custody-determination
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-1119 | Andrew Charles Nisbet v. Spirit Rose Bridger | Ninth Circuit | 2025-04-29 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedRelisted (2) | child-abduction custody-determination family-law habitual-residence hague-convention international-law | Whether the Convention authorizes a determination that children who have lived for several years in the same residence in the same country have no hab… |
| 24-5899 | Michael Anthony Glover v. Georgia | Georgia | 2024-11-04 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | constitutional-rights custody-determination due-process miranda-warnings police-interrogation self-incrimination | 1. WHETHER THE COURT OF APPEALS OF GEORGIA ERRED IN NOT FINDING THAT THE OBJECTIVE CIRCUMSTANCES SHOWED THAT PETITIONER GLOVER WAS IN CUSTODY DURING H… |
| 24-5722 | Buta Singh v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2024-10-08 | Denied | IFP | custody-determination eighth-circuit miranda-warning ninth-circuit tenth-circuit terry-stop | In Howes v. Fields, 565 U.S. 499 (2012), the Court established a two-step test for determining whether a suspect is "in custody" for purposes of Miran… |
| 24-5025 | Delbert W. Hargis, Jr. v. Victoria A. Pritty-Pitcher | New York | 2024-07-09 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-law constitutional-rights custody custody-determination due-process due-process-clause-14th-amendment family-law non-parent-custody parental-rights standing | 1. Whether the decision of the lower courts, which awarded full custody of a child to a nonparent due to the existence of a strong bond, violates the … |
| 23-573 | Tina Bastian Veneskey v. Michael Keith Sulier | North Carolina | 2023-11-28 | Denied | custody custody-determination due-process error-of-law fourteenth-amendment full-faith-and-credit jurisdiction jurisdictional-determination legal-error state-jurisdiction | 1. Whether the Full Faith and Credit Clause precludes the enforcement of a State's jurisdictional determination when that very determination is based … | |
| 22-7007 | Axel Domingo Diego v. Indiana | Indiana | 2023-03-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | constitutional-rights custody-determination due-process jdb-v-north-carolina law-enforcement-interrogation miranda-custody-rule miranda-rights reasonable-officer reasonable-person reasonable-person-standard translated-interrogation translation-context | When law enforcement officers use a translator during an interrogation, does Miranda's custody rule consider the unique circumstances presented by the… |
| 22-5781 | Joseph Isaiah Woodson, Jr. v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2022-10-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 5th-amendment civil-rights confession-voluntariness custody-determination due-process law-enforcement-procedure miranda miranda-rights race racial-discrimination voluntariness | Whether a court can take a defendant's race into account to determine whether the defendant's custody, and thus his subsequent un-Mirandized confessio… |
| 21-7563 | Alexander Kates v. New York | Second Circuit | 2022-04-06 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-rights criminal-procedure custody-determination district-court-discretion due-process federal-precedent habeas-corpus ineffective-assistance standing state-law state-law-precedent | 1. Are district courts allowed to disregard State law and controlling federal precedent when handling state habeas corpus petitions? 2. Is a petition… |
| 21-7415 | Matthew Rausenberg v. Don Langford, Warden | Sixth Circuit | 2022-03-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | certificate-of-appealability civil-rights constitutional-rights custody-analysis custody-determination due-process habeas-corpus interrogation-circumstances miranda-warnings police-interrogation | Whether reasonable jurists could debate the issue of custody for Miranda purposes, as various state and federal courts have, when an individual has 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… |
| 21-5201 | Susan Kaytlin Scott v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2021-07-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-court-split circuit-courts constitutional-law constitutional-procedure criminal-procedure custody-determination due-process fifth-amendment law-enforcement-interrogation miranda-custody miranda-warning | 1. Do the Circuit Courts' different tests used to determine custody status for purposes of Miranda lead to inconsistent results? 2. Did the District … |
| 20-1677 | Angel Lee Rankin v. Texas | Texas | 2021-06-02 | Denied | 5th-amendment appellate-review criminal-procedure custody custody-determination due-process evidence-suppression miranda-warnings motion-to-suppress sudden-passion | Whether the Court of Appeals Erred in Affirming the Trial Court's Denial of Ms. Rankin's Motion to Suppress Because She was in Law Enforcement's Custo… | |
| 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… |
| 19-5048 | Mark Anthony Dolph v. Lorie Davis, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2019-07-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment 5th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights criminal-procedure custody custody-determination due-process evidentiary-standard interrogation legal-procedure miranda-warnings officer-testimony video-evidence | Custody: 1.why des reasne opinions of jurist thoughout the federal system demonstrate that frirminded jurist can disagree As to whether the use of han… |
| 18-1431 | Frank G. v. Renee P.-F., et al. | New York | 2019-05-15 | Denied | Amici (8)Response Waived | best-interests-of-child best-interests-of-the-child custody custody-determination due-process due-process-clause fourteenth-amendment obergefell-v-hodges parental-rights same-sex-marriage same-sex-partner | Whether a state violates a biological parent's rights under the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause when it strips the parent of custody in favo… |
| 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… |