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Clinton County Children and Youth Services v. A. A. R., Natural Mother, et al.

Paid petition · Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, Middle District, No. 10 MAP 2018 · judgment December 28, 2018

Certiorari denied · May 20, 2019

Pre-decision estimate: 3% cert probability

Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.

Questions presented

Whether a state violates the constitutional guarantees of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution when it denies the protections afforded under the law to a population of children who suffer bodily injury, based solely on the fact that the injury suffered by the children was inflicted prenatally?
Whether the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s decision interpreting the state’s child protective services law in reliance upon amended 23 Pa.C.S. § 6386, violates the Supremacy Clause of Article 6 of the United States Constitution as said state statute conflicts with 42 U.S.C.A. § 5106a?

For petitioner
Amanda Beth Browning-Richardson
Clinton County Children and Youth Social Services

For respondent
David S. Cohen
Drexel University Thoms R. Kline, School of Law

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

May 20 2019
Petition DENIED.
Apr 30 2019
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/16/2019.
Mar 29 2019
Waiver of right of respondent A. A. R. to respond filed.
Mar 08 2019
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due April 19, 2019)