| No. 16-402 | |
| Title: | Timothy Ivory Carpenter, Petitioner v. United States |
| Docketed: | September 28, 2016 |
| Lower Ct: | United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit |
| Case Numbers: | (14-1572) |
| Decision Date: | April 13, 2016 |
| Rehearing Denied: | June 29, 2016 |
| Questions Presented | |
| Date | Proceedings and Orders |
| Sep 26 2016 | Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due October 28, 2016) |
| Oct 21 2016 | Order extending time to file response to petition to and including November 28, 2016. |
| Oct 28 2016 | Brief amici curiae of Electronic Frontier Foundation, et al. filed. |
| Oct 28 2016 | Brief amicus curiae of Cato Institute filed. |
| Nov 21 2016 | Order further extending time to file response to petition to and including December 28, 2016. |
| Dec 15 2016 | Order further extending time to file response to petition to and including January 27, 2016. |
| Jan 27 2017 | Brief of respondent United States in opposition filed. |
| Feb 10 2017 | Reply of petitioner Timothy Ivory Carpenter filed. |
| Feb 15 2017 | DISTRIBUTED for Conference of March 3, 2017. |
| Feb 23 2017 | Rescheduled. |
| Mar 22 2017 | DISTRIBUTED for Conference of April 13, 2017. |
| Apr 17 2017 | DISTRIBUTED for Conference of April 21, 2017. |
| Apr 24 2017 | DISTRIBUTED for Conference of April 28, 2017. |
| May 08 2017 | DISTRIBUTED for Conference of May 11, 2017. |
| May 15 2017 | DISTRIBUTED for Conference of May 18, 2017. |
| May 22 2017 | DISTRIBUTED for Conference of May 25, 2017. |
| May 30 2017 | DISTRIBUTED for Conference of June 1, 2017. |
| Jun 05 2017 | Petition GRANTED. |
| Jun 22 2017 | The time to file the joint appendix and petitioner's brief on the merits is extended to and including August 7, 2017. |
| Jun 22 2017 | The time to file respondent's brief on the merits is extended to and including September 25, 2017. |
| Jul 11 2017 | Consent to the filing of amicus curiae briefs in support of either party or neither party received from counsel for the petitioner. |
| Jul 12 2017 | Motion for leave to proceed further herein in forma pauperis filed by petitioner Timothy I. Carpenter. |
| Jul 12 2017 | Motion to appoint counsel filed by petitioner Timothy I. Carpenter. |
| Jul 26 2017 | Consent to the filing of amicus curiae briefs in support of either or neither party received from counsel for the respondent. |
| Aug 02 2017 | DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/25/2017. |
| Aug 07 2017 | Joint appendix filed. |
| Aug 07 2017 | Brief of petitioner Timothy I. Carpenter filed. |
| Aug 11 2017 | Brief amici curiae of Data & Society Research Institute and Fifteen scholars of Technology and Society filed. |
| Aug 11 2017 | Brief amici curiae of Competitive Enterprise Institute, et al. filed. |
| Aug 14 2017 | Brief amici curiae of Technology Companies in support of neither party filed. |
| Aug 14 2017 | Brief amicus curiae of Center for Democracy and Technology filed. |
| Aug 14 2017 | Brief amici curiae of Electronic Privacy Information Center, et al. filed. |
| Aug 14 2017 | Brief amicus curiae of The Rutherford Institute filed. |
| Aug 14 2017 | Brief amici curiae of The Center for Competitive Politics, et al. filed. |
| Aug 14 2017 | Brief amici curiae of Empirical Fourth Amendment Scholars filed. |
| Aug 14 2017 | Brief amici curiae of Scholars of the History and Original Meaning of the Fourth Amendment filed. |
| Aug 14 2017 | Brief amici curiae of The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, et al. filed. |
| Aug 14 2017 | Brief amicus curiae of Restore the Fourth, Inc. filed. |
