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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
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
Subject area
First Amendment (estimated from the questions presented, in the Supreme Court Database’s categories)
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Order
Order list, May 26, 2026 · Certiorari denied
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)