| 24-90 |
William Crouch, in His Official Capacity as Cabinet Secretary of the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources, et al. v. Shauntae Anderson, Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-07-29 |
GVR |
affordable-care-act equal-protection gender-dysphoria medicaid-act medical-coverage non-discrimination sex-discrimination transgender-status |
Whether West Virginia violated the Equal Protection Clause by declining to cover surgical treatments for gender dysphoria |
| 23-6782 |
R. R. v. West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources, Child Protective Services, et al. |
West Virginia |
2024-02-20 |
Denied |
adoption-rights child-abuse child-neglect child-welfare constitutional-rights due-process expedient-measures family-disintegration family-law grandparental-standing state-legislation |
Has disintegration of the traditional family leading to substantial increases in child neglect and abuse cases caused agencies dealing with these matt… |
| 23M60 |
R. R. v. West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources, Child Protective Services, et al. |
West Virginia |
2024-01-30 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 23-770 |
John Doe v. Bill Crouch, in His Official Capacity as Cabinet Secretary of the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-01-17 |
Denied |
constitutional-challenge equal-protection federal-jurisdiction jurisdiction redressability rooker-feldman standing state-court |
Does Rooker-Feldman bar jurisdiction when declaring a statute unconstitutional would undermine a state court's reliance upon the statute? |
| 23A244 |
John Doe v. Bill Crouch, in His Official Capacity as Cabinet Secretary of West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-09-14 |
Presumed Complete |
birth-certificates equal-protection fourteenth-amendment gestational-surrogacy parental-rights sex-discrimination |
Whether a state statute that presumes maternity based solely on gestation and refuses to recognize biological mothers as legal mothers when children a… |
| 22M57 |
R. B., et ux. v. West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources, et al. |
West Virginia |
2022-12-19 |
Presumed Complete |
None |
|
| 22-5175 |
A. W. v. West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources |
West Virginia |
2022-07-25 |
Denied |
abuse-of-power adoption-proceedings child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process family-integrity family-preservation federal-adoption-act guardian-ad-litem perjury |
Whether the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals abided by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Sixth Amendment to the United States Co… |
| 22-12 |
D. H. v. West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources, et al. |
West Virginia |
2022-07-05 |
Denied |
14th-amendment burden-of-proof child-welfare due-process parental-rights state-intervention |
Whether the termination of a natural mother's parental rights based on her refusal to confess to allegations when the state bears the burden of proof … |
| 20-1823 |
K. S. v. West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources |
West Virginia |
2021-07-01 |
Denied |
14th-amendment appellate-procedure civil-procedure court-timeframe due-process good-cause notice-of-appeal procedural-fairness state-supreme-court |
Whether a due process violation under the 14th Amendment exists when a State Supreme Court refuses to permit the docketing of a late notice of appeal |
| 19-7721 |
Machelle Parsons v. Ashton McDaniel, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-02-21 |
Denied |
Child-protective-services-investigation child-support child-welfare civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eleventh-amendment Eleventh-Amendment-immunity family-law guardian-ad-litem Guardian-ad-litem-liability jurisdiction parental-rights Parental-rights-termination social-security-disability standing Termination-order-access |
Does the court have jurisdiction over the parties in the case to mandate services to families if there were no finding of neglect. No adjudicatory hea… |
| 19-7659 |
Ashley Rios, et vir v. West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources |
West Virginia |
2020-02-14 |
Denied |
abuse-neglect abuse-or-neglect child-custody due-process expert-witness foster-placement indian-child-welfare-act knowing-waiver parental-rights qualified-expert-witness statutory-interpretation waiver |
May a court deny a petition to invalidate a foster placement proceeding under the Indian Child Welfare Act when no qualified expert witness testified,… |
| 18-9531 |
Lan Deyerle v. West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources |
West Virginia |
2019-06-04 |
Denied |
civil-procedure constitutional-provisions due-process jurisdiction standing statutory-interpretation statutory-provisions supreme-court-rules |
Whether the court should grant an out-of-time petition for writ of certiorari |
| 18-7030 |
S. R. v. West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources, et al. |
West Virginia |
2018-12-14 |
Denied |
child-custody civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process family-law judicial-bias judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct judicial-recusal procedural-fairness recusal standing |
Whether the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals erred in reversing the lower court's decision in favor of the petitioner |