termination-of-parental-rights

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
23-7712 C. B., Father v. Vermont Department for Children and Families Vermont 2024-06-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP balancing-test bright-line-rule constitutional-protection due-process fundamental-right fundamental-rights government-intervention parental-rights termination-of-parental-rights In Vermont and a minority of other states, hearsay may be admitted and relied upon in a proceeding to permanently terminate a person's parental rights…
23-7457 E. R. v. Colorado, In the Interest of S. M. and E. M., Children Colorado 2024-05-13 Denied Relisted (2)IFP constitutional-standard due-process equal-protection judicial-bias parent-child-rights racial-bias racial-prejudice standard-of-review termination-of-parental-rights Whether this Court's precedents, which apply an objective legal standard to determine whether there is an unconstitutional potential for judicial raci…
23-6604 Nicole Johnson v. Massachusetts Department of Children and Families Massachusetts 2024-01-29 Denied Response WaivedIFP 7th-amendment best-interests child-custody due-process jury-trial massachusetts-rule-38 parental-rights sua-sponte termination termination-of-parental-rights 1. Whether the petitioners right to due process and 7th amendment right and Massachusetts ruie 38 Jury Trial of Right was violated when petitioner fil…
22-7002 J. T. v. Maryland Maryland 2023-03-13 Denied Response WaivedIFP abandonment-neglect-abuse child-welfare due-process fourteenth-amendment incarceration parental-rights statutory-interpretation termination-of-parental-rights vagueness 1. Does Maryland's adoption of "the best interest of the child" standard when adjudicating termination of parental rights cases conflict with the fir…
22-6672 J. M. v. Oregon Department of Human Services Oregon 2023-02-01 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure covid-19-restrictions due-process parental-rights remote-proceedings statutory-rights technical-interference technical-issues termination-of-parental-rights video-trial As a matter of state statutory law and federal due process, parents have the right to meaningfully participate in defending against petitions by the s…
22-6481 Courtney J. v. Beaufort County Department of Social Services, et al. North Carolina 2023-01-09 Denied Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3)IFP child-welfare civil-death-penalty due-process equal-protection payment-obligation statutory-interpretation termination-of-parental-rights Whether the Supreme Court of North Carolina's interpretation of a termination of parental rights statute, N.C. Gen. Stat. § 7B-1111(a)(3), deprives pa…
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…
21-5197 T. A. S., Father of R. A. S., a Minor Child v. Florida Department of Children and Families Florida 2021-07-26 Denied Response WaivedIFP child-custody civil-rights due-process ex-parte family-association no-contact-order parental-rights termination-of-parental-rights termination-of-rights Question not identified.
21-32 Elizabeth C. v. Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services California 2021-07-09 Denied child-custody clear-and-convincing-evidence due-process fourteenth-amendment parental-rights santosky-v-kramer state-intervention termination-of-parental-rights 1. Whether the Fourteenth Amendment due process requirement articulated in Santosky v Kramer, 455 U.S. 745 (1982) that parental rights only be termina…
20-968 R. M. S. v. Madison County Department of Human Resources Alabama 2021-01-15 Denied child-custody due-process equal-protection federal-statute federal-statutory-notice grandparent-rights social-service-agency state-proceedings termination-of-parental-rights First Question Presented : When a State initiates child custody proceedings, does 28 U.S.C. §1738A(e), the national standard for custody determinat…
20-5863 Andrew Newson v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2020-10-01 Denied IFP civil-procedure court-procedure due-process equal-protection mailing-error parental-rights petition-for-review statutory-interpretation termination-of-parental-rights timeliness Question not identified.
19-8352 K. S., III v. Dana Price, et al. Pennsylvania 2020-04-24 Denied IFP best-interests-of-child civil-rights due-process family-law involuntary-termination parental-rights standing state-court-deference substantial-contact termination-of-parental-rights Mr. Simmons alleges that the Court of Common Pleas. Superior Court and the Supreme Court erred in that natural father failed to show that he made the …
19-7943 J. H. v. E. R. S. Colorado 2020-03-11 Denied IFP appellate-review child-custody constitutional-facts constitutional-liberty de-novo-review due-process equal-protection parental-rights plain-error structural-error termination termination-of-parental-rights 1. Whether, in order to ensure that basic constitutional guarantees define the framework of proceedings to terminate the fundamental constitutional li…
19-7650 D. W. v. Washington State Department of Children, Youth & Families Washington 2020-02-12 Denied Response WaivedIFP appellate-review court-appointed-counsel due-process ex-parte-investigation fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel judicial-conduct parental-rights record-on-appeal recusal termination-of-parental-rights In a termination of parental rights proceeding in a state that provides appeals as a matter of right from decisions terminating parental rights, does …
19-6959 Jasmine F. v. Department of Child Safety, et al. Arizona 2019-12-16 Denied IFP civil-procedure clear-and-convincing-evidence constitutional-deficiency court-appointed-counsel due-process fourteenth-amendment parental-rights termination-of-parental-rights 1. Whether The State Of Arizona Failed To Terminate Mother's Parental Rights By At Least Clear & Convincing Evidence As Required By The Due Process Cl…
19-6395 V. A. C. v. J. L. W. Texas 2019-10-28 Denied IFP civil-procedure confrontation-clause constitutional-challenge direct-appeal due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance parental-rights prejudice termination-of-parental-rights trial-court-discretion 1) If it can be proven, leaving absolutely 'No-Doubt', that the relied upon convi ctions, in regard to a Termination of Parental Rights action, is un…
19-436 T. R. C. v. Wisconsin Wisconsin 2019-10-02 Denied Response Waived due-process familial-integrity fourteenth-amendment guardian-ad-litem parental-rights strict-scrutiny termination-of-parental-rights 1. Is Wis. Stat. §48.415 unconstitutional as applied when it was used to terminate the Fourteenth Amendment fundamental right of familial integrity of…
18-8939 Daisy T. v. Arizona Department of Child Safety, et al. Arizona 2019-04-22 Denied Response WaivedIFP best-interests best-interests-of-the-child child-welfare clear-and-convincing-evidence due-process family-law fourteenth-amendment parental-rights termination-of-parental-rights 1. Whether The State Of Arizona Failed To Terminate Mother's Parental Rights By At Least Clear & Convincing Evidence As Required By The Due Process Cl…
18-7953 Matthew Peterson, et ux. v. New Hampshire Division of Children, Youth & Families, et al. New Hampshire 2019-02-14 Denied IFP appellate-review child-welfare constitutional-challenge constitutional-law due-process family-law findings-of-fact neglect parental-rights state-intervention termination-of-parental-rights Is it unconstitutional for the State Appellate Court to uphold a trial court's decision that did not find the facts in dispute nor make any findings a…