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25-6637 Elizabeth A. Hughes v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2026-01-21 Pending Response WaivedIFP blood-test civil-consequence due-process fourth-amendment voluntary-consent warrant-requirement Whether the voluntary consent exception to the Fourth Amendment warrant requirement applies where a person arrested for driving under the influence ag…
25-6562 Dustin Shane Sandiford v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2026-01-13 Pending Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP digital-evidence due-process fifth-amendment fourth-amendment search-and-seizure warrant-requirement Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals misconstrued the Fourth Amendment warrant requirement and the Fifth Amendment due process mandate, when …
25A747 Justin Page v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2025-12-23 Application caniglia-v-strom community-caretaking emergency-aid fourth-amendment search-and-seizure warrant-requirement Is there a so-called "community caretaking" exception to the warrant requirement that operates distinctly from the emergency aid exception?
25-6049 Richard Vandale Clowney v. Greenville County, South Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-11-06 Denied IFP due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement neutral-detached-magistrate search-and-seizure warrant-requirement Whether a Magistrate who holds office at the law enforcement center investigating crimes is subject to and why law enforcement on easily passes, i.e. …
25-5984 Richard Vandale Clowney v. Walker Miller, et al. Fourth Circuit 2025-10-29 Denied IFP constitutional-rights fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-requirement Whether A Magistrate Issuing Search Warrants And Arrest Warrants At A Law Enforcement Center In Violation Of The Fourth Amendment Neutral And Detached…
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…
25-194 Dianna E. Webb v. City of Westminster, California, et al. California 2025-08-18 Denied Response Waived fourth-amendment health-and-safety-code probable-cause search-and-seizure standing warrant-requirement 1. Whether or not forcible and unauthorized entry pursuant to Cal. Health & Safety Code § 17980.7, and obtaining evidence to use is in pseudocriminal …
25-5273 Jordan Padilla v. New Mexico New Mexico 2025-08-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-requirement Whether law enforcement officials violated Petitioner's Right to Due Process when they seized his personal tablet device and held it for 19 days due t…
24-7430 Trenton Jared Powell v. United States Ninth Circuit 2025-06-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP cellphone-search criminal-procedure digital-privacy evidence-preservation fourth-amendment warrant-requirement Can the police hold a defendant's cellphone seized incident to his arrest until necessary forensic software is developed based upon evidence that the …
24-7293 Alexander Soto v. Massachusetts Massachusetts 2025-05-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP arizona-v-gant criminal-procedure drug-trafficking fourth-amendment search-incident-to-arrest warrant-requirement With respect to the search-incident-to-arrest exception to the warrant requirement of the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution, this Cou…
24-6208 Luciano Molina Rios v. Washington Washington 2024-12-27 Denied IFP cell-phone-tracking fourth-amendment privacy-rights probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-requirement Does the 4 Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibit the use of a cellphone to track a representative of the House without a warrant? Does the 1 an…
24-5888 Terrion Deondre Herman v. R. Brown Fourth Circuit 2024-11-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP fourth-amendment government-surveillance privacy-rights reasonable-expectation search-and-seizure warrant-requirement Dean oP a Dpprtmett buiiding-Ghovld We Wou) Raa Jrstice' that a tego FonlDeo 2 Door Mart Pret be Added 40 the Commou "ang OT" Areas oP pretmesT buildi…
24-5890 Ushery Stewart v. United States Sixth Circuit 2024-11-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-split drug-dealer fourth-amendment good-faith-exception search-and-seizure warrant-requirement 1. Whether the Fourth Amendment permits the search of a person's residence based solely on that person's status as a known drug dealer. 2. Whether Le…
24-372 William Robert Taft v. Colorado Colorado 2024-10-02 Denied Response Waived criminal-procedure fourth-amendment probable-cause protective-sweep unreasonable-search warrant-requirement Thirty-four years ago, in Maryland v. Buie , 494 U.S. 325 (1990), this Court ruled that the protective sweep exception to the warrant requirement allo…
24-5473 James Williams v. United States Second Circuit 2024-09-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-requirement (1) Did the previous alleged criminal Joe at the Counts Aiden & oo rts LOVNDIOAT OCIA \ ancl when Shere were ext Ce. ae 4 J ine USe ok on Qirearm An R…
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…
23-7321 Bentley Streett v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-04-26 Denied IFP exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception inevitable-discovery probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant warrant-defect warrant-requirement Before government agents can search a private home, the Fourth Amendment generally requires them to obtain a warrant supported by probable cause. Here…
23-7323 Damon Todd Carey v. United States Third Circuit 2024-04-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP exclusionary-rule expert-testimony fourth-amendment good-faith good-faith-doctrine independent-source inevitable-discovery probable-cause warrant-requirement 1. The district court concluded that since illegally obtained evidence found in Petitioners vehicle, was admissible due to'lthe application of the "…
23-7295 Glen Taylor Helzer v. California California 2024-04-23 Denied IFP criminal-procedure evidence exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment plain-view-doctrine probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-requirement warrant-scope Does the plain view doctrine apply where police enter and seize a home under a warrant to search for evidence of specified crimes, and forego getting …
23-7121 Basilio Hernandez v. United States Second Circuit 2024-04-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP docket-procedure docket-sheet exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant warrant-requirement Did the court err in finding that the good faith exception to the exclusionary rule applied? Should the docket sheet reflect all pleadings filed in a…
23A831 Bentley Streett v. United States Tenth Circuit 2024-03-11 Presumed Complete circuit-split exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery search-warrant warrant-requirement Whether and how the inevitable-discovery doctrine applies to a defective warrant.
