| 25A917 |
Taron Jacquett v. Estefania Jacquett |
Florida |
2026-02-13 |
Application |
|
ability-to-pay child-support-enforcement civil-contempt due-process fraudulent-affidavits parental-rights |
Question not identified. |
| 25A840 |
Ryan P. Givey v. Alicia A. Givey |
Pennsylvania |
2026-01-22 |
Application |
|
constitutional-due-process court-jurisdiction custody-dispute first-amendment parental-rights psychological-evaluation |
Question not identified. |
| 25A829 |
Albert Whitney Coburn v. Washington State Department of Children, Youth & Families |
Washington |
2026-01-21 |
Application |
|
child-protective-services constitutional-violations family-law negligence parental-rights statute-of-limitations |
Question not identified. |
| 25-840 |
International Partners for Ethical Care, Inc., et al. v. Bob Ferguson, Governor of Washington, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2026-01-15 |
Pending |
|
article-iii-standing child-welfare fundamental-liberty-interest gender-transition judicial-standing parental-rights |
Whether parents have standing to challenge a law or policy that deliberately displaces their decision making role as to "gender transitions" of their … |
| 25A810 |
Elizabeth Mirabelli, et al. v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2026-01-13 |
Application |
Amici (9) |
california-education free-exercise opt-out-policies parental-rights religious-liberty substantive-due-process |
Question not identified. |
| 25-759 |
Amber Lavigne v. Great Salt Bay Community School Board |
First Circuit |
2025-12-29 |
Pending |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
12b6-motion circuit-split constitutional-rights gender-transition parental-rights plausibility-standard school-policy |
In December 2022, Petitioner discovered a chest binder in her 13-year-old child's room. After speaking with her child, she learned that a social worke… |
| 25-6365 |
Timothy Robert Provo v. Geoffrey W. Tenney, Individually and as Judge, Tenth Judicial District, Wright County, Minnesota, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2025-12-15 |
Pending |
IFP |
ada-retaliation due-process fourteenth-amendment judicial-recusal parental-rights transcript-access |
1. Recusal and Void Orders
Whether the Due Process Clause and the Supremacy Clause permit a state judge to
continue issuing substantive custody, cont… |
| 25A617 |
George Cleveland, III v. South Carolina Department of Social Services |
South Carolina |
2025-11-25 |
Application |
|
child-custody due-process family-court parental-rights social-services writ-of-certiorari |
Whether a family court's denial of a writ of certiorari in a child custody or dependency proceeding comports with due process and parental rights |
| 25-6140 |
D. B., et al. v. Vermont Department for Children and Families |
Vermont |
2025-11-17 |
Pending |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP |
child-welfare due-process family-reunification parental-rights reasonable-efforts statutory-interpretation |
1. Whether 42 U.S.C. § 671(a)(15)(B), which mandates that reasonable efforts "shall be made" to reunify families, requires state courts to ensure that… |
| 25-6059 |
Cristina M. Lancranjan v. Superior Court of California, San Diego County, et al. |
California |
2025-11-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process extrinsic-fraud fourteenth-amendment parental-rights state-court |
1. Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause is violated when a state court, with knowledge of extrinsic fraud that results in void orders… |
| 25-380 |
Sean Kuhlmeyer v. Isabelle Latour |
Washington |
2025-10-01 |
Denied |
|
constitutional-standard due-process family-court fundamental-rights no-contact-order parental-rights |
1. When states have ruled differently, 1 and given this
Court 's reasoning in Santosky v. Kramer, 2 and Mathews
v. Eldridge, 3 the issue here is:
Wh… |
| 25-259 |
January Littlejohn, et vir v. School Board of Leon County, Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-09-05 |
Pending |
Amici (12)Response RequestedRelisted (5) |
circuit-split constitutional-law executive-conduct fundamental-rights parental-rights state-policy |
Whether a public school "violates parents' fundamental constitutional right " when it secretly helps "transition " their child to a new "gender " is "… |
| 25-256 |
Libby Hilsenrath, on Behalf of Her Minor Child, C. H. v. Chathams School District Board of Education |
Third Circuit |
2025-09-04 |
Denied |
|
establishment-clause first-amendment free-exercise-clause parental-rights public-school religious-freedom |
Whether a public school violates the Establishment Clause by assigning content that proselytizes for, extols, and gives favored treatment to Islam (or… |
| 25A235 |
Anjelica R. James v. Terrence V. Sharkey, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2025-08-28 |
Presumed Complete |
|
certiorari due-process judicial-immunity parental-rights pro-se supreme-court |
Whether judicial immunity can be challenged when fundamental due process and parental rights are allegedly violated by lower court actions |
| 25-143 |
Rebecca Hartzell v. Marana Unified School District, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-08-06 |
Denied |
|
circuit-split constitutional-education fourteenth-amendment government-employee-liability parental-rights school-choice |
This Court has held for over a century that the Fourteenth Amendment protects the right of parents to control and direct the education of their childr… |
| 25-89 |
Jonathan Lee, et al. v. Poudre School District R-1 |
Tenth Circuit |
2025-07-23 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Relisted (2) |
best-interests child-custody due-process parental-rights school-district state-intervention |
Whether a school district may discard the presumption that fit parents act in the best interests of their children and arrogate to itself the right to… |
| 25-77 |
Stephen Foote, Individually and as Guardian and Next Friend of B. F. and G. F.,
Minors, et al. v. Ludlow School Committee, et al. |
First Circuit |
2025-07-22 |
Pending |
Amici (21)Relisted (7) |
constitutional-rights educational-policy gender-transition minor-consent parental-rights school-authority |
Whether a public school violates parents' constitutional rights when, without parental knowledge or consent, the school encourages a student to transi… |
| 25-59 |
Joseph Very Sherman, Individually, and as Biological Father, Next Friend, and Natural Guardian of H. M. S., J. C. S., and M. R. S., Minor Children, et al. v. Louis R. Lerner, former Judge, Circuit Court of Virginia, City of Norfolk |
Virginia |
2025-07-16 |
Denied |
|
child-custody due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment liberty-interests parental-rights |
The trial judge entered an Order (App. 10a-21a) that deprived each of the three child Petitioners of their right to associate with their fit and lovin… |
| 25-36 |
Arthur Lopez v. Court of Appeal of California, Second Appellate District, Division Seven, et al. |
California |
2025-07-10 |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection parental-rights restraining-order |
1) Should United States Constitution Civil
Rights including 14th Amendment Equal
Protection and Due Process under Law
guarantees be applicable to C… |
| 25-5026 |
C. M. C. v. Texas Department of Family and Protective Services |
Texas |
2025-07-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
child-protective-services counsel-effectiveness dependency-proceeding due-process fourteenth-amendment parental-rights |
1. Did Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment embody Petitioner with the effective assistance of counsel in initial dependency proceeding wher… |
| 24-7363 |
Wesley-Keith Mullings v. Harriet Elaine Raghnal, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2025-06-05 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
circuit-split due-process institutional-manipulation parental-rights pro-se-litigants rooker-feldman |
Whether a circuit split exists regarding Rooker-Feldman doctrine's application to void judgments and whether institutional manipulation violates due p… |
| 24-1226 |
S. G. S. v. S. F. |
Illinois |
2025-06-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
child-custody due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure parental-rights |
Whether a state court may completely remove a parent's constitutionally protected right to the care, custody, and control of their child through a hea… |
| 24-1083 |
Jeanne Tamagny v. John Scott Tamagny |
New Jersey |
2025-04-16 |
Denied |
|
content-neutrality family-court first-amendment free-speech parental-rights prior-restraint |
Whether a court's prior restraint on speech must be content-neutral, narrowly tailored to serve a significant governmental interest, and leave open am… |
| 24-6985 |
R. V., Jr. v. S. V. |
Texas |
2025-04-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
court-appointed-counsel due-process fourteenth-amendment fundamental-fairness indigent-parent parental-rights |
Whether an incarcerated and indigent parent in a parental rights termination suit is entitled to court-appointed counsel under the Fourteenth Amendmen… |
| 24-6877 |
Amanda M. v. Illinois |
Illinois |
2025-03-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
burden-of-proof child-custody constitutional-rights due-process hearsay-evidence parental-rights |
Can a state terminate a parent's constitutional right to raise her child based solely on hearsay evidence, where the state's burden of proof at a fitn… |
| 24A732 |
C.M.C. v. Texas Department of Family and Protective Services |
Texas |
2025-01-27 |
Presumed Complete |
|
bill-of-review judicial-misconduct jurisdictional-time-bar parental-rights pro-se-litigation termination-order |
Whether a state court can apply a jurisdictional time bar to preclude a bill-of-review proceeding challenging a parental rights termination order base… |
| 24A725 |
Natalia Dalton v. Julio Lacayo |
Fourth Circuit |
2025-01-24 |
Presumed Complete |
|
child-custody due-process federal-question liberty-interest parental-rights supremacy-clause |
Whether a state court's child custody and support proceedings violate a parent's fundamental liberty interest in child-rearing when the proceedings al… |
| 24-745 |
Montana, et al. v. Planned Parenthood of Montana, et al. |
Montana |
2025-01-14 |
Denied |
Amici (7)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
abortion-access judicial-bypass medical-decision-making minor-consent parental-rights privacy-rights |
Whether a parent's fundamental right to direct the care and custody of his or her children includes a right to know and participate in decisions conce… |
| 24-664 |
Joseph Rued v. Catrina Rued |
Minnesota |
2024-12-19 |
Denied |
|
child-custody constitutional-rights due-process judicial-doctrine parental-rights state-court-discretion |
Do state courts have discretion to misapply judicial doctrine in supersession of clear Constitutional requirements under U.S. Const. Amend. XIV §1, re… |
| 24A589 |
La Dell Grizzell, on Behalf of Her Minor Children v. San Elijo Elementary School, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-12-17 |
Presumed Complete |
|
access-to-courts constitutional-rights federal-jurisdiction minor-children parental-rights pro-se-litigation |
Whether a parent can bring a pro se civil rights action on behalf of minor children without retaining counsel, notwithstanding a categorical rule requ… |
| 24-6139 |
Alexis Carberry Benson, Individually and on Behalf of K. C. J., et al. v. Lancaster County School District, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-12-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process education-law in-forma-pauperis parental-rights pro-se-litigation |
Can a court deny in forma pauperis status after previously granting it in related cases, and should parents be accorded appointed counsel when filing … |
| 24-612 |
Paul A. Eknes-Tucker, et al. v. Steven T. Marshall, Attorney General of Alabama, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-12-04 |
Dismissed |
|
due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment medical-treatment parental-rights transgender-rights |
Whether Alabama's Treatment Ban triggers heightened scrutiny under the Equal Protection Clause and Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment for … |
| 24-566 |
Edgar Dale Dillon v. Westmoreland Department of Social Services |
Virginia |
2024-11-20 |
Denied |
|
child-removal due-process habeas-petition ineffective-assistance-of-counsel parental-rights state-action |
Whether the Virginia Supreme Court correctly applied due process rights in a child removal proceeding involving ineffective assistance of counsel and … |
| 24-6004 |
In Re Aliyah Monroe |
|
2024-11-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
child-custody due-process emergency-order-of-protection jurisdiction parental-rights uniform-child-custody-jurisdiction-enforcement-act |
Whether a state court's child custody determination violates due process and jurisdictional requirements when modifying an out-of-state emergency orde… |
| 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… |
| 24-5952 |
M. C. v. Washington State Department of Children, Youth & Families |
Washington |
2024-11-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-welfare constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment parental-rights procedural-deficiencies |
Whether the termination of parental rights without substantial evidence of unfitness violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment |
| 24A474 |
Blake Andrew Warner v. Hillsborough County School Board |
Eleventh Circuit |
2024-11-12 |
Presumed Complete |
|
access-to-courts child-representation counsel-mandate federal-litigation parental-rights pro-se-representation |
Whether parents have a constitutional right to represent their minor children pro se in federal court without being required to retain counsel |
| 24A415 |
Richard Rynn, et al. v. Daniel Washburn, et al. |
Arizona |
2024-10-29 |
Presumed Complete |
|
