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25-6834 AmadaSophia Komorebi v. Andrew Katkin California 2026-02-17 Pending IFP child-custody due-process-clause home-state-jurisdiction interstate-family-law parental-kidnapping-prevention-act visitation-rights 1. Whether the Parental Kidnapping Prevention Act (PKPA), 28 U.S.C. § 1738A, permits a State court to deny home-State priority jurisdiction by treati…
25A617 George Cleveland, III v. South Carolina Department of Social Services South Carolina 2025-11-25 Application child-custody due-process family-court parental-rights social-services writ-of-certiorari Question not identified.
25-6150 Cristina M. Lancranjan v. Superior Court of California, San Diego County, et al. California 2025-11-18 Denied IFP child-custody due-process educational-status-quo first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-discretion 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 …
25A430 Juliana Sloto v. Christian Karvelid First Circuit 2025-10-15 Denied child-custody habitual-residence hague-convention international-law irreparable-harm parental-intent Question not identified.
25A376 Samantha Estefania Francisco Castro v. Jose Leonardo Brito Guevara Fifth Circuit 2025-10-02 Denied child-custody circuit-split hague-convention international-law parental-abduction supreme-court-review Question not identified.
25-230 Carina Conerly, et al. v. Sharif R. Tarpin, et al. Ninth Circuit 2025-08-27 Denied child-custody constitutional-procedure first-amendment judicial-discretion school-access videotaping-rights 1. WHETHER, Petitioner should consider a State Judges laws Constitutionally Powerful, when the Justice System Court Judges ban, by court order, Petiti…
25-89 Jonathan Lee, et al. v. Poudre School District R-1 Tenth Circuit 2025-07-23 Denied Amici (3)Relisted (2) best-interests child-custody due-process parental-rights school-district state-intervention Whether a school district may discard the presumption that fit parents act in the best interests of their children and arrogate to itself the right to…
25-59 Joseph Very Sherman, Individually, and as Biological Father, Next Friend, and Natural Guardian of H. M. S., J. C. S., and M. R. S., Minor Children, et al. v. Louis R. Lerner, former Judge, Circuit Court of Virginia, City of Norfolk Virginia 2025-07-16 Denied child-custody due-process fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment liberty-interests parental-rights The trial judge entered an Order (App. 10a-21a) that deprived each of the three child Petitioners of their right to associate with their fit and lovin…
25-5066 Danielle Sposito v. Linda Rollins-Threats Texas 2025-07-09 Denied IFP 42-U.S.C.-§-1988 child-custody civil-rights judicial-immunity malicious-actions parent-facilitator Whether a parent facilitator was entitled to judicial immunity when the actions she took in a child custody case were done maliciously involving her f…
25-11 Margaret M. FitzGerald v. Michael Alan Knaub, et al. Pennsylvania 2025-07-02 Denied Response Waived abuse-prevention child-custody constitutional-rights domestic-violence family-law judicial-malfeasance 1. How is it possible in the most revered judicial system in the world-the United States of America-that a woman/mother/primary caregiver of the marri…
24-7518 Samuel Lee Smith, Jr. v. Natasha Katherina Smith Florida 2025-06-26 Denied IFP appellate-review best-interest-standard child-custody judicial-discretion motion-denial timesharing 1 SHOULD THE TRIAL COURT 'S DENIAL OF THE PETITIONER 'S MOTION FOR UNSUPERVISED TIMESHARING SHOULD BE REVERSED BECAUSE THE ORDER DENYING THE MOTION …
24-1226 S. G. S. v. S. F. Illinois 2025-06-03 Denied Response Waived child-custody due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-procedure parental-rights 1. Whether a state court may completely remove a parent's constitutionally protected right to the care, custody, and control of their child through a …
24-7312 Leavon Z. Reeves v. Oluchi Akunne Maryland 2025-05-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 14th-amendment adoption-fraud child-custody due-process social-worker-misconduct witness-testimony 1. "Whether The District Court erred in dismissing the case without a hearing? " 2. "Whether the district court erred in dismissing the case without …
24-6877 Amanda M. v. Illinois Illinois 2025-03-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof child-custody constitutional-rights due-process hearsay-evidence parental-rights Can a state terminate a parent's constitutional right to raise her child based solely on hearsay evidence, where the state's burden of proof at a fitn…
24-6708 Grace Wilson Marshall v. Benjamin Ryan Caudill Kentucky 2025-03-05 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-custody domestic-violence federal-law jurisdiction protective-order uccjea 1. Whether a state court's failure to exercise jurisdiction under the UCCJEA, despite previously issuing a protective order, violates the Full Faith a…
24-888 Richard R., et al. v. Daniel Washburn, et al. Arizona 2025-02-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) child-custody due-process fraud-allegation judicial-review jurisdictional-challenge void-judgment 1. Did the courts err in failing to review and address lower court findings that judgments were "devoid of competent evidence"? 2. Does Rule 65 requi…
24-6570 Andrew Jeffery Helmin v. Yuemin Xu Minnesota 2025-02-14 Denied Relisted (2)IFP child-custody constitutional-law due-process equal-protection icwa-principles native-american-rights 1. Did the Minnesota courts violate the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses by prioritizing Respondent's cultural backgrou…
24-848 Anne Catherine Richard v. Eric John Horacius Eleventh Circuit 2025-02-10 Denied child-custody circuit-split habitual-residence international-law monasky-standard well-settled-defense I. Whether the Eleventh Circuit's habitual-residence analysis conflicts with this Court's totality-of-thecircumstances standard under Monasky v. Tagli…
24A756 Elizabeth Anne Fitzgibbon v. Adam Paul Fitzgibbon Wisconsin 2025-02-04 Presumed Complete child-custody constitutional-rights due-process family-law jurisdictional-boundaries pro-se Question not identified.
24-6440 Jondrew LaChaux v. Eighth Judicial District Court of Nevada, Clark County, et al. Nevada 2025-01-31 Denied IFP child-custody due-process family-law guardianship procedural-fairness right-to-counsel Question not identified.
