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Amy Nichols-Stuart v. County of Amador, California, et al.

Paid petition · Court of Appeal of California, Third Appellate District, No. C087609 · judgment July 28, 2021


Certiorari denied · June 27, 2022
Pre-decision estimate: 0% cert probability

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

Question presented

Does a parent who in a state court dependency proceeding submitted to jurisdiction on a staff prepared jurisdictional report and did not submit on a dispositional report ‘impliedly’ waive the right to sue for loss of Familial Association when her child is killed by a drunk driving father who the Juvenile Court had placed the child with and at a time when the social workers had been told and confirmed the father was driving under the influence with the child in his car?

Counsel of record

For petitioner
Kenneth Matthew Foley

For respondent
John A. Whitesides
Angelo, Kilday & Kilduff, LLP

Case

Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference

Proceedings

  1. Jun 27 2022
    Petition DENIED.
  2. Jun 07 2022
    DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 6/23/2022.
  3. Jun 03 2022
    Reply of Amy Nichols-Stuart not accepted for filing. (June 08, 2022) (duplicate efiling)
  4. Jun 02 2022
    Reply of petitioner Amy Nichols-Stuart filed. (Distributed)
  5. May 18 2022
    Brief of respondent County of Amador, California, et al. in opposition filed.
  6. Jan 18 2022
    Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due May 23, 2022)