No. 20-7799

Susan W. Vaughan v. Shannon Foltz, et al.

Lower Court: Fourth Circuit
Docketed: 2021-04-20
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
Response WaivedIFP
Tags: civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process familial-association family-law fourth-amendment liberty-deprivation qualified-immunity standing state-statute
Key Terms:
DueProcess Privacy JusticiabilityDoctri
Latest Conference: 2021-06-17
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Is Troxel v Granville correctly applied to a case that has nothing to do with grandparents' visitation requests, but is used, nevertheless, as grounds to deny a custodial, in loco parentis grandmother's constitutional right of familial association?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

No question identified. : IV. RULE 14: 1(a) QUESTIONS 1. Is Troxel v Granville correctly applied to a case that has nothing to do with grandparents’ visitation requests, but is used, nevertheless, as grounds to deny a custodial, in loco parentis grandmother's constitutional right of familial association? 2. Should violations of state statutes that mirror federal laws and were enacted specifically : to protect U.S. Constitutional Due Process rights be dismissed, just because they involve state laws? 3. Is it unconstitutional to limit liberty deprivations caused by harm to a person’s reputation only to deprivations that are employment-related? 4. When government agents; through false allegations, along with due process and other violations, damage a citizen’s reputation and then, themselves, use the court-recorded defamations they create to further deprive that person of constitutionally protected liberties, should they be exempt from liability just because they didn’t widely publicize the stigmatizing records they created? 5. ts procuring an order, alone, sufficient authority for social workers to invade an individual’s privacy if it doesn’t meet the first requirement of the Fourth Amendment protection, i.e. the right to protection against unreasonable searches and seizures?” 6. Should immunity protections extend to social services agents whenever they fabricate evidence and/or violate procedural due process and other clearly established state and federal laws enacted to protect constitutional rights—even when performing ministerial duties? 7. Should a sheriff who unlawfully interferes with the delivery of legally subpoenaed documents be blanketly protected from a civil rights lawsuit? 8. Should police officers who forcibly enter a home, without any semblance of a warrant or order, be protected from liability just because Plaintiff was unable to initially procure the officers’ names, using Officer Doe 1, etc, in the initial filing? ii V. RULE 14 1.(b) i

Docket Entries

2021-08-23
Rehearing DENIED.
2021-07-29
DISTRIBUTED.
2021-06-30
Petition for Rehearing filed.
2021-06-21
Petition DENIED.
2021-06-02
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 6/17/2021.
2021-05-19
Waiver of right of respondents Officer Mike Sudduth; Officer Carl White to respond filed.
2021-05-06
Supplemental brief of petitioner Susan W. Vaughan filed.
2021-02-25
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due May 20, 2021)

Attorneys

Officer Mike Sudduth; Officer Carl White
Dan McCord Hartzog Jr.Hartzog Law Group LLP, Respondent
Susan W. Vaughan
Susan Wells Vaughan — Petitioner