24A725 Natalia Dalton v. Julio Lacayo Fourth Circuit 2025-01-24 Denied child-custody due-process federal-question liberty-interest parental-rights supremacy-clause Whether or not Defendant shall receive a fair and impartial de novo Trial/Appeal in any Virginia State, County, or City Court? Whether or not the 197…
24-664 Joseph Rued v. Catrina Rued Minnesota 2024-12-19 Denied child-custody constitutional-rights due-process judicial-doctrine parental-rights state-court-discretion This case implicates fundamental protected rights including custody rights of natural parents. The Minnesota Judiciary has knowingly sustained relianc…
24-662 Richard Rynn, Next Friend and Parent of M. R., a Minor v. Gregory A. McKay, Individually and in His Official Capacity as the Director of the Arizona Department of Child Safety, et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-12-19 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) child-custody constitutional-rights deprivation-of-rights due-process ex-parte-injunction state-action 1. Critical contradictions between district court decision an order from doctor and state court Division One decision of no doctor order arising case …
24-6004 In Re Aliyah Monroe 2024-11-20 Denied IFP child-custody due-process emergency-order-of-protection jurisdiction parental-rights uniform-child-custody-jurisdiction-enforcement-act 1.) Is the Illinois trial courts judgment, dated 02/25/2022, valid, if due process, equal protection, and/or jurisdiction is absent for the duration o…
24A415 Richard Rynn, et al. v. Daniel Washburn, et al. Arizona 2024-10-29 Denied child-custody constitutional-rights due-process ex-parte-injunction parental-rights state-court 1. Does the legal standard of evidence require a showing of imminent harm to justify the issuance of an ex parte custody injunction without notice? 2…
24-425 Jesse Rehbein, et al. v. Annette Rehbein, et al. Montana 2024-10-16 Denied Amici (1) best-interest-standard child-custody due-process fourteenth-amendment parental-rights parenting-plan In Troxel v. Granville, this Court concluded that Washington's Grandparent Visitation Statute unconstitutionally infringed a fit parent's federal cons…
24-390 Anthony Patterson v. Asli Baz Seventh Circuit 2024-10-08 Denied Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) child-custody hague-convention international-law party-autonomy treaty-interpretation waiver-rights Until the decision below, all the courts of appeals to have considered the question held, consistent with the position of the United States in litigat…
24-315 Troy Pasulka v. Saraa Doris Lee California 2024-09-19 Denied child-custody constitutional-rights custody-order domestic-violence due-process equal-protection 1. When a state 's legislature — to stop its courts from facilitating child abuse, litigation abuse, and other forms of domestic violence — enacts m…
24-141 S. M. v. R. R. C. New Jersey 2024-08-07 Denied child-custody family-law judicial-review parental-fitness strict-scrutiny visitation-rights 1. Whether the "fitness of the parent " is the appropriate test in determining child custody and reasonable visitation. 2. Whether "strict scrutiny…
24-79 James W. A. Jackson v. Kelly K. Fitzgerald Rhode Island 2024-07-25 Denied child-custody due-process evidentiary-hearing hcch-1996 international-treaty personal-jurisdiction simultaneous-proceedings subject-matter-jurisdiction uccjea Questions Pertaining to the Due Process Clause : 1. Does a defence of UCCJEA 'Simultaneous Proceedings ' become moot when one and not all pro ceedi…
24-5035 In Re Lionel Bailey 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…
24-22 Lauren N. Stone v. Theodore Worner, et al. Pennsylvania 2024-07-09 Denied Response Waived child-custody due-process fourteenth-amendment fundamental-rights grandparent-visitation harm-to-child parental-rights strict-scrutiny Does Pennsylvania's Child Custody Act, 23 Pa. Stat. and Cons. Stat. Ann. § 5325, permitting a judge to grant to a grandparent, over a fit parent's obj…
23-1295 Linnzi Zaorski v. Nicholas Usner Louisiana 2024-06-12 Denied child-custody civil-contempt civil-procedure contempt-of-court criminal-contempt criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment preponderance-of-evidence purge-clause reasonable-doubt suspended-sentence suspension-of-sentence 1) Did the suspension of Ms. Zaorski's fixed jail sentence and fine, conditioned on terms wholly unrelated to the judgment which she was convicted of …
23-7633 Deanne R. Upson Giese v. William Earl Wallace, III Maryland 2024-06-04 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-custody civil-rights constitutional-protections due-process equal-protection equal-rights-amendment free-speech interstate-jurisdiction interstate-relations parent-child parental-rights Question 1: Given that the Equal Rights Amendment is now Ratified, have the states of Maryland, District of Columbia, and Virginia violated the righ…
23-1244 Samuel Collin Robinson v. Katherine Lyman Freeman, fka Katherine Lyman Robinson Colorado 2024-05-28 Denied Relisted (2) best-interest-of-the-child best-interest-standard child-custody constitutional-rights divorce-law due-process equal-protection family-law parental-rights parenting-time Parenting time scarcity wreaks havoc on relationships between children of divorce and a parent on whom minority time is imposed by court order. Where …
23-7551 In Re Kinley MacDonald 2024-05-23 Denied IFP best-interests child-custody constitutional-rights due-process family-law judicial-discretion Question not identified.
23-7549 In Re Kinley MacDonald 2024-05-23 Denied IFP child-custody child-welfare due-process family-rights hearsay hearsay-evidence judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction parental-rights standard-of-review state-court-procedure Before the Court is a matter involving unabused children trafficked into foster care by hearsay, causing irreparable harm. The mother suffered expecte…
23-7548 In Re Kinley MacDonald 2024-05-23 Denied IFP child-custody child-welfare civil-rights due-process family-law hearsay hearsay-evidence judicial-misconduct jurisdiction jurisdictional-challenge parental-rights state-statute 1) Can a trial Court open and remove children in a "pre-adjudicative Custody" case based solely on hearsay accusations prohibited by State Statute and…
23-1170 Franck William Yao v. Tamara Yao Missouri 2024-04-30 Denied best-interest-of-child best-interest-standard child-custody civil-procedure dual-citizenship expert-witness family-law judicial-consideration state-court testimony Whether the state courts erred in using Petitioner's dual citizenship status as consideration in their final judgment. Whether the state courts prope…
23-7137 Diana Ingrid Reismann Sexton v. Gilbert Sexton Texas 2024-04-04 Denied IFP 14th-amendment child-custody constitutional-rights due-process hague-convention judicial-recusal jus-cogens mistake-of-law pro-se-litigant recusal 1) Can a state district judge be removed from a child custody case for violation of due process clause 14th Amendment, of petitioner after an interloc…
23-7092 Kinley MacDonald v. Michael Duddy, et al. Seventh Circuit 2024-03-28 Denied IFP child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process family-law foster-care hearsay parental-rights state-agency Question not identified.
