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25-1096 Amika T. Clark v. Tyrus J. Clark South Carolina 2026-03-18 Pending family-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment parental-rights prior-restraint strict-scrutiny Whether the First and Fourteenth Amendments permit a family court to impose an indefinite, content-based prior restraint on a parent's speech, based s…
25-7042 T. G., aka T. J. G. v. Oregon Department of Human Services, et al. Oregon 2026-03-16 Pending Response WaivedIFP due-process foster-care-adoption Indian-Child-Welfare-Act parental-rights Supremacy-Clause tribal-authority 1. This Court recently explained that, "In the usual course, state courts apply state law when placing children in foster or adoptive homes," however …
25-1066 Marian A. v. Corina G. California 2026-03-10 Pending due-process-clause fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment impairment-of-contracts parental-rights witness-tampering 1. Does the state of California 's sanctuary state policy disproportionality grant special solicitude to Hispanic illegal immigrants over and above …
25-6822 Ciara Lynn Rehbein v. Jessica Michelle Paddock Montana 2026-02-17 Pending IFP due-process-clause fit-parent-doctrine fundamental-rights parental-rights standing statutory-authority 1. Whether the Due Process Clause permits a state court to award parental rights to a nonparent under an unpleaded statute after trial, where the stat…
25A917 Taron Jacquett v. Estefania Jacquett Florida 2026-02-13 Denied 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 Amici (21)Response RequestedResponse Waived 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 Denied 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 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 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 Rehearing 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 Presumed Complete child-custody due-process family-court parental-rights social-services writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
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 (10) 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 Denied certiorari due-process judicial-immunity parental-rights pro-se supreme-court Question not identified.
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 (12) 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 1. Circuit Split: Should Rooker-Feldman bar federal review of void ab initio judgments due to jurisdictional fraud, or do Moreno/Nugent compel examina…
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 1. Whether a state court may completely remove a parent's constitutionally protected right to the care, custody, and control of their child through a …
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 Under the guise of protecting a 17½-year-old child, a New Jersey family court judge placed a blanket prohibition upon petitioner Jeanne Tamagny's ab…
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 Where an incarcerated and indigent parent is in a suit to terminate their parental rights, what circumstances reach the "troublesome points of law," "…
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 Question not identified.
24A725 Natalia Dalton v. Julio Lacayo Fourth Circuit 2025-01-24 Denied child-custody due-process federal-question liberty-interest parental-rights supremacy-clause Whether or not Defendant shall receive a fair and impartial de novo Trial/Appeal in any Virginia State, County, or City Court? Whether or not the 197…
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 This case implicates fundamental protected rights including custody rights of natural parents. The Minnesota Judiciary has knowingly sustained relianc…
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 Question not identified.
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 Denial of IFP without cause. Right to Due Process. Denial of Appointment of Counsel. Proceeding in forma pauperis is not a right, and it is subject t…
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 In 2022, the Alabama Legislature enacted a categorical ban on the use of certain medical treatments for transgender minors. The ban applies when the t…
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 1.) Is the Illinois trial courts judgment, dated 02/25/2022, valid, if due process, equal protection, and/or jurisdiction is absent for the duration o…
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 1. Whether the Virginia Supreme Court correctly applied due process rights of Lassiter to the Habeas Petition relief alleging ineffective assistance o…
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 The question presented is whether the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) applies to termination of parental rights cases in state courts. And, if s…
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 1. 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 Denied access-to-courts child-representation counsel-mandate federal-litigation parental-rights pro-se-representation Whether parents can represent their children pro se in federal court.
24A415 Richard Rynn, et al. v. Daniel Washburn, et al. Arizona 2024-10-29 Denied child-custody constitutional-rights due-process ex-parte-injunction parental-rights state-court 1. Does the legal standard of evidence require a showing of imminent harm to justify the issuance of an ex parte custody injunction without notice? 2…
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 Question not identified.
