No. 20-8130

Jasma McCullough v. Shaylonda Herron, et al.

Lower Court: Fifth Circuit
Docketed: 2021-05-25
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: 14th-amendment child-abuse child-abuse-investigation due-process medical-diagnosis procedural-due-process procedural-rights substantive-due-process substantive-rights
Key Terms:
DueProcess FourthAmendment
Latest Conference: 2021-09-27
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether a child abuse investigator can give a medical diagnosis/opinion to the court without a Doctors opinion to remove a child

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

Questions Presented 1. Whether a child abuse investigator can give a medical diagnosis/opinion to the court without a Doctors opinion to remove a | child. 2. Whether unauthorized practice of Medicine violates both Procedural | and Substantive Due Process | | 3. | Whether the District and Appellate courts can determine if /when drugs have been used without seeking the opinion of a Medical Review Officer/Expert when removing a child. 4, Whether simply notifying a parent of a child abuse allegation satisfy | the 14th Amendment Procedural Due Process requirements when removing a child. | 5. Whether a child abuse investigator relying on an uncorroborated } | allegation and testifying that it is “known knowledge of facts” | violates the 14» Amendment Substantive Due Process Clause. } 6. Whether a child abuse investigator can give a false testimony in effort to remove a child if probable cause exists for any other reason. | | ee e e | 7, Whether a child abuse investigator withholding exculpatory evidence constitute perjury by omission and violate the 14 Amendment Substantive and Procedural Due Process Clause. 8. Whether a court could accept a disputed affidavit used to remove a child in a prior proceeding as true and correct without requiring evidence. oe Be

Docket Entries

2021-10-04
Petition DENIED.
2021-07-08
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/27/2021.
2021-05-17
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due June 24, 2021)

Attorneys

Jasma McCullough
Jasma McCullough — Petitioner