No. 18-7173

Karen Lofgren v. Todd Hardin

Lower Court: Washington
Docketed: 2018-12-26
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: civil-rights constitutional-amendment due-process family-law incarceration incarceration-impact parental-rights troxel-v-granville visitation-rights
Latest Conference: 2019-02-22
Question Presented (from Petition)

Whether it is First and Fourteenth Constitutional Amendment violations for a Family Court in State to deny a parent visitation with her children because she is incarcerated and whether this implies Troxel v Granville, 527 U.S. 1069, 144 L.Ed.2d 842, 120 S.Ct. 11(1999)?

Whether a mother, not determined to be unfit (Troxel) and who has an established bond with her children has a Constitutional right to maintain contact with her children while she is incarcerated?

Whether the Washington State Court of Appeals has decided an important question of federal law, which impacts millions of children and parents, that has not been, but should be, settled by the United States Supreme Court (Rule 10.C) - noting that conflicting rulings in the lower courts abound as to whether a fit but incarcerated parent has a constitutional right to visitation with her children?

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether it is First and Fourteenth Constitutional Amendment violations for a Family Court in State to deny a parent visitation with her children because she is incarcerated and whether this implies Troxel v Granville, 527 U.S. 1069, 144 L.Ed.2d 842, 120 S.Ct. 11 (1999)?

Docket Entries

2019-02-25
Petition DENIED.
2019-02-07
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 2/22/2019.
2018-11-16
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due January 25, 2019)

Attorneys

Karen Lofgren
Karen Lofgren — Petitioner