child-custody constitutional-rights due-process ex-parte-injunction parental-rights state-court |
Whether a state court can issue an ex parte child custody injunction without notice when there is no showing of imminent harm to the child |
| 24A377 |
Grace Wilson Marshall v. Benjamin Ryan Caudill |
Kentucky |
2024-10-21 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-violations due-process family-law judicial-bias parental-rights racial-discrimination |
Whether the Sixth and Fourteenth Amendments permit a state court to deprive a parent of custody and visitation rights based on alleged racial bias, pr… |
| 24-425 |
Jesse Rehbein, et al. v. Annette Rehbein, et al. |
Montana |
2024-10-16 |
Denied |
Amici (1) |
best-interest-standard child-custody due-process fourteenth-amendment parental-rights parenting-plan |
Whether a state statute allowing court-ordered parental interest without finding parental unfitness violates due process rights under the Fourteenth A… |
| 24-388 |
Kariann V. v. Maine Department of Health and Human Services |
Maine |
2024-10-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
appellate-procedure judicial-discretion legal-review parental-rights procedural-due-process state-supreme-court |
Whether a state supreme court can deny an appeal without addressing all legal questions presented when statutorily required to do so |
| 24-5669 |
Becky M. Peterson v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
2024-10-02 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
child-welfare court-procedure due-process family-law parental-rights reunification-services |
Whether the trial court erred in terminating parental rights without providing adequate reunification services and case plan documentation |
| 24-5680 |
P. H., Mother v. Cumberland County Children and Youth Services, et al. |
Pennsylvania |
2024-10-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment mental-health parental-rights state-court-action |
Was the state court's termination of parental rights based on mental health issues a violation of the fundamental constitutional right to parent under… |
| 24-5634 |
Camille A. Abboud v. Iryna Abboud |
Florida |
2024-09-25 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process judicial-misconduct parental-rights self-representation |
Whether a retired Army Colonel's constitutional and parental rights were systematically violated by Florida state and federal judges through prejudici… |
| 24-297 |
Tamer Mahmoud, et al. v. Thomas W. Taylor, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2024-09-16 |
Judgment Issued |
Amici (80)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
first-amendment-rights free-exercise-clause gender-instruction parental-rights religious-liberty school-curriculum |
Do public schools burden parents' religious exercise when they compel elementary school children to participate in instruction on gender and sexuality… |
| 24-261 |
Ammar A. Idlibi v. Mary-Margret D. Burgdorff, Judge, Middlesex Judicial District, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-09-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-exception discrimination-claim judicial-immunity parental-rights racial-animus religious-discrimination |
Whether constitutional exceptions should exist to judicial immunities in discrimination claims against judges |
| 24A245 |
Richard Rynn, Next Friend and Parent of M. R., a Minor v. Gregory A. McKay, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-09-06 |
Presumed Complete |
|
child-welfare constitutional-rights due-process fraud parental-rights state-agency |
Whether a state child welfare agency can be held liable for constitutional violations when making placement decisions based on allegedly fraudulent re… |
| 24A87 |
A.M.B., et al. v. Kelly J. McKnight, Presiding Judge, Circuit Court of Wisconsin, Ashland County |
Wisconsin |
2024-07-25 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-protection due-process family-association fundamental-liberty parental-rights state-court |
Whether a state court's termination of parental rights violates a parent's fundamental constitutional right to familial association without providing … |
| 24-5035 |
In Re Lionel Bailey |
|
2024-07-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
adoption adoption-rights child-custody civil-rights court-procedure due-process family-law illegitimate-child parental-notice parental-rights putative-father standing |
Whether the superior court of Brooks County limited the scope of the putative father's right to notice, hearing, and consent in the adoption of his il… |
| 24-22 |
Lauren N. Stone v. Theodore Worner, et al. |
Pennsylvania |
2024-07-09 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
child-custody due-process fourteenth-amendment fundamental-rights grandparent-visitation harm-to-child parental-rights strict-scrutiny |
Does Pennsylvania's Child Custody Act violate a fit parent's due-process-rights, |
| 24-5025 |
Delbert W. Hargis, Jr. v. Victoria A. Pritty-Pitcher |
New York |
2024-07-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-rights custody custody-determination due-process due-process-clause-14th-amendment family-law non-parent-custody parental-rights standing |
Whether the decision of the lower courts, which awarded full custody of a child to a nonparent due to the existence of a strong bond, violates the fun… |
| 23A1143 |
George Cleveland, III, et al. v. South Carolina Department of Social Services |
South Carolina |
2024-06-24 |
Presumed Complete |
|
child-welfare due-process fourteenth-amendment parental-rights procedural-protections termination-of-rights |
Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment requires meaningful procedural protections for parents facing potential termination of pare… |
| 23-7781 |
Timothy Dasler v. Jennifer Knapp, fka Dasler |
Vermont |
2024-06-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
best-interest-of-the-child constitutional-fairness domestic-relations due-process equitable-tolling judicial-discretion jurisdictional-limits Palmore-v-Sidoti parental-rights Troxel-v-Granville |
Equitable-tolling-of-jurisdictional-limits |
| 23-7712 |
C. B., Father v. Vermont Department for Children and Families |
Vermont |
2024-06-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
balancing-test bright-line-rule constitutional-protection due-process fundamental-right fundamental-rights government-intervention parental-rights termination-of-parental-rights |
Whether the fundamental right to conceive and raise children without government interference requires a more objective, bright-line protection similar… |
| 23-1280 |
Parents Protecting Our Children, UA v. Eau Claire Area School District, Wisconsin, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-06-07 |
Denied |
Amici (15)Relisted (8) |
civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process gender-identity parental-rights school-district-policy school-policy standing standing-doctrine student-privacy |
Do parents have standing to challenge a school district policy that usurps parental decision-making authority over a child's gender identity and keeps… |
| 23-7633 |
Deanne R. Upson Giese v. William Earl Wallace, III |
Maryland |
2024-06-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-custody civil-rights constitutional-protections due-process equal-protection equal-rights-amendment free-speech interstate-jurisdiction interstate-relations parent-child parental-rights |
Have the states of Maryland, District of Columbia, and Virginia violated the rights of this Mother and Child under the United States Constitution? |
| 23A1083 |
Justin G. Reedy v. California Department of Social Services, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-06-04 |
Presumed Complete |
|
custody-rights equal-protection gender-discrimination parental-rights social-services welfare-benefits |
Whether California's CalWORKs welfare regulations violate the Equal Protection Clause by creating disparate eligibility criteria for fathers and mothe… |
| 23-1254 |
Stephen Ollar, et al. v. District of Columbia, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2024-05-31 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
bodily-integrity evidence-fabrication fabricated-evidence fifth-amendment fourth-amendment medical-procedure parental-consent parental-rights seizure state-action |
Whether the Fourth Amendment assures parents that, painful-and-medically-unnecessary-procedures-of-their-child-will-not-be-undertaken-for-investigativ… |
| 23-7607 |
In Re Kurt A. Benshoof |
|
2024-05-31 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights domestic-relations-exception due-process federal-jurisdiction habeas-corpus judicial-proceedings parental-rights pro-se-rights unlawful-imprisonment |
Whether the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decided an important federal question regarding domestic-relations-exception in a way that conflicts with r… |
| 23-1244 |
Samuel Collin Robinson v. Katherine Lyman Freeman, fka Katherine Lyman Robinson |
Colorado |
2024-05-28 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
best-interest-of-the-child best-interest-standard child-custody constitutional-rights divorce-law due-process equal-protection family-law parental-rights parenting-time |
Does disparate allocation of parenting time under a best interest statute violate equal protection when both parents are equally fit? |
| 23-7548 |
In Re Kinley MacDonald |
|
2024-05-23 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
child-custody child-welfare civil-rights due-process family-law hearsay hearsay-evidence judicial-misconduct jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge parental-rights state-statute |
Can a trial court open and remove children in a 'protective custody' case based solely on hearsay accusations prohibited by state statute and in absen… |
| 23-7549 |
In Re Kinley MacDonald |
|
2024-05-23 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
child-custody child-welfare due-process family-rights hearsay hearsay-evidence judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction parental-rights standard-of-review state-court-procedure |
Whether a state court can remove children from a parent's custody based solely on hearsay allegations prohibited by state statute, in the absence of j… |
| 23-7498 |
Lawrence Byron Watson v. Pamerson Ifill, Commissioner of Probation, et al. |
First Circuit |
2024-05-17 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-prevention-order civil-rights constitutional-deficiency custody due-process in-custody legal-standing matthews-v-eldridge parental-rights |
Whether an individual who is a defendant of an abuse prevention order and whose parental rights are restricted or terminated is 'in custody' |
| 23-1203 |
Terpsehore Maras v. Mayfield City School District Board of Education, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-05-09 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction minors mootness mootness-doctrine parental-rights pro-se-representation pro-se-rights statutory-interpretation |
pro-se-rights,parental-rights,minors,mootness,civil-rights,due-process |
| 23-7314 |
S. C. v. Vermont |
Vermont |
2024-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-welfare clear-and-convincing due-process fourteenth-amendment hearsay hearsay-evidence parental-rights parental-unfitness santosky-standard santosky-v-kramer |
Whether Vermont's law allowing courts to terminate parental rights based on hearsay violates the Fourteenth Amendment |
| 23A950 |
Daniel Scott Robinson v. Supreme Court of Hawaii |
Hawaii |
2024-04-23 |
Presumed Complete |
|
best-interest-standard constitutional-rights due-process family-court judicial-misconduct parental-rights |
Whether a state family court's application of the 'Best Interest' standard violates a parent's constitutional rights to due process and equal protecti… |
| 23A879 |
C. B., Father v. Vermont Department for Children and Families |
Vermont |
2024-04-03 |
Presumed Complete |
|
child-witnesses due-process hearsay-evidence parental-rights procedural-safeguards termination-of-rights |
Whether the Due Process Clause requires states to provide parents with an opportunity to challenge hearsay evidence and cross-examine witnesses before… |
| 23-7092 |
Kinley MacDonald v. Michael Duddy, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2024-03-28 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process family-law foster-care hearsay parental-rights state-agency |
Can a state court prohibit a family's statutory right to communicate, visit, and reunify solely based on hearsay accusations? |
| 23-963 |
Jean Dominique Morancy v. Sabrina Alex Salomon |
Florida |
2024-03-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
appellate-review civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fraud judicial-discretion judicial-jurisdiction parental-rights per-curiam-affirmed racketeering standing state-court-procedure |
Does Florida's legal scheme violate constitutional rights by not allowing its state Supreme Court to review a Per Curiam Affirmed decision without an … |
| 23-964 |
Filip Hanik v. Teresa Hanik |
Washington |
2024-03-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment child-custody constitutional-rights due-process family-law parental-rights vitek-v-jones youngberg-v-romeo |
May a state court order a transfer of child custody by cloaking it as 'therapy'? |
| 23-6792 |
In Re Kinley MacDonald |
|
2024-02-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
abstention child-abuse child-custody child-welfare civil-rights due-process family-law parental-rights standing state-court-jurisdiction |
Whether state residents can be prohibited from intervening in child custody cases based solely on hearsay accusations, while the same state is involve… |
| 23-6760 |
In Re Kinley MacDonald |
|
2024-02-15 |
Dismissed |
Relisted (2)IFP |
child-custody child-welfare civil-rights due-process family-law judicial-procedure jurisdiction parental-rights standing state-intervention |
Can a State Trial Court open a CHINS proceeding against Defendant without the pre-requisite family/dating/household relationship + persistent conduct … |
