child-abuse
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25A1021 | R. S., a Minor Child, By His Next of Friend and Legal Guardian, V. H., et al. v. Susan Hickey, et al. | Sixth Circuit | 2026-03-17 | Application | child-abuse child-protective-services civil-rights deliberate-indifference qualified-immunity section-1983 | Question not identified. | |
| 25-6944 | Thomas Tso v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2026-03-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-abuse criminal-procedure due-process kidnapping sexual-abuse statute-of-limitations | A "statute of limitations reflects a legislative judgment that, after a certain time, no quantum of evidence is sufficient to convict. Stogner v. Cali… |
| 25-5458 | Andrew Jackson McCauley, Jr. v. West Virginia | West Virginia | 2025-08-25 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | change-of-venue child-abuse first-degree-murder human-remains k-9-testimony motion-for-directed-verdict | Question I). Did the trial court commit reversible error by denying Petitioner's Motion for Change of Venue? Question II). Did the trial court commit… |
| 23-7550 | In Re Kinley MacDonald | 2024-05-23 | Denied | IFP | child-abuse due-process family-rights federal-review habeas-corpus hearsay ineffective-assistance jurisdiction post-conviction-relief protective-custody state-court-jurisdiction | Before we Court is of matter inveluirae Lnabused Children kra€icked rata aster Care by hearsay , Causiry, ierepairable. hacen, The motter SueCered exp… | |
| 23-6829 | Edward Joseph Parson v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2024-02-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-abuse child-sexual-abuse credibility evidence-rule-702 expert-testimony jury-determination jury-role prosecutorial-discretion prosecutorial-evidence witness-credibility | In a prosecution for aggravated child sexual abuse in which the alleged victim has inconsistently reported abuses, may the prosecution present expert … |
| 23-6792 | In Re Kinley MacDonald | 2024-02-21 | Denied | IFP | abstention child-abuse child-custody child-welfare civil-rights due-process family-law parental-rights standing state-court-jurisdiction | Question not identified. | |
| 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 | 1) Has disintegration of the traditional family leading to substantial increases in child neglect and abuse cases caused agencies dealing with these … |
| 23-6119 | Amanda Lyn Walker v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-11-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-abuse constitutional-vagueness criminal-statute cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process enabling-child-abuse judicial-discretion sentencing-range statutory-interpretation unconstitutionally-vague | 1. Whether a criminal statute with a sentencing range of not exceeding one year imprisonment in a county jail or not exceeding life imprisonment at th… |
| 23-5566 | Scott A. Anthony v. United States | Third Circuit | 2023-09-13 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 3rd-circuit 4th-circuit 8th-circuit child-abuse circuit-split criminal-procedure federal-criminal-law interstate-commerce sexually-explicit-conduct statutory-interpretation visual-depiction | The Child Abuse Victims Right Act of 1986 led to the passage of 18 USC § 2251(a) which prohibits the knowing possession of videos and any other matter… |
| 23-5413 | Christopher Ray Lipska, aka Christopher Ray Hare v. Oregon | Oregon | 2023-08-23 | Denied | IFP | child-abuse child-sexual-abuse criminal-procedure evidence evidence-admissibility judicial-discretion prior-convictions sentencing sentencing-proportionality sexual-abuse | 1) In an ECSA and unlawful contact with a trial, does a trial court abuse its OEC 401, 402, 403 discretion by allowing the state to present evidence t… |
| 23-5216 | Kinley MacDonald v. Michael A. Duddy, et al. | First Circuit | 2023-07-26 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | child-abuse constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction foster-care hearsay interstate-crime jurisdiction parental-rights standing witness-tampering | Before a Court in a matter involving unabused Children trafficked into Foster Care, by hearsay, Causing irreparable harm. The mother suffered expected… |
| 23-5105 | Russell Garvis Griffith, Jr. v. United States | Tenth Circuit | 2023-07-14 | Denied | IFP | child-abuse circuit-split evidence-rule-803(4) hearsay hearsay-exception household-abuse medical-diagnosis medical-treatment rule-803(4) witness-testimony | Whether a party seeking to admit an out-of-court statement pursuant to Rule 803(4) must show that the speaker subjectively knew that the identity of t… |
| 22-7317 | Rosa V. v. Ali H. | California | 2023-04-19 | Denied | IFP | child-abuse civil-rights confrontation-clause criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-law hearsay-exception medical-records out-of-court-statements sixth-amendment | In Our "ShorvG4u* l'tFyMW(ii)Oo5*r'i T prt-sented TVi* .Mtentit- OMvfMd (Vib/^ i/USdod-iau Of pecenis iflfoEi/itUnck- jwtyii, yw+U diSisq^kTH c..!,:^ … |
| 22-702 | Joseph D. Rued v. Catrina M. Rued | Minnesota | 2023-01-27 | Denied | child-abuse child-custody due-process evidence family-law judicial-discretion sexual-abuse standard-of-review therapist-testimony | Without a full presentation of the facts, did the District Court's affirmative conclusion that sexual abuse had not occurred deny due process to both … | |
| 22-311 | Michael Vechery v. Florence Cottet-Moine | Virginia | 2022-10-03 | Denied | Relisted (2) | child-abuse child-custody child-neglect child-visitation due-process family-court fourteenth-amendment parental-rights protective-order | 1. Does the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment require, in a child custody and visitation proceeding, that a state family court may not i… |
