Posts in 'Amicus Curiae'

Supported class certification in a lawsuit brought on behalf of children in Philadelphia’s foster care system.

Argued for a half-brother’s standing to participate in child welfare proceedings involving his sibling and that the child advocate’s representation of both children constituted a conflict of interest.

Whether a detention center's strip search policy absent probable cause or individualized suspicion violates the Fourth Amendment.

Juvenile Law Center briefed the issue of whether the Congress intended the Military Commissions Act to have jurisdiction over juveniles. The juveniles in question have been held at Guantanamo Bay and subject to interrogation and physical and psychological abuse.

Argued that law violated due process and involved incarceration in jail-like facilities that mixed those already adjudicated delinquent with youth not yet found guilty of a crime.

Challenged parental visitation policies for parents of children in foster care.

Challenged the presence of armed juvenile probation officers in school buildings.

Argued against a per se rule removing a well-cared-for and loved child from a home because of a parent’s drug use.

Argued that juveniles should be afforded the right to a jury trial in delinquency proceedings.

Argued on behalf of a student who had been suspended for writing a fake MySpace page that made derogatory statements about the student's principal.