| 23-6762 |
In Re Kinley MacDonald |
|
2024-02-15 |
Dismissed |
Relisted (2)IFP |
abuse-neglect child-custody civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process family-law parental-rights standing state-intervention |
Whether a state trial court can open a PFA proceeding against a defendant without the requisite family/household relationship and persistent conduct r… |
| 23A750 |
E.R. v. Colorado, In the Interest of S.M. and E.M., Children |
Colorado |
2024-02-15 |
Presumed Complete |
|
dependency-and-neglect domestic-violence mental-health parental-rights substance-abuse termination |
Whether a state court can terminate parental rights based on historical substance abuse, domestic violence, and mental health concerns without providi… |
| 23-6669 |
S.C., et vir, v. Texas Department of Protective and Regulatory Services |
Texas |
2024-02-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
appointed-counsel asfa-compliance dismissal-date due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-counsel parental-rights procedural-fairness texas-family-code venue-transfer |
Whether the denial of appointed counsel for indigent parents harmed them and their children, violated due process, and deprived them of their parental… |
| 23-6646 |
Dana Albrecht v. Katherine Albrecht |
New Hampshire |
2024-02-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
child-custody civil-procedure civil-rights domestic-violence due-process equal-protection family-law fourteenth-amendment parental-rights |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment requires a timely hearing on the enforcement of a child custody decree |
| 23-6604 |
Nicole Johnson v. Massachusetts Department of Children and Families |
Massachusetts |
2024-01-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
7th-amendment best-interests child-custody due-process jury-trial massachusetts-rule-38 parental-rights sua-sponte termination termination-of-parental-rights |
Whether the petitioner's right to due process and 7th amendment right and Massachusetts rule 38 Jury Trial of Right was violated |
| 23-6338 |
Marc Fishman v. New York |
New York |
2023-12-22 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights due-process judicial-procedure notice notice-requirement opportunity-to-be-heard order-of-protection parental-rights parenting procedural-due-process right-to-bear-arms |
Whether New York State's statutory framework violates procedural due process |
| 23A568 |
Deanne R. Upson Giese v. William Earl Wallace, III |
Maryland |
2023-12-19 |
Presumed Complete |
|
child-custody constitutional-rights equal-rights-amendment gender-discrimination parental-rights strict-scrutiny |
Whether the Equal Rights Amendment requires strict scrutiny for gender-based discrimination claims involving child custody and parental rights |
| 23-6214 |
Sealed v. Sealed |
Florida |
2023-12-11 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
appellate-procedure constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fair-proceeding judicial-review manifest-injustice parental-rights |
Does the decision of the Florida State Courts to deny the Petitioner opportunity for belated appeal of the Lower Court's decision to terminate her par… |
| 23-6215 |
D. E. v. Russell County Department of Human Resources |
Alabama |
2023-12-11 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
biological-parent child-custody clear-and-convincing-evidence dependency-proceedings due-process ore-tenus-rule parental-rights substantive-due-process |
Whether the State violates the Due Process Clause when it assumes initial custody of a child from an involved biological parent utilizing dependency p… |
| 23-601 |
John and Jane Parents 1, et al. v. Montgomery County Board of Education, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-12-05 |
Denied |
Amici (10)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (5) |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process gender-transition injunctive-relief parental-rights policy public-school school-policy standing standing-doctrine |
When a public school, by policy, expressly targets parents to deceive them about how the school will treat their minor children, do parents have stand… |
| 23-581 |
Joey D. Thompson v. Asia Thompson |
Tennessee |
2023-11-30 |
Denied |
|
child-custody family-law interstate-jurisdiction jurisdiction minor minor-rights parens-patriae parental-rights state-authority |
Does the State of Tennessee have jurisdiction over the minor child 'A. T.'? |
| 23A488 |
Dana Albrecht v. Katherine Albrecht |
New Hampshire |
2023-11-29 |
Presumed Complete |
|
domestic-violence fourteenth-amendment judicial-misconduct liberty-interests parental-rights restraining-order |
Whether a civil domestic violence restraining order issued without objective standards violates a parent's fundamental liberty interests under the Fou… |
| 23-6055 |
Debora D. v. John D., et al. |
California |
2023-11-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
custody due-process ex-parte ex-parte-orders idea-law jurisdiction parental-rights special-education state-encroachment |
Did the court make a mistake rendering orders on an ex-parte basis? |
| 23-6035 |
In Re Kinley MacDonald |
|
2023-11-16 |
Dismissed |
Relisted (2)IFP |
child-custody civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection family-law hearsay parental-rights standing state-federal-relations |
Can a judge of two appeal courts open a child protective custody case based solely on hearsay accusations prohibited by state law, then set bail/bond … |
| 23-492 |
Jane Doe 1, et al. v. Kentucky, ex rel. Russell Coleman, Attorney General of Kentucky |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-11-09 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Relisted (14) |
due-process equal-protection heightened-scrutiny medical-treatment parental-rights rational-basis-review sex-classification transgender transgender-rights |
Whether the Kentucky treatment ban on certain medical treatments for transgender minors should be subject to heightened scrutiny under the Due Process… |
| 23-466 |
L. W., By and Through Her Parents and Next Friends, Samantha Williams and Brian Williams, et al. v. Jonathan Skrmetti, Attorney General and Reporter for Tennessee, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-11-02 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Relisted (14) |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection gender-affirming-care heightened-scrutiny medical-autonomy medical-care parental-rights transgender transgender-rights |
Whether Tennessee's SB1 violates the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection Clause and Due Process Clause |
| 23-450 |
M. C., et vir v. Indiana Department of Child Services |
Indiana |
2023-10-30 |
Denied |
Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
14th-amendment child-custody due-process first-amendment free-exercise free-speech parental-rights prior-restraint |
Whether a prior restraint barring a religious parent's speech about the topic of sex and gender with their child while allowing and even requiring spe… |
| 23-451 |
Geoffrey Hamilton Woodward v. Sarah Edge Woodward |
Tennessee |
2023-10-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
can condition a fit parent's ability to have any consistent with the Due Process Clause child-custody compelling-interest due-process family-court family-law medical-treatment mental-health parental-rights state-interest state-intervention |
Whether a court can condition a fit parent's ability to have any contact with his child on unwanted medical treatment without finding that the treatme… |
| 23-5866 |
James Allen Brickley, Jr. v. Marie Laurence Gloria Joseph-Stephen |
Texas |
2023-10-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
best-interest best-interest-standard civil-procedure due-process evidentiary-sufficiency judicial-discretion parental-rights pro-se-litigation standing termination termination-proceedings |
Sufficiency of evidence to terminate parental rights |
| 23-5831 |
Roberto Carlos Mendives, Individually and On Behalf of His Four Minor Children, R. C. M., II, M. A. M., G. L. M., and E. F. M. v. Bexar County, Texas, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-10-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-custody civil-rights due-process family-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment parens-patriae parental-rights standing strict-scrutiny |
Whether this court should overrule the fact that the state court has separated a fit parent from his/her minor children without an adjudication hearin… |
| 23-358 |
Keith Andrews v. Jarred Brandon Kinnett, et al. |
Louisiana |
2023-10-04 |
Denied |
|
biological-paternity deception due-process family-law filiation-petition fundamental-rights marital-presumption notice parental-rights paternity |
Does a biological father have a right to notice of paternity before prescription or peremption extinguishes his right to avow paternity? |
| 23A244 |
John Doe v. Bill Crouch, in His Official Capacity as Cabinet Secretary of West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2023-09-14 |
Presumed Complete |
|
birth-certificates equal-protection fourteenth-amendment gestational-surrogacy parental-rights sex-discrimination |
Whether a state statute that presumes maternity based solely on gestation and refuses to recognize biological mothers as legal mothers when children a… |
| 23A177 |
Geoffrey Hamilton Woodward v. Sarah Edge Woodward |
Tennessee |
2023-08-25 |
Presumed Complete |
|
compelled-medical-procedures due-process-clause family-court medical-treatment parental-contact parental-rights |
Whether the Due Process Clause permits a family court to compel unwanted medical treatment as a condition of allowing a fit parent to maintain contact… |
| 23-5425 |
Marlon Abraham Rosasen v. Thea Marie Rosasen |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights due-process emotional-abuse ex-parte-order habitual-residence hague-convention international-child-abduction parental-rights return-remedy |
Whether the order to vacate trial ex-parte in chambers, revoking granted oral arguments and cross examination, was constitutional |
| 23-161 |
Megan Kathryn Sullivan v. Amanda Marie Seaton |
Georgia |
2023-08-18 |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment adoption child-custody due-process family-law fourteenth-amendment judicial-review parental-rights step-parent-adoption termination-of-rights |
Does a State violate a fit mother's 14th Amendment due process rights? |
| 23-151 |
Richard Rynn, et al. v. UHS of Phoenix, LLC, et al. |
Arizona |
2023-08-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights compensation due-process parental-rights standing |
Can court judgement be entirely untrue, refer to a previous vague judgement in dispute from an ex parte dependency case in violation of due process? |
| 23-152 |
Alicia Lowe, et al. v. Janet T. Mills, Governor of Maine, et al. |
First Circuit |
2023-08-16 |
Denied |
|
Can a court judgment be entirely untrue and violat child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process ex-parte legal-standing parental-rights preemption religious-accommodation supremacy-clause title-vii undue-hardship |
Whether compliance with state laws directly contrary to Title VII's requirement to provide a reasonable accommodation may serve as an undue hardship j… |
| 23-153 |
Richard Rynn, Next Friend and Parent of M. R., a Minor v. David Lujan, Individually and in His Official Capacity as the Director of the Arizona Department of Child Safety, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-08-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
child-custody civil-rights color-of-law constitutional-rights contract custody due-process judicial-authorization parental-rights |
Does court err omitting facts, dismissing Defendants that kidnapped child, interfered in legal custody, interfered in parental-rights, with actions-un… |
| 23-87 |
Cody A. Craig v. Emma R. Solorzano |
Maine |
2023-07-31 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process first-amendment free-exercise judicial-discretion parental-rights religious-freedom |
Does a court decision limiting parental rights based on disapproval of a parent's religious views violate the Free Exercise Clause? |
| 23-79 |
Palani Karupaiyan v. Lee Solomon, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-07-27 |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment civil-procedure due-process national-importance parental-rights property-rights section-1982 takings writ-of-mandamus |
Whether the Supreme Court should grant certiorari to address the issues of national importance, property-rights, parental-rights, due-process, takings… |
| 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 |
Can a trial court open and remove children in a 'preserve custody' case based solely on hearsay allegations prohibited by state statute in secret and … |
| 23-5151 |
Tony A. Berger v. Wood County Sheriff's Department, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2023-07-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
brady-rule consent-to-search due-process exculpatory-evidence law-enforcement-authority minor-interrogation parental-rights prosecutorial-misconduct search-and-seizure witness-credibility |
Whether assistant district attorneys have authority to deny exculpatory evidence |
| 23A47 |
Bronson McClelland v. Katy Independent School District, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-07-18 |
Presumed Complete |
|
due-process first-amendment municipal-liability parental-rights school-discipline student-speech |
Whether the Fifth Circuit properly applied First Amendment and parental rights precedent in evaluating a school district's disciplinary action, and wh… |
| 23A32 |
M.C., et vir v. Indiana Department of Child Services |
Indiana |
2023-07-13 |
Presumed Complete |
|
child-custody first-amendment free-speech fundamental-liberty-interest parental-rights prior-restraint |
