child-protection
12 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-662 | Erika Mabes, Individually and on Behalf of L. M., J. R. M., and J. A. M., Minor Children, et al. v. Shannon Thompson, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2025-12-08 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | child-protection civil-rights constitutional-violation investigative-errors qualified-immunity section-1983 | This section 1983 civil rights case arises from the devastating consequences of medical and investigative errors in a child protection proceeding. Aft… |
| 25A640 | Tetiana Semeniuk v. Abdelrahman Abouelmagd | Second Circuit | 2025-12-02 | Denied | asylum-confidentiality child-protection domestic-violence family-separation immigration-law passport-restrictions | Question not identified. | |
| 25-5067 | Kira Kristina Zielinski v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-07-09 | GVR | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | affirmative-defense child-protection criminal-law domestic-violence parental-kidnapping statutory-interpretation | Whether a defendant is "fleeing an incidence or pattern of domestic violence" under § 1204(c)(2) if she is fleeing domestic violence against her child… |
| 24-1267 | Adam Douglas Densmore v. Colorado | Colorado | 2025-06-12 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | child-protection custodial-interrogation due-process law-enforcement miranda-rights self-incrimination | Is custodial interrogation by a child-protection caseworker subject to Miranda's requirements where the interrogation concerns matters that may trigge… |
| 24-835 | Seth Healey v. Vermont Department for Children and Families, et al. | Vermont | 2025-02-05 | Denied | Response Waived | administrative-procedure child-protection civil-rights constitutional-review due-process separation-of-powers | 1. Whether the Vermont Superior Court, Washington Unit, Civil Division ("Trial Court") has a responsibility to determine the constitutionality of the … |
| 24-87 | Robert Sylvester Kelly v. United States | Seventh Circuit | 2024-07-29 | Denied | Response Waived | child-protection criminal-law criminal-statute due-process federal-law retroactive-legislation sex-offenses statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation | Consistent with the presumption against retroactive legislation, whether the 2003 amendment to 18 U.S.C. § 3283, which extended the statute of limitat… |
| 23-5536 | Kinley MacDonald v. Maine | First Circuit | 2023-09-07 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | child-protection child-welfare civil-rights criminal-procedure due-process family-law hearsay-evidence judicial-discretion standing | Before the Court is a matter involving court-based Children, Placed into "ostern Care by mere hearsay) Causing: Itrepoir—adle harm. Th mother suffered… |
| 22-5434 | Zane D. Crowder v. Ricky D. Dixon, Secretary, Florida Department of Corrections | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-08-23 | Denied | IFP | actual-innocence child-protection forensic-interview gateway-standard habeas-corpus impeachment-evidence mcquiggin-v-perkins new-evidence post-conviction-relief procedural-limitations | Whether the new evidence relied upon by the Petitioner – which admi ttedl y is impeachment evidence – meets the gateway actual innocence standard set … |
| 22-110 | Julian D. Schmidt v. United States | Armed Forces | 2022-08-03 | Denied | Response Waived | child-endangerment child-protection criminal-law intent-standard mens-rea physical-proximity proximity-definition sensory-awareness statutory-interpretation | 1. Does the ambiguous phrase "in the presence of a child" require the child to be aware of the conduct through a sensory connection, regardless of phy… |
| 20-5059 | Christopher Goodin v. United States | Sixth Circuit | 2020-07-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-protection constitutional-rights criminal-penalty criminal-punishment jury jury-trial mandatory-restitution mandatory-statute restitution sexual-exploitation sixth-amendment | Does the Constitution's guarantee of trial by jury extend to awards of restitution under the Mandatory Restitution For Sexual Exploitation of Children… |
| 18-1173 | I. B. and Jane Doe v. April Woodard, et al. | Tenth Circuit | 2019-03-11 | Denied | Amici (7) | child-abuse child-protection circuit-split constitutional-rights fourth-amendment qualified-immunity strip-search warrant warrant-requirement | Petitioner I.B. was four years old when respondent Woodard, a state caseworker, strip-searched and photographed her at preschool. Woodard had neither … |
| 25A571 | Joseph Daryll Rued, et al. v. Jaykumar Jayswal, et al. | Eighth Circuit | Denied | child-protection constitutional-rights custody-proceedings due-process fraud perjury | Should an emergency injunction issue to inhibit Defendants below and Respondents here from sustaining reliance upon the admitted fraud and perjury of … |