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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25A617 | George Cleveland, III v. South Carolina Department of Social Services | South Carolina | 2025-11-25 | Application | child-custody due-process family-court parental-rights social-services writ-of-certiorari | Whether a family court's denial of a writ of certiorari in a child custody or dependency proceeding comports with due process and parental rights | |
| 25-6150 | Cristina M. Lancranjan v. Superior Court of California, San Diego County, et al. | California | 2025-11-18 | Denied | IFP | child-custody due-process educational-status-quo first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion | 1. Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment is violated when a state court, without a full evidentiary hearing on the child's best … |
| 25A430 | Juliana Sloto v. Christian Karvelid | First Circuit | 2025-10-15 | Presumed Complete | child-custody habitual-residence hague-convention international-law irreparable-harm parental-intent | Whether a child's habitual residence under the Hague Convention can be modified by parental actions demonstrating shared intent to change jurisdiction… | |
| 25A376 | Samantha Estefania Francisco Castro v. Jose Leonardo Brito Guevara | Fifth Circuit | 2025-10-02 | Application | child-custody circuit-split hague-convention international-law parental-abduction supreme-court-review | Whether the Supreme Court should recognize a circuit split regarding the interpretation of the Hague Convention's provisions on child custody and inte… | |
| 25-230 | Carina Conerly, et al. v. Sharif R. Tarpin, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2025-08-27 | Denied | child-custody constitutional-procedure first-amendment judicial-discretion school-access videotaping-rights | Whether a State Judge can constitutionally ban a parent from videotaping public interactions during child custody exchanges and school-related matters | |
| 25-89 | Jonathan Lee, et al. v. Poudre School District R-1 | Tenth Circuit | 2025-07-23 | Denied | Amici (3)Relisted (2) | best-interests child-custody due-process parental-rights school-district state-intervention | Whether a school district may discard the presumption that fit parents act in the best interests of their children and arrogate to itself the right to… |
| 25-59 | Joseph Very Sherman, Individually, and as Biological Father, Next Friend, and Natural Guardian of H. M. S., J. C. S., and M. R. S., Minor Children, et al. v. Louis R. Lerner, former Judge, Circuit Court of Virginia, City of Norfolk | Virginia | 2025-07-16 | Denied | child-custody due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment liberty-interests parental-rights | Do the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments require pre-deprivation due process before a court enters a child custody order that infringes fundamental libe… | |
| 25-5066 | Danielle Sposito v. Linda Rollins-Threats | Texas | 2025-07-09 | Denied | IFP | 42-U.S.C.-§-1988 child-custody civil-rights judicial-immunity malicious-actions parent-facilitator | Whether a parent facilitator was entitled to judicial immunity when the actions she took in a child custody case were done maliciously and in excess o… |
| 25-11 | Margaret M. FitzGerald v. Michael Alan Knaub, et al. | Pennsylvania | 2025-07-02 | Denied | Response Waived | abuse-prevention child-custody constitutional-rights domestic-violence family-law judicial-malfeasance | Whether the systemic failure of judicial and medical professionals to address domestic violence and child custody issues constitutes a violation of co… |
| 24-7518 | Samuel Lee Smith, Jr. v. Natasha Katherina Smith | Florida | 2025-06-26 | Dismissed | IFP | appellate-review best-interest-standard child-custody judicial-discretion motion-denial timesharing | Whether the trial court's denial of unsupervised timesharing was improper due to lack of specific findings of fact or conclusions of law |
| 24-1226 | S. G. S. v. S. F. | Illinois | 2025-06-03 | Denied | Response Waived | child-custody due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure parental-rights | Whether a state court may completely remove a parent's constitutionally protected right to the care, custody, and control of their child through a hea… |
| 24-7312 | Leavon Z. Reeves v. Oluchi Akunne | Maryland | 2025-05-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment adoption-fraud child-custody due-process social-worker-misconduct witness-testimony | Whether the district court erred in dismissing the case involving alleged adoption fraud and fraudulent testimony by a social worker that prevented th… |
| 24-6877 | Amanda M. v. Illinois | Illinois | 2025-03-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof child-custody constitutional-rights due-process hearsay-evidence parental-rights | Can a state terminate a parent's constitutional right to raise her child based solely on hearsay evidence, where the state's burden of proof at a fitn… |
| 24-6708 | Grace Wilson Marshall v. Benjamin Ryan Caudill | Kentucky | 2025-03-05 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-custody domestic-violence federal-law jurisdiction protective-order uccjea | Whether a domestic violence victim's temporary protective order provides sufficient legal protection for her and her children under federal and state … |
| 24-888 | Richard R., et al. v. Daniel Washburn, et al. | Arizona | 2025-02-19 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | child-custody due-process fraud-allegation judicial-review jurisdictional-challenge void-judgment | Did the courts err in failing to review and address lower court findings that judgments were 'devoid of competent evidence'? |
| 24-6570 | Andrew Jeffery Helmin v. Yuemin Xu | Minnesota | 2025-02-14 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | child-custody constitutional-law due-process equal-protection icwa-principles native-american-rights | Did the Minnesota courts violate the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses by prioritizing Respondent's cultural background … |
| 24-848 | Anne Catherine Richard v. Eric John Horacius | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-02-10 | Denied | child-custody circuit-split habitual-residence international-law monasky-standard well-settled-defense | Whether the Eleventh Circuit's habitual-residence analysis conflicts with the Supreme Court's standard in Monasky v. Taglieri by disregarding a child'… | |
| 24A756 | Elizabeth Anne Fitzgibbon v. Adam Paul Fitzgibbon | Wisconsin | 2025-02-04 | Presumed Complete | child-custody constitutional-rights due-process family-law jurisdictional-boundaries pro-se | Whether a pro se litigant's constitutional rights are violated when state family court proceedings restrict a parent's ability to effectively represen… | |