Whether a state court order removing a child from parental custody and enjoining parents from discussing transgenderism with their child violates the … |
| 23-5073 |
Cinque Robinson v. Janeen D. Guajardo |
Illinois |
2023-07-12 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review constitutional-rights due-process justiciable-controversy parental-rights parenting-time procedural-error subject-matter-jurisdiction void-order |
Did the Appellate Court of Illinois, First District err in not vacating the abatement of my parenting time |
| 22-7874 |
Joshua Piland, et ux. v. Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, et al. |
Michigan |
2023-06-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-welfare due-process faith-based family-division governmental-interest least-restrictive-means natural-family parental-rights social-contract social-pact |
Should parents be able to appeal jurisdiction in a termination case? |
| 22-1204 |
William Muhr v. Dawna Braswell |
Colorado |
2023-06-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
child-custody conflict-of-interest due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-assignment judicial-bias judicial-disqualification parental-rights |
Whether Petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment rights to due-process,equal-protection were violated when Colorado allowed disqualified,prejudiced Chief Jud… |
| 22-7751 |
David Paul Bickford v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2023-06-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
charging-document child-photography child-pornography constitutional-law first-amendment new-york-v-ferber obscenity-standard parental-rights sexual-exploitation statutory-interpretation |
If the First Amendment case of New York v Ferber, 458 US 747 (1982), describes the essential elements required for 'all legislation in [the] sensitive… |
| 22-1156 |
Donnitta Sinclair, Mother of Horace Lorenzo Anderson, Jr., Deceased v. City of Seattle, Washington |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-05-30 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
age-of-majority child-companionship civil-rights companionship constitutional-dimension constitutional-rights due-process parental-rights standing |
Whether parental rights to the companionship of a child retains its constitutional dimension after the child reaches the age of majority |
| 22-1119 |
M. B. v. D. L. |
New Jersey |
2023-05-16 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment constitutional-interpretation due-process family-law grandparent-visitation judicial-precedent legislative-authority parental-rights state-sovereignty troxel-v-granville |
Should this Court's decision in Troxel et vir v. Granville, 530 U.S. 57 (2000) be reversed and the issue of grandparent visitation be returned to the … |
| 22-7430 |
Debora D. v. John D., et al. |
California |
2023-05-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process idea idea-protections jurisdiction parental-rights procedural-safeguards special-education standing |
Did the California Court act in Obstruction of the Federal Individuals Disabilities Act (IDEA) Jurisdiction and Protections? |
| 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 |
| 22-7002 |
J. T. v. Maryland |
Maryland |
2023-03-13 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abandonment-neglect-abuse child-welfare due-process fourteenth-amendment incarceration parental-rights statutory-interpretation termination-of-parental-rights vagueness |
Does Maryland's 'best interest of the child' standard conflict with the 'clear and convincing evidence' standard that protects liberty interests throu… |
| 22-6944 |
Paige C. Sullivan, nka Paige C. Auer v. Jacob James Culwell |
Florida |
2023-03-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
constitutional-law constitutional-protection custody custody-dispute de-facto-parenthood due-process family-law fourteenth-amendment liberty-interest parental-rights standing |
Whether a natural parent has a fundamental liberty interest in the care, custody, and management of her child |
| 22-6672 |
J. M. v. Oregon Department of Human Services |
Oregon |
2023-02-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure covid-19-restrictions due-process parental-rights remote-proceedings statutory-rights technical-interference technical-issues termination-of-parental-rights video-trial |
parental-rights-termination |
| 22-6618 |
Josiah E. v. Arizona Department of Child Safety, et al. |
Arizona |
2023-01-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law civil-procedure civil-rights covid-19-impact due-process fourteenth-amendment parental-rights pretrial-detainee standing statutory-interpretation termination-proceeding |
Whether the lower court erred in its application of the Ruloyed Cases 995.3 and A |
| 22-6551 |
Palani Karupaiyan v. Township of Woodbridge, New Jersey, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-01-17 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process judicial-review legal-remedy mandamus municipal-court parental-rights procedural-relief prohibition standing takings writ |
Whether the petitioner's requested writs of mandamus, prohibition, or alternative relief were properly denied by the lower courts |
| 22-6499 |
DeJuan B. Thornton-Bey v. Warden, Allenwood USP |
Third Circuit |
2023-01-09 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights custody due-process parental-rights standing |
Whether the due process clause requires the government to provide counsel to indigent parents in civil child custody proceedings |
| 22-6333 |
N. P. v. Vermont, et al. |
Vermont |
2022-12-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
best-interests child-welfare due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment parental-rights santosky-standard unfitness |
Whether Vermont's parental rights termination standards violate the Fourteenth Amendment |
| 22-6294 |
Keith Strom v. Douglas Mitchell, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2022-12-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
child-support due-process family-law parent-child-relationships parental-rights poverty state-intervention state-involvement welfare-interests |
Should the State be allowed to impose child support payments that result in unavoidable poverty and severely damaged child-parent relationships? |
| 22-516 |
R. M. C., III v. J. D. L. |
Colorado |
2022-12-05 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
adoption adoption-law child-welfare civil-rights custody custody-order due-process family-law parental-rights state-jurisdiction state-power |
Whether a state may require an adoptive parent to comply with a custody order issued prior to his adoption of the child without due process |
| 22-5806 |
Jessica Lynne Gould v. Isaiah Ben Johnson |
Missouri |
2022-10-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
4th-amendment child's-passport due-process fourth-amendment international-travel parental-rights passport-restriction state-court-authority state-courts warrantless-seizure |
Does the 4th Amendment protect parents against the warrantless seizure of their child's passport by state courts |
| 22-311 |
Michael Vechery v. Florence Cottet-Moine |
Virginia |
2022-10-03 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
child-abuse child-custody child-neglect child-visitation due-process family-court fourteenth-amendment parental-rights protective-order |
Does the Due Process Clause require a finding of child abuse or unfitness to terminate all parent-child contact? |
| 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? |
| 22-271 |
M. N. v. A. A., et al. |
Kentucky |
2022-09-22 |
Denied |
|
abandonment dobbs-precedent dobbs-v-jackson due-process evidentiary-standard fourteenth-amendment kentucky parental-rights vagueness |
whether-ky-rev-stat-ann-§-199.502-violates-the-fourteenth-amendment's-due-process-clause |
| 22-5622 |
Todd Matthew Phillips v. Amber Phillips, nka Amber Korpark |
Nevada |
2022-09-20 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process evidentiary-standard family-court family-law parental-rights standing subject-matter-jurisdiction |
whether-wife-has-standing-to-act-as-private-prosecutor-against-husband |
| 22-5595 |
L. B. v. Washington State Department of Children, Youth & Families |
Washington |
2022-09-16 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process parental-rights preponderance-of-evidence preponderance-of-the-evidence santosky-precedent Santosky-v-Kramer |
Did the state of Washington violate Mr. Baker's 14th-amendment-rights by terminating his parental-rights under a preponderance-of-the-evidence-standar… |
| 22-5357 |
Deanna D. v. Tennessee Department of Children's Services |
Tennessee |
2022-08-16 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
child-welfare civil-rights due-process ex-parte-order iv-e-funding parental-rights removal state-intervention |
What is the purpose of the removal of children from the mother's care when there is no reason for the removal? |
| 22-5114 |
Jasmaine H. v. Arizona Department of Child Safety, et al. |
Arizona |
2022-07-15 |
Denied |
IFP |
child-welfare civil-rights clear-and-convincing-evidence due-process fair-trial family-law fourteenth-amendment parental-rights |
Did the Arizona Department of Child Safety violate Mother's Fourteenth Amendment right to Due Process and deprive her of her fundamental right to pare… |
| 22-5085 |
Palani Karupaiyan, et al. v. L. Naganda, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-07-13 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights conjugal-rights constitutional-rights contempt-of-court family-court-procedure judicial-fraud judicial-immunity obstruction-of-justice parental-rights |
Did the USCA 3rd circuit fail to vacate the Dist Court's sua sponte dismissal of the complaint/FAC/SAC? |
| 22-12 |
D. H. v. West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources, et al. |
West Virginia |
2022-07-05 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment burden-of-proof child-welfare due-process parental-rights state-intervention |
Whether the termination of a natural mother's parental rights based on her refusal to confess to allegations when the state bears the burden of proof … |
| 22-5021 |
Palani Karupaiyan v. L. Naganda, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2022-07-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment civil-rights conjugal-rights due-process false-arrest guardian-ad-litem injunctive-relief parental-rights pro-bono-counsel right-of-access-to-courts |
Question not identified |
| 21-1610 |
Paula Steven v. Federal Way School District |
Washington |
2022-06-29 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment parental-rights racial-discrimination school-access school-segregation truancy-law |
Whether a Black mother of a public school student has a Fourteenth Amendment right to walk her student through the main entrance and not receive truan… |
| 21-8235 |
Joshua Dicks v. Natasha Davis |
Arkansas |
2022-06-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
attorney-diligence civil-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment indigent-litigants parental-rights pro-se pro-se-litigant waiver-of-appeal |
Whether the Arkansas Court's application of 'attorney diligence' waiver of right to appeal rules to pro se litigants in private termination of parenta… |
| 21-1467 |
Archie McCoy v. Hawaii Department of Human Services, et al. |
Hawaii |
2022-05-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
constructive-service due-process fourteenth-amendment indigent-representation legal-notice parental-rights service-of-process termination-proceedings |
Does the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause require further efforts by the government to locate an absent father before permitting constructive… |
| 21-1432 |
K. S., Father v. Iowa Department of Human Services, et al. |
Iowa |
2022-05-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection juvenile-court parental-rights procedural-hearing standing termination-of-rights |
Does the consolidated hearing violate petitioner's rights to procedural-due-process, substantive-due-process, equal-protection |
| 21-7595 |
O. C. v. V. C. |
Ohio |
2022-04-12 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
14th-amendment custody custody-order due-process equal-protection evidence evidence-exclusion judicial-procedure parental-rights |
Did the appellate court deny O.C. due process-and-equal-protection |
| 21-1212 |
Linsay Lorine Gatsby, nka Linsay Lorine Wallace v. Kylee Diane Gatsby |
Idaho |
2022-03-07 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
child-custody civil-rights due-process equal-protection family-law fundamental-rights parental-rights same-sex-marriage |
Whether both members of a same-sex married couple have the same fundamental right as opposite-sex married couples to participate in the care, custody,… |
| 21-1205 |
Eric E. v. Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services |
California |
2022-03-03 |
Denied |
|
child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process family-law jury-trial mootness-doctrine parental-rights standing state-action |
Whether a parent has a constitutional right to a jury trial in a child custody proceeding initiated by the state |
| 21-7248 |
John Garcia v. Melissa Robinson |
Arizona |
2022-03-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
child-custody constitutional-rights court-order due-process evidence judicial-bias judicial-determination parental-rights parenting-plan trial-procedure |
Does a judge's pre-determination on the record prior to reviewing the evidence at trial violate a constitutional right to due process? |
| 21-1152 |
Michael A. Deem v. Lorna M. DiMella-Deem |
New York |
2022-02-22 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
attorney-for-children constitutional-violation court-appointed-attorney court-appointed-counsel custody-dispute due-process free-speech parental-rights takings-clause |
Does appointment of an attorney for the children over a fit father's objection violate his right to parental-relations? |
