Supreme Cases For Families

U.S. SUPREME CASES FOR FAMILIES: 1) Individuals have a constitutionally protected interest in decisions involving the formation of a family, including marriage and procreation: a) Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1, 12, 87 S. Ct. 1817, 18 L Ed. 2d 10 (1967) b) Griswald v. Connecticut, 381 U.S. 479, 485, 85 S. Ct. 1878, 14 L. Ed. 2d 510 (1965) 2) Parents have a constitutionally protected interest in the control and raising of their children without state interference. a) Parham v. J.R., 422 U.S. 584, 99S. Ct. 2493, 61 L. Ed. 2d 101 (1979) (parent's right to make decisions involving child's medical treatment) b) Pierce v. Society of Sisters, 268 U.S. 510, 45 S. Ct. 571, 69 L. Ed. 1070 (1925) (parent's right to make decisions involving a child's education) c) Meyer v. Nebraska, 262 U.S. 390, 43 S. Ct. 625, 67 L. Ed. 1042 (1923) (liberty guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment includes the right to establish a home and bring up children) 3) Family members have an interest in being together. Members of families have a constitutional interest in familial integrity, or put more plainly, a right not to be forcibly separated. a) Quilloin v. Walcott, 434 U.S. 246, 255, 98 S. Ct. 549, 54 L. Ed. 2d 511 (1978) ("We have little doubt that the Due Process Clause would be offended '[if] a State were to attempt to force the breakup of a natural family, over the objections of the parents and their children, without some showing of unfitness and for the sole reason that to do so was thought to be in the children's best interest,"') (quoting Smith v. Organization of Foster Families, 431 U.S. 816, 862-63, 97 S. Ct. 2094, 53 L. Ed. 2d 14 (1977) (Stewart, J., concurring in judgment)). There are plenty more cases like this - but first I'll be uploading these cases -as well as Tenenbaum v. Williams, which is the standard [case] that the State of NY (and Vermont and Connecticut) must adhere to for all removals by CPS. Santosky v. Kramer has been uploaded and I will forward the outline for that case as well. These U.S. Supreme Cases were all used in a recent Victory for the Second District (New York, Vermont and Connecticut) - Also, there were over twenty-five cases that were successfully used as Persuasive Argument (from other Circuits) that are now Binding in the Second District (New York, Vermont and Connecticut). Sheryl Lane-McGrath Orange County, NY VOCAL NY and Mid-Hudson VOCAL