child-removal

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-566 Edgar Dale Dillon v. Westmoreland Department of Social Services Virginia 2024-11-20 Denied child-removal due-process habeas-petition ineffective-assistance-of-counsel parental-rights state-action Whether the Virginia Supreme Court correctly applied due process rights in a child removal proceeding involving ineffective assistance of counsel and …
23-5683 Mary Louise Smith, et al. v. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Governor of Arkansas, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-10-02 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP 14th-amendment child-removal civil-rights conspiracy due-process equal-protection race racial-discrimination state-immunity Did a conspiracy exist to deny due process and equal protection based on race?
23-5186 Kinley MacDonald v. Jeanne Lambrew, et al. Maine 2023-07-25 Denied Relisted (2)IFP child-removal civil-rights due-process evidentiary-ruling family-law federal-review habeas-corpus standing state-court state-court-jurisdiction transcript-accuracy Whether a state court can remove children from a parent's custody based solely on hearsay evidence prohibited by state statute and in the absence of j…
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…
18-257 Monty Bauch, Individually and as Father and Next Friend of O. B., a Minor, et al. v. Richland County Children Services, et al. Sixth Circuit 2018-08-30 Denied child-removal civil-rights complaining-witness due-process due-process-rights ex-parte ex-parte-order magistrate-testimony qualified-immunity removal-order social-worker social-worker-immunity standing witness-immunity Whether a social worker is entitled to absolute immunity when she makes false statements and omits highly relevant information as a complaining witnes…