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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: 12% cert probability (95% interval 7%–18%)

Before the decision, about 2.8× the 4.1% base rate. The model weighted this up for a circuit split argued in the petition, a Ninth Circuit decision below, and a petition citing three to ten dissents.

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

Subject area
Criminal Procedure (estimated from the questions presented, in the Supreme Court Database’s categories)

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Order
Order list, October 7, 2024 · Certiorari denied

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)