23-893 Jonathan Walker v. Arkansas Arkansas 2024-02-21 Denied 4th-amendment algorithm digital-privacy fourth-amendment law-enforcement law-enforcement-search private-company probable-cause search-and-seizure technology-search warrant-requirement Does the Fourth Amendment require police to get a warrant before they open a digital file that was flagged by a private technology company's computer …
23-802 William Bembury v. Kentucky Kentucky 2024-01-25 Denied Amici (2) backpack criminal-procedure evidence-seizure fourth-amendment luggage probable-cause purse search-incident-to-arrest warrant-requirement Does the exception to the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement for searches incident to arrest permit a warrantless search of a backpack, purse, lug…
23A676 Kevin McCall v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-22 Presumed Complete cloud-storage digital-privacy fourth-amendment good-faith-exception search-and-seizure warrant-requirement Question not identified.
23-6353 Robert John Virnig v. Minnesota Minnesota 2023-12-26 Denied IFP 4th-amendment agency exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment government-informant home-office probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-requirement warrantless-search Did the District Court err in ruling that the government informant was not acting as an agent of the government when, without a warrant or an exceptio…
23A446 Jonathan Walker v. Arkansas Arkansas 2023-11-17 Presumed Complete digital-privacy fourth-amendment hash-value-match private-search-doctrine search-and-seizure warrant-requirement Question not identified.
23-5775 Suvad Dardagan v. Charles Truitt, Warden Illinois 2023-10-12 Denied IFP affirmation charging-instrument executive-branch fourth-amendment judicial-determination oath probable-cause warrant warrant-requirement I. The Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitu tion, apt of being jurisdictional in and of itself, requires Warrants issued upon probable cau…
23A193 Alvaro Castillo, Jr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2023-08-30 Presumed Complete border-search-doctrine cell-phone-search electronic-devices fourth-amendment riley-v-california warrant-requirement Question not identified.
23-5305 John Vaughn v. Nebraska Nebraska 2023-08-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP automobile-exception commercial-trains confrontation-clause fourth-amendment plain-smell-exception probable-cause search-and-seizure sixth-amendment warrant-requirement 1) Does the automobile exception to the warrant requirement of the Fourth Amendment apply to commercial trains? 2) Is there a plain smell exception t…
23-5251 Mark Edwin Guida v. Bobby Lumpkin, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2023-08-01 Denied IFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment cell-phone-evidence criminal-procedure exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment illegal-search probable-cause search-and-seizure suppression-of-evidence warrant-requirement I. WAS EVIDENCE PRESENTED AT A TRIAL FOR MURDER SUBJECT TO THE EXCLUSIONARY RULE, WHERE SAID EVIDENCE WAS THE RESULT OF AN ILLEGAL SEARCH OF THE DEFEN…
23-5057 Nicholas Scott Werling v. Circuit Court of Wisconsin, Rock County Wisconsin 2023-07-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment arrest-warrant civil-rights home-privacy search-and-seizure warrant-requirement Question not identified.
22-1243 Hieu Minh Le v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-06-27 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment 8th-circuit administrative-search constitutional-search due-process eighth-circuit inspection-level motion-to-suppress north-american-standard-inspection warrant-requirement Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in holding a North American Standard Inspection Level II inspection is an adequate substitute for the warrant require…
22-7881 Leroy Henry Jr. v. United States Third Circuit 2023-06-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP anonymous-informant exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith good-faith-doctrine probable-cause search-and-seizure united-states-v-leon warrant-requirement 1. Whether United States v. Leon, 468 U.S. 897 (1984) was wrongly decided; and 2. Whether subsequent decisions of this Court and the lower courts have…
22-7781 Donell Jamar Hines v. United States Eighth Circuit 2023-06-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment curtilage fourth-amendment good-faith-exception jardines-precedent k9-sniff search-and-seizure warrant-requirement warrantless-search 1. Whether the Leon good faith exception should allow admission of evidence obtained as a result of two unconstitutional searches, in violation of Jar…
22-7629 Jose Luis Nunez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2023-05-24 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP circuit-split exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery probable-cause protective-sweep search-and-seizure warrant-requirement warrantless-search 1. Whether police may enter and perform a "protective sweep" of a home not proximate to an arrest scene and when they lack affirmative information sug…
22-7440 Robert Christopher England v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-05-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment computer-forensics computer-search digital-evidence exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-requirement A. THE DISTRICT COURT ERRED WHEN IT DENIED MR. ENGLAND'S MOTION TO SUPPRESS THE SEARCH OF HIS COMPUTER
22-1018 Jeffrey L. Moeser v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2023-04-20 Denied Response Waived constitutional-protection federal-courts-of-appeals fourth-amendment general-warrants individual-liberty law-enforcement oath-affirmation oath-or-affirmation probable-cause warrant-requirement The question presented is whether a sheriff (1) who indisputably did not make an oral or written oath or affirmation to anyone and (2) who falsely sig…
22-943 Andre Verdun, et al. v. City of San Diego, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-03-28 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) administrative-search fourth-amendment parking-enforcement precompliance-review probable-cause public-health-safety search-and-seizure warrant-requirement warrantless-searches The Fourth Amendment protects "[t]he right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and…
22-7098 Rashid Turner v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2023-03-24 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment bank-robbery-act cell-phone cell-phone-search double-jeopardy exclusionary-rule good-faith good-faith-exception hobbs-act search-and-seizure warrant warrant-requirement Whether good faith should apply when law enforcement agency has a policy, written or unwritten, where the officer who conducts a search of a cell phon…
22-6777 Fharis Denane Smith v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-02-14 Denied IFP cell-phone circuit-split digital-privacy fourth-amendment good-faith law-enforcement-procedure probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant warrant-requirement To search a target's phone, does probable cause and good faith require a nexus between the target's phone and the crime demonstrated by case-specific …
22-549 Raymond J. Liddy v. United States Ninth Circuit 2022-12-15 Denied Response Waived digital-privacy electronic-evidence fourth-amendment internet-subscriber-information law-enforcement-search personal-data search-and-seizure subscriber-information warrant-requirement Does Internet subscriber information constitute a digital "paper" or "effect" under the Fourth Amendment? If so, must law enforcement obtain a warrant…
22-6053 Charles Skaggs, Jr. v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-11-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP border-search border-searches electronic-device electronic-devices fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-suspicion warrant-requirement warrantless-search I. Does the Fourth Amendment require that searches of electronic devices at the United States border be conducted pursuant to a warrant based on proba…
22-5697 Robert Capelli v. United States Second Circuit 2022-09-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-law criminal-procedure fourth-amendment private-plane search search-and-seizure vehicle-exception warrant-requirement Whether the vehicle exception to the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement applies to the search of a private plane.
