| 25-5511 |
Matthew Thomas Parkins, By and Through His Guardian ad Litem and Next Friend, Cecil Matt Parkins, et al. v. Henry Dargan McMaster, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
due-process family-rights fourteenth-amendment intellectually-disabled section-1983 state-removal |
Whether the state's removal of an intellectually disabled adult from his home and family by application of a standard of proof lower than the preponde… |
| 24A204 |
Marlon Abraham Rosasen v. Kingdom of Norway, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-08-26 |
Presumed Complete |
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certiorari family-rights guardian-ad-litem jurisdiction ninth-circuit pro-se |
Whether a pro se litigant's family rights claims involving international jurisdictional disputes can survive dismissal under federal appellate review … |
| 23-7549 |
In Re Kinley MacDonald |
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2024-05-23 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
child-custody child-welfare due-process family-rights hearsay hearsay-evidence judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction parental-rights standard-of-review state-court-procedure |
Whether a state court can remove children from a parent's custody based solely on hearsay allegations prohibited by state statute, in the absence of j… |
| 23-7550 |
In Re Kinley MacDonald |
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2024-05-23 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
child-abuse due-process family-rights federal-review habeas-corpus hearsay ineffective-assistance jurisdiction post-conviction-relief protective-custody state-court-jurisdiction |
Can a trial court open and remove children in a 'protective custody' case based solely on hearsay about actions prohibited by state statute in secret … |
| 23-5184 |
Kinley MacDonald v. Lea-Anne Sutton, Judge, District Court of Maine, et al. |
First Circuit |
2023-07-25 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
appellate-review child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process family-law family-rights hearsay-evidence judicial-misconduct jurisdiction standing |
Can a final court open and remove children in protective custody case based solely on hearsay evidence prohibited by state statute in secret and in ab… |
| 20-1386 |
Dale Sawyer Eisele v. The Estate of Joseph Brodie Smith |
New Hampshire |
2021-04-02 |
Denied |
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adoption adoption-law civil-rights dna-paternity due-process exhumation exhumation-request family-rights legal-interpretation pretermitted-heir probate standing |
Did interpreting this matter by using current adoption laws lead to a comprehension error that was detrimental to this case? |
| 20-849 |
P. F. v. J. S., et al. |
Kansas |
2020-12-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
adoption adoption-law biological-parenthood constitutional-standard due-process evolving-family-landscape family-dynamics family-rights gender-assumptions liberty-rights parental-rights |
Can the 'biology-plus' standard still be considered constitutional when it can no longer be justly applied? |
| 20-6178 |
William Scott Davis, Jr. v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-10-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
administrative-law civil-rights criminal-liability design-standard due-process evidence-tampering family-rights government-overreach privacy product-liability regulatory-interpretation statutory-authorization |
Whether the right to marry, have children, and raise a family free from unwarranted invasion of familial privacy and confidentiality is protected unde… |
| 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 |
| 19-6214 |
Luis Fuquen v. Trina Everitt |
Maryland |
2019-10-09 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
best-interest-of-the-child child-custody divorce due-process family-privacy family-privacy-rights family-rights first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech freedom-of-association freedom-of-religion parent-child-rights parental-rights |
Whether Luis and his children are entitled to due process protections for their individual intimate and expressive, close family, parent-child speech,… |
| 19-5075 |
Grace Makau v. Louise Meyer, Judge, District Court of North Carolina, Wake County, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-07-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process family-reunification family-rights federal-question first-amendment ncgs-50-13.5(d)(3) sibling-rights |
Issues being raised |
| 18-1354 |
C. P., et al. v. C. A. |
California |
2019-04-29 |
Denied |
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child-custody custody custody-rights due-process extramarital-affair family-code family-law family-rights fourteenth-amendment fundamental-parental-rights parental-rights third-parent-law third-party-custody |
Does California's Family Code section 7612(c), granting third parties legal and physical custody rights to a minor child as a 'third parent,' regardle… |
| 18-959 |
Mandy Rooks v. Drake Rooks |
Colorado |
2019-01-24 |
Denied |
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classification constitutional-rights due-process embryo-classification embryo-personhood embryo-status family-law family-rights marital-property personhood property-rights religious-freedom religious-rights reproductive-rights |
Whether extracorporeal embryos are persons or property |
| 24A129 |
Franck William Yao v. Tamara Yao |
Missouri |
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Presumed Complete |
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custody-battle due-process family-rights fourteenth-amendment ordered-liberty parental-rights |
Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment protects a parent's fundamental right to custody and companionship of their child when stat… |