No. 18-1422

Michael B. v. Tennessee Department of Children's Services

Lower Court: Tennessee
Docketed: 2019-05-14
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Response Waived
Tags: civil-procedure due-process family-law fourteenth-amendment guardian-ad-litem legal-disqualification parental-rights procedural-error witness-disqualification
Latest Conference: 2019-10-01
Question Presented (from Petition)

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 an attorney, and had become a witness, was in error and violated the Father's parental rights guaranteed by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

Question Presented (AI Summary)

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 an attorney, and had become a witness, was in error and violated the Father's parental rights guaranteed by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment

Docket Entries

2019-10-07
Petition DENIED.
2019-06-12
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/1/2019.
2019-06-04
Waiver of right of respondent Tennessee Department of Children's Services to respond filed.
2018-12-07
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due June 13, 2019)

Attorneys

In Re D.B.
David W. CampCamp & Camp, Petitioner
Tennessee Department of Children's Services
Joseph F. Whalen IIIAttorney general's Office, Respondent