23-964 Filip Hanik v. Teresa Hanik Washington 2024-03-05 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment child-custody constitutional-rights due-process family-law parental-rights vitek-v-jones youngberg-v-romeo 1. May a state court, or an arbitrator, order a transfer of child custody in violation of the applicable legal standards for a modification of custody…
23-6792 In Re Kinley MacDonald 2024-02-21 Denied IFP abstention child-abuse child-custody child-welfare civil-rights due-process family-law parental-rights standing state-court-jurisdiction Question not identified.
23-6762 In Re Kinley MacDonald 2024-02-15 Denied Relisted (2)IFP abuse-neglect child-custody civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process family-law parental-rights standing state-intervention Question not identified.
23-6760 In Re Kinley MacDonald 2024-02-15 Denied Relisted (2)IFP child-custody child-welfare civil-rights due-process family-law judicial-procedure jurisdiction parental-rights standing state-intervention Question not identified.
23-6646 Dana Albrecht v. Katherine Albrecht New Hampshire 2024-02-01 Denied IFP child-custody civil-procedure civil-rights domestic-violence due-process equal-protection family-law fourteenth-amendment parental-rights A recent New Hampshire Supreme Court precedential Opinion (July 25, 2023) addressed the enforcement of a valid child custody decree in a multi-state d…
23-6604 Nicole Johnson v. Massachusetts Department of Children and Families Massachusetts 2024-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 7th-amendment best-interests child-custody due-process jury-trial massachusetts-rule-38 parental-rights sua-sponte termination termination-of-parental-rights 1. Whether the petitioners right to due process and 7th amendment right and Massachusetts ruie 38 Jury Trial of Right was violated when petitioner fil…
23A617 Yi Tai Shao v. John Roberts, Jr., et al. Ninth Circuit 2024-01-03 Denied bar-license child-custody due-process judicial-conspiracy procedural-irregularity void-order 1. Do Due Process and equity justify rehearing sua sponte based on undisputed evidence of judicial conspiracies and frauds on court in dismissing chil…
23-6398 Imre Kifor v. Massachusetts, et al. First Circuit 2023-12-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection executive-order federal-funding separation-of-powers sovereign-immunity 1) The "Sec. 8. Affirmatively Advancing Civil Rights ... to prevent and address discrimination and advance equity for all" clause of the 2/16/2023 Pre…
23A568 Deanne R. Upson Giese v. William Earl Wallace, III Maryland 2023-12-19 Presumed Complete child-custody constitutional-rights equal-rights-amendment gender-discrimination parental-rights strict-scrutiny Question not identified.
23-6215 D. E. v. Russell County Department of Human Resources Alabama 2023-12-11 Denied Relisted (2)IFP biological-parent child-custody clear-and-convincing-evidence dependency-proceedings due-process ore-tenus-rule parental-rights substantive-due-process Whether the State violates the Due Process Clause when it assumes initial custody of a child from an involved biological parent utilizing dependency p…
23-581 Joey D. Thompson v. Asia Thompson Tennessee 2023-11-30 Denied child-custody family-law interstate-jurisdiction jurisdiction minor minor-rights parens-patriae parental-rights state-authority Does the State of Tennessee have jurisdiction over the minor child "A. T."?
23-6035 In Re Kinley MacDonald 2023-11-16 Denied Relisted (2)IFP child-custody civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection family-law hearsay parental-rights standing state-federal-relations Question not identified.
23-451 Geoffrey Hamilton Woodward v. Sarah Edge Woodward Tennessee 2023-10-30 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) can condition a fit parent's ability to have any consistent with the Due Process Clause child-custody compelling-interest due-process family-court family-law medical-treatment mental-health parental-rights state-interest state-intervention Whether a court, consistent with the Due Process Clause, can condition a fit parent's ability to have any contact with his child on unwanted medical t…
23-450 M. C., et vir v. Indiana Department of Child Services Indiana 2023-10-30 Denied Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) 14th-amendment child-custody due-process first-amendment free-exercise free-speech parental-rights prior-restraint M.C. and J.C. are devout Christians who believe that God creates each person as immutably male or female and that, based on those beliefs and scientif…
23-5831 Roberto Carlos Mendives, Individually and On Behalf of His Four Minor Children, R. C. M., II, M. A. M., G. L. M., and E. F. M. v. Bexar County, Texas, et al. Fifth Circuit 2023-10-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-custody civil-rights due-process family-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment parens-patriae parental-rights standing strict-scrutiny 1. Whether this court should overrule the fact that the state court has separated a fit parent from his/her minor children without an adjudication hea…
23-353 John Jones v. Lyudmyla Pyankovska Ninth Circuit 2023-10-03 Denied Response Waived attorney-liability child-custody custody-proceeding first-amendment omnibus-crime-control omnibus-crime-control-and-safe-streets-act recording-liability recordings right-to-petition title-iii Does the First Amendment to the United States Constitution's protection of the right to petition the government extend to insulate an attorney, presen…
23-161 Megan Kathryn Sullivan v. Amanda Marie Seaton Georgia 2023-08-18 Denied 14th-amendment adoption child-custody due-process family-law fourteenth-amendment judicial-review parental-rights step-parent-adoption termination-of-rights Question not identified.
