marital-status

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24-6123 Michael Ray Senn v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division Fifth Circuit 2024-12-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP criminal-law equal-protection fourteenth-amendment marital-status penalty-enhancement sexual-assault Does a penalty provision of the Texas sexual assault statute that increases penalties based on marital status violate the Equal Protection Clause of t…
22-281 Peter Kruithoff v. Catholic Charities of West Michigan, et al. Michigan 2022-09-26 Denied Amici (1)Response Waived child-welfare due-process equal-protection marital-status parental-rights standing state-interest statutory-interpretation Does Michigan's Safe Delivery of Newborns Law comply with Due Process requirements?
21-5021 Michael Ray Senn v. Texas Texas 2021-07-06 Denied IFP constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment marital-status sentencing sentencing-enhancement Does a criminal law which provides for increased punishment based solely on an offender's status as married violate his or her right to equal protecti…
20-756 Christopher Gary Baylor v. Ayano Eto, fka Ayano Eto Baylor Minnesota 2020-12-02 Denied Relisted (2) 14th-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment marital-status parent-child-relationship parental-rights standing state-court May a state court terminate the rights of a parent without notice or due process of service?
19-1385 Kristina Box, Commissioner, Indiana Department of Health v. Ashlee Henderson, et al. Seventh Circuit 2020-06-17 Denied Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) biological-parentage biology-based birth-certificate birth-certificates due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment marital-status parentage presumption rebuttable-presumption May a State, consistent with the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses, adopt a biology-based birth-certificate system that in…
19-8463 Luis Ricardo Mayea-Pulido v. United States Ninth Circuit 2020-05-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP due-process equal-protection gender-discrimination heightened-scrutiny legitimacy marital-status ninth-circuit parents'-marital-status statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent Did the Ninth Circuit (and other courts of appeals) misinterpret the phrase 'parents' marital status' by holding that it refers exclusively to 'legiti…
19-85 LC v. MG Hawaii 2019-07-17 Denied Response Waived child-parentage consent-rebuttal due-process equal-protection family-law fourteenth-amendment marital-status marriage-equality parentage parental-presumption presumption-of-paternity spousal-rights Does the Fourteenth Amendment require that a spouse, who is presumed to be the parent of a child because she is married to the child's natural mother,…
18-9633 Manuel Gonzalez-Reyes v. William P. Barr, Attorney General Second Circuit 2019-06-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP citizenship citizenship-status constitutional-challenge constitutional-law due-process equal-protection gender-discrimination immigration marital-status morales-santana-precedent statutory-interpretation Whether the distinction drawn within the former Section 1432(a)(3), based on marital status and the gender of his father, violates the equal protectio…