| 24-6440 | Jondrew LaChaux v. Eighth Judicial District Court of Nevada, Clark County, et al. | Nevada | 2025-01-31 | Denied | IFP | child-custody due-process family-law guardianship procedural-fairness right-to-counsel | Whether the Nevada Supreme Court's interpretation of child custody and guardianship proceedings violates due process rights and the right to assistanc… |
| 24A725 | Natalia Dalton v. Julio Lacayo | Fourth Circuit | 2025-01-24 | Presumed Complete | child-custody due-process federal-question liberty-interest parental-rights supremacy-clause | Whether a state court's child custody and support proceedings violate a parent's fundamental liberty interest in child-rearing when the proceedings al… | |
| 24-664 | Joseph Rued v. Catrina Rued | Minnesota | 2024-12-19 | Denied | child-custody constitutional-rights due-process judicial-doctrine parental-rights state-court-discretion | Do state courts have discretion to misapply judicial doctrine in supersession of clear Constitutional requirements under U.S. Const. Amend. XIV §1, re… | |
| 24-662 | Richard Rynn, Next Friend and Parent of M. R., a Minor v. Gregory A. McKay, Individually and in His Official Capacity as the Director of the Arizona Department of Child Safety, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-12-19 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | child-custody constitutional-rights deprivation-of-rights due-process ex-parte-injunction state-action | Whether state agencies and private behavioral health centers can deprive parental rights through ex parte injunctions and false reports without due pr… |
| 24-6004 | In Re Aliyah Monroe | 2024-11-20 | Denied | IFP | child-custody due-process emergency-order-of-protection jurisdiction parental-rights uniform-child-custody-jurisdiction-enforcement-act | Whether a state court's child custody determination violates due process and jurisdictional requirements when modifying an out-of-state emergency orde… | |
| 24A415 | Richard Rynn, et al. v. Daniel Washburn, et al. | Arizona | 2024-10-29 | Presumed Complete | child-custody constitutional-rights due-process ex-parte-injunction parental-rights state-court | Whether a state court can issue an ex parte child custody injunction without notice when there is no showing of imminent harm to the child | |
| 24-425 | Jesse Rehbein, et al. v. Annette Rehbein, et al. | Montana | 2024-10-16 | Denied | Amici (1) | best-interest-standard child-custody due-process fourteenth-amendment parental-rights parenting-plan | Whether a state statute allowing court-ordered parental interest without finding parental unfitness violates due process rights under the Fourteenth A… |
| 24-390 | Anthony Patterson v. Asli Baz | Seventh Circuit | 2024-10-08 | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | child-custody hague-convention international-law party-autonomy treaty-interpretation waiver-rights | Whether parties to a Hague Convention child custody case may waive rights to seek child return and resolve disputes exclusively in the United States |
| 24-315 | Troy Pasulka v. Saraa Doris Lee | California | 2024-09-19 | Denied | child-custody constitutional-rights custody-order domestic-violence due-process equal-protection | Whether a state appellate court violates constitutional due process and equal protection by disregarding mandatory custody procedures and evidence of … | |
| 24-141 | S. M. v. R. R. C. | New Jersey | 2024-08-07 | Denied | child-custody family-law judicial-review parental-fitness strict-scrutiny visitation-rights | Whether the 'fitness of the parent' is the appropriate test in determining child custody and reasonable visitation, and whether 'strict scrutiny' is t… | |
| 24-79 | James W. A. Jackson v. Kelly K. Fitzgerald | Rhode Island | 2024-07-25 | Denied | child-custody due-process evidentiary-hearing hcch-1996 international-treaty personal-jurisdiction simultaneous-proceedings subject-matter-jurisdiction uccjea | Does a defense of UCCJEA 'Simultaneous Proceedings' become moot when one and not all proceedings is dismissed? | |
| 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… | |
| 24-22 | Lauren N. Stone v. Theodore Worner, et al. | Pennsylvania | 2024-07-09 | Denied | Response Waived | child-custody due-process fourteenth-amendment fundamental-rights grandparent-visitation harm-to-child parental-rights strict-scrutiny | Does Pennsylvania's Child Custody Act violate a fit parent's due-process-rights, |
| 23-1295 | Linnzi Zaorski v. Nicholas Usner | Louisiana | 2024-06-12 | Denied | child-custody civil-contempt civil-procedure contempt-of-court criminal-contempt criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment preponderance-of-evidence purge-clause reasonable-doubt suspended-sentence suspension-of-sentence | Due-process-clause-violation | |
| 23-7633 | Deanne R. Upson Giese v. William Earl Wallace, III | Maryland | 2024-06-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-custody civil-rights constitutional-protections due-process equal-protection equal-rights-amendment free-speech interstate-jurisdiction interstate-relations parent-child parental-rights | Have the states of Maryland, District of Columbia, and Virginia violated the rights of this Mother and Child under the United States Constitution? |
| 23-1244 | Samuel Collin Robinson v. Katherine Lyman Freeman, fka Katherine Lyman Robinson | Colorado | 2024-05-28 | Denied | Relisted (2) | best-interest-of-the-child best-interest-standard child-custody constitutional-rights divorce-law due-process equal-protection family-law parental-rights parenting-time | Does disparate allocation of parenting time under a best interest statute violate equal protection when both parents are equally fit? |
| 23-7548 | In Re Kinley MacDonald | 2024-05-23 | Dismissed | IFP | child-custody child-welfare civil-rights due-process family-law hearsay hearsay-evidence judicial-misconduct jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge parental-rights state-statute | Can a trial court open and remove children in a 'protective custody' case based solely on hearsay accusations prohibited by state statute and in absen… | |
| 23-7549 | In Re Kinley MacDonald | 2024-05-23 | Dismissed | IFP | child-custody child-welfare due-process family-rights hearsay hearsay-evidence judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction parental-rights standard-of-review state-court-procedure | Whether a state court can remove children from a parent's custody based solely on hearsay allegations prohibited by state statute, in the absence of j… | |
| 23-7551 | In Re Kinley MacDonald | 2024-05-23 | Dismissed | IFP | best-interests child-custody constitutional-rights due-process family-law judicial-discretion | Would a state court's refusal to intervene on behalf of a child in a custody dispute violate due process rights and the child's best interests? | |
