state-intervention

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
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…
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.
23-451 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…
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…
22-5357 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? …
22-12 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…
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…
20-618 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?
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…
19-891 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…
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 …
18-7953 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…