| 24-1157 |
Taylor Packwood, et al. v. County of Contra Costa, California, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2025-05-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
civil-procedure domestic-relations due-process federal-jurisdiction fraud-exception rooker-feldman |
Whether there is a fraud exception to the Rooker-Feldman doctrine in domestic relations cases raising claims of a violation of due process of law. |
| 24-6532 |
Timothy P. Dasler v. Jennifer Knapp, fka Jennifer Dasler |
Second Circuit |
2025-02-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-procedure constitutional-rights domestic-relations federal-jurisdiction state-action younger-abstention |
1. Whether the Federal Court's "virtually unflagging obligation" to exercise jurisdiction prohibits Domestic Relations or Younger abstention when:
A. … |
| 24-6530 |
Timothy P. Dasler, Individually and on Behalf of T.D. v. Dalene Washburn |
Second Circuit |
2025-02-10 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights domestic-relations due-process federal-jurisdiction state-action younger-abstention |
1. Whether the Federal Court's "virtually unflagging obligation" to exercise jurisdiction prohibits Domestic Relations or Younger abstention when:
A. … |
| 23-7781 |
Timothy Dasler v. Jennifer Knapp, fka Dasler |
Vermont |
2024-06-21 |
Denied |
IFP |
best-interest-of-the-child constitutional-fairness domestic-relations due-process equitable-tolling judicial-discretion jurisdictional-limits Palmore-v-Sidoti parental-rights Troxel-v-Granville |
1. In light of the Supreme Court's efforts to clarify the use of 'jurisdictional'
versus 'claims-processing' terms (Hamer v. Neighborhood Hous. Servs.… |
| 23A697 |
Timothy Dasler v. Jennifer Knapp, fka Dasler |
Vermont |
2024-01-29 |
Presumed Complete |
|
appellate-jurisdiction domestic-relations due-process rocket-docket state-supreme-court time-extension |
Question not identified. |
| 23-767 |
Shirley Crain v. Lisa Crain, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2024-01-17 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
circuit-split civil-procedure divorce-decree domestic-relations domestic-relations-exception federal-jurisdiction property-settlement-agreement state-court-decree state-court-interpretation third-party-beneficiary |
Federal courts do not hear divorce disputes. That is because our system of federalism retains for the states special expertise in domestic matters. Th… |
| 22-343 |
Lynn S. King v. New York, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2022-10-12 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
divorce-proceedings domestic-relations domestic-relations-law first-amendment free-exercise religious-covenant religious-wedding sacred-covenant standing |
Whether New York Domestic Relations Law 170(7), which permits one spouse to obtain a divorce based on an affidavit that the marriage relationship has … |
| 21-548 |
David J. Zawistowski v. Michael D. Kramer, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-10-13 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
28-usc-1331 28-usc-1332 ankenbrandt-v-richards diversity-jurisdiction domestic-relations domestic-relations-exception federal-question-jurisdiction jurisdictional-limits statutory-interpretation subject-matter-jurisdiction |
Does the domestic relations exception apply to federal question jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1331 or is the exception limited to diversity jurisdict… |
| 19-1318 |
Michael Anthony Deem v. Lorna M. DiMella-Deem, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2020-05-28 |
Denied |
|
abstention civil-rights domestic-relations domestic-relations-abstention due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-question jurisdiction jurisdiction-stripping malicious-prosecution standing |
I. MAY LOWER FEDERAL COURTS REFUSE
TO EXERCISE JURISDICTION OVER
FEDERAL QUESTION CLAIMS IN THE
ABSENCE OF A WARRANT TO DO SO
FROM CONGRESS OR THIS HO… |
| 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), … |
| 19-6734 |
Arthur Lopez v. Cheryl Lopez |
California |
2019-11-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
appeals appellate-procedure civil-litigation civil-procedure civil-rights court-jurisdiction domestic-relations due-process equal-protection family-law habeas-corpus indigent right-to-counsel standing |
Question not identified. |
| 19-6507 |
Kenneth Michael Smith v. Melissa Sue Smith, nka Melissa Sue Graham |
Montana |
2019-11-05 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-procedure civil-rights disability-law domestic-relations due-process family-law guardian-ad-litem guardianship mental-capacity standing |
Question not identified. |
| 18-8334 |
Ada A. Gonzalez v. Alfredo Ernesto Gonzalez |
Florida |
2019-03-07 |
Denied |
IFP |
administrative-law appellate-jurisdiction civil-procedure civil-rights domestic-relations due-process equal-protection federal-jurisdiction judicial-discretion mandamus-writ standing state-court-review state-courts writ-of-mandamus |
Whether Petitioner's is entitled to a writ of mandamus directed to Hon. Judge Rudisill to be discharge in accordance with Administrative Order 15-57-S… |
| 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. |
| 18-930 |
David Brandon v. Sarah Brandon |
California |
2019-01-17 |
Denied |
Relisted (2) |
annulment annulment-basis civil-rights domestic-relations due-process federal-immigration-law federal-state-relations fraud immigration immigration-marriage-fraud marriage marriage-fraud state-domestic-relations state-marriage-law |
California Family Code Section 2210(d) generally provides that an annulment based on fraud may be had in extreme cases where the particular fraud goes… |
| 18-519 |
Joseph A. Jennings, III v. Susan W. Jennings |
Ohio |
2018-10-19 |
Denied |
|
agent-orange disability-compensation domestic-relations federal-law federal-preemption howell-v-howell preemption service-connected-disability spousal-support state-law veterans-benefits veterans-disability-benefits |
Whether in light of the decision of the United States Supreme Court in Howell v. Howell, 137 S Ct. 1400 (2017), veterans disability compensation may l… |
| 18-278 |
Leon R. Koziol, Individually, as Natural Parent of Child A and Child B, and on Behalf of Parents Similarly Situated v. Janet DiFiore, Chief Judge, New York State Unified Court System, et al. |
New York |
2018-09-05 |
Denied |
|
civil-rights custody-tactics domestic-relations due-process family-law judicial-bias men-discrimination parental-rights whistleblower-protection |
1. Are men in America becoming a discriminated class, and if not, are historically prejudiced fathers in domestic relations courts nevertheless entitl… |