next-friend

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-5628 Richard C. Duerson, as Next Friend of Jennifer McFarland v. United States Sixth Circuit 2023-09-20 Denied Response WaivedIFP competency-standard constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection mental-capacity mental-competency next-friend next-friend-petition physical-competency standing What Constitutional Standards should be applied when a judge is tasked with determining the competency of a defendant with known physical and mental a…
22-5129 V. V. v. E. V. Connecticut 2022-07-19 Denied IFP article-iii article-iii-standing contracts-clause due-process equal-protection full-faith-and-credit next-friend standing supremacy-clause Does the respondent have standing to assert claims as next friend of the child against the petitioner under Article III of the United States Constitut…
21-1493 James Joseph Knochel v. Amy Fackrell, et al. Ninth Circuit 2022-05-27 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3) civil-rights due-process evidentiary-hearing fraud-on-court habeas-corpus next-friend standing vexatious vexatious-litigant whitmore-standard Does Whitmore v. Arkansas require an evidentiary hearing before dismissing a next friend's petition for writ of habeas corpus?
21-6444 In Re James Joseph Knochel 2021-11-29 Denied Relisted (2)IFP civil-rights fraud-on-court fraud-on-the-court habeas-corpus inaccessibility judicial-process medical-rights mental-incompetence next-friend next-friend-standing standing May a next friend be declared vexatious without considering evidence of fraud on the court?
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