parens-patriae
6 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-1167 | Niagara-Wheatfield Central School District v. New York | Second Circuit | 2025-05-14 | Denied | federal-court parens-patriae population-harm quasi-sovereign-interest standing state-attorney-general | How widespread must an injury to a State's quasi-sovereign interest be, and how clearly must it transcend harm to particular private parties, to give … | |
| 23-581 | Joey D. Thompson v. Asia Thompson | Tennessee | 2023-11-30 | Denied | child-custody family-law interstate-jurisdiction jurisdiction minor minor-rights parens-patriae parental-rights state-authority | Does the State of Tennessee have jurisdiction over the minor child "A. T."? | |
| 23-5831 | Roberto Carlos Mendives, Individually and On Behalf of His Four Minor Children, R. C. M., II, M. A. M., G. L. M., and E. F. M. v. Bexar County, Texas, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2023-10-18 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | child-custody civil-rights due-process family-law first-amendment fourteenth-amendment parens-patriae parental-rights standing strict-scrutiny | 1. Whether this court should overrule the fact that the state court has separated a fit parent from his/her minor children without an adjudication hea… |
| 19-7849 | Siva Black v. Edward Dolan, Commissioner of Probation Department | First Circuit | 2020-03-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aedpa arbitrary-power due-process fourteenth-amendment parens-patriae pretrial-custody state-power | What is Arbitrary power —restricted by the Fourteenth Amendment Due process clause —if it isn't the state's unestablished parens patriae power, used t… |
| 19-42 | North Carolina Utilities Commission v. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission | District of Columbia | 2019-07-05 | Denied | article-iii article-iii-standing federal-agency-orders federal-energy-regulatory-commission natural-gas-act parens-patriae procedural-rights quasi-sovereign-interests standing state-litigant state-standing | If a court of appeals finds a State litigant failed to demonstrate injury-in-fact that is traceable to the challenged action and redressable by the co… | |
| 18-888 | Michael S. Bent v. Cheryl Strange, et al. | Ninth Circuit | 2019-01-09 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2) | 42-usc-1983 due-process federal-grants impartiality judicial-impartiality noncustodial-parent parens-patriae social-security-act state-courts strict-scrutiny title-iv-d | Lacking federal definition for the Title IV-D noncustodial parent, may a state agency classify an obligator parent as a Title IV-D noncustodial parent… |