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Raymond Dugan v. United States

IFP petition · United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, No. 22-4642 · judgment May 1, 2025


Certiorari denied · October 6, 2025

Questions presented

  1. Did the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals construe the "Joint-Venture” doctrine too narrowly to comply with constitutional protections?

  2. Should the procedure the Fourth Circuit Courts followed in evaluating probable cause to an affidavit for search, of information provided by a known foreign law enforcement agency, been applied at a higher standard to comply with the Fourth Amendment?

  3. Did the Fourth Circuit frame Supreme Court precedents at too high a level of generality and fail to properly apply the reasoning of those holdings to their decisions?

  4. Should the Supreme Court update the instructions of Gates and Leon to better contend with modern invasive technology, and the dubious expant ion of elusive supranational law enforcement it empowers?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Raymond Dugan

For respondent
D. John Sauer
Solicitor General

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 2 conferences

Proceedings

  1. Dec 08 2025
    Rehearing DENIED.
  2. Nov 12 2025
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 12/5/2025.
  3. Oct 23 2025
    Petition for Rehearing filed.
  4. Oct 06 2025
    Petition DENIED.
  5. Aug 28 2025
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/29/2025.
  6. Aug 21 2025
    Waiver of right of respondent United States to respond filed.
  7. Jul 29 2025
    Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due September 11, 2025)