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 In Troxel v. Granville, this Court concluded that Washington's Grandparent Visitation Statute unconstitutionally infringed a fit parent's federal cons…
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 Where a State court of last resort is bound by statute to address all questions of law presented in appeals, may that court issue an order denying an …
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 The trial court erred in determining that it was in the best interest to terminate Becky's parental rights to J C.C, J.D.C, S A P, DHHS Failed to pro…
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 P.H.'s parental rights on the grounds of P.H.'s mental health issues consistent with P.H.'s fundamental constitut…
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 Where Florida 7th (Seventh) Judicial Circuit Judges AND the U.S. Middle District of Florida REPEATEDLY VIOLATED the Petitioner 's the US & FL Constitu…
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 there should be constitutional exceptions to the immunities that shield judges from discrimination claims in the administration of justice.
24A245 Richard Rynn, Next Friend and Parent of M. R., a Minor v. Gregory A. McKay, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-09-06 Denied child-welfare constitutional-rights due-process fraud parental-rights state-agency Question not identified.
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 Question not identified.
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, 23 Pa. Stat. and Cons. Stat. Ann. § 5325, permitting a judge to grant to a grandparent, over a fit parent's obj…
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 1. 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 …
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 Question not identified.
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 1. In light of the Supreme Court's efforts to clarify the use of 'jurisdictional' versus 'claims-processing' terms (Hamer v. Neighborhood Hous. Servs.…
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 In Vermont and a minority of other states, hearsay may be admitted and relied upon in a proceeding to permanently terminate a person's parental rights…
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 When a school district adopts an explicit policy to usurp parental decision-making authority over a major health-related decision—and to conceal this …
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 Question not identified.
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 Question 1: Given that the Equal Rights Amendment is now Ratified, have the states of Maryland, District of Columbia, and Virginia violated the righ…
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…
23-1254 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, in the absence of parental consent or judicial authorization, painful and medically unnecessary pro…
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 Parenting time scarcity wreaks havoc on relationships between children of divorce and a parent on whom minority time is imposed by court order. Where …
23-7549 In Re Kinley MacDonald 2024-05-23 Denied IFP child-custody child-welfare due-process family-rights hearsay hearsay-evidence judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction parental-rights standard-of-review state-court-procedure Before the Court is a matter involving unabused children trafficked into foster care by hearsay, causing irreparable harm. The mother suffered expecte…
23-7548 In Re Kinley MacDonald 2024-05-23 Denied IFP child-custody child-welfare civil-rights due-process family-law hearsay hearsay-evidence judicial-misconduct jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge parental-rights state-statute 1) Can a trial Court open and remove children in a "pre-adjudicative Custody" case based solely on hearsay accusations prohibited by State Statute and…
23-7498 Lawrence Byron Watson v. Pamerson Ifill, Commissioner of Probation, et al. First Circuit 2024-05-17 Denied 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 right are restricted or terminated is "in custody ", pursuant…
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 1. Under 28 U.S.C. § 1654, do minors have pro se rights that can be asserted by their parents on their behalf based on a parent's fundamental right to…
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 1. Whether Vermont's law allowing courts to terminate parental rights based largely on hearsay violates the Fourteenth Amendment and this Court's hold…
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 Question not identified.
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 Question not identified.
23-7092 Kinley MacDonald v. Michael Duddy, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-03-28 Denied IFP child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process family-law foster-care hearsay parental-rights state-agency Question not identified.
23-963 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 Florida legal scheme does not allow its state Supreme Court to review a Per Curiam Affirmed decision without an opinion even in exceptional cases wher…
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 1. May a state court, or an arbitrator, order a transfer of child custody in violation of the applicable legal standards for a modification of custody…
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 Question not identified.
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 Question not identified.
23-6760 In Re Kinley MacDonald 2024-02-15 Denied Relisted (2)IFP child-custody child-welfare civil-rights due-process family-law judicial-procedure jurisdiction parental-rights standing state-intervention Question not identified.
23-6762 In Re Kinley MacDonald 2024-02-15 Denied Relisted (2)IFP abuse-neglect child-custody civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process family-law parental-rights standing state-intervention Question not identified.