| 23-1170 | Franck William Yao v. Tamara Yao | Missouri | 2024-04-30 | Denied | best-interest-of-child best-interest-standard child-custody civil-procedure dual-citizenship expert-witness family-law judicial-consideration state-court testimony | Whether the state courts erred in using Petitioner's dual-citizenship-status as consideration in their final-judgment | |
| 23-7137 | Diana Ingrid Reismann Sexton v. Gilbert Sexton | Texas | 2024-04-04 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment child-custody constitutional-rights due-process hague-convention judicial-recusal jus-cogens mistake-of-law pro-se-litigant recusal | Can a state district judge be removed from a child-custody case for violation-of-due-process-clause, 14th-amendment, when the judge omits exception-28… |
| 23-7092 | Kinley MacDonald v. Michael Duddy, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2024-03-28 | Dismissed | IFP | child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process family-law foster-care hearsay parental-rights state-agency | Can a state court prohibit a family's statutory right to communicate, visit, and reunify solely based on hearsay accusations? |
| 23-964 | Filip Hanik v. Teresa Hanik | Washington | 2024-03-05 | Denied | Response Waived | 14th-amendment child-custody constitutional-rights due-process family-law parental-rights vitek-v-jones youngberg-v-romeo | May a state court order a transfer of child custody by cloaking it as 'therapy'? |
| 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 | Whether state residents can be prohibited from intervening in child custody cases based solely on hearsay accusations, while the same state is involve… | |
| 23-6760 | In Re Kinley MacDonald | 2024-02-15 | Dismissed | Relisted (2)IFP | child-custody child-welfare civil-rights due-process family-law judicial-procedure jurisdiction parental-rights standing state-intervention | Can a State Trial Court open a CHINS proceeding against Defendant without the pre-requisite family/dating/household relationship + persistent conduct … | |
| 23-6762 | In Re Kinley MacDonald | 2024-02-15 | Dismissed | Relisted (2)IFP | abuse-neglect child-custody civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process family-law parental-rights standing state-intervention | Whether a state trial court can open a PFA proceeding against a defendant without the requisite family/household relationship and persistent conduct r… | |
| 23-6646 | Dana Albrecht v. Katherine Albrecht | New Hampshire | 2024-02-01 | Denied | IFP | child-custody civil-procedure civil-rights domestic-violence due-process equal-protection family-law fourteenth-amendment parental-rights | Whether the Fourteenth Amendment requires a timely hearing on the enforcement of a child custody decree |
| 23-6604 | Nicole Johnson v. Massachusetts Department of Children and Families | Massachusetts | 2024-01-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 7th-amendment best-interests child-custody due-process jury-trial massachusetts-rule-38 parental-rights sua-sponte termination termination-of-parental-rights | Whether the petitioner's right to due process and 7th amendment right and Massachusetts rule 38 Jury Trial of Right was violated |
| 23A617 | Yi Tai Shao v. John Roberts, Jr., et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2024-01-03 | Presumed Complete | bar-license child-custody due-process judicial-conspiracy procedural-irregularity void-order | Whether due process requires vacating a state bar license suspension based on a purported order lacking notice, hearing, and jurisdictional validity | |
| 23-6398 | Imre Kifor v. Massachusetts, et al. | First Circuit | 2023-12-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection executive-order federal-funding separation-of-powers sovereign-immunity | Is the mandate to selectively 'advance equity' (for a select few) Constitutional? |
| 23A568 | Deanne R. Upson Giese v. William Earl Wallace, III | Maryland | 2023-12-19 | Presumed Complete | child-custody constitutional-rights equal-rights-amendment gender-discrimination parental-rights strict-scrutiny | Whether the Equal Rights Amendment requires strict scrutiny for gender-based discrimination claims involving child custody and parental rights | |
| 23-6215 | D. E. v. Russell County Department of Human Resources | Alabama | 2023-12-11 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | biological-parent child-custody clear-and-convincing-evidence dependency-proceedings due-process ore-tenus-rule parental-rights substantive-due-process | Whether the State violates the Due Process Clause when it assumes initial custody of a child from an involved biological parent utilizing dependency p… |
| 23-581 | Joey D. Thompson v. Asia Thompson | Tennessee | 2023-11-30 | Denied | child-custody family-law interstate-jurisdiction jurisdiction minor minor-rights parens-patriae parental-rights state-authority | Does the State of Tennessee have jurisdiction over the minor child 'A. T.'? | |
| 23-6035 | In Re Kinley MacDonald | 2023-11-16 | Dismissed | Relisted (2)IFP | child-custody civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection family-law hearsay parental-rights standing state-federal-relations | Can a judge of two appeal courts open a child protective custody case based solely on hearsay accusations prohibited by state law, then set bail/bond … | |
| 23-450 | M. C., et vir v. Indiana Department of Child Services | Indiana | 2023-10-30 | Denied | Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) | 14th-amendment child-custody due-process first-amendment free-exercise free-speech parental-rights prior-restraint | Whether a prior restraint barring a religious parent's speech about the topic of sex and gender with their child while allowing and even requiring spe… |
| 23-451 | Geoffrey Hamilton Woodward v. Sarah Edge Woodward | Tennessee | 2023-10-30 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | can condition a fit parent's ability to have any consistent with the Due Process Clause child-custody compelling-interest due-process family-court family-law medical-treatment mental-health parental-rights state-interest state-intervention | Whether a court can condition a fit parent's ability to have any contact with his child on unwanted medical treatment without finding that the treatme… |
| 23-5831 | Roberto Carlos Mendives, Individually and On Behalf of His Four Minor Children, R. C. M., II, M. A. M., G. L. M., and E. F. M. v. Bexar County, Texas, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2023-10-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-custody civil-rights due-process family-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment parens-patriae parental-rights standing strict-scrutiny | Whether this court should overrule the fact that the state court has separated a fit parent from his/her minor children without an adjudication hearin… |
