No. 25-553

Sossamma George Sebastin v. Sebastin Francis

Lower Court: Illinois
Docketed: 2025-11-06
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Response Waived
Tags: constitutional-rights custody-evaluation due-process equal-protection pro-se-litigant procedural-fairness
Key Terms:
DueProcess HealthPrivacy Privacy
Latest Conference: 2025-12-12
Question Presented (from Petition)

1. Whether fundamental rights guaranteed by the Constitution are violated when a court denies a pro se litigant access to a custody evaluator's report that was used to effectively terminate parenting time, impose a protective order, and mandate psychological treatment, while also denying meaningful notice and opportunity to present rebuttal, exculpatory, inculpatory and impeachment evidence?

2. Whether fundamental rights guaranteed by the Constitution are violated when a court enforces a two-tiered system of justice by denying a pro se litigant the same procedural tools and rights it granted to opposing counsel for accessing evidence and presenting a case, thereby depriving the litigant of a protected liberty or property interest?

3. Whether the use of sealed custody evaluator's report (with alleged psychological diagnosis) to justify involuntary treatment, without granting access of that report to the diagnosed party, violates HIPAA and medical privacy laws, as well as procedural due process rights?

4. Whether a state court's repeated due process violations, specifically the denial of access to sealed custody records that were used to effectively terminate parenting time, impose a protective order, and mandate psychological treatment, with the concurrent denial of meaningful notice, and opportunity to present rebuttal, exculpatory, inculpatory, and impeachment evidence, constitute a structural breakdown in judicial integrity?

5. Whether an appellate court's dismissal of a pro se parent's appeal on alleged technical grounds —without explaining the errors, without providing an opportunity to correct them, and with sanctions warnings for alleged notice of appeal defects —violates the First and Fourteenth Amendments' protections of access to courts and the right to petition by chilling good faith petitioning and precluding merits review of nonfrivolous constitutional claims?

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether fundamental rights guaranteed by the Constitution are violated when a court denies a pro se litigant access to a sealed custody evaluator's report that was used to effectively terminate parenting time and impose restrictions, while denying meaningful opportunity to present evidence

Docket Entries

2025-12-15
Petition DENIED.
2025-11-25
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 12/12/2025.
2025-11-10
Waiver of right of respondent S. F. to respond filed.
2025-10-14
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due December 8, 2025)

Attorneys

S. F.
Myra A. FoutrisFoutris Law Office, Ltd., Respondent
Sossamma George Sebastin
Sossamma George Sebastin — Petitioner