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 parents found to be indigent in the trial court despite multiple requests for an attorney to protect their…
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 A recent New Hampshire Supreme Court precedential Opinion (July 25, 2023) addressed the enforcement of a valid child custody decree in a multi-state d…
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 1. Whether the petitioners right to due process and 7th amendment right and Massachusetts ruie 38 Jury Trial of Right was violated when petitioner fil…
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 New York's statutory scheme for the issuance of temporary and final orders of protection violates the minimum fundamental procedural due process requi…
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 Question not identified.
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…
23-6214 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 1. Does the decision of the Florida State Courts to deny the Petitioner opportunity for belated appeal of the Lower Court 's decision to terminate h…
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 Like a multitude of other school districts across the nation, the Montgomery County (Md.) Board of Education ( "MCBE" ) has recently adopted a policy …
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 Question not identified.
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? Did the ex-parte application render the necessary elements for ex-parte relief? …
23-6035 In Re Kinley MacDonald 2023-11-16 Denied Relisted (2)IFP child-custody civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection family-law hearsay parental-rights standing state-federal-relations Question not identified.
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 In 2023, the Kentucky Legislature enacted a blanket ban on the use of certain medical treatments for transgender minors. The ban applies when the trea…
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 1. Whether Tennessee's SB1, which categorically bans gender-affirming healthcare for transgender adolescents, triggers heightened scrutiny and likely …
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, consistent with the Due Process Clause, can condition a fit parent's ability to have any contact with his child on unwanted medical t…
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 M.C. and J.C. are devout Christians who believe that God creates each person as immutably male or female and that, based on those beliefs and scientif…
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 In a parental-rights termination case, when deciding the sufficiency of the evidence to terminate, must the court have evidence to of every element re…
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 1. Whether this court should overrule the fact that the state court has separated a fit parent from his/her minor children without an adjudication hea…
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 1. Does a biological father of the child of a married woman have a right to notice of his paternity before any prescription or peremption can extingui…
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 Question not identified.
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 Question not identified.
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 According to the International Child Abduction Remedies Act ("ICARA ") 42 U.S.C. §§ 11601-11610 (2000) and the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects o…
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 Question not identified.
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 1. 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 (1) Whether compliance with state laws directly contrary to Title VII's requirement to provide a reasonable accommodation may serve as an undue hardsh…
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 1. Does court err omitting facts, dismissing Defendants that kidnapped child, interfered in legal custody, interfered in parental rights, with actions…
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 upon express disapproval of the parent's "troubling" religious views, violate of the free exerci…
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 Petitioner 's prayed reliefs were National importance of having the US Supreme Court decide or conflict with USSC ruling, or importance of similarly…
23-5216 Kinley MacDonald v. Michael A. Duddy, et al. First Circuit 2023-07-26 Denied Relisted (2)IFP child-abuse constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction foster-care hearsay interstate-crime jurisdiction parental-rights standing witness-tampering Before a Court in a matter involving unabused Children trafficked into Foster Care, by hearsay, Causing irreparable harm. The mother suffered expected…
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 Would assistant district attorney have authority to deny exculpatory evidence brought to his office? Do deputies have authority to say someone who ha…
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 Question not identified.
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 Question not identified.
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, in determining that the circuit court had …
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? After obtaining jurisdiction, is Family Division court granted the authority to …
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 Question 1. Whether Petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment rights to due process and equal protection were violated when Colorado allowed disqualified, pre…
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 1. If the First Amendment case of New York v Ferber, 458 US 747 (1982), describes the essential elements required for "all legislation in [the] sensit…
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? Did the California Distr…
22-1017 Sheila Mikel v. Jennifer Nichols, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-04-20 Denied Response Waived adoption civil-rights due-process foster-care liberty-interest notice-of-removal parental-rights procedural-due-process standing Whether a pre-adoptive foster mother has a constitutionally protected liberty interest right to procedural due process in the removal of her foster gi…
22-7002 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 1. Does Maryland's adoption of "the best interest of the child" standard when adjudicating termination of parental rights cases conflict with the fir…
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, guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment, 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 As a matter of state statutory law and federal due process, parents have the right to meaningfully participate in defending against petitions by the s…
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 Did the Arizona Court of Appeals Division One Err by affirming the Termination of Paternal Parental rights over his two biological Children in a Maric…
22-6551 Palani Karupaiyan v. Township of Woodbridge, New Jersey, et al. Third Circuit 2023-01-17 Denied IFP civil-rights due-process judicial-review legal-remedy mandamus municipal-court parental-rights procedural-relief prohibition standing takings writ Petitioner's reliefs were prayed as Writ of Mandamus or Prohibition or alternative so the questions were part of three test condition of the Writs.