| 23-353 | John Jones v. Lyudmyla Pyankovska | Ninth Circuit | 2023-10-03 | Denied | Response Waived | attorney-liability child-custody custody-proceeding first-amendment omnibus-crime-control omnibus-crime-control-and-safe-streets-act recording-liability recordings right-to-petition title-iii | Does the First Amendment right to petition the government extend to insulate an attorney from liability under the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Stree… |
| 23-161 | Megan Kathryn Sullivan v. Amanda Marie Seaton | Georgia | 2023-08-18 | Denied | 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? | |
| 23-152 | Alicia Lowe, et al. v. Janet T. Mills, Governor of Maine, et al. | First Circuit | 2023-08-16 | Denied | Can a court judgment be entirely untrue and violat child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process ex-parte legal-standing parental-rights preemption religious-accommodation supremacy-clause title-vii undue-hardship | Whether compliance with state laws directly contrary to Title VII's requirement to provide a reasonable accommodation may serve as an undue hardship j… | |
| 23-153 | Richard Rynn, Next Friend and Parent of M. R., a Minor v. David Lujan, Individually and in His Official Capacity as the Director of the Arizona Department of Child Safety, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2023-08-16 | Denied | Response Waived | child-custody civil-rights color-of-law constitutional-rights contract custody due-process judicial-authorization parental-rights | Does court err omitting facts, dismissing Defendants that kidnapped child, interfered in legal custody, interfered in parental-rights, with actions-un… |
| 23-5234 | Cheryl Kristy Jenkins v. Mark Joseph Tengowski | Pennsylvania | 2023-07-28 | Denied | IFP | child-custody civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process judicial-immunity judicial-misconduct protective-orders recusal standing | Is it a violation of the Constitution for a judge to evaluate their own judge recusal and if they do should the case be vacated? |
| 23-5184 | Kinley MacDonald v. Lea-Anne Sutton, Judge, District Court of Maine, et al. | First Circuit | 2023-07-25 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | appellate-review child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process family-law family-rights hearsay-evidence judicial-misconduct jurisdiction standing | Can a final court open and remove children in protective custody case based solely on hearsay evidence prohibited by state statute in secret and in ab… |
| 23A32 | M.C., et vir v. Indiana Department of Child Services | Indiana | 2023-07-13 | Presumed Complete | child-custody first-amendment free-speech fundamental-liberty-interest parental-rights prior-restraint | Whether a state court order removing a child from parental custody and enjoining parents from discussing transgenderism with their child violates the … | |
| 23-5064 | Joseph Chandler Davall v. Warren L. Montgomery, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2023-07-10 | Denied | IFP | child-custody confrontation-clause constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure custody-dispute due-process evidence hearsay judicial-procedure legal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation | Whether the admission of a child's out-of-court statements violates the Confrontation Clause |
| 22-1204 | William Muhr v. Dawna Braswell | Colorado | 2023-06-13 | Denied | Relisted (2) | child-custody conflict-of-interest due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-assignment judicial-bias judicial-disqualification parental-rights | Whether Petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment rights to due-process,equal-protection were violated when Colorado allowed disqualified,prejudiced Chief Jud… |
| 22-1205 | Brian D. Skattum v. Devan Collomy | Maine | 2023-06-13 | Denied | 14th-amendment 5th-amendment child-custody civil-rights criminal-case criminal-procedure divorce-proceeding due-process family-law fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment self-incrimination | Can a parent be penalized in a divorce/custody case for exercising 5th/14th Amendment rights in a related criminal case? | |
| 22-7611 | George Cunningham v. Maria Quinn, et vir | Sixth Circuit | 2023-05-22 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment becker-v-montgomery child-custody civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure icara material-evidence notice-of-appeal standing | Should the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit have accepted a corrected notice of appeal involving failure to sign, in conflict with… |
| 22-1051 | Ronald Simon, et ux. v. Wayne Janke, et al. | Washington | 2023-04-28 | Denied | child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights custody due-process equal-protection fraud jurisdiction racial-discrimination standing | Whether the State Courts have the inherent power or jurisdiction to allow a white couple, or any person, to proceed in court to gain custody of a chil… | |
| 22-7003 | Justin Melton v. Jared Perry, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2023-03-14 | Denied | IFP | child-custody civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights contempt due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-jurisdiction petition-for-writ | Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated when the child was denied habeas corpus relief and the petitioner was held in contempt fo… |
| 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 | Whether the District Court's affirmative conclusion that sexual abuse did not occur denied due process to the father and child | |
| 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 | Does the Due Process Clause require a finding of child abuse or unfitness to terminate all parent-child contact? |
| 22-5175 | A. W. v. West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources | West Virginia | 2022-07-25 | Denied | IFP | 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… |
| 22-28 | Yi Tai Shao v. Tani Cantil-Sakauye, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of California, et al. | California | 2022-07-08 | Denied | Relisted (2) | child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech habeas-corpus prefiling-order standing | Does May 17, 2022 Order of California Supreme Court violate the First Amendment, Fifth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment |
| 21-1588 | Susan Spell v. Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services | California | 2022-06-24 | Denied | child-custody civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment fraud racial-discrimination writ-of-error-coram-vobis | Does a trial court violate the Equal Protection clause when it bases a child custody order on a racially discriminatory theory? | |
| 21-7515 | Paula Antonia Gordon v. Leslie Nelson Parker, et al. | Louisiana | 2022-03-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bench-warrant child-custody contempt dna-testing due-process equal-protection family-court human-trafficking judicial-misconduct order-of-appeal | Did the family court judge commit human-trafficking,violate-equal-protection,violate-due-process,find-grandmother-guilty-of-contempt,issue-bench-warra… |