| 21-7167 |
M. D. v. Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services, Child and Family Services Division, et al. |
Montana |
2022-02-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection parental-rights standing |
Why was TL not afforded rights to due process? |
| 21-7168 |
Ilya Liviz v. Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2022-02-22 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
care-and-protection civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process family-law judicial-procedure jury-trial parental-rights standing |
Whether right to parent of biological parents' can be terminated by a single judge and statutorily transferred to foster parents when a parent raises … |
| 21-7107 |
Nina Lynn Nowlan v. Bruce Gerald Randall Nowlan |
Fourth Circuit |
2022-02-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-custody civil-procedure fourth-circuit habitual-residence hague-convention international-law parental-rights wrongful-removal |
Whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit erred as a matter of law by affirming the district court's ruling that Canada had be… |
| 21-1088 |
Jose Luis Alvarez v. Gabriel Pinon |
Washington |
2022-02-07 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
best-interest-standard child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights custody-determination due-process family-law family-life fundamental-liberty-interest parental-rights standing |
Whether the state court erred by looking to the best interest of the child as the basis for granting nonparental custody when it is insufficient to ov… |
| 21-1045 |
I. M. v. Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services, et al. |
Maryland |
2022-01-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
child-custody due-process forum-shopping international-law jurisdiction minimum-contacts parental-rights uccjea |
Whether the UCCJEA comports with the Due Process Clause, where it subjects an international parent to termination of parental rights, where the parent… |
| 21-6943 |
Ms. T. v. Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services |
Maryland |
2022-01-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-separation child-welfare discrimination due-process family-law judicial-discretion mental-health mental-health-discrimination parental-rights |
Whether the Montgomery County and Appeal Courts erred in not considering the fact that the petitioner had been mentally stable for 4 years |
| 21-6782 |
A. M., aka A. G. v. Colorado, In the Interest of J. G. and C. G., Children |
Colorado |
2022-01-10 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
best-interest-of-child best-interest-standard child-custody constitutional-rights due-process family-law fundamental-liberty fundamental-rights non-parent-standing parental-rights standing |
Whether it infringes on a fit parent's fundamental constitutional rights to, in the absence of clear and convincing evidence of unfitness or harm caus… |
| 21-964 |
Sherrie Rye v. Lucas County Department of Job and Family Services |
Ohio |
2022-01-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
adoption-and-safe-families-act burden-of-proof child-welfare civil-rights due-process family-law parental-rights santosky-standard standard-of-proof termination-of-parental-rights |
Should the Court expand the minimum burden of proof to terminate parental rights to a standard of proof beyond reasonable doubt and prohibit burden-sh… |
| 21-6694 |
Lawrence S. Brantley, Jr. v. Texas Department of Family and Protective Services |
Texas |
2021-12-22 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
abuse-of-discretion clear-and-convincing Colorado-v-New-Mexico due-process evidence-standard legal-precedent parental-rights trial-court-discretion witness-testimony |
Did the trial court abuse its discretion by allowing a witness with no firsthand knowledge to testify, conflicting with Oakley v. State? |
| 21-6699 |
J. T. v. Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services |
Maryland |
2021-12-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
best-interests-of-child child-welfare due-process family-law family-separation mental-health mental-stability parental-rights standing |
Why the Court of Appeal did not consider the fact that I have been mentally stable for more than 3 years and am dedicated to maintain this status? |
| 21-797 |
Serge Matthew Aluker v. Simin Yan, aka Simin Aluker |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-11-30 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
child-abduction custody-agreement custody-rights fourth-circuit habitual-residence hague-child-abduction-convention hague-convention international-law parental-agreement parental-rights treaty-interpretation |
Whether the Fourth Circuit's decision improperly wrote out the Article 3 requirement of the Hague Child Abduction Convention that a parental agreement… |
| 21-804 |
Philippe Zogbe Zatta v. Steven Charles Eldred, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-11-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
child-support civil-rights constitutional-violation due-process fraud immunity parental-rights rooker-feldman-doctrine state-jurisdiction |
Whether Petitioner can be prosecuted for not providing support to his child |
| 21-6296 |
James Paul Desper v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-11-16 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-welfare civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process familial-association parental-rights prison-regulations prison-visitation |
Whether a prison's indefinite ban on visitation between a minor child and her parent without any particularized justification violates the right of fa… |
| 21-6108 |
Paradise L. v. Arizona Department of Child Safety, et al. |
Arizona |
2021-10-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
attorney-general clear-and-convincing-evidence constitutional-rights due-process evidence-standard fourteenth-amendment parental-rights termination-of-rights witness-exclusion |
Whether the termination of mother's parental rights was supported by clear and convincing evidence as required by the due process clause |
| 21-5882 |
Jessica W. v. Administration for Children's Services |
New York |
2021-10-04 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment child-custody constitutional-rights due-process evidence family-court fourteenth-amendment parental-rights procedural-error |
Did the New York County Family Court meet due process and evidence standards in their determinations against the petitioner in disposition of two conj… |
| 21-5621 |
In Re Patrick Disanto |
|
2021-09-08 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
abuse-allegations child-custody civil-rights conflict-of-interest disability-rights due-process family-law judicial-bias judicial-hearing-officer parental-rights standing |
Does the judicial hearing officer possess the ability to view the complicated case from a non-biased perspective, without expressing his own misogyny … |
| 21-141 |
Jaimee Carole Finley v. Jon Mark Finley |
California |
2021-08-03 |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment child-custody constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection family-court parental-rights state-discretion |
Whether the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment requires that parents have an automatic 50/50 share in parental time and responsibility abse… |
| 21-5197 |
T. A. S., Father of R. A. S., a Minor Child v. Florida Department of Children and Families |
Florida |
2021-07-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-custody civil-rights due-process ex-parte family-association no-contact-order parental-rights termination-of-parental-rights termination-of-rights |
Is there any way possible that a permanent 'No Contact Order' sanctioned against BOTH my son and I since Sept. 2015 coupled with the maternal half sis… |
| 21-5206 |
S. J., Mother of A. C. and A. W., Each a Minor Child v. Department of Children and Families |
Florida |
2021-07-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-counsel civil-procedure due-process equal-protection indigent indigent-representation meaningful-review parental-rights |
Whether an indigent Mother whose parental rights are terminated is denied equal protection and due process of law |
| 21-87 |
Jeffrey Angelo Campbell v. Sylvia Betta-Cole, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-07-22 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment child-custody civil-rights due-process family-law federal-jurisdiction parental-rights section-1983 state-court-jurisdiction state-courts |
Whether a parent has a right to visitation and a case plan when there is no proof of life-threatening issues |
| 21-50 |
D. R. S. v. D. P. H. L., et al. |
Florida |
2021-07-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
child-welfare civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection family-law fourteenth-amendment government-overreach interstate-commerce parental-rights |
Should the Government have the sole and final say on the Frankensteining of the American Family? |
| 21-32 |
Elizabeth C. v. Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services |
California |
2021-07-09 |
Denied |
|
child-custody clear-and-convincing-evidence due-process fourteenth-amendment parental-rights santosky-v-kramer state-intervention termination-of-parental-rights |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment due process requirement articulated in Santosky v Kramer requires a finding of parental unfitness by clear and convin… |
| 20-8411 |
C. T. v. Orange County Social Services Agency |
California |
2021-06-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
4th-amendment 6th-amendment child-endangerment child-welfare civil-rights due-process fourth-amendment medical-privacy medical-treatment parental-rights sixth-amendment |
Does the act of forcefully administering psychotropic medications to a child before trial violate the IV and VI amendments in the absence of a court o… |
| 20-1718 |
Samuel H. Sloan v. Maria Childress, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2021-06-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
child-custody interstate-custody judicial-immunity judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction new-york parental-rights religious-freedom supreme-court third-parties virginia |
Where may a family court take jurisdiction over a child custody case |
| 20-1516 |
Veronica V. Badescu v. Catalin S. Badescu |
Ohio |
2021-04-29 |
Denied |
|
best-interest-standard child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process family-law parental-rights standing state-interest vagueness |
Precisely what constitutes a compelling state interest justifying deprivation of a fit parent's—and primary right to legal and physical custody of her… |
| 20-1375 |
Kristina Box, Commissioner, Indiana Department of Health, et al. v. Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky, Inc. |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-04-01 |
GVR |
Amici (7)Relisted (2) |
abortion abortion-rights best-interests civil-rights constitutional-privacy constitutional-rights due-process judicial-bypass minor-consent minors parental-notification parental-rights |
Whether a state may require parental notice before a minor's abortion except where such notice would contravene her best interests |
| 20-7514 |
Aimee Johnson v. St. Louis County Public Health & Human Services, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-03-19 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
bias child-welfare civil-rights due-process fair-trial fraud-allegations ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel judicial-bias parental-rights recusal |
Can a judge preside over a case when he or she is biased? Or when they are friends with the parties involved? Can a person have a fair trial when they… |
| 20-7196 |
Kristy Renee Rasnick v. Dickenson County Department of Social Services |
Virginia |
2021-02-23 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-procedure civil-rights constitutional-protection counsel counsel-representation due-process parental-rights state-court state-court-appeal statutory-interpretation |
Whether Petitioner was deprived her constitutional right affording her due process |
| 20-1068 |
Jorel Shophar v. Johnson County, Kansas, et al. |
Kansas |
2021-02-04 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
child-protective-services civil-rights county-judges due-process eleventh-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-immunity parental-rights pro-se-litigation standing |
Is the enjoyment of the Eleventh Amendment Immunity for County judge's contradictory to Fourteenth Amendment for U.S. Citizens, when County Judges int… |
| 20-1005 |
Sara Dees v. San Diego County, California |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-01-26 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
42-usc-1983 child-seizure civil-rights due-process family-law fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment liberty-interest parental-rights section-1983 |
Is a parent's Fourteenth Amendment liberty interest in the care, custody, control, and management of their child violated when government authorities … |
| 20-848 |
D. A. S. v. Madison County Department of Human Resources |
Alabama |
2020-12-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
addiction-treatment due-process federal-law federal-regulations medicaid medicaid-expansion parental-rights remote-participation |
Whether the denial of a parent's request to participate remotely in a trial adjudicating parental rights violates due process |
| 20-849 |
P. F. v. J. S., et al. |
Kansas |
2020-12-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
adoption adoption-law biological-parenthood constitutional-standard due-process evolving-family-landscape family-dynamics family-rights gender-assumptions liberty-rights parental-rights |
Can the 'biology-plus' standard still be considered constitutional when it can no longer be justly applied? |
