domestic-relations

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-1157 Taylor Packwood, et al. v. County of Contra Costa, California, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-05-12 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure domestic-relations due-process federal-jurisdiction fraud-exception rooker-feldman Whether there is a fraud exception to the Rooker-Feldman doctrine in domestic relations cases raising claims of a violation of due process of law
24-6532 Timothy P. Dasler v. Jennifer Knapp, fka Jennifer Dasler Second Circuit 2025-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-procedure constitutional-rights domestic-relations federal-jurisdiction state-action younger-abstention Whether federal courts can exercise jurisdiction through Domestic Relations or Younger abstention when state remedies are inadequate and parallel liti…
24-6530 Timothy P. Dasler, Individually and on Behalf of T.D. v. Dalene Washburn Second Circuit 2025-02-10 Denied Response WaivedIFP constitutional-rights domestic-relations due-process federal-jurisdiction state-action younger-abstention Whether federal courts must exercise jurisdiction despite Domestic Relations or Younger abstention when state remedies are inadequate and parallel lit…
23-7781 Timothy Dasler v. Jennifer Knapp, fka Dasler Vermont 2024-06-21 Denied IFP best-interest-of-the-child constitutional-fairness domestic-relations due-process equitable-tolling judicial-discretion jurisdictional-limits Palmore-v-Sidoti parental-rights Troxel-v-Granville Equitable-tolling-of-jurisdictional-limits
23A697 Timothy Dasler v. Jennifer Knapp, fka Dasler Vermont 2024-01-29 Presumed Complete appellate-jurisdiction domestic-relations due-process rocket-docket state-supreme-court time-extension Whether a state supreme court's expedited 'rocket docket' decision implicates due process rights when rendering a final judgment in a domestic relatio…
23-767 Shirley Crain v. Lisa Crain, et al. Eighth Circuit 2024-01-17 Denied Response Waived circuit-split civil-procedure divorce-decree domestic-relations domestic-relations-exception federal-jurisdiction property-settlement-agreement state-court-decree state-court-interpretation third-party-beneficiary Whether federal courts may exercise jurisdiction to interpret and modify a state-court-issued divorce decree, or whether the domestic-relations-except…
22-343 Lynn S. King v. New York, et al. Second Circuit 2022-10-12 Denied Response Waived divorce-proceedings domestic-relations domestic-relations-law first-amendment free-exercise religious-covenant religious-wedding sacred-covenant standing Whether New York Domestic Relations Law 170(7) violates the Free Exercise of religion clause
21-548 David J. Zawistowski v. Michael D. Kramer, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-10-13 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-1331 28-usc-1332 ankenbrandt-v-richards diversity-jurisdiction domestic-relations domestic-relations-exception federal-question-jurisdiction jurisdictional-limits statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction Does the domestic relations exception apply to federal question jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1331 or is the exception limited to diversity jurisdict…
19-1318 Michael Anthony Deem v. Lorna M. DiMella-Deem, et al. Second Circuit 2020-05-28 Denied abstention civil-rights domestic-relations domestic-relations-abstention due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-question jurisdiction jurisdiction-stripping malicious-prosecution standing May lower federal courts refuse to exercise jurisdiction over federal question claims in the absence of a warrant to do so from Congress or this Honor…
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?
19-6734 Arthur Lopez v. Cheryl Lopez California 2019-11-22 Denied IFP appeals appellate-procedure civil-litigation civil-procedure civil-rights court-jurisdiction domestic-relations due-process equal-protection family-law habeas-corpus indigent right-to-counsel standing Whether a petitioner who is indigent and unable to afford private counsel is entitled to a court-appointed attorney for a civil proceeding under the D…
19-6507 Kenneth Michael Smith v. Melissa Sue Smith, nka Melissa Sue Graham Montana 2019-11-05 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights disability-law domestic-relations due-process family-law guardian-ad-litem guardianship mental-capacity standing Does an overly-intrusive and nature-based constitutional violation justify appointing a guardian ad litem in domestic-relations cases?
18-8334 Ada A. Gonzalez v. Alfredo Ernesto Gonzalez Florida 2019-03-07 Denied IFP administrative-law appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights domestic-relations due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion mandamus-writ standing state-court-review state-courts writ-of-mandamus Whether Petitioner is entitled to a writ of mandamus
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…
18-930 David Brandon v. Sarah Brandon California 2019-01-17 Denied Relisted (2) annulment annulment-basis civil-rights domestic-relations due-process federal-immigration-law federal-state-relations fraud immigration immigration-marriage-fraud marriage marriage-fraud state-domestic-relations state-marriage-law Are the States, in particular California, required to recognize Immigration Marriage Fraud as a basis for annulment in their dissolution of marriage s…
18-519 Joseph A. Jennings, III v. Susan W. Jennings Ohio 2018-10-19 Denied agent-orange disability-compensation domestic-relations federal-law federal-preemption howell-v-howell preemption service-connected-disability spousal-support state-law veterans-benefits veterans-disability-benefits Whether veterans disability compensation may lawfully be included as a source of income in determining spousal support in a non-community property sta…
18-278 Leon R. Koziol, Individually, as Natural Parent of Child A and Child B, and on Behalf of Parents Similarly Situated v. Janet DiFiore, Chief Judge, New York State Unified Court System, et al. New York 2018-09-05 Denied civil-rights custody-tactics domestic-relations due-process family-law judicial-bias men-discrimination parental-rights whistleblower-protection Are men in America becoming a discriminated class?