| 21-1212 | Linsay Lorine Gatsby, nka Linsay Lorine Wallace v. Kylee Diane Gatsby | Idaho | 2022-03-07 | Denied | Relisted (2) | child-custody civil-rights due-process equal-protection family-law fundamental-rights parental-rights same-sex-marriage | Whether both members of a same-sex married couple have the same fundamental right as opposite-sex married couples to participate in the care, custody,… |
| 21-1205 | Eric E. v. Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services | California | 2022-03-03 | Denied | child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process family-law jury-trial mootness-doctrine parental-rights standing state-action | Whether a parent has a constitutional right to a jury trial in a child custody proceeding initiated by the state | |
| 21-7248 | John Garcia v. Melissa Robinson | Arizona | 2022-03-02 | Denied | IFP | child-custody constitutional-rights court-order due-process evidence judicial-bias judicial-determination parental-rights parenting-plan trial-procedure | Does a judge's pre-determination on the record prior to reviewing the evidence at trial violate a constitutional right to due process? |
| 21-7107 | Nina Lynn Nowlan v. Bruce Gerald Randall Nowlan | Fourth Circuit | 2022-02-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-custody civil-procedure fourth-circuit habitual-residence hague-convention international-law parental-rights wrongful-removal | Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred as a matter of law by affirming the district court's ruling that Canada had be… |
| 21-1088 | Jose Luis Alvarez v. Gabriel Pinon | Washington | 2022-02-07 | Denied | Response Waived | best-interest-standard child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights custody-determination due-process family-law family-life fundamental-liberty-interest parental-rights standing | Whether the state court erred by looking to the best interest of the child as the basis for granting nonparental custody when it is insufficient to ov… |
| 21-1045 | I. M. v. Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services, et al. | Maryland | 2022-01-26 | Denied | Response Waived | child-custody due-process forum-shopping international-law jurisdiction minimum-contacts parental-rights uccjea | Whether the UCCJEA comports with the Due Process Clause, where it subjects an international parent to termination of parental rights, where the parent… |
| 21-6782 | A. M., aka A. G. v. Colorado, In the Interest of J. G. and C. G., Children | Colorado | 2022-01-10 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | best-interest-of-child best-interest-standard child-custody constitutional-rights due-process family-law fundamental-liberty fundamental-rights non-parent-standing parental-rights standing | Whether it infringes on a fit parent's fundamental constitutional rights to, in the absence of clear and convincing evidence of unfitness or harm caus… |
| 21-931 | Ameenah Salaam v. Jeffrey Allen McAuley | California | 2021-12-23 | Denied | 14th-amendment amendment-xiv child-custody civil-rights constitutional-violation custody-change due-process petition physical-custody state-courts superior-court | Did the Superior Court of California, County of Sacramento violate the United States Constitution, Amendment XIV right to due process of Ms. Salaam wh… | |
| 21-6413 | Betty Caitlin Nicole Smith v. Honorable Jason Fleming, et al. | Kentucky | 2021-11-24 | Denied | IFP | child-custody court-procedure domestic-violence domestic-violence-order federal-law jurisdiction truthfulness uniform-act uniform-child-custody-and-jurisdiction-and-enforce | Whether a state court can enter a child custody order without contacting the other state with an existing order, ignoring the Uniform Child Custody an… |
| 21-525 | Hemant Bhimnathwala v. New Jersey State Judiciary, et al. | Third Circuit | 2021-10-08 | Denied | Relisted (2) | child-custody disparate-impact due-process equal-custody equal-protection family-law fourteenth-amendment obergefell-v-hodges statute-of-limitations | Does the Fourteenth Amendment require a presumption of equal, joint custody of children in child custody proceedings? |
| 21-5882 | Jessica W. v. Administration for Children's Services | New York | 2021-10-04 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 14th-amendment child-custody constitutional-rights due-process evidence family-court fourteenth-amendment parental-rights procedural-error | Did the New York County Family Court meet due process and evidence standards in their determinations against the petitioner in disposition of two conj… |
| 21-378 | Texas v. Deb Haaland, Secretary of the Interior, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2021-09-08 | Judgment Issued | Relisted (5) | anti-commandeering anticommandeering child-custody child-custody-proceedings commerce-clause equal-protection indian-child-welfare-act indian-commerce-clause nondelegation nondelegation-doctrine | Whether Congress has the power under the Indian Commerce Clause or otherwise to enact laws governing state child-custody proceedings merely because th… |
| 21-380 | Chad Everet Brackeen, et al. v. Deb Haaland, Secretary of the Interior, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2021-09-08 | Judgment Issued | Relisted (5) | adoption-preferences child-custody child-placement congress-authority congressional-authority federalism indian-child-welfare-act racial-discrimination state-law state-sovereignty | Whether ICWA's placement preferences violate the U.S. Constitution by disadvantaging non-Indian adoptive families on the basis of race |
| 21-5621 | In Re Patrick Disanto | 2021-09-08 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | abuse-allegations child-custody civil-rights conflict-of-interest disability-rights due-process family-law judicial-bias judicial-hearing-officer parental-rights standing | Does the judicial hearing officer possess the ability to view the complicated case from a non-biased perspective, without expressing his own misogyny … | |
| 21-141 | Jaimee Carole Finley v. Jon Mark Finley | California | 2021-08-03 | Denied | 14th-amendment child-custody constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection family-court parental-rights state-discretion | Whether the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment requires that parents have an automatic 50/50 share in parental time and responsibility abse… | |
| 21-5197 | T. A. S., Father of R. A. S., a Minor Child v. Florida Department of Children and Families | Florida | 2021-07-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-custody civil-rights due-process ex-parte family-association no-contact-order parental-rights termination-of-parental-rights termination-of-rights | Is there any way possible that a permanent 'No Contact Order' sanctioned against BOTH my son and I since Sept. 2015 coupled with the maternal half sis… |
