DueProcess
Did the New York courts' decisions violate the parent and his child's constitutionally protected fundamental-rights,natural-rights
QUESTIONS PRESENTED 1. Did the New York courts’ decisions to deprive : a. child’s only living natural parent of physical and ; oo legal custody of his child, while granting such to a. / : maternal non-parent relative, violate the parent and his child’s constitutionally protected fundamental and natural (as opposed to state granted) rights? 2. Is the scope of fundamental and natural rights : , a substantial constitutional issue? ; ; . : : 3. Was there “clear and convincing” evidence of : extraordinary circumstances in the record sufficient to terminate Lehmann’s parental rights at the time ; of the closing of the record?