Taron Jacquett v. Estefania Jacquett

Whether the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment are violated when a State’s appellate structure forecloses all meaningful review of preserved federal constitutional claims through the combined use of unexplained Per Curiam affirmances and transcript requirements that indigent litigants cannot satisfy.

Whether conditioning appellate review on a litigant’s ability to purchase transcripts—where facial legal and constitutional errors were preserved by timely trial-court motions—constitutes wealth-based discrimination barred by Griffin v. Illinois, 351 U.S. 12 (1956), Mayer v. City of Chicago, 404 U.S. 189 (1971). and M.L.B. v. S.L.J., 519 U.S. 102 (1996).

Whether substantive and procedural due process are violated when a state trial court deprives a fit parent of all parenting time while suppressing material child-safety evidence, denying a continuance during an active child-abuse investigation, ignoring a controlling oral pronouncement restoring parenting time, and enforcing a conflicting written order drafted by opposing counsel.

Whether the Fourteenth Amendment is violated when a state court enforces incarceration and coercive financial sanctions for alleged noncompliance with family-court orders without notice of possible incarceration, without counsel for an indigent litigant, without findings of present ability to pay as required by Turner v. Rogers, 564 U.S. 431 (2011), and while relying on knowingly false or unchallenged financial affidavits.

Whether a State violates the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses when fraud on the court—through false financial affidavits, fabricated agreements, and material misrepresentations—is compounded by judicial enforcement of fraud-tainted orders and by appellate practices that insulate those orders from any merits review, including review by the State’s court of last resort.