| 21-87 | Jeffrey Angelo Campbell v. Sylvia Betta-Cole, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2021-07-22 | Denied | Response Waived | 14th-amendment child-custody civil-rights due-process family-law federal-jurisdiction parental-rights section-1983 state-court-jurisdiction state-courts | Whether a parent has a right to visitation and a case plan when there is no proof of life-threatening issues |
| 21-5075 | Elizabeth Shaw v. Derek Shaw | Michigan | 2021-07-12 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | child-custody due-process equal-protection federal-statute icwa jurisdiction-challenge mifpa tribal-law | Whether the Supreme Court will order the immediate return of the children to their mother, Elizabeth Shaw, in violation of court orders, ICWA, MIFPA, … |
| 21-32 | Elizabeth C. v. Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services | California | 2021-07-09 | Denied | child-custody clear-and-convincing-evidence due-process fourteenth-amendment parental-rights santosky-v-kramer state-intervention termination-of-parental-rights | Whether the Fourteenth Amendment due process requirement articulated in Santosky v Kramer requires a finding of parental unfitness by clear and convin… | |
| 20-1718 | Samuel H. Sloan v. Maria Childress, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2021-06-11 | Denied | Response Waived | child-custody interstate-custody judicial-immunity judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction new-york parental-rights religious-freedom supreme-court third-parties virginia | Where may a family court take jurisdiction over a child custody case |
| 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 | Whether an amicus attorney is allowed to side with someone who damages a child repeatedly, perjures themselves in civil court, and defrauds the opposi… | |
| 20-1627 | S. S., et al. v. S. B. | Pennsylvania | 2021-05-21 | Denied | Amici (3) | child-custody content-based content-based-restriction first-amendment free-press free-speech gag-order overbreadth prior-restraint vagueness | Is such a 'gag order' an unconstitutionally vague and overbroad prior restraint and content-based restriction violating Petitioners' First Amendment f… |
| 20-1516 | Veronica V. Badescu v. Catalin S. Badescu | Ohio | 2021-04-29 | Denied | best-interest-standard child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process family-law parental-rights standing state-interest vagueness | Precisely what constitutes a compelling state interest justifying deprivation of a fit parent's—and primary right to legal and physical custody of her… | |
| 20-968 | R. M. S. v. Madison County Department of Human Resources | Alabama | 2021-01-15 | Denied | child-custody due-process equal-protection federal-statute federal-statutory-notice grandparent-rights social-service-agency state-proceedings termination-of-parental-rights | Does a state's child custody proceedings violate a grandparent's federal statutory right of notice? | |
| 20-864 | Hitomi Arimitsu v. James Edward Cook, II | Minnesota | 2020-12-30 | Denied | child-abduction child-custody comity hague-convention international-child-abduction international-custody judicial-comity jurisdiction-conflict treaty-interpretation uniform-child-custody-jurisdiction-and-enforcement | Whether the Minnesota courts' refusal to acknowledge the ultimate outcome of Convention proceedings by a Contracting State and declining to afford com… | |
| 20-6602 | Wayne Boucher v. Deanne Lyons | New Hampshire | 2020-12-10 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | abuse child-custody domestic-dispute due-process equal-protection evidence-exclusion family-law guardian-ad-litem judicial-bias parental-rights | What is best for E.B. |
| 20-618 | Kelly Georgene Routten v. John Tyler Routten | North Carolina | 2020-11-06 | Denied | Amici (2)Response WaivedRelisted (2) | child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process family-law parental-rights standing state-courts state-intervention | Does due process require a finding that a parent is unfit before a State denies that parent all visitation with their child? |
| 20-6104 | Jacqueline Pidanick v. Paul C. LaRosa, III, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2020-10-22 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | affidavit child-custody civil-procedure court-fraud declaration due-process in-forma-pauperis poverty pro-se-litigation standing supreme-court-review | Whether the petitioner should be granted leave to proceed in forma pauperis |
| 20-6064 | Alan Justin Smith v. Washington | Washington | 2020-10-20 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights custodial-rights due-process evidence-procedure family-law hague-convention parental-rights substantive-due-process wrongful-removal | Whether the incommunicado detention of natural custodial children |
| 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 | Whether the Second Circuit should have finished certain assigned court proceedings to protect the due process rights and substantive rights of the pet… |
| 20-49 | Peter N. Myma v. Wendy A. Wroe | Indiana | 2020-07-20 | Denied | child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection family family-law liberty-interest parental-rights scrutiny-standard standard-of-review | Whether joint child custody is a constitutionally protected, rebuttable presumption of equal rights | |
| 19-8774 | Benjamin J. Gutierrez v. The Texas Health and Human Services Commission | Texas | 2020-06-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-custody constitutional-law constitutional-rights custody-determination due-process family-law government-agency medicaid medicaid-eligibility parental-rights | Is it reasonable for a government agency to utilize a joint conservator's court ordered periods of possession of a child to determine that parent is n… |
| 19-8496 | C. K. J. v. M. J. T. | Pennsylvania | 2020-05-19 | Denied | IFP | child-custody civil-rights domestic-relations due-process guardian-ad-litem judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct judicial-recusal judicial-review standing | Is it lawful for judges to evaluate a judge recusal on themselves? |
| 19-8356 | Henry Logan, et ux. v. Peggy Logan | Texas | 2020-04-27 | Denied | IFP | best-interest-standard child-custody disability-rights due-process family-law fourteenth-amendment parental-rights third-party-custody | Are grandparents counted as a third party? |
| 19-1236 | Rachel Joanna Evens v. Timothy John Evens | South Dakota | 2020-04-20 | Denied | Response Waived | terminating visitation without any consideration child-custody civil-procedure due-process evidence evidence-rules hearsay judicial-authority parental-rights parenting-coordinator sanctions | What constitutes 'Due Process of Law? Can binding orders be implemented |
