marital-status
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24A807 | Ashu Joshi v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2025-02-20 | Presumed Complete | as-applied-constitutional-challenge guilty-plea ineffective-assistance-of-counsel marital-status sixth-amendment strickland-standard | Whether defense counsel's performance was deficient—falling below an objective standard of reasonableness—when counsel abandoned constitutional claims… | |
| 24-6123 | Michael Ray Senn v. Eric Guerrero, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Correctional Institutions Division | Fifth Circuit | 2024-12-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | criminal-law equal-protection fourteenth-amendment marital-status penalty-enhancement sexual-assault | Does a penalty provision of the Texa s sexual assault statute, which provides for an increased penalty if the offender was married at the time of the … |
| 22-281 | Peter Kruithoff v. Catholic Charities of West Michigan, et al. | Michigan | 2022-09-26 | Denied | Amici (1)Response Waived | child-welfare due-process equal-protection marital-status parental-rights standing state-interest statutory-interpretation | 1. Under Michigan's Safe Delivery of Newborns Law ("SDNL"), a parent-child relationship can be permanently severed (1) with less notice than is requir… |
| 21-5021 | Michael Ray Senn v. Texas | Texas | 2021-07-06 | Denied | IFP | constitutional-rights criminal-law due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment marital-status sentencing sentencing-enhancement | Does a criminal law which provides for increased punishment based solely on an offender's status as married violate his or her right to equal protecti… |
| 20-756 | Christopher Gary Baylor v. Ayano Eto, fka Ayano Eto Baylor | Minnesota | 2020-12-02 | Denied | Relisted (2) | 14th-amendment civil-rights due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment marital-status parent-child-relationship parental-rights standing state-court | May a state court terminate the rights of a parent without notice or due process of service? May a state court deny an indigent person relief based o… |
| 19-1385 | Kristina Box, Commissioner, Indiana Department of Health v. Ashlee Henderson, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2020-06-17 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | biological-parentage biology-based birth-certificate birth-certificates due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment marital-status parentage presumption rebuttable-presumption | May a State, consistent with the Fourteenth Amendment Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses, adopt a biology-based birth-certificate system that in… |
| 19-8463 | Luis Ricardo Mayea-Pulido v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2020-05-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | due-process equal-protection gender-discrimination heightened-scrutiny legitimacy marital-status ninth-circuit parents'-marital-status statutory-interpretation supreme-court-precedent | Did the Ninth Circuit (and other courts of appeals) misinterpret the phrase "parents' marital status" by holding that it refers exclusively to "legiti… |
| 19-85 | LC v. MG | Hawaii | 2019-07-17 | Denied | Response Waived | child-parentage consent-rebuttal due-process equal-protection family-law fourteenth-amendment marital-status marriage-equality parentage parental-presumption presumption-of-paternity spousal-rights | While LC—a U.S. Navy officer —was deployed overseas, her wife MG became pregnant by assisted reproduction . MG had not sought LC's consent to having a… |
| 18-9633 | Manuel Gonzalez-Reyes v. William P. Barr, Attorney General | Second Circuit | 2019-06-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | citizenship citizenship-status constitutional-challenge constitutional-law due-process equal-protection gender-discrimination immigration marital-status morales-santana-precedent statutory-interpretation | (1) Will the distinction drawn within the former Section 1432(a)(3), based on marital status and the gender of his father violate the equal protection… |