| 20-6602 |
Wayne Boucher v. Deanne Lyons |
New Hampshire |
2020-12-10 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
abuse child-custody domestic-dispute due-process equal-protection evidence-exclusion family-law guardian-ad-litem judicial-bias parental-rights |
What is best for E.B. |
| 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? |
| 20-614 |
Thomas D. Kerr v. Heidi L. Kerr |
Montana |
2020-11-06 |
Denied |
|
child-rearing constitutional-guarantees constitutional-law due-process equal-protection family-law gender-discrimination parental-rights parenting supreme-court-review |
Can the Montana Supreme Court ignore the unjustifiable and inexplicable decisions of the lower court discriminate against a father for no other discer… |
| 20-618 |
Kelly Georgene Routten v. John Tyler Routten |
North Carolina |
2020-11-06 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process family-law parental-rights standing state-courts state-intervention |
Does due process require a finding that a parent is unfit before a State denies that parent all visitation with their child? |
| 20-6128 |
Ilya Liviz v. Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts |
Massachusetts |
2020-10-26 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process family-law jury-trial parental-rights patent-claims state-procedure |
Does CL have a right to a jury trial when the state seeks to terminate parental rights? |
| 20-6064 |
Alan Justin Smith v. Washington |
Washington |
2020-10-20 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights custodial-rights due-process evidence-procedure family-law hague-convention parental-rights substantive-due-process wrongful-removal |
Whether the incommunicado detention of natural custodial children |
| 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 |
Whether prolonged 'temporary' foster placement violated federal law and the Petitioner's constitutional rights |
| 20-452 |
S. S., Mother v. D. S., et al. |
Pennsylvania |
2020-10-08 |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment adoption amish-education best-interest-of-the-child best-interest-standard child-welfare constitutional-protections due-process equal-protection fundamental-liberty-interest parental-rights |
Termination of parental rights-constitutionality |
| 20-5863 |
Andrew Newson v. Wisconsin |
Wisconsin |
2020-10-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure court-procedure due-process equal-protection mailing-error parental-rights petition-for-review statutory-interpretation termination-of-parental-rights timeliness |
Whether the State violated the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses by denying the father the right to be heard in a timely manner in the terminat… |
| 20-349 |
Fred S. Pardes v. Andrew S. Wienick, et al. |
California |
2020-09-15 |
Denied |
|
best-interest-standard constitutional-rights emotional-fitness family-law grandparent-alienation grandparent-visitation parental-rights pre-existing-relationship troxel-v-granville |
Whether a rebuttable presumption exists that grandparent visitation is in the best interest of minor grandchildren where there was a pre-existing lovi… |
| 20-187 |
Okwudili Francis Chukwuani v. Solon City School District |
Sixth Circuit |
2020-08-19 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
administrative-appeal civil-rights due-process federal-jurisdiction idea idea-stay-put parental-rights special-education standing |
Can an unconstitutional denial of parental rights by a State Court, due to a complaint about IDEA 'stay put' violation, be used to deny jurisdiction f… |
| 20-5231 |
S. T., et al. v. Vermont Department for Children and Families, et al. |
Vermont |
2020-07-30 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
best-interests-of-the-child child-welfare constitutional-error due-process family-law harmless-error parental-rights termination |
Whether the State of Vermont may apply the 'reasonable probability' harmless error standard in assessing due process error in a termination of parenta… |
| 20-5180 |
Matthew J. Frawley v. Victoria L. Frawley |
Missouri |
2020-07-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment civil-procedure disability-discrimination due-process equal-protection judicial-impartiality judicial-recusal missouri-supreme-court-rules parental-rights recusal |
whether-the-trial-court-judge-should-have-recused-themselves |
| 20-62 |
Parents for Privacy, et al. v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-07-23 |
Denied |
|
bodily-privacy civil-rights due-process free-exercise parental-rights religious-beliefs religious-freedom school-policy title-ix transgender-accommodation |
whether-parents-surrender-fundamental-right-to-direct-upbringing-of-children |
| 20-49 |
Peter N. Myma v. Wendy A. Wroe |
Indiana |
2020-07-20 |
Denied |
|
child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection family family-law liberty-interest parental-rights scrutiny-standard standard-of-review |
Whether joint child custody is a constitutionally protected, rebuttable presumption of equal rights |
| 19-8793 |
R. W. v. Dauphin County Social Services for Children and Youth |
Pennsylvania |
2020-06-23 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-law due-process jurisdiction parental-rights standing |
Whether the lower court erred in dismissing petitioner's claims alleging violations of due-process, civil-rights, and parental-rights |
| 19-8774 |
Benjamin J. Gutierrez v. The Texas Health and Human Services Commission |
Texas |
2020-06-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-custody constitutional-law constitutional-rights custody-determination due-process family-law government-agency medicaid medicaid-eligibility parental-rights |
Is it reasonable for a government agency to utilize a joint conservator's court ordered periods of possession of a child to determine that parent is n… |
| 19-1326 |
E. Thomas Scarborough, III v. Court of Common Pleas of Pennsylvania, Northampton County, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-06-01 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
access-to-court civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection federal-crimes parental-rights rooker-feldman section-1983 standing |
Whether District Court has jurisdiction over state deprivation of federal rights, under the color of state law |
| 19-8356 |
Henry Logan, et ux. v. Peggy Logan |
Texas |
2020-04-27 |
Denied |
IFP |
best-interest-standard child-custody disability-rights due-process family-law fourteenth-amendment parental-rights third-party-custody |
Are grandparents counted as a third party? |
| 19-8352 |
K. S., III v. Dana Price, et al. |
Pennsylvania |
2020-04-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
best-interests-of-child civil-rights due-process family-law involuntary-termination parental-rights standing state-court-deference substantial-contact termination-of-parental-rights |
Whether the Supreme Court erred in deferring to the state court's conclusion that terminating the natural father's parental rights was in the minor ch… |
| 19-1236 |
Rachel Joanna Evens v. Timothy John Evens |
South Dakota |
2020-04-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
terminating visitation without any consideration child-custody civil-procedure due-process evidence evidence-rules hearsay judicial-authority parental-rights parenting-coordinator sanctions |
What constitutes 'Due Process of Law? Can binding orders be implemented |
| 19-1216 |
Loredana Elizabeth Botofan-Miller v. Brett Robert Miller |
Oregon |
2020-04-15 |
Denied |
|
birth-mother child-custody civil-rights custody due-process fourteenth-amendment legal-custody parental-rights state-courts state-intervention |
Did the State of Oregon courts violate the fourteenth amendment rights of the full legal custodial parent, who was the birth mother, to make decisions… |
| 19-8236 |
Iva Brooks v. Aaron Foster |
Illinois |
2020-04-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
child-support civil-procedure civil-rights due-process judicial-discretion parental-rights pro-se procedural-violations standing state-attorney |
What are the issues being raised in the SCOTUS petition for writ of certiorari? |
| 19-8180 |
M. H. v. Indiana Department of Child Services |
Indiana |
2020-04-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
5th-amendment civil-rights compulsion constitutional-rights due-process fifth-amendment fundamental-rights parental-rights self-incrimination waiver |
What are the present-day parameters to any assertion of privilege pursuant to the 5th Amendment to the United States Constitution (re: compulsion and … |
| 19-8108 |
Dana Albrecht v. Katherine Albrecht |
New Hampshire |
2020-03-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-procedure appellate-review child-custody due-process family-law fourteenth-amendment parental-rights uccjea |
Whether the State of New Hampshire's discretionary appellate process is unlawful or unconstitutional, and whether the State has unlawfully infringed u… |
| 19-8101 |
Angelo Mamone v. Angela Plows Burch |
Maryland |
2020-03-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
child-rearing civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process freedom parental-rights public-benefits state-precedent unlawful-incarceration |
Does the Constitution of the United States permit the State of Maryland to create legal precedents to deprive the petitioner and similarly-situated fa… |
| 19-7943 |
J. H. v. E. R. S. |
Colorado |
2020-03-11 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review child-custody constitutional-facts constitutional-liberty de-novo-review due-process equal-protection parental-rights plain-error structural-error termination termination-of-parental-rights |
Whether the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses require application of the plain error doctrine and independent de novo review of constitutional … |
| 19-1111 |
Michael Anthony Deem v. Lorna DiMella-Deem, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2020-03-10 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
abstention-doctrine civil-procedure civil-rights domestic-relations-abstention due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-question-claims federalism judicial-immunity parental-rights standing |
Does a federal court have a right to decline the exercise of jurisdiction over federal-question claims? |
| 19-7746 |
William A. Runnels v. Texas |
Texas |
2020-02-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-discipline civil-rights constitutional-rights constitutional-rights-of-parents cumulative-error due-process ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel parental-discipline parental-rights reasonable-discipline strict-scrutiny substitutable-discipline |
Whether the trial court could infringe on, and take away, a parent's constitutional right to reasonable discipline of their child absent strict scruti… |
| 19-7721 |
Machelle Parsons v. Ashton McDaniel, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2020-02-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
Child-protective-services-investigation child-support child-welfare civil-procedure civil-rights due-process eleventh-amendment Eleventh-Amendment-immunity family-law guardian-ad-litem Guardian-ad-litem-liability jurisdiction parental-rights Parental-rights-termination social-security-disability standing Termination-order-access |
Does the court have jurisdiction over the parties in the case to mandate services to families if there were no finding of neglect. No adjudicatory hea… |
| 19-7692 |
R. A. S. v. Montgomery County Children and Youth Services |
Pennsylvania |
2020-02-19 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
28-usc-1257a adjudication adjudication-hearing adjudication-order constitutional-rights due-process fundamental-rights parental-rights statutory-interpretation supreme-court-review termination-of-rights termination-proceeding |
Whether the right to a fair termination of parental rights proceeding include the right of an effective adjudication order, and whether the Supreme Co… |
| 19-7659 |
Ashley Rios, et vir v. West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources |
West Virginia |
2020-02-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-neglect abuse-or-neglect child-custody due-process expert-witness foster-placement indian-child-welfare-act knowing-waiver parental-rights qualified-expert-witness statutory-interpretation waiver |
May a court deny a petition to invalidate a foster placement proceeding under the Indian Child Welfare Act when no qualified expert witness testified,… |
| 19-7650 |
D. W. v. Washington State Department of Children, Youth & Families |
Washington |
2020-02-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-review court-appointed-counsel due-process ex-parte-investigation fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-conduct parental-rights record-on-appeal recusal termination-of-parental-rights |
Whether the State violated the Due Process Clause by failing to provide a court-ordered domestic violence/anger management evaluation and treatment to… |
| 19-7373 |
Sanjay Tyagi v. Marc D. Smith, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2020-01-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
child-abuse-registry child-seizure due-process fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment interrogation medical-self-defense parental-rights privacy search-and-seizure |
Does seizure, physical examination, privacy and interrogation of minor children at public school without parental consent, exigency, or court order vi… |
| 19-891 |
John Lehmann v. Nicole Haims |
New York |
2020-01-17 |
Denied |
|
child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights custody due-process family-law fundamental-rights parental-rights standing state-intervention |
Did the New York courts' decisions violate the parent and his child's constitutionally protected fundamental-rights,natural-rights |
| 19-853 |
Sandra R., et al. v. Arizona Department of Child Safety |