| 19-1216 | Loredana Elizabeth Botofan-Miller v. Brett Robert Miller | Oregon | 2020-04-15 | Denied | birth-mother child-custody civil-rights custody due-process fourteenth-amendment legal-custody parental-rights state-courts state-intervention | Did the State of Oregon courts violate the fourteenth amendment rights of the full legal custodial parent, who was the birth mother, to make decisions… | |
| 19-8108 | Dana Albrecht v. Katherine Albrecht | New Hampshire | 2020-03-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure appellate-review child-custody due-process family-law fourteenth-amendment parental-rights uccjea | Whether the State of New Hampshire's discretionary appellate process is unlawful or unconstitutional, and whether the State has unlawfully infringed u… |
| 19-7943 | J. H. v. E. R. S. | Colorado | 2020-03-11 | Denied | IFP | appellate-review child-custody constitutional-facts constitutional-liberty de-novo-review due-process equal-protection parental-rights plain-error structural-error termination termination-of-parental-rights | Whether the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses require application of the plain error doctrine and independent de novo review of constitutional … |
| 19-7659 | Ashley Rios, et vir v. West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources | West Virginia | 2020-02-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 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,… |
| 19-891 | John Lehmann v. Nicole Haims | New York | 2020-01-17 | Denied | child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights custody due-process family-law fundamental-rights parental-rights standing state-intervention | Did the New York courts' decisions violate the parent and his child's constitutionally protected fundamental-rights,natural-rights | |
| 19-853 | Sandra R., et al. v. Arizona Department of Child Safety | Arizona | 2020-01-06 | Denied | Response Waived | child-custody clear-and-convincing-evidence constitutional-standard due-process family-law parental-rights state-action state-intervention termination | Whether the Due Process Clause requires a State to allege and prove a parent's unfitness by clear and convincing evidence to terminate parental rights |
| 19-649 | N. E. L., et al. v. Monica Gildner, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2019-11-19 | Denied | Response Waived | 4th-amendment child-custody civil-rights decisional-law due-process fourth-amendment jurisdiction post-removal-hearing post-seizure-hearing qualified-immunity uccjea | Were Colorado's UCCJEA requirements detailed enough to defeat qualified immunity in a Fourth Amendment claim arising from the denial of a post-seizure… |
| 19-590 | Michael Anthony Deem v. John P. Colangelo, et al. | New York | 2019-11-06 | Denied | child-custody child-custody-rights custody-dispute due-process equal-protection family-law first-amendment forensic-evaluator free-speech parental-rights right-to-privacy | Whether a court appointed FE's examination of a fit parent's children over that fit parent's objection violates that fit parent's right to control the… | |
| 19-577 | Tamra L. Lamprell v. Rex E. Stuckey | New Mexico | 2019-11-04 | Denied | Amici (2)Relisted (2) | best-interest-of-the-child best-interest-standard best-interests-standard child-custody due-process due-process,child-custody,parental-rights,pre-depr imminent-harm parental-rights post-deprivation-hearing pre-deprivation-hearing | Can a court temporarily remove a child from her parent's custody without a pre-deprivation hearing whenever the court deems it in the child's best int… |
| 19-6472 | Arthur Lopez v. California | California | 2019-11-01 | Denied | IFP | child-custody civil-rights criminal-procedure criminal-protective-orders due-process equal-protection family-law latino-fathers parental-rights | Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses require the State to provide fathers, including Latino fathers, with proce… |
| 19-473 | Timothy Dasler v. Jennifer Dasler | Vermont | 2019-10-10 | Denied | 14th-amendment 5th-amendment best-interest-of-the-child child-custody domestic-violence due-process due-process-14th-amendment equal-protection equal-protection-14th-amendment parental-rights | Is it a violation of 14th Amendment right of equal protection when a single self-serving accusation is used as the basis to permanently award sole par… | |
| 19-6214 | Luis Fuquen v. Trina Everitt | Maryland | 2019-10-09 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | best-interest-of-the-child child-custody divorce due-process family-privacy family-privacy-rights family-rights first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech freedom-of-association freedom-of-religion parent-child-rights parental-rights | Whether Luis and his children are entitled to due process protections for their individual intimate and expressive, close family, parent-child speech,… |
| 19-356 | Samuel Collin Robinson v. Katherine Lyman Robinson | Colorado | 2019-09-17 | Denied | best-interests-standard child-custody constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection family-law parental-rights | Where divorce involves children, where shared parenting has been declared to be in the best interests of all, and where criteria for exception have no… | |
| 19-5867 | Angela Krasny v. Jacob Krasny | New Jersey | 2019-09-09 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment child-custody civil-procedure civil-rights commencing-during-pendency due-process full-faith-and-credit jurisdiction parental-rights protective-order standing takings | Whether New Jersey can deny or limit civil procedural due process protected under the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution especially when the court … |
| 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 |
| 18-9702 | Cathrin Funk-Vaughn v. Tennessee Department of Children's Services | Tennessee | 2019-06-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | agency-overreach child-custody child-jurisdiction child-removal diversion-plea document-fraud due-process evidence-suppression federal-funding first-amendment food-recall free-speech interstate-custody jurisdiction kidnapping law-enforcement parental-rights rescission unreasonable-search | Does the Department of Children Services have the legal right to remove a child from a parent/legal guardian while the parent/legal guardian was on va… |
| 18A1303 | Dolores R. v. Arizona Department of Child Safety, et al. | Arizona | 2019-06-13 | Presumed Complete | child-custody discrimination due-process ineffective-counsel juvenile-court procedural-fairness | Whether the Due Process Clause requires reversal of a child custody termination where a parent alleges ineffective assistance of counsel, procedural i… | |