| 20-1687 | Jules Dylan Stuer v. Susan Duesler | Texas | 2021-06-04 | Denied | amicus-attorney child-abuse child-custody civil-rights constitutional-provisions defamation due-process fraud standing victim-rights | 1. Is an AMICUS Attorney allowed to side with someone who damages a child repeatedly, perjures themselves in Civil Court numerous times, and defrauds … | |
| 20-8130 | Jasma McCullough v. Shaylonda Herron, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2021-05-25 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment child-abuse child-abuse-investigation due-process medical-diagnosis procedural-due-process procedural-rights substantive-due-process substantive-rights | 1. Whether a child abuse investigator can give a medical diagnosis/opinion to the court without a Doctors opinion to remove a child. 2. Whether unau… |
| 20-7917 | Miriam Lowell, et al. v. Vermont Department for Children and Families, et al. | Second Circuit | 2021-05-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-abuse constitutional-rights cross-examination due-process pre-deprivation-hearing substantiation substantiation-process younger-abstention | 1. Is a State's child abuse substantiation process sufficiently akin to a criminal proceeding such that it is subject to Younger abstention when a par… |
| 20-7672 | James Michael Garcia v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-04-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | assault child-abuse criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process guilty-plea plea-bargaining sentencing serious-bodily-injury | WHETHER, AFTER A DEFENDANT PLEADS GUILTY TO FELONY CHILD ABUSE, THE GOVERNMENT MAY STILL PURSUE A CHARGE OF ASSAULT RESULTING IN SERIOUS BODILY INJURY… |
| 20-5756 | Chen Xu v. City of New York, New York | Second Circuit | 2020-09-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 42-usc-1983 administrative-abuse child-abuse child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-court due-process family-court substantive-rights | After a diagnosis and an assigned test in Weill Cornell hospital, petitioner Chen Xu's eight years old son urinate blood for two weeks. The hospital t… |
| 19-6125 | Francis G. Hernandez v. Ronald Davis, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2019-10-02 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review child-abuse criminal-procedure diminished-capacity habeas-corpus head-injuries ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-illness ninth-circuit prejudice-analysis strickland-standard strickland-v-washington | 1. Counsel admitted that he did not know that his chosen defense, diminished capacity, could be based upon mental illness. As a result, counsel never … |
| 19-5701 | Daniel Brian Masson v. Florida | Florida | 2019-08-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment 5th-amendment appellate-review child-abuse child-pornography child-sexual-performance constitutional-rights due-process falsified-transcripts motion-to-suppress search-warrant | Petitioner has been convicted of violating Florida Statute 827.071 (5) (a) (2016), which is classified as a child abuse offense involving child sexual… |
| 19-5019 | Jennifer Perez v. Paul Grant Dwyer | Florida | 2019-07-01 | Denied | IFP | child-abuse child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights disability disability-discrimination due-process judicial-abuse judicial-bias parental-alienation parental-rights | Are people with disabilities more likely to be protected or discriminated when regarding parental stigma by, the Guardian ad Litem, as well as the Fat… |
| 18-9620 | Christopher J. Miller v. Joel Martinez, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2019-06-13 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-abuse civil-rights criminal-law due-process emotional-harm legal-precedent mental-health non-sexual-touch prosecutorial-misconduct restitution | Like unknown numbers of American citizens, petitioner is unfortunately a pedophile. Seizing upon that fact, the prosecutor vilified the defendant for … |
| 18-1173 | I. B. and Jane Doe v. April Woodard, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2019-03-11 | Denied | Amici (7) | child-abuse child-protection circuit-split constitutional-rights fourth-amendment qualified-immunity strip-search warrant warrant-requirement | Petitioner I.B. was four years old when respondent Woodard, a state caseworker, strip-searched and photographed her at preschool. Woodard had neither … |
| 18-986 | Sara Huckaby, et al. v. Frank Halley, as Next Friend of J. H., a Minor Child | Tenth Circuit | 2019-01-29 | Denied | Response Waived | child-abuse child-welfare civil-rights due-process forensic-interview law-enforcement-procedure prosecutor-directives qualified-immunity search-and-seizure state-statute statutory-interpretation | An Oklahoma social worker and two law enforcement officers investigating child abuse allegations contributed to the brief removal of a minor child fro… |
| 18-5911 | Manuel Lampon-Paz v. Department of Justice, et al. | Third Circuit | 2018-09-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | case-redaction child-abuse child-abuse-neglect child-abuse-or-neglect court-of-appeals fair-trial federal-procedure minor-plaintiff minor-protection ongoing-case ongoing-federal-case plaintiff-rights redaction trial-fairness | 1) Whether a plaintiff can have his case redacted in accordance with laws and regulations about disclosure if; it contains information about a minor t… |