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 /• Xi 71 j ffa(y yf ji*** ^/«cxaa )li^ku '/A A- (i (a( li'l d&&Al<fT fl&j xfj-jSW. 'fh ^^ y// f/*cf t i/e J "fp / ffa \ QA&tA ^ jH^f n,ifXuo ^ U/*/ y…
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 This case concerns the constitutionality of Vermont law governing the termination of parental rights, specifically, whether it is a violation of the F…
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 1. Should the State via the district attorney, courts, or child support agencies be allowed to force child support payments so high that the resulting…
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 I. Does the 4th Amendment protect parents against the warrantless seizure of their child's passport by state courts as that seizure is currently autho…
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 1. Does the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment require, in a child custody and visitation proceeding, that a state family court may not i…
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 1. Under Michigan's Safe Delivery of Newborns Law ("SDNL"), a parent-child relationship can be permanently severed (1) with less notice than is requir…
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 (1) whether K Y. REV. STAT. ANN. § 199.502 violates the Fourt eenth Amendment's Due Process Clause because it fails to articulate a clear and convinci…
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 In the midst of a routine divorce saga, Wife alleged that Husband, during the marriage, had committed violent crimes against her. But Wife never conta…
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 1.) What is the purpose of the removal of the children from the mother's care, when there is no reason for the removal of children from her care? …
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 a) Did USCA 3rd circuit failed to vacate the Dist Court's Sua Sponte dismissal of Complaint/ 1st Amended complaint (FAC) / Second Amended Complaint (S…
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, for the purposes of the due process rights guaranteed to natural parents under the 14th Amendment, is it Constitutional to terminate the natu…
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 A) DISTRICT COURT DENYING PLAINTIFF(S) REQUEST TO APPOINT PRO BONO ATTORNEY AND/OR GUARDIAN AD LITEM IS ERROR. B) DIST COURT DENYING AN ORDER PROHIBI…
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 1. Whether a Black mother of a public school student who walks her young Black, student into school every morning through the main entrance and not th…
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 1. In proceedings to terminate parental rights, before a court permits constructive service by publication does the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process…
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 In terminating petitioner's relationship with his child, the State's juvenile court held a permanency hearing at the same time as the hearing to termi…
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 1. Section 1 of the 14th Amendment of the U.S. constitution states that, "No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or…
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 1. Whether, under the incorporation doctrine, the Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial should apply to the States for parents in quasi-prosecutoria…
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 A. Does a Judas Pre DETER MATION ON THE RECORD Pao TO REVIEWING THE EVIDENCE ca AT TRA Milaate A CONSTITUTIONAL BAGH TO TED. DUE PROCESS 2 WHEN. AL P…
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 1. DOES APPOINTMENT OF AN ATTORNEY FOR THE CHILDREN OVER A FIT FATHER'S OBJECTION VIOLATE HIS RIGHT TO PARENTAL RELATIONS? 2. DOES COMPELLED SUBSIDIZ…
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 I not afforded rights to due process? How was it decided I had "competent" counsel when my counsel advised me to not work with DFS until the …
21-7168 Ilya Liviz v. Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts Massachusetts 2022-02-22 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP care-and-protection civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process family-law judicial-procedure jury-trial parental-rights standing I. Whether right to parent of biological parents ' can be terminated by a single judge and statutorily transferred to foster parents when a parent rai…
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 Since freedom of personal choice in matters of family life is a fundamental liberty interest protected by the U.S. Constitution, did the state court e…
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 It is fair that the Montgomery County and Appeal Courts did not considerate the fact that I had been mentally stable for 4 years? Isn't true that the…
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 In light of the Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA) enacted by Congress in 1997, should this Court expand the minimum burden of proof to terminate p…
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 considerate the fact that I have been mentally stable for more than 3 years and am dedicated to maintain this status? …
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 1. Did trial court abuse its discretion by allowing witness with no firsthand knowledge of the case to testify, which conflict with the decision in Oa…
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 1. Whether Petitioner, a Black father, raising his daughter since birth in California and supporting his child in Missouri at all times after separa…
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 Article 3 of the Hague Child Abduction Convention requires that a parental agreement have legal effect under the substantive law of the country of the…
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 I. Whether a prison's indefinite ban on visitation between a minor child and her parent without any particularized justification violates the right of…
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 State Of Arizona Failed To Terminate Mother's Parental Rights By At Least Clear & Convincing Evidence As Required By The Due Process Claus…
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 1. Did the New York County Family Court meet due process and evidence standards in their determinations against the petitioner in disposition of two …
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 I. DOES THE JUDICIAL HEARING OFFICER POSSESS THE ABILITY TO VIEW THE COMPLICATED CASE FROM A NON BIASED PERSPECTIVE, WITHOUT EXPRESSING HIS OWN MISOGY…
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 1. If each citizen is protected under the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th amendment of the U.S. Constitution, why would any parent, absent compell…
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 Question not identified.