| Aug 14 2017 | Brief amici curiae of Institute for Justice, et al. filed. |
| Aug 14 2017 | Brief amici curiae of Electronic Frontier Foundation, et al. filed. |
| Aug 14 2017 | Brief amici curiae of Scholars of Criminal Procedure and Privacy filed. |
| Aug 14 2017 | Brief amici curiae of United States Justice Foundation, et al. filed. |
| Aug 14 2017 | Brief amici curiae of Technology Experts filed. |
| Sep 25 2017 | Brief of respondent United States filed. |
| Sep 29 2017 | Brief amicus curiae of Michael Varco filed. |
| Oct 02 2017 | Motion for leave to proceed further herein in forma pauperis granted by the Court |
| Oct 02 2017 | Motion to appoint counsel filed by petitioner GRANTED and Harold Gurewitz, Esquire, of Detroit, Michigan, is appointed to serve as counsel for the petitioner in this case. |
| Oct 02 2017 | Brief amici curiae of Alabama, et al. filed. |
| Oct 02 2017 | Brief amicus curiae of Professor Orin S. Kerr filed. |
| Oct 02 2017 | Brief amicus curiae of National District Attorneys Association filed. |
| Oct 06 2017 | SET FOR ARGUMENT ON Wednesday, November 29, 2017 |
| Oct 12 2017 | CIRCULATED |
| Oct 18 2017 | Record requested from the U.S.C.A. 6th Circuit. |
| Oct 23 2017 | Record received from the U.S.C.A. 6th Circuit is electronic. |
| Oct 24 2017 | Reply of petitioner Timothy I. Carpenter filed. (Distributed) |
| Nov 29 2017 | Argued. For petitioner: Nathan F. Wessler, New York, N. Y. For respondent: Michael R. Dreeben, Deputy Solicitor General, Department of Justice, Washington, D. C. |
| Jun 22 2018 | Judgment REVERSED and case REMANDED. Roberts, C. J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan, JJ., joined. Kennedy, J., filed a dissenting opinion, in which Thomas and Alito, JJ., joined. Thomas, J., filed a dissenting opinion. Alito, J., filed a dissenting opinion, in which Thomas, J., joined. Gorsuch, J., filed a dissenting opinion. |
| Jul 24 2018 | JUDGMENT ISSUED. |
| NAME | ADDRESS | PHONE |
| Attorneys for Petitioner | ||
| Harold Gurewitz Counsel of Record | Gurewitz and Raben, PLC 333 West Fort St., Suite 1400 Detroit, MI 48226 hgurewitz@grplc.com | 313-628-4733 |
| Party name: Timothy I. Carpenter | ||
| Nathan F. Wessler | ACLU Foundation 125 Broad Street New York, NY 10004 nwessler@aclu.org | (212) 549-2500 |
| Party name: Timothy Ivory Carpenter | ||
| Attorneys for Respondent | ||
| Noel J. Francisco Counsel of Record | Solicitor General United States Department of Justice 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20530-0001 SupremeCtBriefs@USDOJ.gov | 202-514-2217 |
| Party name: United States | ||
| Other | ||
| Amitabh Agarwal Counsel of Record | Office of the Attorney General PL-1, The Capitol Tallahassee, FL 32399 Amit.Agarwal@myfloridalegal.com | (850) 414-3000 |
| Party name: The States of Alabama, et al. | ||
| John M. Castellano Counsel of Record | 125-01 Queens Boulevard Kew Gardens, NY 11415 jmcastellano@queensda.org | 718-286-5801 |
| Party name: National District Attorneys Association | ||
| Andrew Gellis Crocker Counsel of Record | Electronic Frontier Foundation 815 Eddy Street San Francisco, CA 94109 andrew@eff.org | 415-436-9333 |
| Party name: Electronic Frontier Foundation, et al. | ||
| James W. Harper Counsel of Record | Competitive Enterprise Institute 1310 L St., NW, 7th Fl. Washington, DC 20005 jim.harper@cei.org | 202-331-1010 |
| Party name: Competitive Enterprise Institute, et al. | ||
| Dorothy Alicia Hickok Counsel of Record | Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP One Logan Square Philadelphia, PA 19103 alicia.hickok@dbr.com | (215)-988-2700 |
| Party name: The Rutherford Institute | ||