23-153 Richard Rynn, Next Friend and Parent of M. R., a Minor v. David Lujan, Individually and in His Official Capacity as the Director of the Arizona Department of Child Safety, et al. Ninth Circuit 2023-08-16 Denied Response Waived child-custody civil-rights color-of-law constitutional-rights contract custody due-process judicial-authorization parental-rights 1. Does court err omitting facts, dismissing Defendants that kidnapped child, interfered in legal custody, interfered in parental rights, with actions…
23-152 Alicia Lowe, et al. v. Janet T. Mills, Governor of Maine, et al. First Circuit 2023-08-16 Denied Can a court judgment be entirely untrue and violat child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process ex-parte legal-standing parental-rights preemption religious-accommodation supremacy-clause title-vii undue-hardship (1) Whether compliance with state laws directly contrary to Title VII's requirement to provide a reasonable accommodation may serve as an undue hardsh…
23-5234 Cheryl Kristy Jenkins v. Mark Joseph Tengowski Pennsylvania 2023-07-28 Denied IFP child-custody civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process judicial-immunity judicial-misconduct protective-orders recusal standing 1. Is it a violation of the Constitution for a judge to evaluate their own judge recusal and if they do should the case be vacated? 2. Is it unconsti…
23-5184 Kinley MacDonald v. Lea-Anne Sutton, Judge, District Court of Maine, et al. First Circuit 2023-07-25 Denied Relisted (2)IFP appellate-review child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process family-law family-rights hearsay-evidence judicial-misconduct jurisdiction standing 1) Can a trial court open and remove children in protective custody case based solely on hearsay (because prohibited by State Statute) in secrete and …
23A32 M.C., et vir v. Indiana Department of Child Services Indiana 2023-07-13 Presumed Complete child-custody first-amendment free-speech fundamental-liberty-interest parental-rights prior-restraint Question not identified.
23-5064 Joseph Chandler Davall v. Warren L. Montgomery, Warden Ninth Circuit 2023-07-10 Denied IFP child-custody confrontation-clause constitutional-provisions criminal-procedure custody-dispute due-process evidence hearsay judicial-procedure legal-jurisdiction statutory-interpretation Question not identified.
22-1204 William Muhr v. Dawna Braswell Colorado 2023-06-13 Denied Relisted (2) child-custody conflict-of-interest due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-assignment judicial-bias judicial-disqualification parental-rights Question 1. Whether Petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment rights to due process and equal protection were violated when Colorado allowed disqualified, pre…
22-1205 Brian D. Skattum v. Devan Collomy Maine 2023-06-13 Denied 14th-amendment 5th-amendment child-custody civil-rights criminal-case criminal-procedure divorce-proceeding due-process family-law fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment self-incrimination Question I: Can the Maine courts penalize a father in a divorce and child custody proceeding, while he is also a defendant in a Criminal case, for e…
22-7611 George Cunningham v. Maria Quinn, et vir Sixth Circuit 2023-05-22 Denied IFP 14th-amendment becker-v-montgomery child-custody civil-procedure due-process federal-rules-of-civil-procedure icara material-evidence notice-of-appeal standing 1. Should the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit have accepted a corrected notice of appeal, which involved failure of Nanette Abao …
22-1051 Ronald Simon, et ux. v. Wayne Janke, et al. Washington 2023-04-28 Denied child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights custody due-process equal-protection fraud jurisdiction racial-discrimination standing Appellants seek review of the jurisdiction of the State Court and a judgment of the Supreme Court of the State of Washington denying Appellants' petit…
22-7003 Justin Melton v. Jared Perry, et al. Seventh Circuit 2023-03-14 Denied IFP child-custody civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights contempt due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review legal-jurisdiction petition-for-writ Question not identified.
22-702 Joseph D. Rued v. Catrina M. Rued Minnesota 2023-01-27 Denied child-abuse child-custody due-process evidence family-law judicial-discretion sexual-abuse standard-of-review therapist-testimony Without a full presentation of the facts, did the District Court's affirmative conclusion that sexual abuse had not occurred deny due process to both …
22-311 Michael Vechery v. Florence Cottet-Moine Virginia 2022-10-03 Denied Relisted (2) child-abuse child-custody child-neglect child-visitation due-process family-court fourteenth-amendment parental-rights protective-order 1. Does the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment require, in a child custody and visitation proceeding, that a state family court may not i…
22-5175 A. W. v. West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources West Virginia 2022-07-25 Denied IFP abuse-of-power adoption-proceedings child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process family-integrity family-preservation federal-adoption-act guardian-ad-litem perjury Whether the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals abided by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the Sixth Amendment to the United States C…
22-28 Yi Tai Shao v. Tani Cantil-Sakauye, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of California, et al. California 2022-07-08 Denied Relisted (2) child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment free-speech habeas-corpus prefiling-order standing 1. Does May 17, 2022 Order of California Supreme Court violate the First Amendment, Fifth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment of Constitution pursu…
21-1588 Susan Spell v. Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services California 2022-06-24 Denied child-custody civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment fraud racial-discrimination writ-of-error-coram-vobis 1) Does a trial court violate the requirements of the Equal Protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment when it bases a permanent child custody orde…
21-7515 Paula Antonia Gordon v. Leslie Nelson Parker, et al. Louisiana 2022-03-31 Denied Response WaivedIFP bench-warrant child-custody contempt dna-testing due-process equal-protection family-court human-trafficking judicial-misconduct order-of-appeal 1. Did the family court judge commit a "severe form of human trafficking " when he threatened the child 's mother that if she did not change her sworn…
