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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
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.
25-380 Sean Kuhlmeyer v. Isabelle Latour Washington 2025-10-01 Denied constitutional-standard due-process family-court fundamental-rights no-contact-order parental-rights 1. When states have ruled differently, 1 and given this Court 's reasoning in Santosky v. Kramer, 2 and Mathews v. Eldridge, 3 the issue here is: Wh…
25-5255 In Re Alex Anderson 2025-08-01 Denied IFP appellate-review custody-dispute family-court legal-standard procedural-due-process support-determination Question not identified.
24-1083 Jeanne Tamagny v. John Scott Tamagny New Jersey 2025-04-16 Denied content-neutrality family-court first-amendment free-speech parental-rights prior-restraint Under the guise of protecting a 17½-year-old child, a New Jersey family court judge placed a blanket prohibition upon petitioner Jeanne Tamagny's ab…
24-6631 Charles Lord v. Heather Lord New York 2025-02-24 Denied Relisted (2)IFP child-support constitutional-rights due-process family-court judicial-procedure proof-of-service 1. Can a Family Court use an unsigned and undated child support order to make another child support order without a hearing? 2. Can a Family Court us…
24-6026 Ana Ortiz, aka Ana Lopez v. Circuit Court of Illinois, Lake County Illinois 2024-11-25 Denied IFP constitutional-rights due-process family-court fourteenth-amendment legal-representation sixth-amendment Does absence of the right to counsel and access to transcripts in family court proceedings—such as divorce and child custody —constitutes a violation …
24A404 Predrag Tosic v. Heather Tomason Washington 2024-10-25 Presumed Complete constitutional-protections disability-rights due-process family-court judicial-review pro-se Question not identified.
24-338 Troy A. Minter v. Alexander Falconi, et al. Nevada 2024-09-25 Denied Response Waived constitutional-rights divorce-proceedings family-court first-amendment public-access strict-scrutiny 1. Whether a state statute permitting the closing of a hearing in a divorce case upon the request of one party violates an implied First Amendment con…
23A950 Daniel Scott Robinson v. Supreme Court of Hawaii Hawaii 2024-04-23 Presumed Complete best-interest-standard constitutional-rights due-process family-court judicial-misconduct parental-rights Question not identified.
23-6090 In Re Kurt A. Benshoof 2023-11-22 Denied IFP constitutional-violations due-process family-court fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus jurisdiction justiciable-controversy religious-freedom subject-matter-jurisdiction Whether family court proceeded in absence of jurisdiction and absent a justiciable controversy, thereby violating the Due Process Clause of the Fourte…
23-5991 Samuel T. Whatley v. Richland County Family Court, Columbia, South Carolina, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-11-09 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process family-court fifth-amendment governmental-immunity immunity judicial-misconduct obstruction-of-justice standing 1. Does the founding supreme law, the Constitution, with innumerable powers linked to the Declaration of Independence, and Bill of Rights, allow lawle…
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…
23A177 Geoffrey Hamilton Woodward v. Sarah Edge Woodward Tennessee 2023-08-25 Presumed Complete compelled-medical-procedures due-process-clause family-court medical-treatment parental-contact parental-rights Question not identified.
