probate-court

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
25-6291 Georgianna Parisi v. Estate of Jackie Jones, et al. Ohio 2025-12-05 Pending IFP equal-protection fourteenth-amendment interstate-commerce judicial-oversight probate-court trustee-compensation This case presents a question of exceptional national importance because it implicates the federal constitutional limits on States' authority to regul…
25A49 Karyn M. Kelley, Individually and as Trustee of The Karyn M. Kelley Revocable Trust Agreement of July 13, 2016 v. Mary Feeney, et al. New Hampshire 2025-07-11 Presumed Complete due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial probate-court subject-matter-jurisdiction title-dispute Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's due process protections require a jury trial in state probate court proceedings involving title disputes when funda…
23-1366 Jenny Jing, et al. v. Joseph Womack, et al. Montana 2024-07-02 Denied adversary-rights constitutional-rights domestic-partner first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech petition-to-redress-grievances privacy probate-court unauthorized-practice-of-law Did the Montana Supreme Court overlook a violation of First and Fourteenth Amendment rights, specifically concerning free-speech, petition-to-redress-…
23-6812 Niki Hamidi v. Ike M. Iqbal California 2024-02-23 Denied Response WaivedIFP collusion duty estate estate-protection executor-duty fraud fraud-prevention paternity-claim probate-court settlement settlement-challenge Whether the probate court has a duty to protect an estate against fraud?
23A711 Fitz D. Jackson v. Courtney E. James Texas 2024-02-01 Presumed Complete court-of-appeals legal-standing petition-for-certiorari probate-court state-court-appeal supreme-court-jurisdiction Whether a probate court's ruling regarding a legal matter can be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court after exhausting state court remedies
23-536 Kendall Merlo v. Ingrid Warren, Presiding Judge, Probate Court No. 2, Dallas County, Texas Texas 2023-11-20 Denied Response Waived competency competency-hearing due-process estate-law guardian-ad-litem judicial-procedure notice pleadings probate-court sua-sponte Does a state trial court violate due process by appointing a guardian ad litem for the adult beneficiary of an estate, who is presumed to be competent…
23-5867 Anita Bryant v. Delaware County Treasurer, et al. Indiana 2023-10-24 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (3)IFP beneficiary-standing civil-procedure constitutional-notice due-process estate-jurisdiction jurisdiction notice probate probate-court property-interest standing tax-sale-notice Whether one trial court can assume jurisdiction of an estate property in the possession and jurisdiction of a separate trial probate court without a c…
23-5576 Robert William Pann v. Sherry L. Burt, Warden, et al. Sixth Circuit 2023-09-14 Denied IFP access-to-courts ex-parte-proceeding extrinsic-fraud first-amendment lewis-v-casey prison-conditions prisoner-rights probate-court prosecutorial-misconduct Is Petitioner's First Amendment right of access to the courts violated by the rule announced in Lewis v. Casey being too narrow by strictly limiting i…
22-7050 Dorothy Weigman v. Victoria Wertz, as Trustee California 2023-03-21 Denied IFP accounting civil-procedure due-process judicial-misconduct mortgage-backed-securities probate probate-court racketeering securities-investment standing trust trust-administration Can there be a judgment for the approval of accounting when there has been no filing of an administration of the trust?
21-1547 Chris C. Streeter v. John D. Casey, Chief Justice, Massachusetts Probate and Family Court Massachusetts 2022-06-09 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection judicial-delay probate-court standing If the Petitioner's 14th Amendment right to due process and equal protection under the law are violated by the delays in issuing rulings as justice de…
21-8071 Brala Beverly v. Riverside County Public Administrator, et al. California 2022-06-07 Rehearing Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 7th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment jury-trial probate-court property-seizure seventh-amendment standing Did the California Riverside County Superior Court and Fourth Appellate District Division Two in California violate the seventh amendment of the U.S. …
21-1437 Carol M. Kam v. Dallas County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2022-05-13 Denied Response Waived civil-rights due-process judicial-conduct judicial-misconduct non-final-orders probate-court rooker-feldman-doctrine standing state-court-orders state-court-ruling Can the Rooker-Feldman Doctrine apply to non-final state court rulings?
21-456 George C. Vann v. Roane County Commission, et al. West Virginia 2021-09-24 Denied Response Waived accountability civil-procedure civil-rights conflicting-interests constitutional-rights disclosure due-process estate-administration jurisdiction-challenge probate-court standing Whether a party should be denied the right to question jurisdiction, accountability, and disclosure of the subject matter in an alleged estate with co…
20-7165 Robin E. Jackson v. Marsha Josiah, as Trustee California 2021-02-17 Denied IFP 14th-amendment civil-procedure civil-rights due-process fundamental-fairness laches probate probate-court procedural-due-process standing state-proceedings trust-litigation Whether 14th Amendment Procedural due process violated by Probate court based on principles of 'fundamental fairness
19-1190 Samuel H. Sloan v. Creighton W. Sloan, et al. South Carolina 2020-04-01 Denied adoption adoption-status asset-confiscation biological-son dna-testing due-process estate estate-distribution estate-inheritance familial-rights judicial-review probate-court probate-jurisdiction standing Must the courts reopen the case where the entire assets of the deceased have been confiscated by an unofficially adopted child, and must the estate be…
19-754 Estate of Norman Robert Knight, Jr., Deceased, et al. v. Beatrice E. Whitten, as a Special Administrator, et al. South Carolina 2019-12-12 Denied civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process federal-common-law judicial-qualification one-person-one-vote probate probate-court service-of-process standing voting-rights Whether lower courts erred by acting on a petition filed and served without summons as required
19-479 Carol M. Kam v. John B. Peyton, Jr. Fifth Circuit 2019-10-10 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) associate-judge judicial-authority judicial-misconduct probate-court probate-law rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court-jurisdiction state-court-rulings state-law void-orders Does the Rooker-Feldman Doctrine apply to two Void 'proposed' State Court Rulings?
19-31 Carol M. Kam v. Dallas County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2019-07-03 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) associate-judge dallas-county judicial-authority judicial-misconduct probate-court probate-court-procedure rooker-feldman-doctrine state-court state-court-jurisdiction state-law void-judgment void-rulings Does the Rooker-Feldman Doctrine apply to two void 'proposed' State Court rulings produced by a former Associate Judge, employed solely by Dallas Coun…
18-1228 Barbara Mrzlak Brundo v. Christ the King Church of Omaha Eighth Circuit 2019-03-21 Denied Response Waived civil-rights defamation due-process employment estate-administration estate-litigation frivolous-litigation judicial-retaliation ministerial-exception probate-court retaliation rule-11-sanctions Whether Rule 11 sanctions paid by petitioner for alleged frivolous complaints should be returned with interest
18-1152 Elaine Steele, et al. v. Sylvester McCauley, et al. Michigan 2019-03-06 Denied breach-of-contract civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process estate-law fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias probate probate-court property-rights Arbitrary and biased probate court proceedings violating due process