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 when an appointed appellate counsel …
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 1. Kelson v. Springfield, 767 F 2d 651, HN2, HN3, A child cannot be removed unless the child's life is in danger. If there is no proof of any life-thr…
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, with assistance of family courts, have the sole and final say on the Frankensteining of the American Family? Does this deny bas…
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 1. Whether the Fourteenth Amendment due process requirement articulated in Santosky v Kramer, 455 U.S. 745 (1982) that parental rights only be termina…
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 1. Does the act of forcefully administering psychotropic medications to a child before trial violate the IV and VI amendments in the absence of a cour…
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 1. Where the questions of the custody of a child have been decided by the Supreme Court of New York State, when may a family court of a county in Virg…
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 1. Precisely what constitutes a compelling state interest justifying deprivation of a fit parent's—and primary caregiver's—constitutional right to leg…
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 When a court permits an unemancipated minor to have an abortion, may the State require that her parents be notified before the abortion occurs except …
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 1) Whether Petitioner was deprived her constitutional right affording her due process when the Virginia Supreme Court and the Virginia Court of Appeal…
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 1. Is the enjoyment of the Eleventh Amendment Immunity for County judge 's contradictory to Fourteenth Amendment for U.S. Citizens, when County Jud…
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 it necessary, in order to prove a claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for violation of the Fourteenth Amendment concerning a parent's liberty interest in …
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 An indigent parent relocated to a State with expanded Medicaid to get addiction treatment, because his home State, which was adjudicating his parental…
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 1. With the familial landscape having evolved over the last thirty years, neither parent fitting assumed roles and a bond formed between father and ch…
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 14. What is best for E.B.. 15. Why the courts refuse to hear the wishes of E.B. a 13 year old child that is fully aware of the situation and knows wh…
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? May a state court deny an indigent person relief based o…
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?
20-614 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…
20-6128 Ilya Liviz v. Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts Massachusetts 2020-10-26 Denied IFP civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process family-law jury-trial parental-rights patent-claims state-procedure Does Attachment G grant a right to a jury trial when the state seeks to confiscate property for the crimes?
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 1. Whether the incommunicado detention of my natural Custodial children for over four months at the behest of Bothell Police Department because I was …
20-473 Ammar I. v. Connecticut Connecticut 2020-10-13 Denied Relisted (2) child-welfare civil-rights due-process family-law foster-care fourteenth-amendment parental-rights religious-freedom 1- Whether the State's prolonged 'temporary' foster placement (in excess of 40 months) of children on a plan of reunification, violated federal law, i…
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 Is the decision to terminate parental rights Constitutional, where the court determined that adoption to an Amish home is in the best interest of the …
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 Question not identified.
