| 23-7092 |
Kinley MacDonald v. Michael Duddy, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-03-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process family-law foster-care hearsay parental-rights state-agency |
Question not identified. |
| 23-5216 |
Kinley MacDonald v. Michael A. Duddy, et al. |
First Circuit |
2023-07-26 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
child-abuse constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction foster-care hearsay interstate-crime jurisdiction parental-rights standing witness-tampering |
Before a Court in a matter involving unabused Children trafficked into Foster Care, by hearsay, Causing irreparable harm. The mother suffered expected… |
| 22-1017 |
Sheila Mikel v. Jennifer Nichols, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-04-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
adoption civil-rights due-process foster-care liberty-interest notice-of-removal parental-rights procedural-due-process standing |
Whether a pre-adoptive foster mother has a constitutionally protected liberty interest right to procedural due process in the removal of her foster gi… |
| 22-232 |
Shane Place and Misty Blackwell, as Personal Representatives of the Estate of Angel Place v. Joyce Anderson, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2022-09-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-jurisdiction deliberate-indifference due-process foster-care substantive-due-process summary-judgment |
1. Did the court of appeals in its de novo review of
summary judgment abuse its appellate jurisdiction and
deny petitioners due process by refusing to… |
| 21-1471 |
Denise Halvorson, et vir v. Hennepin County Children’s Services Department, et al. |
Minnesota |
2022-05-23 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
consent-requirement due-process federal-indian-law foster-care indian-child-welfare-act jurisdictional-transfer nonmember nonmember-party state-court tribal-jurisdiction |
1. Whether it is an error of law for a state court to order the transfer of a foster care proceeding to tribal court when the transfer forces a nonmem… |
| 21-1356 |
M. H. v. West Virginia Department of Health and Human Services, et al. |
West Virginia |
2022-04-18 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
best-interest-analysis best-interests child-welfare due-process due-process-clause foster-care foster-child-bill-of-rights grandparents statutory-interpretation west-virginia-law |
Whether the Supreme Court of Appeals misinterpreted the Foster Child Bill of Rights under West Virginia statutory law to the detriment of the child in… |
| 20-676 |
J. P., By and Through His Guardian Ad Litem, Shannon Villanueva v. Alameda County, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-11-17 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process emotional-harm fair-notice first-amendment foster-care fourteenth-amendment qualified-immunity |
I.
Emotional harm alone triggers 42 U.S.C. §1983 liability. The Ninth
Circuit granted qualified immunity on J.P.s First and Fourteenth
Amendment claim… |
| 20-473 |
Ammar I. v. Connecticut |
Connecticut |
2020-10-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
child-welfare civil-rights due-process family-law foster-care fourteenth-amendment parental-rights religious-freedom |
1- Whether the State's prolonged 'temporary' foster placement (in excess of 40 months) of children on a plan of reunification, violated federal law, i… |
| 19-574 |
Sheila J. Poole, Commissioner, New York State Office of Children and Family Services v. New York State Citizens' Coalition for Children |
Second Circuit |
2019-11-01 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
adoption-assistance-act adoption-assistance-and-child-welfare-act child-welfare federal-department-of-health-and-human-services federal-reimbursement foster-care foster-care-maintenance-payments private-right-of-action spending-mandate state-administration state-funding |
Whether the CWA's criteria for partial federal reimbursement unambiguously confer on foster parents a private right of action to compel States to cove… |
| 19-123 |
Sharonell Fulton, et al. v. City of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2019-07-25 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (87)Relisted (7) |
circuit-split civil-rights discrimination employment-division-v-smith first-amendment foster-care free-exercise general-applicability government-neutrality neutral-and-generally-applicable neutral-laws religious-discrimination religious-liberty unconstitutional-conditions |
The City of Philadelphia chose to exclude a religious agency from the City's foster care system unless the agency agreed to act and speak in a manner … |
| 18-8542 |
S. N., et al. v. San Diego Health and Human Services Agency, et al. |
California |
2019-03-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
adoption child-welfare due-process family-finding-and-engagement family-notification family-separation foster-care grandparents-aunt-uncles-sibling-parent-of-sibling medical-best-interests notification permanency relative-placement |
Is it legal for an Agency to proceed to adopt a dependent toddler (A.K.) out of her biological family when the record contains no "written notificatio… |