| 25-54 |
David Lynn Richards, Jr. v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2025-07-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
adoption criminal-procedure due-process ministerial-status sexual-abuse wrongful-conviction |
Whether a business owner and minister wrongfully convicted of sexually abusing an adopted child can challenge his conviction based on claims of innoce… |
| 24-5035 |
In Re Lionel Bailey |
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2024-07-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
adoption adoption-rights child-custody civil-rights court-procedure due-process family-law illegitimate-child parental-notice parental-rights putative-father standing |
Whether the superior court of Brooks County limited the scope of the putative father's right to notice, hearing, and consent in the adoption of his il… |
| 23-6056 |
Talthia Sorbel v. South Dakota, ex rel. South Dakota Department of Social Services, et al. |
South Dakota |
2023-11-20 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
adoption civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission family judicial-review standing |
Whether the lower court erred in denying the petitioner's request to present new evidence in the case |
| 23-161 |
Megan Kathryn Sullivan v. Amanda Marie Seaton |
Georgia |
2023-08-18 |
Denied |
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14th-amendment adoption child-custody due-process family-law fourteenth-amendment judicial-review parental-rights step-parent-adoption termination-of-rights |
Does a State violate a fit mother's 14th Amendment due process rights? |
| 22-1017 |
Sheila Mikel v. Jennifer Nichols, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-04-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
adoption civil-rights due-process foster-care liberty-interest notice-of-removal parental-rights procedural-due-process standing |
Whether a pre-adoptive foster mother has a constitutionally protected liberty interest right to procedural due process |
| 22-516 |
R. M. C., III v. J. D. L. |
Colorado |
2022-12-05 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
adoption adoption-law child-welfare civil-rights custody custody-order due-process family-law parental-rights state-jurisdiction state-power |
Whether a state may require an adoptive parent to comply with a custody order issued prior to his adoption of the child without due process |
| 21-955 |
Khristy Goins Rismiller, Tutrix for Daniel Edward Goins, et al. v. Gemini Insurance Company, et al. |
Louisiana |
2021-12-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
adoption adoption-law biological-classification civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection intermediate-scrutiny levy-v-louisiana wrongful-death |
Do children given in adoption have a constitutional right to sue for the wrongful death of their biological parent and siblings under the 14th Amendme… |
| 20-1386 |
Dale Sawyer Eisele v. The Estate of Joseph Brodie Smith |
New Hampshire |
2021-04-02 |
Denied |
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adoption adoption-law civil-rights dna-paternity due-process exhumation exhumation-request family-rights legal-interpretation pretermitted-heir probate standing |
Did interpreting this matter by using current adoption laws lead to a comprehension error that was detrimental to this case? |
| 20-849 |
P. F. v. J. S., et al. |
Kansas |
2020-12-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
adoption adoption-law biological-parenthood constitutional-standard due-process evolving-family-landscape family-dynamics family-rights gender-assumptions liberty-rights parental-rights |
Can the 'biology-plus' standard still be considered constitutional when it can no longer be justly applied? |
| 20-452 |
S. S., Mother v. D. S., et al. |
Pennsylvania |
2020-10-08 |
Denied |
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14th-amendment adoption amish-education best-interest-of-the-child best-interest-standard child-welfare constitutional-protections due-process equal-protection fundamental-liberty-interest parental-rights |
Termination of parental rights-constitutionality |
| 20-236 |
Jerry W. Wells v. Robbin Nelson, et al. |
Kentucky |
2020-08-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
adoption civil-rights constitutional-rights custody due-process family-law federal-law jurisdiction uccjea |
Can an original decree state, using the UCCJEA, deny the jurisdiction of a sister state during an adoption proceeding |
| 19-1190 |
Samuel H. Sloan v. Creighton W. Sloan, et al. |
South Carolina |
2020-04-01 |
Denied |
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adoption adoption-status asset-confiscation biological-son dna-testing due-process estate estate-distribution estate-inheritance familial-rights judicial-review probate-court probate-jurisdiction standing |
Must the courts reopen the case where the entire assets of the deceased have been confiscated by an unofficially adopted child, and must the estate be… |
| 19-7738 |
H. K. V. v. Florida Department of Children and Families, et al. |
Florida |
2020-02-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
adoption civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-habeas-corpus standing state-court-proceedings |
Whether the state courts erred in denying the petitioner's claims of due process and equal protection violations in the adoption proceedings |
| 19-6250 |
Father v. Maternal Grandparents |
Ohio |
2019-10-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
adoption adoption-consent civil-rights criminal-conviction due-process family-law fourteenth-amendment incarceration parental-rights statutory-interpretation statutory-law |
Whether incarcerated parents have a due-process right to consent to adoption of their children under the Fourteenth Amendment |
| 18-8542 |
S. N., et al. v. San Diego Health and Human Services Agency, et al. |
California |
2019-03-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
adoption child-welfare due-process family-finding-and-engagement family-notification family-separation foster-care grandparents-aunt-uncles-sibling-parent-of-sibling medical-best-interests notification permanency relative-placement |
Is it legal for an Agency to proceed to adopt a toddler out of her biological family when the record contains no written notification to any of her pa… |
| 18-7383 |
Jennifer Feldman v. Adoption Star Agency, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-11 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment adoption adoption-fraud adoption-law adoption-proceedings child-welfare civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process family-bonds family-separation jurisdictional-challenge standing |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit Court erred in denying jurisdiction over the District Court's decision, in light of this Court's precedents recognizing t… |
| 18-376 |
Lisa Partin, et vir v. Michigan Children's Institute |
Michigan |
2018-09-24 |
Denied |
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administrative-law adoption arbitrary-and-capricious best-interest best-interest-factors child-protective-services civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process family-law michigan-adoption-code parental-rights standing |
whether-michigan-adoption-code-mcl-710.45-violates-due-process |
| 18-5798 |
C. B. v. Thomas N. Fischgrund |
Florida |
2018-08-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
adoption adoption-law civil-rights civil-rights-deprivation constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fraud fraud-allegations negligence notary-misconduct notary-public |
Should the Supreme Court of Florida decline to accept jurisdiction? |