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 1- Whether or not there exists a rebuttable presumption as a general rule, that Grandparent visitation is in the best interest of minor grandchildren,…
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 1. Can an unconstitutional denial of parental rights by a State Court, due to a complaint about IDEA "stay put" violation, be used to deny jurisdictio…
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 May the State of Vermont, along with a minority of other states, apply the "reasonable probability" harmless error standard in assessing due process e…
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 I. Whether the Missouri Western District Court of Appeals committed err by not finding Petitioner's 14th Amendment due process rights were violated by…
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 1. Whether parents surrender their fundamental right to direct the upbringing of their children by enrolling them in public school so that a school di…
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 1. Whether joint child custody is a constitutionally protected, rebuttable presumption of equal rights. 2. Whether a clear and convincing standard is…
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 A. Is it unconstitutional to impose a verbal pick-up -order (to remove Simone Shawdll walcott From her parents) and also: on involuntary terminationn …
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 In 2010, Congress enacted the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). ACA legislation that sought to significantly address matters concernin…
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 I. Whether District Court has jurisdiction over state deprivation of federal rights, under the color of state law? a. ) Whether Respondents are amen…
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 l.Do parents have the right to direct the upbringing of there children? 2. Can parents rights over-rule grandparent's rights. . Are grandparents cou…
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 Mr. Simmons alleges that the Court of Common Pleas. Superior Court and the Supreme Court erred in that natural father failed to show that he made the …
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 1. What constitutes "Due Process of Law"? Can binding orders be implemented, terminating visitation without any consideration of evidence or a hearing…
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 Question not identified.
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 I. What are the present-day parameters to any assertion of privilege pursuant to the 5th Amendment to the United States Constitution (re: compulsion a…
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 This is a diversity of citizenship family law case. Petitioner is a resident of New Hampshire and Respondent is a resident of California. The care, cu…
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 1. Whether, in order to ensure that basic constitutional guarantees define the framework of proceedings to terminate the fundamental constitutional li…
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 Petitioner, a fit parent that exceeded minimum standards of care for both of his children (then 11 and 12 years old), filed federal-question claims ag…
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 1. 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…
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 In a case involving the Indian Child Welfare Act ("ICWA"), 25 U.S.C. §§ 1901 – 1923 (1978), may a court deny a petition to invalidate the proceeding w…
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 In a termination of parental rights proceeding in a state that provides appeals as a matter of right from decisions terminating parental rights, does …
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 This case raises important issues of public interest and circuit splits that require guidance of Supreme Court of United States. 1. Does seizure, phy…
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 1. Did the New York courts ' decisions to deprive a child 's only living natural parent of physical and legal custody of his child, while granting s…
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, in order to terminate a parent's parental rights to their child, the due process Clause of the United States constitution requires that a Sta…
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 d;1 U» C»«n^s VioloAt p&^wta ru^WH % c ,4 r r Vv /-\loc>Si PovW"
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 1. Whether The State Of Arizona Failed To Terminate Mother's Parental Rights By At Least Clear & Convincing Evidence As Required By The Due Process Cl…
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 When two parents are involved in an ongoing and contentious custody battle over a minor child, does one parent have a First Amendment right to critici…
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 1. 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 …
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 A New Mexico district court issued an interim order removing a three-year-old girl from her mother's custody without a prior hearing. The court did no…
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 Latino (nexiem teritae). thould Mabe Fathers, ineledi Q he Protection Catholia-Chistian plovided qual lnde Law guaranteed Due Prozess and a Itates Co…
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 1. Whether the Texas district court violated the Petitioner 's Federal Civil Rights under Section 1983 by discriminating against the Petitioner 's Re…
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 1) If it can be proven, leaving absolutely 'No-Doubt', that the relied upon convi ctions, in regard to a Termination of Parental Rights action, is un…
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 by Ms. Dasler is used as the basis to permanently …
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 IS a Family Law Divorce Proceeding in which Parental, Custody Property and Financial rights are at issue a Bona Fide Civil Access to Courts Action war…
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 Under Ohio law, incarcerated parents who have actively sought to maintain a connection with their children cannot lose their children to adoption with…
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 1. Did the state's demands that the parents admit guilt violate their Constitutional rights under the 5th Amendment? Note: Both the Treatment Plan an…
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 1. Is Wis. Stat. §48.415 unconstitutional as applied when it was used to terminate the Fourteenth Amendment fundamental right of familial integrity of…
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 1. Whether New Jersey can deny or limit civil procedural due process protected under the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution especially when the cou…
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 1. The Mothers' parental rights are treated superior over the rights of the Fathers. 2. Fathers' parental rights are being violated by false allegati…
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 1) Biggest Question is how the Unified Judicial System including the Judicial Inquiry Commission can deny a citizen any and ALL review, appeal, and E…
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 in the previous trial court proceedings, by ignoring the 2016 findings i…
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 There are no U.S. Supreme Court cases on whether parental Due Process Clause rights apply to local governments and medical providers ending parental c…
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 This is a protected speech as well as parental and property rights case addressing jurisdictional issues of constitutional nature through a civil rest…
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, particularly for pro se Prisoner litigants? Sh…
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 by, the Guardian ad Litem, as well as the Fat…
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 In a State that provides appeals as a matter of right from adverse lower court decisions terminating parental rights, may the States, consistent with …
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 Question not identified.
