No. 25-5026

C. M. C. v. Texas Department of Family and Protective Services

Lower Court: Texas
Docketed: 2025-07-03
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: child-protective-services counsel-effectiveness dependency-proceeding due-process fourteenth-amendment parental-rights
Key Terms:
DueProcess
Latest Conference: 2025-09-29
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment requires effective assistance of counsel in a dependency proceeding where parental rights were terminated without demonstrating parental unfitness

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

1. Did Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment embody Petitioner with the effective assistance of counsel in initial dependency proceeding where appointment of counsel was not appointed, the appointed counsel was not effective through the entire litigation of the proceedings and the District Court permanently and irrevocably terminated her parental rights, adopted her child over the objections of the mother without demonstrating that Petitioner is unfit to care for her child before parental rights were terminated and the State of Texas presenting clear and convincing evidence to support their claim of parental unfitness?

Docket Entries

2025-10-06
Petition DENIED.
2025-08-21
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/29/2025.
2025-03-17
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due August 4, 2025)
2025-01-27
Application (24A732) granted by Justice Alito extending the time to file until March 17, 2025.
2025-01-04
Application (24A732) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from January 16, 2025 to March 17, 2025, submitted to Justice Alito.

Attorneys

C.M.C.
C. M. C. — Petitioner
C. M. C. — Petitioner