22-5016 Christopher Lee Bryant v. United States Sixth Circuit 2022-07-01 Denied Response WaivedIFP corroboration criminal-procedure fourth-amendment police-investigation probable-cause recently-arrested-person search-and-seizure warrant warrant-requirement Does the Fourth Amendment require police officers to corroborate information obtained from a recently arrested person, whom officers did not know unti…
21-8179 Terrance Washington v. Eric Tice, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Somerset, et al. Third Circuit 2022-06-17 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-requirement l ^ «- > c« V PX-O *- VU- g < ^) ^ j ^!7Tr W ?*^ (^ f JLC^ It vt- on^ ^\) 2)^.* '*ft\ZAf*~ **< XoAAJ^-C^U/l^ VAA^^^VfT^T X.OOjifv1pj^0/\<5\\ o\ ^-yV…
21-1522 Wayne Torcivia v. Suffolk County, New York, et al. Second Circuit 2022-06-03 Denied Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) civil-rights constitutional-rights fourth-amendment home-entry qualified-immunity special-needs-exception state-actors warrant-requirement (1) Whether a so-called "special-needs exception" to the Fourth Amendment exists and allows warrantless entry into the home of someone who is not subj…
21-8038 Alberic Nault v. California California 2022-06-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP blood-draw breath-test fourth-amendment medical-condition probable-cause search-and-seizure unconscious warrant-requirement warrantless-search 1. Where a driver's medical condition precludes a reasonable opportunity to administer a breath test, does the Fourth Amendment always permit a warran…
21-1403 Travis Morse, Individually and in His Official Capacity as a Police Officer for the Town of Orono, Maine, et al. v. Christopher French First Circuit 2022-05-02 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) circuit-court civil-rights clearly-established-law constitutional-rights due-process knock-and-talk law-enforcement qualified-immunity warrant-requirement 1. Did the First Circuit depart from this Court's qualified immunity precedent by defining clearly established law at a high level of generality and f…
21-7431 William Nobles v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-03-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-infirmity exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception law-enforcement-misconduct magistrate-review probable-cause warrant-requirement warrant-validity Whether the good-faith exception should apply when law enforcement officers bury a crucial fact that they knew or should have known would reveal a war…
21-7387 Henry E. Wood v. United States Seventh Circuit 2022-03-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment cellphone circuit-split fourth-amendment law-enforcement mobile-phone parolee parolee-rights search-and-seizure warrant-requirement warrantless-search I. Whether the Seventh Circuit's decision allowing law enforcement officers to conduct a warrantless search of a parolee's mobile phone upon arrest ha…
21-7324 Caleb Guerrier v. United States Third Circuit 2022-03-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment home-arrest law-enforcement-procedure protective-sweep reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure warrant-exception warrant-requirement When arresting someone in a home, police may search immediately adjoining spaces from which they could be directly attacked. To search other areas, ho…
21-7277 Sadeen Jones v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2022-03-04 Denied IFP carpenter-v-united-states cell-site-location-information criminal-procedure fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery initial-illegal-search probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant warrant-requirement A. Is this matter so identical to Carpenter v. United States, 138 S. Ct. 2206 (2018) that like that case, this Petition for WRIT OF CERTIORARI should …
21-1199 Sally Gaetjens v. City of Loves Park, Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2022-03-02 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process emergency-aid exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment home-entry probable-cause standing warrant-requirement This case squarely presents two important federal questions regarding the scope of the exigent circumstances exception to the Fourth Amendment's warra…
21-7089 LeAndre Jordan v. Ohio Ohio 2022-02-09 Denied Amici (1)Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-reasonableness exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause unreasonable-seizure warrant-requirement warrantless-arrest Are warrantless, probable cause arrests reasonable when no exigency or contemporaneous crimes are present to excuse the failure to obtain a warrant? …
21-952 Lamont Lendell Bagley v. Virginia Virginia 2021-12-29 Denied detention fourth-amendment investigatory-detention protective-search protective-search-exception roadside-encounter terry-stop traffic-stop unoccupied-vehicle vehicle-search warrant-requirement Whether the protective search exception to the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement extends to an unoccupied vehicle if the former occupant is detai…
21-6558 Keith Anthony Rosario v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2021-12-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP apparent-authority consent consent-search fourth-amendment law-enforcement reasonable-belief residence search warrant-requirement Does the apparent authority exception to the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement permit a police officer to reasonably believe a seventeen-year-old…
21-6364 Kenneth R. Friend v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-11-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 18-usc-2518 authorization-defect dahda-v-united-states deputy-assistant-attorney-general deputy-attorney-general fourth-amendment good-faith-exception warrant-requirement wiretap-statute Does the good faith exception to the warrant requirement established in United States v. Leon, 468 U.S. 897 (1984), apply to warrants issued in violat…
21-752 Rex Hammond v. United States Seventh Circuit 2021-11-19 Denied Amici (1) 4th-amendment carpenter-v-united-states cell-site-location-information exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception real-time-tracking search warrant-requirement wireless-carrier 1. In Carpenter v. United States, 138 S. Ct. 2206 (2018), the Court held that the government's use of an individual's historical "cell site location i…
21-6305 Eric Volk v. State Bar of California California 2021-11-16 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights digital-evidence disciplinary-proceedings due-process evidence fourth-amendment law-enforcement legal-representation professional-conduct search-and-seizure warrant-requirement £*A 11 'FqiC/I/A c,1o$ji _1 CO^p/^/n^r On fi-H-O/'r'-exj /T)£ Lc^r*^^ Eroyur^, U/hes^ fh i^s eZ2and r*b d<*~ P^a rt-dClmhj <^/WZirods '? U&f*' l/fola…
