family-rights

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Presumed Complete 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…