¶1Appeal from D. C. M. D. Ga. Motion of appellee J. R. for leave to proceed in forma pauperis granted. Probable jurisdiction noted. In addition to the questions presented by the jurisdictional statement, parties are directed to brief and argue the following question: “Whether, where the parents of a minor voluntarily place the minor in a state institution, there is sufficient 'state action/ including subsequent action by the state institution, to implicate the Due Process Clause of the *937Fourteenth Amendment?”
431 U.S. 936
Parham v. J. L.
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided May 31, 1977
Supreme Court of the United States · decided 1977-05-31
Good law ✅— No negative treatment on recordhow we know
Decided 1977-05-31
How this case has been cited
Cited by 630 later decisions (17 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2009 · most notably Quilloin v. Walcott (1978), Parham v. J. R. (1979)
371 federal appellate · 17 district · 60 state decisions — followed in 19 states
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