21-6175 Shaun Short v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-11-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment automobile-exception criminal-procedure disabled-car franks-hearing parked-car probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-requirement Does the automobile exception to the warrant requirement extend to a parked and disabled car, or is it limited to its original justifications? Is a d…
21-5736 Brandon Joshua Bailey v. Florida Florida 2021-09-21 Denied IFP fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment gps gps-tracking location-records probable-cause search search-and-seizure vehicle warrant-requirement 1. Whether the government conducts a search under the Fourth Amendment when it accesses a vehicle's historical GPS location records, which provide a c…
21-5487 Norman Michael Achin v. Virginia Virginia 2021-08-26 Denied IFP 4th-amendment 6th-amendment due-process electronic-surveillance fourth-amendment impersonation law-enforcement-conduct privacy privacy-rights warrant-requirement 1. Does intercepting private electronic messages and cell phone communications without a warrant by impersonating another adult or by impersonating an…
21-5289 Gregory Moore, Individually, and on Behalf of J. M., et al. v. County of Orange, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2021-08-04 Denied IFP child-seizure civil-rights due-process federal-funds fourth-amendment fraud res-judicata rooker-feldman standing warrant-requirement A) In federal districts that recognize the Rooker-Feldman fraud exception to res judicata: Shall Rooker-Feldman be arbitrarily applied? B) Shall the …
21-5265 Terry Reed v. United States Sixth Circuit 2021-07-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment affidavit criminal-procedure fourth-amendment good-faith-doctrine good-faith-exception probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-exception warrant-requirement Whether the good faith exception to the warrant requirement extends so far as to excuse an officer's reliance upon an affidavit he drafted with the on…
20-1737 Luke Noel Wilson v. California California 2021-06-15 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) electronic-search email email-scanning fourth-amendment google law-enforcement private-search-doctrine search-warrant warrant-requirement 1. DOES THE PRIVATE SEARCH DOCTRINE PLACE GOOGLE'S AUTOMATED ELECTRONIC SCAN OF ALL EMAIL ON ITS SYSTEM OUTSIDE THE PROTECTION OF THE FOURTH AMENDMENT…
20-8014 Kelvin Baez v. United States Eighth Circuit 2021-05-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment civil-rights due-process evidence-admission exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery inevitable-discovery-doctrine police-procedure search-and-seizure unlawful-search warrant-requirement Did the Court of Appeals err in expanding the inevitable discovery doctrine to affirm the admission of evidence obtained during an unlawful search, wh…
20-7896 John Matthew Gayden, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2021-04-30 Denied IFP actual-prejudice criminal-investigation due-process fourth-amendment pre-indictment-delay prescription-drug-monitoring prescription-drug-monitoring-program search-and-seizure warrant-requirement warrantless-search I. Florida's Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP), like PDMPs across the country, is a digital database that collects and analyzes controlled s…
20-1505 Zainab Merchant, et al. v. Alejandro N. Mayorkas, Secretary of Homeland Security, et al. First Circuit 2021-04-28 Denied Amici (2) border-search border-searches digital-contraband electronic-device electronic-devices fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-suspicion warrant-requirement Does the Fourth Amendment require that searches of electronic devices at the U.S. border be conducted pursuant to a warrant based on probable cause, o…
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…
20-7651 Gonzalo Curiel v. California California 2021-04-02 Denied IFP exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery inevitable-discovery-rule police-misconduct probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-requirement warrantless-search 1. In order the apply the "inevitable discovery rule" to uphold an otherwise illegal search and seizure is it necessary for the prosecution to prove t…
20-1332 Eric D. Speidell, et al. v. United States Tenth Circuit 2021-03-24 Denied cannabis-legality civil-rights controlled-substances-act drug-law-investigation federal-preemption isr-summons standing state-legalization supremacy-clause warrant-requirement 1. Under the Supremacy Clause, does Colorado's expressly state legal sales of cannabis violate the Controlled Substances Act? 2. Did Congress, under …
20-1299 Eric S. Clark v. City of Williamsburg, Kansas Tenth Circuit 2021-03-19 Denied Response Waived castle curtilage fourth-amendment general-warrant home implied-license law-enforcement physical-intrusion search search-and-seizure warrant-requirement Should the court adopt the original meaning of the Fourth Amendment by holding that a search of a home(castle) is unreasonable when (i.e., in those in…
20-1198 Jerry Wiltz v. Texas Texas 2021-03-01 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment abandonment abandonment-doctrine cell-phone cell-phone-privacy civil-rights fourth-amendment privacy privacy-rights search-and-seizure standing warrant-requirement In the present case, a man's cell phone was searched without a warrant and the trial court ruled that the phone was abandoned and that the Defendant h…
20-7260 Al Rue Hopkins v. Florida Florida 2021-02-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment blood-draw dui dui-investigation exigency-exception exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-requirement Whether Florida statues 316.1933(1)(a) violates Petitioner's right to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures where it exigency exception to t…
20-7210 Tesfa Connell v. New York New York 2021-02-23 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment 4th-amendment-warrant-requirement community-caretaking fourth-amendment impoundment inventory-search law-enforcement-discretion standardized-criteria vehicle-impoundment vehicle-search warrant-requirement Whether the Fourth Amendment likewise mandates that standardized criteria govern an officer's antecedent decision to impound a legally and safely park…
