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Elizabeth White, et vir v. North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, et al.
Paid petition · Supreme Court of North Carolina, No. 140A24 · judgment May 23, 2025
Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.
Questions presented
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Whether North Carolina misinterpreted the Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980 by reversing an Order granting Petitioners adoption assistance.
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What duty, if any, do state agencies and/or private nonprofit child-placing agencies have to disclose information about Federal adoption assistance to prospective adoptive parents of special needs’ children?
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Tiffany Bolling Massie
Freedom Law NC
For respondent
Nicholas Scott Brod
North Carolina Department of Justice
Case
Conference history
Distributed for 1 conference
Proceedings
- Nov 10 2025Petition DENIED.
- Oct 22 2025DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/7/2025.
- Sep 29 2025Waiver of right of respondent Forsyth County Department of Social Services to respond filed.
- Sep 25 2025Waiver of right of respondent Children's Home Society of North Carolina, Inc. to respond filed.
- Sep 19 2025Waiver of right of respondent North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services to respond filed.
- Aug 21 2025Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due October 14, 2025)