No. 25-6150

Cristina M. Lancranjan v. Superior Court of California, San Diego County, et al.

Lower Court: California
Docketed: 2025-11-18
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: child-custody due-process educational-status-quo first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion
Latest Conference: 2026-01-16
Question Presented (from Petition)

1. Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment is violated when a
state court, without a full evidentiary hearing on the child's best interest or a finding
of detriment, strips a fit, primary parent of her fundamental right to direct the
education and upbringing of her child by unilaterally changing the child's six-year
educational status quo without detriment or full evidentiary hearing and on a
judicial "blanket policy."

2. Whether a state court's refusal to modify a custody order that is causing
demonstrable and ongoing physical and psychological harm to a child —a harm
created by the bad-faith conduct of RPI —constitutes an abdication of the court's
constitutional duty to protect the child's welfare.

3. Whether a state court engages in unconstitutional retaliation in violation of the First
Amendment when, immediately after a litigant files a motion to disqualify the judge
for bias, the court strikes the motion and issues a punitive ruling denying the
litigant's request to relocate with her child.

4. Whether a state's justice system effectuates a complete breakdown of due process
when it permits one party to illegally seize all marital assets and then denies the
indigent, self-represented party access to those same funds to secure legal counsel,
creating an unconstitutional structural imbalance that weaponizes the legal system
as a tool of abuse.

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment is violated when a state court strips a fit, primary parent of her fundamental right to direct the child's education without a full evidentiary hearing or finding of detriment

Docket Entries

2026-01-20
Petition DENIED.
2025-12-31
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/16/2026.
2025-10-21
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due December 18, 2025)

Attorneys

Cristina M. Lancranjan
Cristina M. Lancranjan — Petitioner