Eric E. v. Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services
1. Whether, under the incorporation doctrine, the Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial should apply to the States for parents in quasi-prosecutorial dependency proceedings, wherein the finder of fact determines the truth or falsity of allegations which threaten the deprivation of a fundamental liberty interest in child custody.
2. Whether, independent of the Seventh Amendment, the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment requires States to provide parents the right to a jury trial in quasi-prosecutorial dependency proceedings, wherein the finder of fact determines the truth or falsity of allegations which threaten the deprivation of a fundamental liberty interest in child custody.
Whether a parent has a constitutional right to a jury trial in a child custody proceeding initiated by the state