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Santosky Vs. Kramer

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Mar 24, 1982

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  1. Stanley Vs. Illinois US Supreme Court · Apr 03, 1972
  2. Prince Vs. Massachusetts US Supreme Court · Jan 31, 1944
  3. Meyer Vs. Nebraska US Supreme Court · Jun 04, 1923
  4. Woodby Vs. Ins US Supreme Court · Dec 12, 1966
  5. Addington Vs. Texas US Supreme Court · Apr 30, 1979
  6. Mathews Vs. Eldridge US Supreme Court · Feb 24, 1976
  7. Goldberg Vs. Kelly US Supreme Court · Mar 23, 1970
  8. Little Vs. Streater US Supreme Court · Jun 01, 1981
  9. U.S. 745 (1982) U.S. Supreme Court Santosky v. Kramer
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  10. U.S. 745 (1982) Santosky v. Kramer
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  11. and the countervailing governmental interest supporting use of the challenged procedure. Mathews v. Eldridge
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  12. certiorari to consider petitioners' constitutional claim. 450 U.S. 993 (1981). II Last Term, in Lassiter v. Department
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  13. id. at 452 U. S. 59 -60 (STEVENS, J., dissenting). See also Little v. Streater
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  14. choice in matters of family life is a fundamental liberty interest protected by the Fourteenth Amendment. Quilloin v. Walcott
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  15. Smith v. Organization
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  16. Moore v. East
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  17. Cleveland Board of Education v. LaFleur
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  18. Pierce v. Society
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  19. specified in Mathews v. Eldridge
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  20. to determine whether a particular standard of proof in a particular proceeding satisfies due process. In Addington v. Texas
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  21. U. S. 480 , 445 U. S. 491 (1980). See also Logan v. Zimmerman
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  22. U.S. at 441 U. S. 425 , quoting Tippett v. Maryland
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  23. F.2d 1153, 1166 (CA4 1971) (opinion concurring in part and dissenting in part), cert. dism'd sub nom. Murel v. Baltimore
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  24. U.S. at 441 U. S. 425 , 426. See, e.g., Addington v. Texas
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  25. Chaunt v. United
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  26. Page 455 U. S. 757 Schneiderman v. United
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  27. U. S. 254 , 397 U. S. 262 -263 (1970), quoting Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee v. McGrath
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  28. precious than any property Page 455 U. S. 759 right. 452 U.S. at 452 U. S. 27 , quoting Stanley v. Illinois
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  29. civil commitment, Addington v. Texas
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  30. deportation, Woodby v. INS
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  31. and denaturalization, Chaunt v. United
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  32. States, supra, and Schneiderman v. United
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  33. to favor use of error-reducing procedures. However substantial the foster parents' interests may be, cf. Smith v. Organization
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  34. that the balance of private interests strongly favors heightened procedural protections. B Under Mathews v. Eldridge
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  35. stage of a state-initiated permanent neglect proceeding bears many of the indicia of a criminal trial. Cf. Lassiter v. Department
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  36. substantive standards that leave determinations unusually open to the subjective values of the judge. See Smith v. Organization
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  37. error is sizable. Raising the standard of proof would have both practical and symbolic consequences. Cf. Addington v. Texas
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  38. at the factfinding proceeding. Lassiter v. Department
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  39. parents can and will provide a normal home. Unlike a constitutional requirement of hearings, see, e.g., Mathews v. Eldridge
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  40. and In re Rosenthal v. Hartnett
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  41. Ross v. Food
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  42. motive, absence of affection between parent and child, and failure of parental foresight and progress. Cf. Lassiter v. Department
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  43. Page 455 U. S. 770 is a matter of state law properly left to state legislatures and state courts. Cf. Addington v. Texas
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  44. or its equivalent. See Dale County Dept. of Pensions & Security v. Robles
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  45. Harper v. Caskin
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  46. Torres v. Van
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  47. U.S. Supreme Court Santosky v. Kramer
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  48. Lassiter v. Department
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  49. the Fourteenth Amendment. Quilloin v. Walcott
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