Arizona |
2020-01-06 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
child-custody clear-and-convincing-evidence constitutional-standard due-process family-law parental-rights state-action state-intervention termination |
Whether the Due Process Clause requires a State to allege and prove a parent's unfitness by clear and convincing evidence to terminate parental rights |
| 19-7157 |
Mother v. Lorain County Children Services |
Ohio |
2020-01-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
abuse-neglect administrative-law child-welfare civil-rights due-process family-law federalism jurisdiction parental-rights separation-of-powers |
Did Lorain County Children Services violate Parents' rights? |
| 19-6959 |
Jasmine F. v. Department of Child Safety, et al. |
Arizona |
2019-12-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure clear-and-convincing-evidence constitutional-deficiency court-appointed-counsel due-process fourteenth-amendment parental-rights termination-of-parental-rights |
Whether the State of Arizona failed to terminate mother's parental rights by at least clear & convincing evidence as required by the due process claus… |
| 19-729 |
Scott Howard Meyer v. Emily Peterson |
Minnesota |
2019-12-10 |
Denied |
|
civil-procedure civil-rights custody-dispute due-process family-law first-amendment free-speech harassment-order parental-rights prior-restraint |
Does one parent have a First Amendment right to criticize the other parent's parenting style and threaten litigation without risk of arrest, prosecuti… |
| 19-590 |
Michael Anthony Deem v. John P. Colangelo, et al. |
New York |
2019-11-06 |
Denied |
|
child-custody child-custody-rights custody-dispute due-process equal-protection family-law first-amendment forensic-evaluator free-speech parental-rights right-to-privacy |
Whether a court appointed FE's examination of a fit parent's children over that fit parent's objection violates that fit parent's right to control the… |
| 19-577 |
Tamra L. Lamprell v. Rex E. Stuckey |
New Mexico |
2019-11-04 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Relisted (2) |
best-interest-of-the-child best-interest-standard best-interests-standard child-custody due-process due-process,child-custody,parental-rights,pre-depr imminent-harm parental-rights post-deprivation-hearing pre-deprivation-hearing |
Can a court temporarily remove a child from her parent's custody without a pre-deprivation hearing whenever the court deems it in the child's best int… |
| 19-6472 |
Arthur Lopez v. California |
California |
2019-11-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
child-custody civil-rights criminal-procedure criminal-protective-orders due-process equal-protection family-law latino-fathers parental-rights |
Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses require the State to provide fathers, including Latino fathers, with proce… |
| 19-6457 |
D. B. v. Texas Department of Family and Protective Services |
Texas |
2019-10-31 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
child-welfare civil-rights civil-rights-discrimination due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment parental-rights religious-freedom |
Whether the Texas district court violated the Petitioner's Federal Civil Rights |
| 19-6395 |
V. A. C. v. J. L. W. |
Texas |
2019-10-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure confrontation-clause constitutional-challenge direct-appeal due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance parental-rights prejudice termination-of-parental-rights trial-court-discretion |
If it can be proven that the relied upon convictions in a Termination of Parental Rights action are unconstitutional and unreliable, does deference & … |
| 19-473 |
Timothy Dasler v. Jennifer Dasler |
Vermont |
2019-10-10 |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment 5th-amendment best-interest-of-the-child child-custody domestic-violence due-process due-process-14th-amendment equal-protection equal-protection-14th-amendment parental-rights |
Is it a violation of 14th Amendment right of equal protection when a single self-serving accusation is used as the basis to permanently award sole par… |
| 19-6245 |
Keenan G. Wilkins, aka Nerrah Brown v. Stanislaus County, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-10-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-review habeas-corpus immunity ninth-circuit parental-rights pro-se procedural-default standing state-court-procedure statutory-interpretation |
Whether incarcerated pro se litigants' custody, parental rights, property, and financial matters are at issue in a bona fide civil action seeking acce… |
| 19-6250 |
Father v. Maternal Grandparents |
Ohio |
2019-10-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
adoption adoption-consent civil-rights criminal-conviction due-process family-law fourteenth-amendment incarceration parental-rights statutory-interpretation statutory-law |
Whether incarcerated parents have a due-process right to consent to adoption of their children under the Fourteenth Amendment |
| 19-6214 |
Luis Fuquen v. Trina Everitt |
Maryland |
2019-10-09 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
best-interest-of-the-child child-custody divorce due-process family-privacy family-privacy-rights family-rights first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech freedom-of-association freedom-of-religion parent-child-rights parental-rights |
Whether Luis and his children are entitled to due process protections for their individual intimate and expressive, close family, parent-child speech,… |
| 19-6191 |
K. N., et ux. v. Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services |
Montana |
2019-10-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP |
1st-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights civil-rights-act-of-1964 constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment cruel-punishment due-process fifth-amendment freedom-of-religion parental-rights religious-discrimination self-incrimination state-action state-overreach |
Did the state's demands that the parents admit guilt violate their Constitutional rights under the 5th Amendment? |
| 19-436 |
T. R. C. v. Wisconsin |
Wisconsin |
2019-10-02 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
due-process familial-integrity fourteenth-amendment guardian-ad-litem parental-rights strict-scrutiny termination-of-parental-rights |
Is Wis. Stat. §48.415 unconstitutional as applied when it was used to terminate the Fourteenth Amendment fundamental right of familial integrity of a … |
| 19-356 |
Samuel Collin Robinson v. Katherine Lyman Robinson |
Colorado |
2019-09-17 |
Denied |
|
best-interests-standard child-custody constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection family-law parental-rights |
Where divorce involves children, where shared parenting has been declared to be in the best interests of all, and where criteria for exception have no… |
| 19-5867 |
Angela Krasny v. Jacob Krasny |
New Jersey |
2019-09-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment child-custody civil-procedure civil-rights commencing-during-pendency due-process full-faith-and-credit jurisdiction parental-rights protective-order standing takings |
Whether New Jersey can deny or limit civil procedural due process protected under the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution especially when the court … |
| 19-254 |
Jorel Shophar v. Kansas, et al. |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-08-27 |
Denied |
|
constitutional-rights discrimination domestic-abuse false-allegations fathers-rights judicial-fairness legal-discrimination parental-rights procedural-justice strategic-legal-defense |
Are parental rights of fathers being treated as inferior to mothers? |
| 19-5707 |
Sidney Jack Narciso v. Sandra V. Narciso |
Alabama |
2019-08-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights due-process indigent-rights judicial-conflict judicial-review legal-services legal-services-act mandamus-petition parental-rights standing |
How the Unified Judicial System including the Judicial Inquiry Commission can deny a citizen any and ALL review, appeal, and Extraordinary Petitions f… |
| 19-5402 |
Tatyana Ivanovna Mason v. John Arthur Mason |
Washington |
2019-07-30 |
Denied |
IFP |
constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment immigration-status indigent-parents indigent-status language-interpreter limited-english-proficiency parental-rights trial-language-interpreter |
Whether the State violated the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment |
| 19-127 |
Anmarie Calgaro v. St. Louis County, Minnesota, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-07-26 |
Denied |
Amici (2)Response Waived |
due-process due-process-clause emancipation local-government medical-providers minor-children parental-rights welfare-payments |
Whether parents' Due Process Clause rights apply to local governments and medical providers ending parental rights, responsibilities or duties over th… |
| 19-111 |
Fernando I. v. Margarita O. |
Connecticut |
2019-07-23 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
2nd-amendment civil-restraining-order civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment parental-rights property-rights second-amendment |
Is it constitutional for the State of Connecticut to issue a civil restraining order with nationwide reach and under federal punishment, including an … |
| 19-5210 |
Therian Wimbush v. Christopher M. Carr, Attorney General of Georgia, et al. |
Georgia |
2019-07-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
access-to-courts appeal appeals appellate-procedure civil-rights discretionary-appeal due-process georgia-court-of-appeals georgia-courts incarceration jurisdiction mailbox-rule parental-rights pro-se pro-se-litigant time-limitation |
Should the 'Mailbox Rule' be extended to all notices of appeal that must be filed in the trial court, filed by pro se incarcerated litigants? |
| 19-5019 |
Jennifer Perez v. Paul Grant Dwyer |
Florida |
2019-07-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
child-abuse child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights disability disability-discrimination due-process judicial-abuse judicial-bias parental-alienation parental-rights |
Are people with disabilities more likely to be protected or discriminated when regarding parental stigma |
| 18-9786 |
Luis Francisco, et ux. v. Texas Department of Family and Protective Services |
Texas |
2019-06-25 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeal-fees appeals civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment fundamental-rights indigent indigent-litigant notice parental-rights poverty |
Whether a State may condition appeals from termination of parental rights on a parent's ability to pay appeal fees when the parent's income is half of… |
| 18-1568 |
Cheryl Lynn Hager-Reilly v. Thomas Reilly |
New York |
2019-06-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
constitutional-rights custody custody-proceeding due-process family-law fourteenth-amendment natural-parents parental-rights standard-of-proof supervised-visitation visitation-rights |
Does the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment require a certain quantum of proof before a state court, in a custody proceeding between the t… |
| 18A1353 |
Anmarie Calgaro v. St. Louis County, Minnesota, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-06-21 |
Presumed Complete |
|
constitutional-rights due-process emancipation minor-medical-treatment parental-rights state-actor |
Whether a parent's fundamental constitutional rights are violated when county and medical institutions make emancipation and medical treatment decisio… |
| 18-9702 |
Cathrin Funk-Vaughn v. Tennessee Department of Children's Services |
Tennessee |
2019-06-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
agency-overreach child-custody child-jurisdiction child-removal diversion-plea document-fraud due-process evidence-suppression federal-funding first-amendment food-recall free-speech interstate-custody jurisdiction kidnapping law-enforcement parental-rights rescission unreasonable-search |
Does the Department of Children Services have the legal right to remove a child from a parent/legal guardian while the parent/legal guardian was on va… |
| 18-1505 |
C. S. v. L. S. |
New Jersey |
2019-06-03 |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment child-custody constitutional-rights custody due-process family-court family-law fourteenth-amendment parental-rights state-court-hearing state-court-procedure visitation |
Where a state family court finds that the father has violated the mother's constitutional right to the care, custody, and management of her children, … |
| 18-9507 |
Theon Smith v. Charleston County Domestic Relations, et al. |
Fourth Circuit |
2019-06-03 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law child-support-enforcement civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-procedure due-process federal-courts federal-government parental-rights sovereign-immunity standing title-iv-d |
Does the United States unequivocally wave its sovereign immunity when it does business with its citizens? |
| 18-1465 |
County of San Diego, California v. Mark Mann, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-05-24 |
Denied |
|
child-welfare due-process fourth-amendment medical-examination municipal-liability parental-consent parental-notice parental-rights shocks-the-conscience special-needs special-needs-doctrine substantive-due-process |
Does a parent have a substantive due process right to notice and consent before a child's medical examination in protective custody? |
| 18-1431 |
Frank G. v. Renee P.-F., et al. |
New York |
2019-05-15 |
Denied |
Amici (8)Response Waived |
best-interests-of-child best-interests-of-the-child custody custody-determination due-process due-process-clause fourteenth-amendment obergefell-v-hodges parental-rights same-sex-marriage same-sex-partner |
