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Taurean Jerome Weber v. United States

Paid petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, No. 22-30191 · judgment February 22, 2024


Certiorari denied · October 7, 2024
Pre-decision estimate: 4% cert probability

Before the decision, roughly the 4.1% base rate. The model weighted this up for a Ninth Circuit decision below, a dissent in the court below (flagged in the petition), and a petition filed soon after the judgment below.

Questions presented

  1. Did the Court of Appeals err when it determined Instagram’s boilerplate Terms of Service delineated Petitioner’s Fourth Amendment rights and held no search occurred?

  2. Does the Fourth Amendment forbid warrantless government trespass on an individual’s digital property under the rationale of United States v. Jones, 565 U.S. 400, 406 (2012)?

  3. Did the Ninth Circuit err when it alternatively held that the good faith exception to the exclusionary rule saved suppression?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Peter Francis Lacny
Datsopoulos, MacDonald & Lind, P.C.

For respondent
Elizabeth B. Prelogar
Solicitor General

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Oct 07 2024
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Jun 12 2024
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/30/2024.
  3. Jun 10 2024
    Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
  4. May 21 2024
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due June 24, 2024)