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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25A617 George Cleveland, III v. South Carolina Department of Social Services South Carolina 2025-11-25 Application child-custody due-process family-court parental-rights social-services writ-of-certiorari Whether a family court's denial of a writ of certiorari in a child custody or dependency proceeding comports with due process and parental rights
25-380 Sean Kuhlmeyer v. Isabelle Latour Washington 2025-10-01 Denied constitutional-standard due-process family-court fundamental-rights no-contact-order parental-rights What due process is owed a parent when the state terminates, or significantly interferes with, the parent/child relationship by issuing a lifetime no …
25-5255 In Re Alex Anderson 2025-08-01 Denied IFP appellate-review custody-dispute family-court legal-standard procedural-due-process support-determination Did the Supreme Court of New York Appellate Division properly apply legal standards in reviewing the family court's custody and support determinations…
24-1083 Jeanne Tamagny v. John Scott Tamagny New Jersey 2025-04-16 Denied content-neutrality family-court first-amendment free-speech parental-rights prior-restraint Whether a court's prior restraint on speech must be content-neutral, narrowly tailored to serve a significant governmental interest, and leave open am…
24-6631 Charles Lord v. Heather Lord New York 2025-02-24 Denied Relisted (2)IFP child-support constitutional-rights due-process family-court judicial-procedure proof-of-service Whether an unsigned and undated child support order can be used to make another child support order without a hearing or proper service
24-6026 Ana Ortiz, aka Ana Lopez v. Circuit Court of Illinois, Lake County Illinois 2024-11-25 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process family-court fourteenth-amendment legal-representation sixth-amendment Does the absence of counsel and transcripts in family court proceedings violate constitutional due process rights under the Fourteenth and Sixth Amend…
24A404 Predrag Tosic v. Heather Tomason Washington 2024-10-25 Presumed Complete constitutional-protections disability-rights due-process family-court judicial-review pro-se Whether the Supreme Court will review a state court's alleged systemic due process violations in a family law case involving a pro se litigant with di…
24-338 Troy A. Minter v. Alexander Falconi, et al. Nevada 2024-09-25 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights divorce-proceedings family-court first-amendment public-access strict-scrutiny Whether a state statute permitting the closing of a hearing in a divorce case violates an implied First Amendment constitutional right of public acces…
23A950 Daniel Scott Robinson v. Supreme Court of Hawaii Hawaii 2024-04-23 Presumed Complete best-interest-standard constitutional-rights due-process family-court judicial-misconduct parental-rights Whether a state family court's application of the 'Best Interest' standard violates a parent's constitutional rights to due process and equal protecti…
23-6090 In Re Kurt A. Benshoof 2023-11-22 Denied IFP constitutional-violations due-process family-court fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus jurisdiction justiciable-controversy religious-freedom subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether family court proceeded in absence of jurisdiction and absent a justiciable controversy, thereby violating the Due Process Clause of the Fourte…
23-5991 Samuel T. Whatley v. Richland County Family Court, Columbia, South Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-11-09 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process family-court fifth-amendment governmental-immunity immunity judicial-misconduct obstruction-of-justice standing Does the Constitution allow judicial misconduct and obstruction of justice?
23-451 Geoffrey Hamilton Woodward v. Sarah Edge Woodward Tennessee 2023-10-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) can condition a fit parent's ability to have any consistent with the Due Process Clause child-custody compelling-interest due-process family-court family-law medical-treatment mental-health parental-rights state-interest state-intervention Whether a court can condition a fit parent's ability to have any contact with his child on unwanted medical treatment without finding that the treatme…
23A177 Geoffrey Hamilton Woodward v. Sarah Edge Woodward Tennessee 2023-08-25 Presumed Complete compelled-medical-procedures due-process-clause family-court medical-treatment parental-contact parental-rights Whether the Due Process Clause permits a family court to compel unwanted medical treatment as a condition of allowing a fit parent to maintain contact…
22-921 Dan Cherner v. Westchester Jewish Community Services, Inc., et al. Second Circuit 2023-03-21 Denied civil-rights court-appointed court-immunity custody-proceeding due-process family-court forensic-evaluator judicial-immunity qualified-immunity state-action state-actor Are respondents state actors?
22-311 Michael Vechery v. Florence Cottet-Moine Virginia 2022-10-03 Denied Relisted (2) child-abuse child-custody child-neglect child-visitation due-process family-court fourteenth-amendment parental-rights protective-order Does the Due Process Clause require a finding of child abuse or unfitness to terminate all parent-child contact?