Whether a state violates a biological parent's rights under the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause when it strips the parent of custody in favo… |
| 18-1422 |
Michael B. v. Tennessee Department of Children's Services |
Tennessee |
2019-05-14 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure due-process family-law fourteenth-amendment guardian-ad-litem legal-disqualification parental-rights procedural-error witness-disqualification |
Whether the lower court's denial of the Father's motion to disqualify the Guardian Ad Litem, when her actions clearly indicated she had ceased being a… |
| 18-9136 |
J.T., the Father v. Florida Department of Children and Families, et al. |
Florida |
2019-05-03 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-courts appellate-review constitutional-rights criminal-cases dependency-cases due-process equal-protection fundamental-liberty-interest indigent-population parental-rights |
Whether the Florida practice and rule that do not permit litigants to seek review in the Florida Supreme Court when the District Court of Appeal issue… |
| 18-1376 |
Fernando Gabriel Irazu v. Margarita O. |
Connecticut |
2019-05-02 |
Denied |
|
abuse-of-process constitutional-law contempt-of-court divorce-judgment due-process enforcement-of-us-judgments equal-protection exequatur-proceedings international-law international-private-law jurisdictional-dispute parental-rights unequal-treatment-under-law |
Parental rights and due process violations in international child custody dispute |
| 18-9061 |
Joseph B. v. Nebraska, on Behalf of Brooklyn H. |
Nebraska |
2019-05-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment incarceration parental-rights visitation visitation-rights |
Whether the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits a State from forbidding visitation between a noncustodial p… |
| 18-1354 |
C. P., et al. v. C. A. |
California |
2019-04-29 |
Denied |
|
child-custody custody custody-rights due-process extramarital-affair family-code family-law family-rights fourteenth-amendment fundamental-parental-rights parental-rights third-parent-law third-party-custody |
Does California's Family Code section 7612(c), granting third parties legal and physical custody rights to a minor child as a 'third parent,' regardle… |
| 18-8939 |
Daisy T. v. Arizona Department of Child Safety, et al. |
Arizona |
2019-04-22 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
best-interests best-interests-of-the-child child-welfare clear-and-convincing-evidence due-process family-law fourteenth-amendment parental-rights termination-of-parental-rights |
Whether the State of Arizona failed to terminate mother's parental rights by at least clear & convincing evidence as required by the due process claus… |
| 18-8864 |
Joseph B. v. Nebraska |
Nebraska |
2019-04-17 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment due-process equal-protection equal-protection-clause fourteenth-amendment incarceration parental-rights visitation visitation-rights |
Whether the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits a State from forbidding visitation between a noncustodial p… |
| 18-8809 |
B. C. v. Florida Department of Children and Families |
Florida |
2019-04-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
abuse-neglect child-custody child-welfare civil-procedure civil-rights due-process family-law law-enforcement parental-rights standing state-intervention |
Whether the Supreme Court will allow a distressed parent to file this writ of certiorari that most likely will not correct according to the prevailing… |
| 18-8640 |
Safron Huot v. Montana State Department of Child and Family Services, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-04-01 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights custody custody-dispute due-process family-law judicial-review ninth-circuit-court parental-rights reunification standing |
How long must one take to be Given the Chance to be an Active Parent in the lives of Their Children? |
| 18-1245 |
Oglala Sioux Tribe, et al. v. Lisa Fleming, in Her Official Capacity, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-03-26 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
abstention child-welfare civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process irreparable-harm parental-rights procedural-rights standing state-action tribal-sovereignty younger-abstention |
Whether the procedures used for preliminary hearings in child removal cases violate due process rights of parents |
| 18-8554 |
Wylmina Hettinga v. Timothy P. Loumena |
California |
2019-03-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
child-support civil-procedure court-jurisdiction due-process jurisdiction legal-standing parental-rights standing vexatious-litigant |
Can Petitioner be brought into a state superior court to be ordered to pay child support for a minor she had no legal rights to and no visitation righ… |
| 18-8150 |
Ilya Liviz, Sr. v. Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, et al. |
First Circuit |
2019-02-27 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
access-to-court access-to-courts care-and-protection child-custody constitutional-rights due-process federally-protected-rights jury-trial parental-rights question-of-law state-court |
Is Dad being denied his federally protected due process right to petition for redress and access to a meaningful hearing resulting from state's refusa… |
| 18-1068 |
Raja Mittal v. County of Clark, Nevada, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-02-14 |
Denied |
|
and in the absence of exigent circumstances violate Fourth-and-Fourteenth-Amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process family-law fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment juvenile-court parental-rights rooker-feldman-doctrine standing takings warrantless-removal |
Whether removal of a child from parent's custody without a judicial order or a warrant, and in the absence of exigent circumstances, violate Fourth an… |
| 18-7953 |
Matthew Peterson, et ux. v. New Hampshire Division of Children, Youth & Families, et al. |
New Hampshire |
2019-02-14 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review child-welfare constitutional-challenge constitutional-law due-process family-law findings-of-fact neglect parental-rights state-intervention termination-of-parental-rights |
Is it unconstitutional for the State Appellate Court to uphold a trial court's decision that did not find the facts in dispute nor make any findings a… |
| 18-1040 |
Licong Li v. Sofia Dang |
Illinois |
2019-02-08 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
child-custody crimes-against-humanity divorce divorce-proceedings due-process family-law fundamental-rights human-made-tragedies human-rights parental-rights visitation |
How long would crimes against humanity in terms of child custody and visitation in divorce cases be allowed to continue in this country? |
| 18-7845 |
Philip Andra Grigsby v. United States |
Tenth Circuit |
2019-02-07 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-law contact-restrictions court-of-appeals due-process family-law fourteenth-amendment juvenile-justice minor-children parental-rights |
Has the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit violated the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution by denying a parent c… |
| 18-7530 |
Tonya Udoh, et vir v. Minnesota Department of Human Services, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-01-23 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment 1983-claims 1985-claims 4th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights davis-v-monroe-county-board due-process emotional-distress false-arrest fourteenth-amendment fourth-amendment haines-v-kerner minor-children miranda-rights monell-liability municipal-liability parental-rights pro-se-litigant qualified-immunity search-and-seizure standing unconstitutional-statutes |
Whether pro se litigants are held to the same legal standards as counseled litigants |
| 18-7475 |
Aldona B. v. Nicholas S. |
West Virginia |
2019-01-17 |
Denied |
IFP |
biological-father child-custody civil-rights custodial-rights custody due-process equal-protection family-law parental-rights standing statutory-interpretation statutory-requirements unwed-parent |
Whether an unwed biological father who meets none of the statutory requirements preserves the same custodial rights as a parent who fulfills parental … |
| 18-7301 |
J. C. v. Texas Department of Family and Protective Services |
Texas |
2019-01-09 |
Denied |
IFP |
appellate-review clear-and-convincing-evidence constitutional-standard due-process equal-protection parental-rights standard-of-review |
Whether the Fourteenth Court of Appeals erred by employing an unconstitutional standard of review that violated the petitioner's due process rights |
| 18-7215 |
Salih Zeki Uces v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-02 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constructive-amendment criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment indictment-amendment international-kidnapping international-parental-kidnapping jury-instructions mens-rea parental-rights |
Whether the Eleventh Circuit violated Mr. Uces's rights under the Fifth Amendment |
| 18-7173 |
Karen Lofgren v. Todd Hardin |
Washington |
2018-12-26 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-amendment due-process family-law incarceration incarceration-impact parental-rights troxel-v-granville visitation-rights |
Whether it is First and Fourteenth Constitutional Amendment violations for a Family Court in State to deny a parent visitation with her children becau… |
| 18-7153 |
J. E., aka J. E. C. v. Oregon Department of Human Services |
Oregon |
2018-12-21 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
agency-deference agency-discretion chevron-doctrine civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment human-services parental-rights standing |
Did the Supreme Court of Oregon have the opportunity to consider every possible situation which might arise from a Termination of Parental Rights? |
| 18-6997 |
T. H. -H. v. Allegheny County Office of Children, Youth and Families, et al. |
Pennsylvania |
2018-12-11 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
14th-amendment due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment involuntary-termination parental-rights right-to-counsel |
May a State, consistent with the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment, condition the statutorily granted right to coun… |
| 18-745 |
Alan Overton v. Tennessee Department of Children's Services |
Tennessee |
2018-12-11 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process family-law fundamental-rights parental-rights state-action strict-scrutiny substantive-due-process |
Does the court order and underlying state action which prohibits all contact between the father and his children violate substantive due process under… |
| 18-6142 |
Joseph Dingler v. Georgia, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2018-09-28 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection fetal-personhood parental-rights standing ubi-jus-ibi-remedium unborn-child |
Does a 'person' exist, an 'unborn-child' exist under the 14° Amendment which deserves protection from injury and/or have a legal right in a court of l… |
| 18-376 |
Lisa Partin, et vir v. Michigan Children's Institute |
Michigan |
2018-09-24 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law adoption arbitrary-and-capricious best-interest best-interest-factors child-protective-services civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process family-law michigan-adoption-code parental-rights standing |
whether-michigan-adoption-code-mcl-710.45-violates-due-process |
| 18-278 |
Leon R. Koziol, Individually, as Natural Parent of Child A and Child B, and on Behalf of Parents Similarly Situated v. Janet DiFiore, Chief Judge, New York State Unified Court System, et al. |
New York |
2018-09-05 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights custody-tactics domestic-relations due-process family-law judicial-bias men-discrimination parental-rights whistleblower-protection |
Are men in America becoming a discriminated class? |
| 18-5830 |
A. L., the Father v. Florida Department of Children and Families |
Florida |
2018-08-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
2nd-amendment brown-vs-board civil-procedure civil-procedure-due-process civil-rights due-process free-speech parental-rights shaken-baby-syndrome standing |
Whether per curiam affirm decision without reaching merits of the case violated due-process |
| 18-5761 |
Kourtney Herman v. Crystal Young, et al. |
Illinois |
2018-08-24 |
Denied |
IFP |
best-interests best-interests-standard custody custody-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment parental-responsibilities parental-rights standing |
Whether a state court's application of a 'best interests' standard in custody/parental responsibilities filed by a person other than a parent, violate… |
| 18-129 |
W. S. v. S. T., et al. |
California |
2018-07-30 |
Denied |
|
biological-father child-custody custody-determination due-process equal-protection family-law liberty-interest parental-rights paternity standing vagueness |
Whether California's Family Code § 7611(d) is impermissibly vague, as applied, when the Court of Appeal holds there are no specific factors that a tri… |
| 18-111 |
Timothy M. Barrett v. Valerie Jill Minor |
Virginia |
2018-07-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment child-custody civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process family-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment parental-rights standing state-law |
Are Virginia's Child Custody Statutes Facially Unconstitutional? |
| 24A129 |
Franck William Yao v. Tamara Yao |
Missouri |
|
Presumed Complete |
|
custody-battle due-process family-rights fourteenth-amendment ordered-liberty parental-rights |
Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment protects a parent's fundamental right to custody and companionship of their child when stat… |