best-interest

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-5005 Daniel Scott Robinson v. Supreme Court of Hawaii Hawaii 2024-07-03 Denied Response WaivedIFP age-of-majority best-interest best-interests burden-of-proof constitutional-challenge due-process family-law federal-funding state-sovereignty How can a state enact 'best interest' laws in family courts when it has abandoned jurisdiction and sovereignty by accepting federal grant funding?
23-5866 James Allen Brickley, Jr. v. Marie Laurence Gloria Joseph-Stephen Texas 2023-10-24 Denied IFP best-interest best-interest-standard civil-procedure due-process evidentiary-sufficiency judicial-discretion parental-rights pro-se-litigation standing termination termination-proceedings Sufficiency of evidence to terminate parental rights
20-8207 Bernier Gerard Jackson v. Florida Florida 2021-06-02 Denied IFP best-interest constitutional-rights criminal-defense criminal-procedure effective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining plea-offer professional-responsibility right-to-counsel sixth-amendment Whether the Sixth Amendment right to the effective assistance of counsel requires counsel to advise his client to accept a plea offer which is clearly…
18-376 Lisa Partin, et vir v. Michigan Children's Institute Michigan 2018-09-24 Denied 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