21-1212 Linsay Lorine Gatsby, nka Linsay Lorine Wallace v. Kylee Diane Gatsby Idaho 2022-03-07 Denied Relisted (2) child-custody civil-rights due-process equal-protection family-law fundamental-rights parental-rights same-sex-marriage Whether both members of a same-sex married couple have the same fundamental right as opposite-sex married couples to participate in the care, custody,…
21-1205 Eric E. v. Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services California 2022-03-03 Denied child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process family-law jury-trial mootness-doctrine parental-rights standing state-action 1. Whether, under the incorporation doctrine, the Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial should apply to the States for parents in quasi-prosecutoria…
21-7248 John Garcia v. Melissa Robinson Arizona 2022-03-02 Denied IFP child-custody constitutional-rights court-order due-process evidence judicial-bias judicial-determination parental-rights parenting-plan trial-procedure A. Does a Judas Pre DETER MATION ON THE RECORD Pao TO REVIEWING THE EVIDENCE ca AT TRA Milaate A CONSTITUTIONAL BAGH TO TED. DUE PROCESS 2 WHEN. AL P…
21-7107 Nina Lynn Nowlan v. Bruce Gerald Randall Nowlan Fourth Circuit 2022-02-11 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-custody civil-procedure fourth-circuit habitual-residence hague-convention international-law parental-rights wrongful-removal WHETHER THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT ERRED AS A MATTER OF LAW BY AFFIRMING THE DISTRICT COURT'S RULING THAT CANADA HAD BE…
21-1088 Jose Luis Alvarez v. Gabriel Pinon Washington 2022-02-07 Denied Response Waived best-interest-standard child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights custody-determination due-process family-law family-life fundamental-liberty-interest parental-rights standing Since freedom of personal choice in matters of family life is a fundamental liberty interest protected by the U.S. Constitution, did the state court e…
21-1045 I. M. v. Montgomery County Department of Health and Human Services, et al. Maryland 2022-01-26 Denied Response Waived child-custody due-process forum-shopping international-law jurisdiction minimum-contacts parental-rights uccjea Whether the UCCJEA comports with the Due Process Clause, where it subjects an international parent to termination of parental rights, where the parent…
21-6782 A. M., aka A. G. v. Colorado, In the Interest of J. G. and C. G., Children Colorado 2022-01-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP best-interest-of-child best-interest-standard child-custody constitutional-rights due-process family-law fundamental-liberty fundamental-rights non-parent-standing parental-rights standing Whether it infringes on a fit parent's fundamental constitutional rights to, in the absence of clear and convincing evidence of unfitness or harm caus…
21-931 Ameenah Salaam v. Jeffrey Allen McAuley California 2021-12-23 Denied 14th-amendment amendment-xiv child-custody civil-rights constitutional-violation custody-change due-process petition physical-custody state-courts superior-court Did the Superior Court of California, County of Sacramento violate the United States Constitution, Amendment XIV right to due process of Ms. Salaam wh…
21-6413 Betty Caitlin Nicole Smith v. Honorable Jason Fleming, et al. Kentucky 2021-11-24 Denied IFP child-custody court-procedure domestic-violence domestic-violence-order federal-law jurisdiction truthfulness uniform-act uniform-child-custody-and-jurisdiction-and-enforce 1. Can a state court enter a child custody order, knowing one already exists in another state, without ever contacting the other state; and ignoring t…
21-525 Hemant Bhimnathwala v. New Jersey State Judiciary, et al. Third Circuit 2021-10-08 Denied Relisted (2) child-custody disparate-impact due-process equal-custody equal-protection family-law fourteenth-amendment obergefell-v-hodges statute-of-limitations 1. Does the Fourteenth Amendment require a presumption of equal, joint custody of children in child custody proceedings? Is this presumption a logical…
21-5882 Jessica W. v. Administration for Children's Services New York 2021-10-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP 14th-amendment child-custody constitutional-rights due-process evidence family-court fourteenth-amendment parental-rights procedural-error 1. Did the New York County Family Court meet due process and evidence standards in their determinations against the petitioner in disposition of two …
21-5621 In Re Patrick Disanto 2021-09-08 Denied Relisted (2)IFP abuse-allegations child-custody civil-rights conflict-of-interest disability-rights due-process family-law judicial-bias judicial-hearing-officer parental-rights standing I. DOES THE JUDICIAL HEARING OFFICER POSSESS THE ABILITY TO VIEW THE COMPLICATED CASE FROM A NON BIASED PERSPECTIVE, WITHOUT EXPRESSING HIS OWN MISOGY…
21-380 Chad Everet Brackeen, et al. v. Deb Haaland, Secretary of the Interior, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-09-08 Judgment Issued Relisted (5) adoption-preferences child-custody child-placement congress-authority congressional-authority federalism indian-child-welfare-act racial-discrimination state-law state-sovereignty 1. Whether ICWA's placement preferences — which disfavor non-Indian adoptive families in child placement proceedings involving an "Indian child" and …
21-378 Texas v. Deb Haaland, Secretary of the Interior, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-09-08 Judgment Issued Relisted (5) anti-commandeering anticommandeering child-custody child-custody-proceedings commerce-clause equal-protection indian-child-welfare-act indian-commerce-clause nondelegation nondelegation-doctrine The Indian Child Welfare Act, 25 U.S.C. § § 1901- 63 (ICWA), creates a child -custody regime for "Indian children," a status defined by a child's gene…
21-141 Jaimee Carole Finley v. Jon Mark Finley California 2021-08-03 Denied 14th-amendment child-custody constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection family-court parental-rights state-discretion 1. If each citizen is protected under the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th amendment of the U.S. Constitution, why would any parent, absent compell…
21-5197 T. A. S., Father of R. A. S., a Minor Child v. Florida Department of Children and Families Florida 2021-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-custody civil-rights due-process ex-parte family-association no-contact-order parental-rights termination-of-parental-rights termination-of-rights Question not identified.
