domestic-relations-exception

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-5797 Deandre Arnold v. Tyarielle Patterson Eleventh Circuit 2024-10-22 Denied IFP child-custody-order diversity-jurisdiction domestic-relations-exception emotional-distress judicial-disqualification parental-interference Whether a claim for intentional infliction of emotional distress concerning parental interference in a child custody dispute is barred under the Domes…
23-7607 In Re Kurt A. Benshoof 2024-05-31 Denied IFP civil-rights domestic-relations-exception due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-proceedings parental-rights pro-se-rights unlawful-imprisonment Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decided an important federal question regarding domestic-relations-exception in a way that conflicts with r…
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…
23A318 Shirley Crain v. Lisa Crain, et al. Eighth Circuit 2023-10-12 Presumed Complete breach-of-contract circuit-split divorce-settlement domestic-relations-exception federal-question-jurisdiction third-party-beneficiary Whether the domestic relations exception to federal question jurisdiction bars federal courts from adjudicating breach of contract claims arising from…
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…
20-545 Barbara D. Terrell v. John Lewis Renner, II West Virginia 2020-10-26 Denied appellate-procedure civil-rights domestic-relations-exception due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment marital-assets notice privileges-immunities property Whether the domestic-relations-exception applies to property rights under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments
19-778 Edward A. Weinhaus v. Illinois, et al. Seventh Circuit 2019-12-17 Denied Response Waived circuit-split custody-decrees diversity-jurisdiction domestic-relations-exception federal-question-jurisdiction frivolous-appeal fundamental-rights redress rule-38-sanctions Is There a Domestic-Relations Exception to Federal Question Jurisdiction?
19-5632 T. A., et al. v. Howard B. Leff, et al. Second Circuit 2019-08-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-rights constitutional-violations domestic-relations-exception due-process federal-jurisdiction judicial-immunity quid-pro-quo racketeering rooker-feldman standing sua-sponta-fiduciaries Is it error to impose judicial immunity when the pleadings detail that NYS Judge and sua sponta appointed Part 36 Fiduciaries acted without jurisdicti…