20-982 Sharon Lynn Brown v. Polk County, Wisconsin, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-01-25 Denied Amici (2)Relisted (3) body-cavity-search civil-rights exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment pre-trial-detainee pretrial-detainee probable-cause search search-and-seizure warrant-requirement Whether the Fourth Amendment permits jail officials to conduct a physical, penetrative search of the vagina and/or anus of a pretrial detainee without…
20-6839 Henry Alexander Townsend v. Jeri Taylor, Superintendent, Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution Ninth Circuit 2021-01-12 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP absent-homeowner common-authority fourth-amendment search-and-seizure third-party-consent warrant-requirement SUBJECT TO A BLUE SCENE WARRANTLESS AT A CRONE TAEDRY PROPERTY 2 SEARCH UNDER ITN ABANDONE FIRST PROPOSED DF CAW: 2V2E UNDER ARTICLE = SECTEONL A OF T…
20-896 Teresa M. Graham v. Shannon L. Barnette, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-01-07 GVR Response RequestedRelisted (2) circuit-split community-caretaking fourth-amendment home-entry home-search qualified-immunity search-and-seizure warrant-requirement 1. WHETHER THE "COMMUNITY CARETAKING" EXCEPTION TO THE FOURTH AMENDMENT'S WARRANT REQUIREMENT EXTENDS TO THE HOME? 2. WHETHER THE "COMMUNITY CARETAKI…
20-6586 Shane Mauritz Vandergroen v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-12-09 Denied IFP 4th-amendment anonymous-tip circuit-split corroboration law-enforcement reasonable-suspicion terry-stop warrant-exception warrant-requirement 1. Police officers may stop a person under an exception to the warrant requirement only if they have reasonable suspicion to support an assertion of i…
20-6444 Ronnie Eugene Fuston v. Oklahoma Oklahoma 2020-11-27 Denied IFP cell-site-location-information fourth-amendment good-faith-exception probable-cause state-statute statutory-interpretation warrant-requirement In a pre-Carpenter v. United States case, did the state appellate court err in extending the good faith exception to the Fourth Amendment warrant requ…
20-6132 Mose B. Coffee v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2020-10-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP categorical-approach crime-of-arrest fourth-amendment probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-incident-to-arrest vehicle-search warrant-requirement Does Gant's reasonable-to-believe exception to the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement permit searches on probable cause, reasonable suspicion or a…
20-5718 Raheim Abdullah Trice v. United States Sixth Circuit 2020-09-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP apartment-building covert-surveillance fourth-amendment law-enforcement privacy-rights reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure surveillance unlawful-search warrant-requirement warrantless-search Whether a law enforcement official entering an unlocked apartment building, without permission and without a warrant, placing a "covert camera" disgui…
20-157 Edward A. Caniglia v. Robert F. Strom, et al. First Circuit 2020-08-13 Judgment Issued Amici (15)Relisted (2) community-caretaking constitutional-law fourth-amendment home home-search law-enforcement privacy-rights search-and-seizure warrant-requirement Whether the "community caretaking" exception to the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement extends to the home.
20-5290 Eric J. Perez, aka Ignacio Valdez v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-08-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment electronic-communications fourth-amendment government-agency law-enforcement seizures stored-communications-act warrant-requirement warrantless-search warrantless-searches Whether subsection (f) of the Stored Communications Act, 18 U.S.C. § 2703, which requires provider of wire or electronic communications to preserve us…
20-99 Elliott Schuchardt v. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. Third Circuit 2020-07-30 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights electronic-surveillance fourth-amendment government-overreach government-surveillance national-security privacy privacy-rights standing warrant-requirement 1. Whether Schuchardt has presented sufficient factual evidence of Defendants' bulk collection of e-mail to establish a prima facie case for violation…
20-5133 Steven Baxter v. United States Third Circuit 2020-07-22 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP border-search customs customs-border fourth-amendment suspicion-less-search unincorporated-territory united-states-virgin-islands warrant-requirement warrantless-search This case presents the interplay between two competing propositions of constitutional law. The first proposition is that the United States Virgin Isla…
20-5044 Ilya Liviz v. Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts Massachusetts 2020-07-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP attorney-obligations compelled-speech constitutional-procedure first-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech government-compulsion search-and-seizure speech-rights subpoena subpoena-law warrant-requirement 1. Can the Government compel speech without a warrant, nor a subpoena? 2. Can an attorney be held in contempt for failing to cooperate with the Govern…
19-1374 Arturo Fernando Shaw Gutierrez v. California California 2020-06-15 Denied Relisted (3) electronic-communications electronic-privacy exceptions-to-warrantless-searches fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-protection-electronic-communicati law-enforcement-search miller-doctrine privacy-rights reasonable-expectation-of-privacy stored-communications-act suppression warrant-requirement warrantless-searches Does the Fourth Amendment protect individuals who send or receive stored electronic communications (emails) as provided under federal law through the …
19-1327 Kris V. Zocco v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2020-06-01 Denied Response Waived cell-phone-search cell-phone-searches cell-phones evidence evidence-search fourth-amendment general-warrant general-warrants particularity-requirement personal-computers probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-requirement Is the Fourth Amendment's ban on general warrants violated by a warrant broadly authorizing search of the "contents" of a cell phone for unspecified "…
19-1301 Clyde S. Bovat v. Vermont Vermont 2020-05-20 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (3) 4th-amendment curtilage exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment law-enforcement probable-cause reasonable-expectation-of-privacy search-and-seizure warrant-requirement Whether a police officer can access "semiprivate" areas within a home's curtilage to conduct an investigation without a warrant.