21-87 Jeffrey Angelo Campbell v. Sylvia Betta-Cole, et al. Eighth Circuit 2021-07-22 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment child-custody civil-rights due-process family-law federal-jurisdiction parental-rights section-1983 state-court-jurisdiction state-courts 1. Kelson v. Springfield, 767 F 2d 651, HN2, HN3, A child cannot be removed unless the child's life is in danger. If there is no proof of any life-thr…
21-5075 Elizabeth Shaw v. Derek Shaw Michigan 2021-07-12 Denied Relisted (2)IFP child-custody due-process equal-protection federal-statute icwa jurisdiction-challenge mifpa tribal-law 1. In violation of court orders, MIFPA, ICWA, federal law, state law, and tribal law, the Tribe illegally seized my children from their school and ref…
21-32 Elizabeth C. v. Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services California 2021-07-09 Denied child-custody clear-and-convincing-evidence due-process fourteenth-amendment parental-rights santosky-v-kramer state-intervention termination-of-parental-rights 1. Whether the Fourteenth Amendment due process requirement articulated in Santosky v Kramer, 455 U.S. 745 (1982) that parental rights only be termina…
20-1718 Samuel H. Sloan v. Maria Childress, et al. Fourth Circuit 2021-06-11 Denied Response Waived child-custody interstate-custody judicial-immunity judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction new-york parental-rights religious-freedom supreme-court third-parties virginia 1. Where the questions of the custody of a child have been decided by the Supreme Court of New York State, when may a family court of a county in Virg…
20-1687 Jules Dylan Stuer v. Susan Duesler Texas 2021-06-04 Denied amicus-attorney child-abuse child-custody civil-rights constitutional-provisions defamation due-process fraud standing victim-rights 1. Is an AMICUS Attorney allowed to side with someone who damages a child repeatedly, perjures themselves in Civil Court numerous times, and defrauds …
20-1627 S. S., et al. v. S. B. Pennsylvania 2021-05-21 Denied Amici (3) child-custody content-based content-based-restriction first-amendment free-press free-speech gag-order overbreadth prior-restraint vagueness Is such a "gag order" an unconstitutionally vague and overbroad prior restraint and content-based restriction violating Petitioners' First Amendment f…
20-1516 Veronica V. Badescu v. Catalin S. Badescu Ohio 2021-04-29 Denied best-interest-standard child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process family-law parental-rights standing state-interest vagueness 1. Precisely what constitutes a compelling state interest justifying deprivation of a fit parent's—and primary caregiver's—constitutional right to leg…
20-968 R. M. S. v. Madison County Department of Human Resources Alabama 2021-01-15 Denied child-custody due-process equal-protection federal-statute federal-statutory-notice grandparent-rights social-service-agency state-proceedings termination-of-parental-rights First Question Presented : When a State initiates child custody proceedings, does 28 U.S.C. §1738A(e), the national standard for custody determinat…
20-864 Hitomi Arimitsu v. James Edward Cook, II Minnesota 2020-12-30 Denied child-abduction child-custody comity hague-convention international-child-abduction international-custody judicial-comity jurisdiction-conflict treaty-interpretation uniform-child-custody-jurisdiction-and-enforcement The 1980 Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction ("Convention") requires that a Contracting State stay any child custod…
20-6602 Wayne Boucher v. Deanne Lyons New Hampshire 2020-12-10 Denied Relisted (2)IFP abuse child-custody domestic-dispute due-process equal-protection evidence-exclusion family-law guardian-ad-litem judicial-bias parental-rights 14. What is best for E.B.. 15. Why the courts refuse to hear the wishes of E.B. a 13 year old child that is fully aware of the situation and knows wh…
20-618 Kelly Georgene Routten v. John Tyler Routten North Carolina 2020-11-06 Denied Amici (2)Response WaivedRelisted (2) child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process family-law parental-rights standing state-courts state-intervention Does due process require a finding that a parent is unfit before a State denies that parent all visitation with their child?
20-6104 Jacqueline Pidanick v. Paul C. LaRosa, III, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-10-22 Denied Relisted (2)IFP affidavit child-custody civil-procedure court-fraud declaration due-process in-forma-pauperis poverty pro-se-litigation standing supreme-court-review Question not identified.
20-6064 Alan Justin Smith v. Washington Washington 2020-10-20 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights custodial-rights due-process evidence-procedure family-law hague-convention parental-rights substantive-due-process wrongful-removal 1. Whether the incommunicado detention of my natural Custodial children for over four months at the behest of Bothell Police Department because I was …
20-5756 Chen Xu v. City of New York, New York Second Circuit 2020-09-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP 42-usc-1983 administrative-abuse child-abuse child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-court due-process family-court substantive-rights After a diagnosis and an assigned test in Weill Cornell hospital, petitioner Chen Xu's eight years old son urinate blood for two weeks. The hospital t…
20-49 Peter N. Myma v. Wendy A. Wroe Indiana 2020-07-20 Denied child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection family family-law liberty-interest parental-rights scrutiny-standard standard-of-review 1. Whether joint child custody is a constitutionally protected, rebuttable presumption of equal rights. 2. Whether a clear and convincing standard is…
19-8774 Benjamin J. Gutierrez v. The Texas Health and Human Services Commission Texas 2020-06-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-custody constitutional-law constitutional-rights custody-determination due-process family-law government-agency medicaid medicaid-eligibility parental-rights In 2010, Congress enacted the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). ACA legislation that sought to significantly address matters concernin…
19-8496 C. K. J. v. M. J. T. Pennsylvania 2020-05-19 Denied IFP child-custody civil-rights domestic-relations due-process guardian-ad-litem judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct judicial-recusal judicial-review standing 1. Is it lawful for judges to evaluate a judge recusal on themselves? 2. Should Domestic Relations Code (23 PA.C.S.) and Judicial Code (42 PA.C. S), …
19-8356 Henry Logan, et ux. v. Peggy Logan Texas 2020-04-27 Denied IFP best-interest-standard child-custody disability-rights due-process family-law fourteenth-amendment parental-rights third-party-custody l.Do parents have the right to direct the upbringing of there children? 2. Can parents rights over-rule grandparent's rights. . Are grandparents cou…