| 18-1505 | C. S. v. L. S. | New Jersey | 2019-06-03 | Denied | 14th-amendment child-custody constitutional-rights custody due-process family-court family-law fourteenth-amendment parental-rights state-court-hearing state-court-procedure visitation | Where a state family court finds that the father has violated the mother's constitutional right to the care, custody, and management of her children, … | |
| 18-1354 | C. P., et al. v. C. A. | California | 2019-04-29 | Denied | child-custody custody custody-rights due-process extramarital-affair family-code family-law family-rights fourteenth-amendment fundamental-parental-rights parental-rights third-parent-law third-party-custody | Does California's Family Code section 7612(c), granting third parties legal and physical custody rights to a minor child as a 'third parent,' regardle… | |
| 18-8809 | B. C. v. Florida Department of Children and Families | Florida | 2019-04-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-neglect child-custody child-welfare civil-procedure civil-rights due-process family-law law-enforcement parental-rights standing state-intervention | Whether the Supreme Court will allow a distressed parent to file this writ of certiorari that most likely will not correct according to the prevailing… |
| 18-8150 | Ilya Liviz, Sr. v. Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, et al. | First Circuit | 2019-02-27 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | access-to-court access-to-courts care-and-protection child-custody constitutional-rights due-process federally-protected-rights jury-trial parental-rights question-of-law state-court | Is Dad being denied his federally protected due process right to petition for redress and access to a meaningful hearing resulting from state's refusa… |
| 18-7992 | Kessele Livingston v. Lauri Esslinger, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-02-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law child-custody civil-rights due-process evidence government-agencies government-authority standing | Does a government agency have the authority to verify the age of a child who is in their custody and the child's mother and father there? |
| 18-1040 | Licong Li v. Sofia Dang | Illinois | 2019-02-08 | Denied | Response Waived | child-custody crimes-against-humanity divorce divorce-proceedings due-process family-law fundamental-rights human-made-tragedies human-rights parental-rights visitation | How long would crimes against humanity in terms of child custody and visitation in divorce cases be allowed to continue in this country? |
| 18-1008 | In Re Veronica Hollowell and Vivian Epps | 2019-02-04 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | child-custody civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights discovery-rule due-process family-law federal-jurisdiction incarceration jurisdiction jury-trial mental-fitness single-parent standing statute-of-limitations | Whether the State Court lacked jurisdiction of the child since the unwed, single-parent mother's case was not jury adjudicated (the ex-boyfriend/fathe… | |
| 18-7671 | Ada A. Gonzalez v. Grant Maloy, Clerk | Florida | 2019-01-30 | Denied | IFP | alimony child-custody child-support civil-procedure civil-rights domestic-relations domestic-violence due-process family-law injunction pro-se standing | Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause requires a state court to provide a hearing before issuing a domestic violence injunction agains… |
| 18-7475 | Aldona B. v. Nicholas S. | West Virginia | 2019-01-17 | Denied | IFP | biological-father child-custody civil-rights custodial-rights custody due-process equal-protection family-law parental-rights standing statutory-interpretation statutory-requirements unwed-parent | Whether an unwed biological father who meets none of the statutory requirements preserves the same custodial rights as a parent who fulfills parental … |
| 18-7030 | S. R. v. West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources, et al. | West Virginia | 2018-12-14 | Denied | IFP | 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 |
| 18-665 | James Michael Alvis v. Leland W. Schilling | Tenth Circuit | 2018-11-21 | Denied | 14th-amendment child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-immunity state-court-action state-law | Whether Respondent, a state court judge, was entitled to judicial immunity when he took action in a child custody matter in contravention of state law | |
| 18-569 | Linda Shao v. Tsan-Kuen Wang | California | 2018-10-31 | Denied | Relisted (2) | appeal child-custody civil-procedure conflicts-of-interest constitutional-rights dismissal due-process fraud judicial-misconduct procedural-irregularities rule-8.57 | Does due process require reversal of the dismissal where the court fraudulently concealed dismissal and knowingly dismissed the appeal with false grou… |
| 18-503 | N. E. L., et al. v. Douglas County, Colorado, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2018-10-18 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 14th-amendment 4th-amendment child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process familial-association full-faith-and-credit interstate-agreement procedural-due-process qualified-immunity right-to-travel | Whether petitioners' summary removal from Colorado to Kansas violated clearly established rights to procedural due process, a warrant or valid court o… |
| 18-6233 | Stephan Schuermann v. Jubilie Anqui | Florida | 2018-10-09 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment child-custody civil-procedure due-process equal-protection family-law fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction relocation | Whether the Supreme Court erred in not vacating orders granting relocation of a minor child |
| 18-129 | W. S. v. S. T., et al. | California | 2018-07-30 | Denied | biological-father child-custody custody-determination due-process equal-protection family-law liberty-interest parental-rights paternity standing vagueness | Whether California's Family Code § 7611(d) is impermissibly vague, as applied, when the Court of Appeal holds there are no specific factors that a tri… | |
| 18-111 | Timothy M. Barrett v. Valerie Jill Minor | Virginia | 2018-07-24 | Denied | Response Waived | 14th-amendment child-custody civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process family-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment parental-rights standing state-law | Are Virginia's Child Custody Statutes Facially Unconstitutional? |
| 18-62 | Brian Colbry, et ux. v. Lisa Von Pier, Director, New Jersey Division of Child Protection and Permanency, et al. | Third Circuit | 2018-07-11 | Denied | Response Waived | 28-usc-2254 child-custody child-protective-services custody deprivation-of-liberty habeas-corpus jurisdiction liberty-deprivation state-institution state-restraint unlawful-restraint | Is a minor child in custody for purposes of jurisdiction on a Petition for Habeas Corpus pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §2254 where the child is suffering a se… |