santosky-standard

Case	Title	Lower Court	Docketed	Status	Flags	Tags	Question Presented
23-7314	S. C. v. Vermont	Vermont	2024-04-26	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	child-welfare clear-and-convincing due-process fourteenth-amendment hearsay hearsay-evidence parental-rights parental-unfitness santosky-standard santosky-v-kramer	1. Whether Vermont's law allowing courts to terminate parental rights based largely on hearsay violates the Fourteenth Amendment and this Court's hold…
22-6333	N. P. v. Vermont, et al.	Vermont	2022-12-19	Denied	Response WaivedIFP	best-interests child-welfare due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment parental-rights santosky-standard unfitness	This case concerns the constitutionality of Vermont law governing the termination of parental rights, specifically, whether it is a violation of the F…
21-964	Sherrie Rye v. Lucas County Department of Job and Family Services	Ohio	2022-01-04	Denied	Response Waived	adoption-and-safe-families-act burden-of-proof child-welfare civil-rights due-process family-law parental-rights santosky-standard standard-of-proof termination-of-parental-rights	In light of the Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA) enacted by Congress in 1997, should this Court expand the minimum burden of proof to terminate p…