet-privacy internet-protocol-address online-privacy probable-cause subscriber-information third-party-doctrine 1. Once it is linked to a particular subscriber, an Internet Protocol address is capable of revealing a wealth of private information about that subsc…
19-1142 Kendall R. Carter v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-03-18 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment administrative-subpoena carpenter-v-united-states civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment internet-privacy internet-subscriber-information ip-address privacy privacy-interest subpoena third-party-doctrine warrant-requirement Whether the Fourth Amendment warrant requirement guarantee protects a right to privacy in an internet protocol ("IP") address and internet subscriber …
19-7439 Saddam Samaan Daoud Samaan v. United States Eighth Circuit 2020-01-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP carpenter-v-united-states expectation-of-privacy fourth-amendment hotel-guest-registration law-enforcement reasonable-search search-and-seizure third-party-doctrine warrantless-search 1. Did Petitioner have a sufficient expectation of privacy in hotel guest registration information that a warrantless demand to the innkeeper for prod…
18-1327 Christian Vernon Sims v. Texas Texas 2019-04-19 Denied carpenter-v-united-states cell-site-location-information fourth-amendment privacy privacy-expectation standing surveillance-tracking third-party-doctrine warrant-requirement Under the Fourth Amendment, does a person have a legitimate expectation of privacy in historic or real-time cellphone tracking data (CSLI) regardless …