pro-se-rights,parental-rights,minors,mootness,civil-rights,due-process

QUESTIONS PRESENTED The District Court for the Northern District of Ohio dismissed the Amended Complaint filed by Petitioner Terpsehore Maras on her personal behalf and on her daughter’s behalf against the Mayfield City School District Board of Education (“MCSD”), its Superintendent, and Board reasoning that parents cannot represent pro se their minor children. The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit affirmed dismissal of the Amended Complaint solely on the alternative ground of mootness given the Petitioner’s daughter graduated from MCSD’s high school during the pendency of the litigation. The two questions presented are: 1. Under 28 U.S.C. § 1654, do minors have pro se rights that can be asserted by their parents on their behalf based on a parent’s fundamental right to control their child’s legal claims? 2. Does the mootness doctrine bar adjudication of a claim brought by a parent when the claim of her minor daughter in the same action terminates by virtue of mootness?