custody-determination

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-1119 Andrew Charles Nisbet v. Spirit Rose Bridger Ninth Circuit 2025-04-29 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (2) child-abduction custody-determination family-law habitual-residence hague-convention international-law Whether the Hague Convention authorizes a determination that children with no habitual residence are unprotected against international child abduction
24-5899 Michael Anthony Glover v. Georgia Georgia 2024-11-04 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-rights custody-determination due-process miranda-warnings police-interrogation self-incrimination Whether the Court of Appeals of Georgia erred in not finding that the objective circumstances required that petitioner Glover was in custody for purpo…
24-5722 Buta Singh v. United States Ninth Circuit 2024-10-08 Denied IFP custody-determination eighth-circuit miranda-warning ninth-circuit tenth-circuit terry-stop Whether courts must apply the second step of Howes to determine if a person is 'in custody' for Miranda purposes
24-5025 Delbert W. Hargis, Jr. v. Victoria A. Pritty-Pitcher New York 2024-07-09 Denied IFP constitutional-law constitutional-rights custody custody-determination due-process due-process-clause-14th-amendment family-law non-parent-custody parental-rights standing Whether the decision of the lower courts, which awarded full custody of a child to a nonparent due to the existence of a strong bond, violates the fun…
23-573 Tina Bastian Veneskey v. Michael Keith Sulier North Carolina 2023-11-28 Denied custody custody-determination due-process error-of-law fourteenth-amendment full-faith-and-credit jurisdiction jurisdictional-determination legal-error state-jurisdiction Whether the Full Faith and Credit Clause precludes the enforcement of a State's jurisdictional determination when that very determination is based upo…
22-7007 Axel Domingo Diego v. Indiana Indiana 2023-03-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights custody-determination due-process jdb-v-north-carolina law-enforcement-interrogation miranda-custody-rule miranda-rights reasonable-officer reasonable-person reasonable-person-standard translated-interrogation translation-context When law enforcement officers use a translator during an interrogation, does Miranda's custody rule consider the unique circumstances presented by the…
22-5781 Joseph Isaiah Woodson, Jr. v. United States Eleventh Circuit 2022-10-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP 5th-amendment civil-rights confession-voluntariness custody-determination due-process law-enforcement-procedure miranda miranda-rights race racial-discrimination voluntariness Whether a court can take a defendant's race into account to determine whether the defendant's custody, and thus his subsequent un-Mirandized confessio…
21-7563 Alexander Kates v. New York Second Circuit 2022-04-06 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights criminal-procedure custody-determination district-court-discretion due-process federal-precedent habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance standing state-law state-law-precedent Are district courts allowed to disregard State law and controlling federal precedent when handling state habeas corpus petitions?
21-7415 Matthew Rausenberg v. Don Langford, Warden Sixth Circuit 2022-03-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights custody-analysis custody-determination due-process habeas-corpus interrogation-circumstances miranda-warnings police-interrogation Whether reasonable jurists could debate the issue of custody for Miranda purposes
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…
21-5201 Susan Kaytlin Scott v. United States Ninth Circuit 2021-07-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP circuit-court-split circuit-courts constitutional-law constitutional-procedure criminal-procedure custody-determination due-process fifth-amendment law-enforcement-interrogation miranda-custody miranda-warning Do the Circuit Courts' different tests used to determine custody status for purposes of Miranda lead to inconsistent results?
20-1677 Angel Lee Rankin v. Texas Texas 2021-06-02 Denied 5th-amendment appellate-review criminal-procedure custody custody-determination due-process evidence-suppression miranda-warnings motion-to-suppress sudden-passion Whether the Court of Appeals Erred in Affirming the Trial Court's Denial of Ms. Rankin's Motion to Suppress Because She was in Law Enforcement's Custo…
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…
19-5048 Mark Anthony Dolph v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2019-07-02 Denied Response WaivedIFP 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure custody custody-determination due-process evidentiary-standard interrogation legal-procedure miranda-warnings officer-testimony video-evidence Why does Geasoned Opinions of _jprist Thou out the federal system demonstrate that freminded ytist can disagree AS +o Whether the use of handtudfs jtu…
18-1431 Frank G. v. Renee P.-F., et al. New York 2019-05-15 Denied Amici (8)Response Waived best-interests-of-child best-interests-of-the-child custody custody-determination due-process due-process-clause fourteenth-amendment obergefell-v-hodges parental-rights same-sex-marriage same-sex-partner Whether a state violates a biological parent's rights under the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause when it strips the parent of custody in favo…
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…