19-1236 Rachel Joanna Evens v. Timothy John Evens South Dakota 2020-04-20 Denied Response Waived terminating visitation without any consideration child-custody civil-procedure due-process evidence evidence-rules hearsay judicial-authority parental-rights parenting-coordinator sanctions 1. What constitutes "Due Process of Law"? Can binding orders be implemented, terminating visitation without any consideration of evidence or a hearing…
19-1216 Loredana Elizabeth Botofan-Miller v. Brett Robert Miller Oregon 2020-04-15 Denied birth-mother child-custody civil-rights custody due-process fourteenth-amendment legal-custody parental-rights state-courts state-intervention Did the State of Oregon courts violate the fourteenth amendment rights of the full legal custodial parent, who was the birth mother, to make decisions…
19-8108 Dana Albrecht v. Katherine Albrecht New Hampshire 2020-03-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-procedure appellate-review child-custody due-process family-law fourteenth-amendment parental-rights uccjea This is a diversity of citizenship family law case. Petitioner is a resident of New Hampshire and Respondent is a resident of California. The care, cu…
19-7943 J. H. v. E. R. S. Colorado 2020-03-11 Denied IFP appellate-review child-custody constitutional-facts constitutional-liberty de-novo-review due-process equal-protection parental-rights plain-error structural-error termination termination-of-parental-rights 1. Whether, in order to ensure that basic constitutional guarantees define the framework of proceedings to terminate the fundamental constitutional li…
19-7659 Ashley Rios, et vir v. West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources West Virginia 2020-02-14 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-neglect abuse-or-neglect child-custody due-process expert-witness foster-placement indian-child-welfare-act knowing-waiver parental-rights qualified-expert-witness statutory-interpretation waiver In a case involving the Indian Child Welfare Act ("ICWA"), 25 U.S.C. §§ 1901 – 1923 (1978), may a court deny a petition to invalidate the proceeding w…
19-891 John Lehmann v. Nicole Haims New York 2020-01-17 Denied child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights custody due-process family-law fundamental-rights parental-rights standing state-intervention 1. Did the New York courts ' decisions to deprive a child 's only living natural parent of physical and legal custody of his child, while granting s…
19-853 Sandra R., et al. v. Arizona Department of Child Safety Arizona 2020-01-06 Denied Response Waived child-custody clear-and-convincing-evidence constitutional-standard due-process family-law parental-rights state-action state-intervention termination Whether, in order to terminate a parent's parental rights to their child, the due process Clause of the United States constitution requires that a Sta…
19-649 N. E. L., et al. v. Monica Gildner, et al. Tenth Circuit 2019-11-19 Denied Response Waived 4th-amendment child-custody civil-rights decisional-law due-process fourth-amendment jurisdiction post-removal-hearing post-seizure-hearing qualified-immunity uccjea Were Colorado's UCCJEA requirements detailed enough to defeat qualified immunity in a Fourth Amendment claim arising from the denial of a post-seizure…
19-590 Michael Anthony Deem v. John P. Colangelo, et al. New York 2019-11-06 Denied child-custody child-custody-rights custody-dispute due-process equal-protection family-law first-amendment forensic-evaluator free-speech parental-rights right-to-privacy 1. Whether a court appointed FE's examination of a fit parent's children over that fit parent's objection violates that fit parent's right to control …
19-577 Tamra L. Lamprell v. Rex E. Stuckey New Mexico 2019-11-04 Denied Amici (2)Relisted (2) best-interest-of-the-child best-interest-standard best-interests-standard child-custody due-process due-process,child-custody,parental-rights,pre-depr imminent-harm parental-rights post-deprivation-hearing pre-deprivation-hearing A New Mexico district court issued an interim order removing a three-year-old girl from her mother's custody without a prior hearing. The court did no…
19-6472 Arthur Lopez v. California California 2019-11-01 Denied IFP child-custody civil-rights criminal-procedure criminal-protective-orders due-process equal-protection family-law latino-fathers parental-rights Latino (nexiem teritae). thould Mabe Fathers, ineledi Q he Protection Catholia-Chistian plovided qual lnde Law guaranteed Due Prozess and a Itates Co…
19-473 Timothy Dasler v. Jennifer Dasler Vermont 2019-10-10 Denied 14th-amendment 5th-amendment best-interest-of-the-child child-custody domestic-violence due-process due-process-14th-amendment equal-protection equal-protection-14th-amendment parental-rights Is it a violation of 14th Amendment right of equal protection when a single self serving accusation by Ms. Dasler is used as the basis to permanently …
19-6214 Luis Fuquen v. Trina Everitt Maryland 2019-10-09 Denied Relisted (2)IFP best-interest-of-the-child child-custody divorce due-process family-privacy family-privacy-rights family-rights first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech freedom-of-association freedom-of-religion parent-child-rights parental-rights Whether Luis and his children are entitled to due process protections for their individual intimate and expressive, close family, parent-child speech,…
19-356 Samuel Collin Robinson v. Katherine Lyman Robinson Colorado 2019-09-17 Denied best-interests-standard child-custody constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection family-law parental-rights Where divorce involves children, where shared parenting has been declared to be in the best interests of all, and where criteria for exception have no…
19-5867 Angela Krasny v. Jacob Krasny New Jersey 2019-09-09 Denied IFP 14th-amendment child-custody civil-procedure civil-rights commencing-during-pendency due-process full-faith-and-credit jurisdiction parental-rights protective-order standing takings 1. Whether New Jersey can deny or limit civil procedural due process protected under the 14th Amendment of the US Constitution especially when the cou…
19-5019 Jennifer Perez v. Paul Grant Dwyer Florida 2019-07-01 Denied IFP child-abuse child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights disability disability-discrimination due-process judicial-abuse judicial-bias parental-alienation parental-rights Are people with disabilities more likely to be protected or discriminated when regarding parental stigma by, the Guardian ad Litem, as well as the Fat…
18-9702 Cathrin Funk-Vaughn v. Tennessee Department of Children's Services Tennessee 2019-06-18 Denied Response WaivedIFP agency-overreach child-custody child-jurisdiction child-removal diversion-plea document-fraud due-process evidence-suppression federal-funding first-amendment food-recall free-speech interstate-custody jurisdiction kidnapping law-enforcement parental-rights rescission unreasonable-search [III] Douse the Department of Children Services "AGENCY "haveany legal right to e a child from the parent / legal garden well the parent / legal garde…
18A1303 Dolores R. v. Arizona Department of Child Safety, et al. Arizona 2019-06-13 Presumed Complete child-custody discrimination due-process ineffective-counsel juvenile-court procedural-fairness Question not identified.