19-8147 Romulo Murillo-Morales v. United States Second Circuit 2020-03-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-requirement Whether PETITIONER'S conviction is constitutional, where the search and seizure of the petitioner was without a warrant and probable cause in violatio…
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 …
19-7950 Daejerron L. Valentine v. Nebraska Nebraska 2020-03-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment ambiguity automobile-exception conjunctive consistency criminal-procedure Did the removal of 'or' create ambiguity? disjunctive fourth-amendment Is a defendant entitled to consistent jury instruc jury-instructions jury-trial legislative-history possession probable-cause reasonableness reasonableness-standard scope-of-search search search-and-seizure search-scope statutory-interpretation warrant-requirement warrantless-search 1) Did the warrantless search of an automobile pursuant to the automobile exception become unreasonable when police officers expanded the search beyon…
19-1057 Lori Rodriguez, et al. v. City of San Jose, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2020-02-25 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedRelisted (3) civil-rights community-caretaking constitutional-rights fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure immediate-threat issue-preclusion ripeness search-and-seizure second-amendment timely-warrant warrant-requirement 1. Whether the Fourth Amendment allows an exception to its warrant requirement for so-called "community caretaking" where the alleged danger to the co…
19-7195 Matthew Davonn Weatherspoon v. Colorado Colorado 2020-01-07 Denied IFP cell-phone-tracking civil-rights colorado-statute criminal-law due-process first-amendment fourth-amendment free-speech law-enforcement privacy-rights search-and-seizure sex-trafficking standing statutory-interpretation warrant-requirement Question not identified.
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 …
19-6267 Michael E. Goynes, Jr. v. Nebraska Nebraska 2019-10-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 4th-amendment affidavit cell-phone cell-phone-privacy crime-investigation criminal-investigation fourth-amendment nexus probable-cause search search-and-seizure search-warrant warrant-requirement Whether the Fourth Amendment prohibits the search of the content of a suspect's cell phone when the affidavit in support of the search provides no nex…
19-6193 Franklin C. Smith v. United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia Fourth Circuit 2019-10-08 Dismissed Response WaivedIFP administrative-law cell-phone-data civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law due-process equal-protection fourth-amendment incident-to-arrest judicial-review legal-procedure privacy search-and-seizure standing statutory-interpretation takings warrant-requirement g the Court to put i halt to the Intrmant systen as esteuctive and inherently Bangerons And droxen Censing the life of at jeust one aw enfoscement off…
19-6095 Charles Devan Fulton, Sr. v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-09-27 Denied IFP 4th-amendment cellphone-privacy evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception leon-good-faith-exception predicate-illegality probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant united-states-v-leon warrant-requirement Whether the Government can whitewash, via United States v. Leon, 468 U.S. 897 (1984), its predicate illegal seizure of a citizen's cellphone and salva…
19-6060 Vincent Scott Mathews v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-09-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-procedure fourth-amendment gps-monitoring parole parole-conditions reasonable-expectation-of-privacy reasonable-expectation-privacy search-and-seizure warrant warrant-requirement warrantless-search (1) Does U.S. v. Knights, 534 u.s.1 12,122 s. ct.587,151 L. ed. 2d. 497 (2001) and Griffin v. Wisconsin, 483 u.s. 868,873,107 s. ct. 3164, 971, ed. 2d…
19-5866 Jason Loera v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-09-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-split circuit-courts electronic-evidence fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-jurisprudence fourth-amendment-protections inevitable-discovery search-and-seizure state-courts technological-advances warrant-requirement 1. Are the federal circuit courts and state courts of last resort analyzing and applying the inevitable discovery doctrine in a manner eviscerating th…
19-5815 Antonio Demetrius Parker v. Virginia Virginia 2019-09-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights conviction criminal-procedure due-process exculpatory-evidence false-imprisonment jurisdiction probable-cause search-and-seizure standing warrant-requirement #1 Did the Supreme court of Virginia err when it determined that the circuit court didn't have the jurisdiction to give the petitioner the relief so…
19-272 Willie Lee Cooks v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2019-08-30 Denied Response Waived emergency-aid-exception exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment home-entry home-privacy home-search probable-cause reasonable-belief warrant-requirement warrantless-search The "physical entry of the home is the chief evil against which the wording of the Fourth Amendment is directed." Payton v. New York, 445 U.S. 573, 58…
19-202 Solomon McLemore v. City of Shoreline, Washington Washington 2019-08-16 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 4th-amendment civil-rights community-caretaking due-process fourth-amendment free-speech obstruction obstruction-of-justice probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-requirement warrantless-entry warrantless-search In the middle of the night, police officers came to McLemore's home and banged on the door, demanding entry without a warrant to investigate a loud ar…
19-5326 Sean Frederik Franke v. Florida Florida 2019-07-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment blood-draw blood-extraction civil-rights drunk-driving due-process exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment missouri-v-mcneely probable-cause warrant-requirement warrantless-search Whether the Court should resolve the following question for which the state courts are split: can law enforcement officers rely on the exigent circums…
19-21 Gregory Owens v. United States First Circuit 2019-07-03 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-protection due-process fourth-amendment law-enforcement-procedure property property-rights search search-and-seizure standing warrant warrant-requirement Does the Fourth Amendment protect a person's property from a search without a warrant?
