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Troxel Vs. Granville

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Jun 05, 2000

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  12. U.S. 57 (2000) October Term, 1999 Syllabus Troxel Et Vir V. Granville
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  13. fundamental right to make decisions concerning the care, custody, and control of their children, see, e. g., Stanley v. Illinois
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  14. family to further question fit parents' ability to make the best decisions regarding their children, see, e. g., Reno v. Flores
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  15. see also Reno v. Flores
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  16. perhaps the oldest of the fundamental liberty interests recognized by this Court. More than 75 years ago, in Meyer v. Nebraska
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  17. Two years later, in Pierce v. Society
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  18. Id., at 535. We returned to the subject in Prince v. Massachusetts
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  19. right of parents to make decisions concerning the care, custody, and control of their children. See, e. g., Stanley v. Illinois
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  20. Opinion of O'CONNOR, J. banks v. McCarter
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  21. Williams v. Williams
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  22. of substantive due process. Moore v. East
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  23. custody of children are generally protected by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. See, e. g., Meyer v. Nebraska
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  24. Pierce v. Society
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  25. Ante, at 67. 3 Cf. Chicago v. Morales
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  26. its domestic statute and to apply a demanding standard when ruling on its facial constitutionality,5 see Chi cago v. Morales
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  27. a fundamental right of parents to direct the upbringing of their children resolves this case. Our decision in Pierce v. Society
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  28. and Immunities Clause and thus does not present an opportunity to reevaluate the meaning of that Clause. See Saenz v. Roe
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  29. ante, at 78, n. 3 (opinion concurring in judgment) (quoting Chicago v. Morales
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  30. McDaniels v. Carlson
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  31. may 6 It necessarily follows that under the far more stringent demands suggested by the majority in United States v. Salerno
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  32. suggestion by JUSTICE THOMAS that this case may be resolved solely with reference to our decision in Pierce v. Society
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  33. of these significant parental liberty interests, these interests have never been seen to be without limits. In Lehr v. Robertson
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  34. connection between parent and child. They require relationships more enduring.''' Id., at 260 (quoting Caban v. Mohammed
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  35. U. S. 380 , 397 (1979)). Conversely, in Michael H. v. Gerald
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  36. Smith v. Organization
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  37. Moore v. East
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  38. in a child must be balanced against the State's long-recognized interests as parens patriae, see, e. g., Reno v. Flores
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  39. interests. Because our substantive due process case law includes a strong presumption that a parent will act Mo. v. Danforth
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  40. Tinker v. Des
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  41. In re Gault, 387 U. S. 1 , 13 (1967) (due process rights in criminal proceedings). 9 Cf., e. g., Wisconsin v. Yoder
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  42. of the conflicting interests that give rise to disputes such as this.10 Far from guaranteeing that 10 See Palmore v. Sidoti
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  43. cf. Collins v. Harker
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  44. Re gents of Univ. of Mich. v. Ewing
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  45. allocating responsibility for resolving disputes of various kinds in our federal system. Ankenbrandt v. Richards
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  46. Syllabus Troxel Et Vir V. Granville
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  47. Cf. Chicago v. Morales
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  48. Clause. See Saenz v. Roe
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  49. In Lehr v. Robertson
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