22-921 Dan Cherner v. Westchester Jewish Community Services, Inc., et al. Second Circuit 2023-03-21 Denied civil-rights court-appointed court-immunity custody-proceeding due-process family-court forensic-evaluator judicial-immunity qualified-immunity state-action state-actor Are respondents, who were appointed as forensic evaluator in a custody proceeding by the Family Court of the State of New York, by court order which d…
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…
22-5622 Todd Matthew Phillips v. Amber Phillips, nka Amber Korpark Nevada 2022-09-20 Denied IFP civil-rights criminal-procedure criminal-statute due-process evidentiary-standard family-court family-law parental-rights standing subject-matter-jurisdiction In the midst of a routine divorce saga, Wife alleged that Husband, during the marriage, had committed violent crimes against her. But Wife never conta…
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…
21-1050 Frederick S. Koger, et al. v. Clark V. Richardson, Judge, et al. Second Circuit 2022-01-28 Denied Relisted (2) civil-rights color-of-law due-process educational-neglect family-court homeschooling judicial-bias judicial-misconduct racial-bias (1) Did Justice Clark V. Richardson, former judge of the Bronx County Family Court, violate our civil rights under color of law, by writing and publis…
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 …
21-363 Wendy Marie Meigs v. Trey Bergman, et al. Texas 2021-09-08 Denied abuse alternative-dispute-resolution court-ordered-mediation courtroom-guidelines family-court judicial-process manipulation mediation mediation-liability pro-se-representation victim-protection vulnerable-victim Should a mediation, family court-ordered or not, follow normal courtroom guidelines as courts defer court functions to mediation which creates the exp…
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…
20-7704 Daghrib Shaheed, et al. v. Stephan Kroski, et al. Second Circuit 2021-04-09 Denied IFP 4th-amendment civil-entry-order civil-rights family-court fourth-amendment law-enforcement-procedure new-york-state probable-cause qualified-immunity search-warrant 1. Is a civil New York State Family Court Investigation Entry Order the equivalent of a search warrant, thereby authorizing the police to use force to…
20-516 D'Ann S. McCoy v. Boureima Ouedraogo Pennsylvania 2020-10-20 Denied civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process ex-parte ex-parte-communication family-court judicial-disqualification judicial-jurisdiction jurisdiction sua-sponte 1. Has the Pennsylvania Court System violated the constitutional rights of the Appellant, D'Ann McCoy, through communication ex-parte in a matter wit…
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…
20-59 Charles R. Campbell v. Hollie Bennett, et al. Fourth Circuit 2020-07-23 Denied Relisted (2) due-process equal-protection family-court family-rights right-to-counsel rooker-feldman self-incrimination sixth-amendment state-actor state-bar Coincident May 2013 Divorce action and mandated co-Parental Evaluation, Petitioner, a long-time professional with no previous criminal history, was fa…
19-8058 Maurice Brack, aka Maurice Barrack, aka Maurice Black, aka Maurice L. Brack, aka Socca Bopum, aka Socka Bopa v. New Jersey New Jersey 2020-03-23 Denied IFP 8th-amendment adolescent-development constitutional-retroactivity criminal-procedure due-process eighth-amendment family-court juvenile-justice juvenile-waiver retroactivity Whether, due to the overwhelingly objective indicis of national consensus that surrounds the advaned research on adblescent brain developmont wholly d…
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, …
18-1300 Nevenka Obuskovic v. Kathleen L. Wood, et al. Third Circuit 2019-04-15 Denied civil-rights civil-rights,due-process,equal-protection,family-l color-of-law divorce due-process equal-protection family-court family-law forced-labor fourteenth-amendment involuntary-servitude peonage pro-se-representation Was Federal law violated under color of law, for violations of Fourteenth Amendment substantive and procedural Due Process and Equal Protection Under …
18-8611 Elicia Bailey v. Jeremy Gasaway Texas 2019-03-28 Denied IFP constitutional-challenge constitutional-law criminal-act criminal-procedure cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process family-court family-law harsh-penalties subject-matter-jurisdiction 1. Do family courts hold subject-matter jurisdiction to find guilt of a criminal act and subsequently impose harsh penalties without due process in a …
18-8046 Stephen L. Paulmier v. Hawaii Hawaii 2019-02-21 Denied IFP bench-trial constitutional-rights due-process family-court family-court-procedure hawaii-family-court-rules jury-trial jury-trial-waiver trial-continuance 1. Whether the ICA gravely erred in failing to recognize Stephen Paulmier's constitutional rights to due process and/or find his waiver of a jury tria…
18-958 Peter P. Mitrano v. United States, et al. Ninth Circuit 2019-01-24 Denied Response Waived appeals civil-procedure court-of-appeals custody custody-order due-process family-court family-law federal-courts jurisdiction legal-dismissal new-hampshire ninth-circuit standing 1. Did the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit err in affirming the dismissal of this action? 2. Did the United States Court of Appe…