child-protective-services

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A829 Albert Whitney Coburn v. Washington State Department of Children, Youth & Families Washington 2026-01-21 Application child-protective-services constitutional-violations family-law negligence parental-rights statute-of-limitations Question not identified.
25A83 Jonathan Voorhis v. Cindy Digangi, et al. Third Circuit 2025-07-21 Presumed Complete absolute-immunity child-protective-services civil-rights due-process fabricated-evidence investigative-misconduct 1. This case is about whether absolute immunity shields Child Protective Service (CPS) Workers from allegations of fabrication of evidence within an i…
25-5026 C. M. C. v. Texas Department of Family and Protective Services Texas 2025-07-03 Denied IFP child-protective-services counsel-effectiveness dependency-proceeding due-process fourteenth-amendment parental-rights 1. Did Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment embody Petitioner with the effective assistance of counsel in initial dependency proceeding wher…
23-6511 Thomas Albert Sosnowski v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections Eleventh Circuit 2024-01-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-protective-services constitutional-rights due-process exhaustion-requirement exigent-circumstances federal-court fourth-amendment habeas-corpus social-worker state-court warrantless-search Whether a wrongfully convicted Section 2254 petitioner's U.S. constitutional rights violation claims that were not previously exhausted in the state c…
21-709 Jacob Clark, et ux. v. Bernadette Stone, et al. Sixth Circuit 2021-11-15 Denied Response Waived 42-usc-1983 4th-amendment burden-of-proof child-protective-services civil-rights home-invasion home-privacy qualified-immunity warrantless-search warrantless-searches Whether qualified immunity applies to shield from liability child protective services case workers who repeatedly conduct warrantless searches of a ho…
21-39 Benjamin Ramirez Ruiz v. California California 2021-07-12 Denied Response Waived child-protective-services confrontation-clause crawford-v-washington criminal-procedure evidence-law ongoing-emergency sixth-amendment testimonial-evidence testimonial-statement Was a statement made to a child protective services investigator testimonial for the purposes of the Sixth Amendment Confrontation Clause
20-1068 Jorel Shophar v. Johnson County, Kansas, et al. Kansas 2021-02-04 Denied Response Waived child-protective-services civil-rights county-judges due-process eleventh-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-immunity parental-rights pro-se-litigation standing Is the enjoyment of the Eleventh Amendment Immunity for County judge's contradictory to Fourteenth Amendment for U.S. Citizens, when County Judges int…
18-1241 Demetrius Jackson v. Ohio Ohio 2019-03-25 Denied child-protective-services criminal-procedure fifth-amendment police-interrogation right-to-counsel self-incrimination sixth-amendment Whether interrogations by state-employed child protective services caseworkers violate the Fifth and Sixth Amendments, where the caseworkers are requi…
18-1226 Clinton County Children and Youth Services v. A. A. R., Natural Mother, et al. Pennsylvania 2019-03-20 Denied Response Waived child-protective-services child-welfare civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federalism fourteenth-amendment preemption prenatal-injury standing state-law supremacy-clause Whether a state violates the constitutional guarantees of the Fourteenth Amendment when it denies protections to children who suffer prenatal injury
18-1210 Chad Chronister, Sheriff, Hillsborough County, Florida v. Doris Freyre, et al. Eleventh Circuit 2019-03-18 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 11th-amendment ada ada-standing arm-of-the-state associational-claim child-protective-investigations child-protective-services child-welfare civil-rights due-process eleventh-amendment eleventh-amendment-immunity florida-statute-39.3065 grant-agreement judicial-restraint standing standing-associational-ada-claim state-immunity Whether the court of appeals violated this Honorable Court's 'fundamental rule of judicial restraint' by failing to address whether Doris Freyre had s…
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
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…