18-1505 C. S. v. L. S. New Jersey 2019-06-03 Denied 14th-amendment child-custody constitutional-rights custody due-process family-court family-law fourteenth-amendment parental-rights state-court-hearing state-court-procedure visitation Where a state family court finds that the father has violated the mother's constitutional right to the care, custody, and management of her children, …
18-1354 C. P., et al. v. C. A. California 2019-04-29 Denied child-custody custody custody-rights due-process extramarital-affair family-code family-law family-rights fourteenth-amendment fundamental-parental-rights parental-rights third-parent-law third-party-custody Does California's Family Code section 7612(c), granting third parties legal and physical custody rights to a minor child as a "third parent," regardle…
18-8809 B. C. v. Florida Department of Children and Families Florida 2019-04-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP abuse-neglect child-custody child-welfare civil-procedure civil-rights due-process family-law law-enforcement parental-rights standing state-intervention THE COURT BELOW COMMIT AN ERROR SO IMPORTANT THAT IT AS LAW AND FACTS SHOULD COMPELL JUDGES. THE DAMAGING ERROK OF THE COURTS DECISION ULTIMATELY HAS …
18-8150 Ilya Liviz, Sr. v. Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, et al. First Circuit 2019-02-27 Denied Response WaivedIFP access-to-court access-to-courts care-and-protection child-custody constitutional-rights due-process federally-protected-rights jury-trial parental-rights question-of-law state-court Is Dad being denied his federally protected due process right to petition for redress and access to a meaningful hearing resulting from state's refusa…
18-7992 Kessele Livingston v. Lauri Esslinger, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-02-15 Denied Response WaivedIFP administrative-law child-custody civil-rights due-process evidence government-agencies government-authority standing Does a State or Government Agency official have a duty to verify the origin of age of a child who is in their custody and whose mother and father's wh…
18-1040 Licong Li v. Sofia Dang Illinois 2019-02-08 Denied Response Waived child-custody crimes-against-humanity divorce divorce-proceedings due-process family-law fundamental-rights human-made-tragedies human-rights parental-rights visitation • How long would crimes against humanity in terms of child custody and visitation in divorce cases be allowed to continue in this country? • How long…
18-1008 In Re Veronica Hollowell and Vivian Epps 2019-02-04 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2) child-custody civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights discovery-rule due-process family-law federal-jurisdiction incarceration jurisdiction jury-trial mental-fitness single-parent standing statute-of-limitations 1. Whether the State Court lacked jurisdiction of the child since the unwed, single-parent mother's case was not Jury adjudicated (the ex-boyfriend/fa…
18-7671 Ada A. Gonzalez v. Grant Maloy, Clerk Florida 2019-01-30 Denied IFP alimony child-custody child-support civil-procedure civil-rights domestic-relations domestic-violence due-process family-law injunction pro-se standing Question not identified.
18-7475 Aldona B. v. Nicholas S. West Virginia 2019-01-17 Denied IFP biological-father child-custody civil-rights custodial-rights custody due-process equal-protection family-law parental-rights standing statutory-interpretation statutory-requirements unwed-parent Whether an unwed biological father who meets none of the statutory requirements of caretaking, providing for, legally acknowledging, and forming a par…
18-7030 S. R. v. West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources, et al. West Virginia 2018-12-14 Denied IFP child-custody civil-rights conflict-of-interest due-process family-law judicial-bias judicial-ethics judicial-misconduct judicial-recusal procedural-fairness recusal standing Question not identified.
18-665 James Michael Alvis v. Leland W. Schilling Tenth Circuit 2018-11-21 Denied 14th-amendment child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment judicial-immunity state-court-action state-law 1. Whether Respondent, a state court judge, was entitled to judicial immunity when he took action in a child custody matter in contravention of state …
18-569 Linda Shao v. Tsan-Kuen Wang California 2018-10-31 Denied Relisted (2) appeal child-custody civil-procedure conflicts-of-interest constitutional-rights dismissal due-process fraud judicial-misconduct procedural-irregularities rule-8.57 Does due process require reversal of the dismissal where the court fraudulently concealed dismissal and knowingly dismissed the appeal with false grou…
18-503 N. E. L., et al. v. Douglas County, Colorado, et al. Tenth Circuit 2018-10-18 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) 14th-amendment 4th-amendment child-custody civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process familial-association full-faith-and-credit interstate-agreement procedural-due-process qualified-immunity right-to-travel Qualified immunity, to many observers, has transmogrified into absolute immunity. Lawyers from across the ideological spectrum joined in remarkable am…
18-6233 Stephan Schuermann v. Jubilie Anqui Florida 2018-10-09 Denied IFP 14th-amendment child-custody civil-procedure due-process equal-protection family-law fourteenth-amendment jurisdiction relocation 1. Whether the Supreme Court of Florida erred in not vacating Judge Michael Flowers Orders Granting the Respondent's Verified Petition to "wrongfully …
18-129 W. S. v. S. T., et al. California 2018-07-30 Denied biological-father child-custody custody-determination due-process equal-protection family-law liberty-interest parental-rights paternity standing vagueness 1. Whether California's Family Code § 7611(d) is impermissibly vague, as applied, when the Court of Appeal holds "[t]here are no specific factors that…
18-111 Timothy M. Barrett v. Valerie Jill Minor Virginia 2018-07-24 Denied Response Waived 14th-amendment child-custody civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process family-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment parental-rights standing state-law I. Are Virginia's Child Custody Statutes Facially Unconstitutional? II. Are the Parties' 2006, 2010 and 2012 Child Custody Orders Unconstitutional as…
18-62 Brian Colbry, et ux. v. Lisa Von Pier, Director, New Jersey Division of Child Protection and Permanency, et al. Third Circuit 2018-07-11 Denied Response Waived 28-usc-2254 child-custody child-protective-services custody deprivation-of-liberty habeas-corpus jurisdiction liberty-deprivation state-institution state-restraint unlawful-restraint Is a minor child in custody for purposes of jurisdiction on a Petition for Habeas Corpus pursuant to 28 U.S. C. §2254 where the child is suffering a s…