federal-adoption

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-285 Elizabeth White, et vir v. North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, et al. North Carolina 2025-09-11 Denied Response Waived adoption-assistance child-welfare-act federal-adoption procedural-interpretation special-needs-children state-agency-disclosure 1. Whether North Carolina misinterpreted the Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980 by reversing an Order granting Petitioners adoption ass…
18-8139 Louis A. Hardison v. United States Eighth Circuit 2019-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP asset-forfeiture civil-procedure civil-procedure-forfeiture due-process federal-adoption federal-jurisdiction forfeiture in-rem-jurisdiction ineffective-counsel missouri-forfeiture-laws missouri-statute state-federal-jurisdiction state-law turnover-order Whether Missouri statute RSMO 513.607-613.647 provides exclusive in rem jurisdiction over seized property even when state and local government fail to…