No. 19-6250
Father v. Maternal Grandparents
IFP
Tags: adoption adoption-consent civil-rights criminal-conviction due-process family-law fourteenth-amendment incarceration parental-rights statutory-interpretation statutory-law
Latest Conference:
2019-12-13
Question Presented (from Petition)
Under Ohio law, incarcerated parents who have actively sought to maintain a connection with their children cannot lose their children to adoption without their consent. Where a parent satisfies this standard, may the State, consistent with the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause, entirely disregard his efforts to maintain his paternal ties and dispense with his statutory right to consent to the adoption of his children exclusively on the basis of the crime for which he was imprisoned, and in the absence of any statutory basis treating his crime as dispositive?
Question Presented (AI Summary)
Whether incarcerated parents have a due-process right to consent to adoption of their children under the Fourteenth Amendment
Docket Entries
2019-12-16
Petition DENIED.
2019-11-27
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 12/13/2019.
2018-12-07
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due November 12, 2019)
2018-10-09
Application (18A371) granted by Justice Kagan extending the time to file until December 7, 2018.
2018-10-02
Application (18A371) to extend the time to file a petition for a writ of certiorari from October 9, 2018 to December 7, 2018, submitted to Justice Kagan.
Attorneys
Father
Allison L. Ehlert — Ehlert Hicks LLP, Petitioner