18-9788 Sarah Denise Cardwell v. South Carolina South Carolina 2019-06-25 Denied Response WaivedIFP computer-search evidence-seizure fourth-amendment inevitable-discovery plain-view-doctrine probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant warrant-requirement warrantless-search I. Whether the Supreme Court of South Carolina erred in applying a standard of "more likely than not" in concluding under the Fourth Amendment's plain…
18-9437 In Re Steven Weste 2019-05-28 Denied IFP carpenter-v-united-states cell-site-location-information criminal-procedure exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-privacy government-subpoena privacy-rights subpoena warrant-requirement If the govennnent issued pretrial a subpoena to a defendant's cell phone provider for historical cell-site location information (CSLI) in order to fin…
18-9402 David Lester Jackson v. California California 2019-05-23 Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-rights ineffective-assistance-of-counsel probation probation-search search-and-seizure standing warrant-requirement warrantless-search I.Were:appellates Fourth Amend. rights violated when his backpack searched without a bona-fide warrant under the::auspice of probation searh of Raquel…
18-9359 Emmanuel Diaz v. New York New York 2019-05-20 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP due-process fourth-amendment pretrial-detainee pretrial-detention prison prison-security recordings search-and-seizure telephone telephone-recording telephone-recordings warrant-requirement Whether absent a warrant, notice, or suspicion the Fourth Amendment permits the government to obtain recordings of telephone conversations from pretri…
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 …
18-8758 Lamonte Diondre Gaston v. United States Ninth Circuit 2019-04-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment caretaking civil-procedure community-caretaking fourth-amendment impoundment inventory-search law-enforcement outstanding-fine warrant-requirement Can the government justify a search under the inventory search exception to the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement if no inventory log is created?
18-8500 Nickey Ardd v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-03-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review civil-rights confidential-informant due-process entrapment fourth-amendment ineffective-assistance-of-counsel search-warrant sixth-amendment warrant-requirement Consistent with this Court's decision in Roviaro v. United States, 353 U.S. at 60-61 (1963). When the disclosure of the name of confidential informant…
18-1173 I. B. and Jane Doe v. April Woodard, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-03-11 Denied Amici (7) child-abuse child-protection circuit-split constitutional-rights fourth-amendment qualified-immunity strip-search warrant warrant-requirement Petitioner I.B. was four years old when respondent Woodard, a state caseworker, strip-searched and photographed her at preschool. Woodard had neither …
18-8202 Walter Ronaldo Martinez Escobar v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-02-28 Denied IFP circuit-split eighth-circuit exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception leon-standard search-and-seizure supreme-court-precedent warrant-execution warrant-requirement warrantless-search I. Does the Eighth Circuit caselaw the Panel applied in Escobar's case holding that the United States v. Leon good-faith exception applies even when t…
18-8109 Robert Blake Adams v. Texas Texas 2019-02-22 Denied IFP 4th-amendment blood-draw criminal-procedure due-process exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment retroactive-application retroactivity texas-transportation-code warrant-requirement warrantless-search SHOULD THIS COURT'S HOLDING IN MISSOURI V McNEELY, 133 S. Ct. 1552 (2013), BE APPLIED RETROACTIVELY TO STATE CASES WHERE WITHOUT A WARRANT, AND WITHOU…
18-1084 Minnesota v. Mark Jerome Johnson Minnesota 2019-02-21 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) collateral-review constitutional-law criminal-procedure due-process dui fourth-amendment implied-consent retroactive-application retroactivity search-and-seizure warrant-requirement Is this Court's ruling in Birchfield v. North Dakota, 136 S.Ct. 2160 (2016)—that a motorist may not be criminally punished for refusing to submit to a…
18-7875 Lionel Cannon, aka Cannon v. United States Third Circuit 2019-02-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP carpenter-precedent carpenter-v-united-states criminal-procedure fourth-amendment franks-hearing law-enforcement search-and-seizure vehicle-search warrant-requirement warrantless-search wiretaps Lionel Cannon Argued in the Court below that the District Court erred in denying his motion for a Franks hearing, and that Court abused its discretion…
18-7811 Ronald Bishop Thompson v. Noah Nagy, Warden Sixth Circuit 2019-02-07 Denied Response WaivedIFP cell-phone-testimony cell-site-location cell-site-location-information criminal-procedure fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel search-and-seizure stored-communications-act warrant-requirement Did trial counsel perform ineffectively at Petitioner's second trial, when Petitioner's first trial, in which there was no mention of cell phone testi…
18-7619 Michael Scott Morris v. United States Tenth Circuit 2019-01-30 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment coercion consent criminal-procedure due-process fourth-amendment police-coercion probable-cause search-and-seizure voluntary-consent warrant-requirement Is consent to search a home freely and voluntarily given when police threaten arrest and jail if they are required to obtain a search warrant?