| Wesley Patrick Hottot Counsel of Record | Institute for Justice 600 University Street Suite 1730 Seattle, WA 98101 whottot@ij.org | 206-957-1300 |
| Party name: Institute for Justice, et al. | ||
| Orin S. Kerr Counsel of Record | 2000 H Street, NW Washington, DC 20052 okerr@law.gwu.edu | (202) 994-4775 |
| Party name: Professor Orin S. Kerr | ||
| Robert Jeffrey Olson Counsel of Record | William J. Olson, P.C. 370 Maple Avenue West, Suite 4 Vienna, VA 22180-5615 wjo@mindspring.com | 703-356-5070 |
| Party name: United States Justice Foundation, et al. | ||
| Andrew John Pincus Counsel of Record | Mayer Brown LLP 1999 K Street, NW Washington, DC 20006 apincus@mayerbrown.com | (202) 263-3000 |
| Party name: Center for Democracy & Technology | ||
| Marc Rotenberg Counsel of Record | Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) 1718 Connecticut Ave., NW Suite 200 Washington, DC 20009 rotenberg@epic.org | 202-483-1140 |
| Party name: Electronic Privacy Information Center, et al. | ||
| Harry Sandick Counsel of Record | Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP 1133 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10036 hsandick@pbwt.com | (212) 336-2000 |
| Party name: Scholars of Criminal Procedure and Privacy | ||
| Sarah O'Rourke Schrup Counsel of Record | Northwestern Supreme Court Practicum 357 East Chicago Ave. Chicago, IL 60611 s-schrup@law.northwestern.edu | (312)-503-0063 |
| Party name: Empirical Fourth Amendment Scholars | ||
| Andrew David Selbst Counsel of Record | Data & Society Research Institute 36 W. 20th Street, 11th Fl. New York, NY 10011 andrew@datasociety.net | 617-504-1982 |
| Party name: Data & Society Research Institute and fifteen scholars of technology and society | ||
| Mahesha Padmanabhan Subbaraman Counsel of Record | Subbaraman PLLC 222 S. 9th St., Suite 1600 Minneapolis, MN 55402 mps@subblaw.com | 612-315-9210 |
| Party name: Restore the Fourth, Inc. | ||
| Michael Anthony Varco Counsel of Record | P.O. Box 2548 Reston, VA 20195 m_varco@yahoo.com | 703-635-7903 |
| Party name: Michael Varco | ||
| Seth P. Waxman Counsel of Record | Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP 1875 Pennsylvania Ave, NW Washington, DC 20006 seth.waxman@wilmerhale.com | (202) 663-6000 |
| Party name: Technology Companies in support of neither party | ||
| Alexander Abraham Abdo | Knight First Amendment Institute, Columbia University 535 West 116th Street 314 Low Library New York, NY 10027 alex.abdo@knightcolumbia.org | 212-854-9600 |
| Party name: Technology Experts | ||
| Gorod Brianne | Constitutional Accountability of the Fourth Amendment 1200 18th Street, NW Suite 501 Washington, DC 20036 brianne@theusconstition.org | 292-296-6889 |
| Party name: Scholars of History and Original Meaning of the Fourth Amendment | ||
| Bruce D. Brown | The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press 1156 15th St., NW Suite 1250 Washington, DC 20005 bbrown@rcfp.org | 202-795-9300 |
| Party name: The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, et al. | ||
| Allen Joseph Dickerson | Center for Competitive Politics 124 S. West Street Suite 201 Alexandria, VA 22314 adickerson@campaignfreedom.org | (703)-894-6800 |
| Party name: The Center for Competitive Politics, et al. | ||
| James W. Harper | Cato Institute 1000 Massachuetts Ave., N.W. Washington, DC 20001 jharper@cato.org | (202) 842-0200 |
| Party name: Cato Institute | ||
| Jennifer Lynch | Electronic Frontier Foundation 815 Eddy Street San Francisco, CA 94109 jlynch@eff.org | (415)-436-9333 |
| Party name: Electronic Frontier Foundation, et al. | ||