adoption-rights

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-441 A. M. B., et al. v. Kelly J. McKnight, Presiding Judge, Circuit Court of Wisconsin, Ashland County Wisconsin 2024-10-21 Denied Amici (1)Relisted (2) adoption-rights constitutional-rights equal-protection family-law fourteenth-amendment second-parent-adoption Whether a State's categorical disqualification of unmarried people from adopting the children of their partners violates the Equal Protection Clause o…
24-5035 In Re Lionel Bailey 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…
23-6782 R. R. v. West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources, Child Protective Services, et al. West Virginia 2024-02-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP 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…