18-900 Philip Zodhiates v. United States Second Circuit 2019-01-11 Denied Amici (4)Response Waived carpenter-v-united-states cell-site-location-information davis-v-united-states exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment fourth-amendment-search-and-seizure good-faith-exception international-parental-kidnapping probable-cause warrant-requirement 1. Does the good faith exception to the exclusionary rule allow use at trial of CSLI illegally seized by a prosecutor prior to this Court's decision i…
18-7309 Kevin Balfour v. United States Sixth Circuit 2019-01-08 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights constitutional-rights exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment home-invasion inevitable-discovery police-procedure protective-sweep search-and-seizure warrant-requirement warrantless-search Does the inevitable-discovery doctrine unlawfully and/or improperly expand the limits of the protective sweep exception to the Fourth Amendment Right …
18-7214 Waymon Scott McLaughlin v. United States Fifth Circuit 2019-01-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP arrestee-access arrestee-rights fourth-amendment law-enforcement-procedure probable-cause search-incident-to-arrest unreasonable-search vehicle-search warrant-requirement warrantless-search Whether the Fourth Amendment permits officers to search objects carried by an arrestee without a warrant even after they have eliminated any realistic…
18-6866 Thomas Edward Sperber v. Pennsylvania Pennsylvania 2018-11-28 Denied IFP 4th-amendment cellular-phone civil-rights digital-privacy fourth-amendment privacy probable-cause search-and-seizure warrant-requirement warrantless-search DOES THE ACT OF ACCESSING ANY INFORMATION FROM A CELLULAR PHONE WITHIOUT A WARRANT CONTRAVENE THIS COURT'S DECISION,.. THE UNITEO STATES SUPREME COURT…
18-6734 Henry Franklin Reddick v. United States Fifth Circuit 2018-11-19 Denied IFP 4th-amendment child-pornography civil-rights digital-privacy digital-search fourth-amendment hash-value private-search private-search-doctrine search-and-seizure warrant-requirement I. Does a police officer violate the Fourth Amendment by opening a digital file and viewing an image in it without a warrant to confirm a private comp…
18-6702 Brandon Gale Combs v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-11-14 Denied IFP 4th-amendment appellate-review civil-rights due-process exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception leon-doctrine probable-cause search-and-seizure search-warrant warrant-requirement I. Whether it is unconstitutional to allow appellate courts to review information known to police, but unknown to the neutral and detached magistrate …
18-531 Terry Lee Coffman v. Iowa Iowa 2018-10-24 Denied Response Waived cady-v-dombrowski cady-v-drombrowski community-caretaking constitutional-law exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment immediate-need objective-facts police-assistance probable-cause reasonable-suspicion search-and-seizure warrant-requirement warrantless-seizure WHETHER THIS COURT'S HOLDING IN CADY V. DROMBROWSKI, 413 U.S. 433 (1973), PERMITS A WARRANTLESS SEIZURE UNDER THE FOURTH AMENDMENT WITHOUT OBJECTIVE F…
18-6318 Jeffrey Allen Ware v. Julie L. Jones, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2018-10-15 Denied IFP 4th-amendment constitutional-violation exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment police-misconduct search-and-seizure warrant-requirement warrantless-search Petitioner's celiphone was searched without a warrant upon his arrest and then a year later with a warrant. The illegality of a warrantless search of …
18-6210 Gerald P. Mitchell v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2018-10-04 Judgment Issued Amici (11)Relisted (2)IFP blood-draw exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment implied-consent motorist-rights search-and-seizure unconscious-motorist warrant-requirement warrantless-search In both Missouri v. McNeely and Birchfield v. North Dakota, this Court referred approvingly to "implied-consent laws that impose civil penalties and e…
18-430 Rashaud Jones v. United States Second Circuit 2018-10-03 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment automobile-exception curtilage fourth-amendment multi-family-dwelling multi-family-homes privacy privacy-expectation search-and-seizure warrant-requirement Whether, In The Context Of An Automobile Search, Dwellers In Multi-Family Homes Have A Legitimate Expectation Of Privacy In The Areas Surrounding Thei…
18-392 Aaron M. Richardson v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2018-09-27 Denied carpenter-precedent carpenter-v-united-states cell-site-location-information eleventh-circuit fourth-amendment search-and-seizure standing stored-communications-act warrant-requirement warrantless-search Whether this Court should grant, vacate, and remand the Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit's decision denying defendant's request to suppress C…
18-350 Lamar Sequan Brown v. South Carolina South Carolina 2018-09-18 Denied Response Waived abandonment abandonment-doctrine cell-phone-privacy cell-phones digital-data fourth-amendment privacy reasonable-expectation-of-privacy reasonable-expectation-privacy search-and-seizure search-warrant warrant-requirement Fourth Amendment doctrine permits police to freely search ordinary objects deemed "abandoned." No suspicion, or warrant, or exigency is required. But …
18-211 Steven Morris Hurd v. California California 2018-08-17 Denied Response Waived cell-phone cell-phone-search criminal-procedure digital-data fourth-amendment physical-objects riley-v-california robinson-precedent search-incident-to-arrest supreme-court-precedent united-states-v-robinson warrant-requirement Whether this Court's 1970s search incident to arrest precedent involving physical objects applied to non-physical objects such as digital data prior t…
18-179 John Goodman v. Florida Florida 2018-08-09 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment blood-draw drunk-driving due-process exigent-circumstances fourth-amendment missouri-v-mcneely warrant-requirement 1. Whether the Court should resolve the following question for which the state courts are split (including the Florida appellate court of last resort …
18-5526 Michael P. Lough v. United States Fourth Circuit 2018-08-09 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review court-of-appeals criminal-procedure evidence-suppression exclusionary-rule fourth-amendment good-faith-exception motion-to-suppress probable-cause search-and-seizure standard-of-review warrant-requirement Whether the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred when it affirmed the district court's denial of Lough's motion to suppress evidence?
18-5296 Todd Rasberry v. United States First Circuit 2018-07-20 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP consent fourth-amendment home-privacy home-search probable-cause search-and-seizure terry-stop terry-v-ohio warrant-requirement warrantless-search May the government circumvent a home occupant's consent by invoking Terry v. Ohio to search home and person without a warrant?