state-intervention
14 cases — ← All topics
| 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 | Dismissed | Relisted (2)IFP | child-custody child-welfare civil-rights due-process family-law judicial-procedure jurisdiction parental-rights standing state-intervention | Can a State Trial Court open a CHINS proceeding against Defendant without the pre-requisite family/dating/household relationship + persistent conduct … | |
| 23-6762 | In Re Kinley MacDonald | 2024-02-15 | Dismissed | Relisted (2)IFP | abuse-neglect child-custody civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process family-law parental-rights standing state-intervention | Whether a state trial court can open a PFA proceeding against a defendant without the requisite family/household relationship and persistent conduct r… | |
| 23-451 | Geoffrey Hamilton Woodward v. Sarah Edge Woodward | Tennessee | 2023-10-30 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | can condition a fit parent's ability to have any consistent with the Due Process Clause child-custody compelling-interest due-process family-court family-law medical-treatment mental-health parental-rights state-interest state-intervention | Whether a court can condition a fit parent's ability to have any contact with his child on unwanted medical treatment without finding that the treatme… |
| 22-6294 | Keith Strom v. Douglas Mitchell, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2022-12-13 | Denied | IFP | child-support due-process family-law parent-child-relationships parental-rights poverty state-intervention state-involvement welfare-interests | Should the State be allowed to impose child support payments that result in unavoidable poverty and severely damaged child-parent relationships? |
| 22-5357 | Deanna D. v. Tennessee Department of Children's Services | Tennessee | 2022-08-16 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | child-welfare civil-rights due-process ex-parte-order iv-e-funding parental-rights removal state-intervention | What is the purpose of the removal of children from the mother's care when there is no reason for the removal? |
| 22-12 | D. H. v. West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources, et al. | West Virginia | 2022-07-05 | Denied | Response Waived | 14th-amendment burden-of-proof child-welfare due-process parental-rights state-intervention | Whether the termination of a natural mother's parental rights based on her refusal to confess to allegations when the state bears the burden of proof … |
| 21-32 | Elizabeth C. v. Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services | California | 2021-07-09 | Denied | child-custody clear-and-convincing-evidence due-process fourteenth-amendment parental-rights santosky-v-kramer state-intervention termination-of-parental-rights | Whether the Fourteenth Amendment due process requirement articulated in Santosky v Kramer requires a finding of parental unfitness by clear and convin… | |
| 20-618 | 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 | Did the New York courts' decisions violate the parent and his child's constitutionally protected fundamental-rights,natural-rights | |
| 19-853 | Sandra R., et al. v. Arizona Department of Child Safety | Arizona | 2020-01-06 | Denied | Response Waived | child-custody clear-and-convincing-evidence constitutional-standard due-process family-law parental-rights state-action state-intervention termination | Whether the Due Process Clause requires a State to allege and prove a parent's unfitness by clear and convincing evidence to terminate parental rights |
| 18-8809 | B. C. v. Florida Department of Children and Families | Florida | 2019-04-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | abuse-neglect child-custody child-welfare civil-procedure civil-rights due-process family-law law-enforcement parental-rights standing state-intervention | Whether the Supreme Court will allow a distressed parent to file this writ of certiorari that most likely will not correct according to the prevailing… |
| 18-7953 | 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… |