parens-patriae

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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…