22-5622 Todd Matthew Phillips v. Amber Phillips, nka Amber Korpark Nevada 2022-09-20 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process evidentiary-standard family-court family-law parental-rights standing subject-matter-jurisdiction whether-wife-has-standing-to-act-as-private-prosecutor-against-husband
21-7515 Paula Antonia Gordon v. Leslie Nelson Parker, et al. Louisiana 2022-03-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP bench-warrant child-custody contempt dna-testing due-process equal-protection family-court human-trafficking judicial-misconduct order-of-appeal Did the family court judge commit human-trafficking,violate-equal-protection,violate-due-process,find-grandmother-guilty-of-contempt,issue-bench-warra…
21-1050 Frederick S. Koger, et al. v. Clark V. Richardson, Judge, et al. Second Circuit 2022-01-28 Denied Relisted (2) civil-rights color-of-law due-process educational-neglect family-court homeschooling judicial-bias judicial-misconduct racial-bias Did Justice Clark V. Richardson violate civil-rights under-color-of-law
21-5882 Jessica W. v. Administration for Children's Services New York 2021-10-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment child-custody constitutional-rights due-process evidence family-court fourteenth-amendment parental-rights procedural-error Did the New York County Family Court meet due process and evidence standards in their determinations against the petitioner in disposition of two conj…
21-363 Wendy Marie Meigs v. Trey Bergman, et al. Texas 2021-09-08 Denied abuse alternative-dispute-resolution court-ordered-mediation courtroom-guidelines family-court judicial-process manipulation mediation mediation-liability pro-se-representation victim-protection vulnerable-victim Should mediation participants and mediator be liable for abuse and manipulation of a vulnerable victim?
21-141 Jaimee Carole Finley v. Jon Mark Finley California 2021-08-03 Denied 14th-amendment child-custody constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection family-court parental-rights state-discretion Whether the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment requires that parents have an automatic 50/50 share in parental time and responsibility abse…
20-7704 Daghrib Shaheed, et al. v. Stephan Kroski, et al. Second Circuit 2021-04-09 Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-entry-order civil-rights family-court fourth-amendment law-enforcement-procedure new-york-state probable-cause qualified-immunity search-warrant Is a civil New York State Family Court Investigation Entry Order the equivalent of a search warrant?
20-516 D'Ann S. McCoy v. Boureima Ouedraogo Pennsylvania 2020-10-20 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process ex-parte ex-parte-communication family-court judicial-disqualification judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction sua-sponte Has the Pennsylvania Court System violated the constitutional rights of the Appellant, D'Ann McCoy, through communication ex-parte in a matter without…
20-5756 Chen Xu v. City of New York, New York Second Circuit 2020-09-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 administrative-abuse child-abuse child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-court due-process family-court substantive-rights Whether the Second Circuit should have finished certain assigned court proceedings to protect the due process rights and substantive rights of the pet…
20-59 Charles R. Campbell v. Hollie Bennett, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-07-23 Denied Relisted (2) due-process equal-protection family-court family-rights right-to-counsel rooker-feldman self-incrimination sixth-amendment state-actor state-bar Right to Counsel for Defence
19-8058 Maurice Brack, aka Maurice Barrack, aka Maurice Black, aka Maurice L. Brack, aka Socca Bopum, aka Socka Bopa v. New Jersey New Jersey 2020-03-23 Denied IFP 8th-amendment adolescent-development constitutional-retroactivity criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment family-court juvenile-justice juvenile-waiver retroactivity Whether New Jersey's revised juvenile waiver statute (N.J.S.A. 2A:4A-26.1(c)) which prohibits the Family Court from waiving its jurisdiction over any …
18-1505 C. S. v. L. S. New Jersey 2019-06-03 Denied 14th-amendment child-custody constitutional-rights custody due-process family-court family-law fourteenth-amendment parental-rights state-court-hearing state-court-procedure visitation Where a state family court finds that the father has violated the mother's constitutional right to the care, custody, and management of her children, …
18-1300 Nevenka Obuskovic v. Kathleen L. Wood, et al. Third Circuit 2019-04-15 Denied civil-rights civil-rights,due-process,equal-protection,family-l color-of-law divorce due-process equal-protection family-court family-law forced-labor fourteenth-amendment involuntary-servitude peonage pro-se-representation Was federal law violated under color of law for violations of Fourteenth Amendment substantive and procedural due process and equal protection when hu…
18-8611 Elicia Bailey v. Jeremy Gasaway Texas 2019-03-28 Denied IFP constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-act criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process family-court family-law harsh-penalties subject-matter-jurisdiction Do family courts hold subject-matter jurisdiction to find guilt of a criminal act and subsequently impose harsh penalties without due process in a cri…
18-8046 Stephen L. Paulmier v. Hawaii Hawaii 2019-02-21 Denied IFP bench-trial constitutional-rights due-process family-court family-court-procedure hawaii-family-court-rules jury-trial jury-trial-waiver trial-continuance Whether the ICA gravely erred in failing to recognize Stephen Paulmier's constitutional rights to due-process,jury-trial
18-958 Peter P. Mitrano v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-01-24 Denied Response Waived appeals civil-procedure court-of-appeals custody custody-order due-process family-court family-law federal-courts jurisdiction legal-dismissal new-hampshire ninth-circuit standing Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit err in affirming the dismissal of this action?