| 25-54 |
David Lynn Richards, Jr. v. Tennessee |
Tennessee |
2025-07-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
adoption criminal-procedure due-process ministerial-status sexual-abuse wrongful-conviction |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5035 |
In Re Lionel Bailey |
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2024-07-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
adoption adoption-rights child-custody civil-rights court-procedure due-process family-law illegitimate-child parental-notice parental-rights putative-father standing |
WHETHER THE SUPERIOR COURT OF BROOKS COUNTY LIMITED THE SCOPE OF THE PUTATIVE FATHER'S RIGHT TO NOTICE, HEARING, AND CONSENT IN THE ADOPTION OF HIS IL… |
| 23-6056 |
Talthia Sorbel v. South Dakota, ex rel. South Dakota Department of Social Services, et al. |
South Dakota |
2023-11-20 |
Denied |
Relisted (3)IFP |
adoption civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure due-process evidence evidence-admission family judicial-review standing |
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| 23-161 |
Megan Kathryn Sullivan v. Amanda Marie Seaton |
Georgia |
2023-08-18 |
Denied |
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14th-amendment adoption child-custody due-process family-law fourteenth-amendment judicial-review parental-rights step-parent-adoption termination-of-rights |
Question not identified. |
| 22-1017 |
Sheila Mikel v. Jennifer Nichols, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2023-04-20 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
adoption civil-rights due-process foster-care liberty-interest notice-of-removal parental-rights procedural-due-process standing |
Whether a pre-adoptive foster mother has a constitutionally protected liberty interest right to procedural due process in the removal of her foster gi… |
| 22-516 |
R. M. C., III v. J. D. L. |
Colorado |
2022-12-05 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
adoption adoption-law child-welfare civil-rights custody custody-order due-process family-law parental-rights state-jurisdiction state-power |
Whether a state may require an adoptive parent to comply with a custody order issued prior to his adoption of the child without due process. |
| 21-955 |
Khristy Goins Rismiller, Tutrix for Daniel Edward Goins, et al. v. Gemini Insurance Company, et al. |
Louisiana |
2021-12-30 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
adoption adoption-law biological-classification civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection intermediate-scrutiny levy-v-louisiana wrongful-death |
1. Do children given in adoption have a constitutional
right to sue for the wrongful death of their biological
parent and siblings under the 14th Am… |
| 20-1386 |
Dale Sawyer Eisele v. The Estate of Joseph Brodie Smith |
New Hampshire |
2021-04-02 |
Denied |
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adoption adoption-law civil-rights dna-paternity due-process exhumation exhumation-request family-rights legal-interpretation pretermitted-heir probate standing |
The petitioner's request to exhume the body of Joseph Brodie Smith to prove paternity thru DNA was denied by the lower courts.
1. Did interpreting th… |
| 20-849 |
P. F. v. J. S., et al. |
Kansas |
2020-12-23 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
adoption adoption-law biological-parenthood constitutional-standard due-process evolving-family-landscape family-dynamics family-rights gender-assumptions liberty-rights parental-rights |
1. With the familial landscape having evolved over the last thirty years, neither parent fitting assumed roles and a bond formed between father and ch… |
| 20-452 |
S. S., Mother v. D. S., et al. |
Pennsylvania |
2020-10-08 |
Denied |
|
14th-amendment adoption amish-education best-interest-of-the-child best-interest-standard child-welfare constitutional-protections due-process equal-protection fundamental-liberty-interest parental-rights |
Is the decision to terminate parental rights Constitutional, where the court determined that adoption to an Amish home is in the best interest of the … |
| 20-236 |
Jerry W. Wells v. Robbin Nelson, et al. |
Kentucky |
2020-08-28 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
adoption civil-rights constitutional-rights custody due-process family-law federal-law jurisdiction uccjea |
1. Can an original decree state, having lost personal and subject matter jurisdiction for purpose of an adoption pursuant to its own state statute, KR… |
| 19-1190 |
Samuel H. Sloan v. Creighton W. Sloan, et al. |
South Carolina |
2020-04-01 |
Denied |
|
adoption adoption-status asset-confiscation biological-son dna-testing due-process estate estate-distribution estate-inheritance familial-rights judicial-review probate-court probate-jurisdiction standing |
1. Upon discovering through DNA testing that the presumed son of the deceased was in no way a child or a relative of the deceased but had been unoffic… |
| 19-7738 |
H. K. V. v. Florida Department of Children and Families, et al. |
Florida |
2020-02-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
adoption civil-rights due-process equal-protection federal-habeas-corpus standing state-court-proceedings |
QUESTION ONE
Is a case involving a state habeas proceeding by a parent, on behalf of their child, who attacks the validity of the custody of his or he… |
| 19-6250 |
Father v. Maternal Grandparents |
Ohio |
2019-10-10 |
Denied |
IFP |
adoption adoption-consent civil-rights criminal-conviction due-process family-law fourteenth-amendment incarceration parental-rights statutory-interpretation statutory-law |
Under Ohio law, incarcerated parents who have actively sought to maintain a connection with their children cannot lose their children to adoption with… |
| 18-8542 |
S. N., et al. v. San Diego Health and Human Services Agency, et al. |
California |
2019-03-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
adoption child-welfare due-process family-finding-and-engagement family-notification family-separation foster-care grandparents-aunt-uncles-sibling-parent-of-sibling medical-best-interests notification permanency relative-placement |
Is it legal for an Agency to proceed to adopt a dependent toddler (A.K.) out of her biological family when the record contains no "written notificatio… |
| 18-7383 |
Jennifer Feldman v. Adoption Star Agency, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2019-01-11 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment adoption adoption-fraud adoption-law adoption-proceedings child-welfare civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process family-bonds family-separation jurisdictional-challenge standing |
In her brief to this Court, Feldman cities several Florida statutes in support. See, e.g., Fla. Statue 63.063, 787.01, 984.02. But she doesn't cite an… |
| 18-376 |
Lisa Partin, et vir v. Michigan Children's Institute |
Michigan |
2018-09-24 |
Denied |
|
administrative-law adoption arbitrary-and-capricious best-interest best-interest-factors child-protective-services civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process family-law michigan-adoption-code parental-rights standing |
Whether Michigan Adoption Code MCL 710.45 violates Petitioners' Constitutional right to due process when it requires Petitioners to prove too much bur… |
| 18-5798 |
C. B. v. Thomas N. Fischgrund |
Florida |
2018-08-28 |
Denied |
Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
adoption adoption-law civil-rights civil-rights-deprivation constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fraud fraud-allegations negligence notary-misconduct notary-public |
Should the Supreme Court of Florida decline to accept jurisdiction, when the claims brought before the court, strongly expresses as well as clearly an… |