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Amika T. Clark v. Tyrus J. Clark
Paid petition · Court of Appeals of South Carolina, No. 2021-001169 · judgment March 5, 2025
Certiorari denied · May 26, 2026
Pre-decision estimate: 1% cert probability
Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.
Question presented
Whether the First and Fourteenth Amendments permit a family court to impose an indefinite, content-based prior restraint on a parent’s speech, based solely on a “best interests of the child” rationale, without evidence of harm, without applying strict scrutiny, and also separately in a form that restricts speech even after the child reaches majority?
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Taylor Meriwether Smith IV
Meriwether Law
For respondent
Tyrus Clark
Case
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Proceedings
- May 26 2026Petition DENIED.
- May 05 2026DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 5/21/2026.
- Apr 20 2026Waiver of right of respondent Tyrus J. Clark to respond filed.
- Mar 16 2026Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due April 17, 2026)