guardianship

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-317 Estate of J. B., et al. v. Howard Muser, et al. New York 2025-09-17 Denied Response Waived civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process guardianship incapacitation judicial-proceeding 1. Does an alleged incapacitated person have a constitutional right to, at a minimum, be present at her own guardianship proceeding?
25A134 Estate of J. B., et al. v. Howard Muser, et al. New York 2025-08-01 Presumed Complete court-appointed-guardian due-process guardianship incapacity-determination medical-decision-making nursing-home Whether a court-appointed guardian can unilaterally declare an individual incapacitated and move them to a nursing home against their expressed wishes…
24-6440 Jondrew LaChaux v. Eighth Judicial District Court of Nevada, Clark County, et al. Nevada 2025-01-31 Denied IFP child-custody due-process family-law guardianship procedural-fairness right-to-counsel Whether the Nevada Supreme Court's interpretation of child custody and guardianship proceedings violates due process rights and the right to assistanc…
24-5985 Tara Dawn Chapman v. Tennessee Department of Children's Services Tennessee 2024-11-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP americans-with-disabilities-act fundamental-rights guardianship mental-disability parental-rights state-court Whether the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) applies to termination of parental rights cases and protects parents with mental disabilities from l…
23-7698 Garcia Coleman v. Dan Cromwell, Warden Seventh Circuit 2024-06-12 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights custody custody-transfer department-of-corrections due-process free-speech guardianship legal-procedure liberty Question not identified.
23-239 Stuart Barnes v. Shawn A. Allen West Virginia 2023-09-13 Denied Relisted (2) appointed-guardian doctrine-of-chances estate-mismanagement financial-exploitation guardian-ad-litem guardianship protected-person trustee-conservator wrongful-death-settlement whether-the-doctrine-of-chances-theory-or-character-evidence-is-supported
22-602 Ellizzette McDonald v. Shawn McDonald Illinois 2022-12-30 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fundamental-rights guardianship guardianship-rights marriage marriage-competency ward-autonomy Whether a state statute impermissibly interferes with the fundamental rights of wards to marry under the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of t…
22-253 Christine Chui v. Benjamin Tze-Man Chui, et al. California 2022-09-19 Denied civil-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing government-action guardianship judicial-procedure property-rights settlement settlement-binding Whether government can deprive real properties from parties without due process
21-776 Billy Duncan, as Next Friend of Charles Inness Thrash, et al. v. Tonya Barina, as Guardian of the Estate of Charles Inness Thrash, et al. Texas 2021-11-24 Denied Response Waived attorney-immunity civil-procedure civil-rights due-process guardianship jurisdiction next-friend pre-trial-sanctions sanctions standing Whether Charlie had a right to appeal through his next friend and the sanctions order was contrary to the evidence
20-1776 Owen Marlon Alexander v. Breaking Ground, et al. Second Circuit 2021-06-23 Denied administrative-procedure agency-deference civil-procedure civil-rights double-jeopardy due-process guardianship immigration-law intervention public-charge rule-making standing Whether States with interests should be permitted Question not identified
20-6203 Rachel O. v. Alaska Department of Health and Social Services Alaska 2020-11-03 Denied IFP administrative-law alaska-supreme-court civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection guardianship native-american standing Question not identified
19-1428 Tina L. Morin v. Montana Office of Disciplinary Counsel Montana 2020-07-02 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights disciplinary-counsel disciplinary-proceedings due-process Fourteenth-Amendment guardianship legal-ethics legal-representation professional-conduct right-to-counsel Did the COP violate Morin's due-process rights under the Fourteenth-Amendment when the COP ordered Morin suspended from practice for allegedly violati…
19-6507 Kenneth Michael Smith v. Melissa Sue Smith, nka Melissa Sue Graham Montana 2019-11-05 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights disability-law domestic-relations due-process family-law guardian-ad-litem guardianship mental-capacity standing Does an overly-intrusive and nature-based constitutional violation justify appointing a guardian ad litem in domestic-relations cases?
19-6337 Monica Birch-Min v. Middlesex County Board of Social Services, et al. Third Circuit 2019-10-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP administrative-law civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process government-agencies guardianship judicial-review senior-citizens Whether the US Supreme Court will permit Government agencies to take away Senior Citizens' Constitutional Rights for due process and the necessity of …
18-1544 Hallmark Care Services, Inc., et al. v. Superior Court of Washington, Spokane County Washington 2019-06-14 Denied Response Waived appellate-review civil-rights court-appointed-guardian due-process ex-parte fourteenth-amendment guardianship predeprivation-rights professional-guardians property-interest property-rights state-action sua-sponte Whether a court-appointed professional guardian has a property interest in the business expectation of continued fees, and a pre-deprivation right to …
18-9296 In Re Allen J. Dannewitz, Jr. 2019-05-15 Rehearing Relisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment ada-violation civil-rights civil-rights-deprivation due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment guardianship guardianship-rights judicial-procedure jurisdiction standing Whether ward was ever incapacitated
18-9009 Mirella Landi Adelman v. Lawrence Root, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-04-26 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process estate-planning false-information guardianship legal-document mental-capacity personal-estate petition probate standing Whether the request or petition for guardianship for the person and estate of Daniel Lindsey Adelman was submitted under false information and should …
18-5943 Linh Thi Minh Tran v. Kathy Hung Pham, et al. Oregon 2018-09-12 Denied IFP attorney-fees civil-rights clear-and-convincing-evidence costs-and-fees due-process elder-care guardianship guardianship-petition medical-decision-making mental-health standing trial-court-error Did the trial court err in dismissing the guardianship petition with prejudice?