family-court
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-7180 | Edward L. Clark, Jr. v. Deborah L. Clark | California | 2026-04-13 | Pending | IFP | appellate-review family-court fourteenth-amendment pro-se-litigant subject-matter-jurisdiction void-judgment | 1. Does a person representing themselves as a prose litigant automatically forfeit his Fourteenth amendment rights to fair and equal protection under … |
| 25A617 | George Cleveland, III v. South Carolina Department of Social Services | South Carolina | 2025-11-25 | Presumed Complete | 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… |