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 [III] Douse the Department of Children Services "AGENCY "haveany legal right to e a child from the parent / legal garden well the parent / legal garde…
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? Is the office of Child Support Enforcement …
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, …
18-1465 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 When children in the County of San Diego are temporarily removed from their parents' care based on suspicion that they have been abused or neglected, …
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 The first question involves the Florida Practice and Rule which do not permit litigants to seek review in the Florida Supreme Court when the District …
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 Did the lower court infringe the Petitioner's parental rights and due process by ignoring the Court's unanimous precedent, in re, Chafin v. Chafin, as…
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 1. Whether The State Of Arizona Failed To Terminate Mother's Parental Rights By At Least Clear & Convincing Evidence As Required By The Due Process Cl…
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 THE COURT BELOW COMMIT AN ERROR SO IMPORTANT THAT IT AS LAW AND FACTS SHOULD COMPELL JUDGES. THE DAMAGING ERROK OF THE COURTS DECISION ULTIMATELY HAS …
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? What do I need to do to satisfy the courts to Gr…
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…
18-1245 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 1. Whether the Eighth Circuit erred in holding, in conflict with decisions of this Court and three other courts of appeals , that the possibility of f…
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 1) 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…
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? • How long…
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 Question One: In the (a) Denial of Plaintiffs Motion to Amend the Complaint; (b) Dismissal of Plaintiffs Claims With and Without Prejudices; and (c) G…
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 of caretaking, providing for, legally acknowledging, and forming a par…
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 THE COURT EALS ERRED BY EMPLOYING AN UNCONSITITUTIONAL STANDARD TO REVIEW THIS PARENTAL RIGHTS TERMINATION DECISION. The Fourteenth Court of Appeals …
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, where it upheld the district court decision to constructively amen…
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? Di…
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 Substantive Due Process limits the state's authority to deprive individuals of fundamental rights. The Tennessee courts in this case failed to conduct…
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 1. May a State, consistent with the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment, condition the statutorily granted right to c…
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 Under Roe and Casey's "Age of Viability" holding that limits a timeframe for a mother's right to chose; if after expiration of that holdin whether by …
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 Petitioners' Constitutional right to due process when it requires Petitioners to prove too much bur…
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 1. Are men in America becoming a discriminated class, and if not, are historically prejudiced fathers in domestic relations courts nevertheless entitl…
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 Question not identified.
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 (1) Whether a state court's application of a "best interests" standard in custody/parental responsibilities filed by a person other than a parent, vio…
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 1. Whether California's Family Code § 7611(d) is impermissibly vague, as applied, when the Court of Appeal holds "[t]here are no specific factors that…
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 I. Are Virginia's Child Custody Statutes Facially Unconstitutional? II. Are the Parties' 2006, 2010 and 2012 Child Custody Orders Unconstitutional as…
24A129 Franck William Yao v. Tamara Yao Missouri Denied custody-battle due-process family-rights fourteenth-amendment ordered-liberty parental-rights 1. The Due Process Clause of The Fourteenth Amendment guarantees parental rights. 2. Petitioner's dual citizenship was used against him to strip away…