No. 24-6985

R. V., Jr. v. S. V.

Lower Court: Texas
Docketed: 2025-04-14
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: court-appointed-counsel due-process fourteenth-amendment fundamental-fairness indigent-parent parental-rights
Key Terms:
DueProcess
Latest Conference: 2025-06-12
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether an incarcerated and indigent parent in a parental rights termination suit is entitled to court-appointed counsel under the Fourteenth Amendment's fundamental fairness standards articulated in Lassiter

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

Where an incarcerated and indigent parent is in a suit to terminate their parental rights, what circumstances reach the "troublesome points of law," "determinitive difference," or "fundamental fairness" thresholds announced in Lassiter for the parent to have a Fourteenth Amendment right to counsel? t. II.

Docket Entries

2025-09-05
Rehearing DENIED.
2025-08-14
DISTRIBUTED.
2025-07-07
Petition for Rehearing filed.
2025-06-16
Petition DENIED.
2025-05-28
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 6/12/2025.
2025-04-01
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due May 14, 2025)

Attorneys

R. V.
R. V. Jr. — Petitioner
R. V. Jr. — Petitioner