Matches from the Bibliographic Entries

Cyrus W. Jarrett, A Return to History and Tradition: Revisiting Lassiter and Grounding Civil Gideon in the Due Process Clause of hte Fourteenth Amendment, 24 U. Md. L.J. Race, Religion, Gender & Class 30 (2024), available at https://digitalcommons.law.umaryland.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1399&context=rrgc.

Cyrus W. Jarrett, Jr., Note, A Return to History and Tradition: Revisiting Lassiter and Grounding Civil Gideon in the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, 24 U. Md. L. J. Race, Religion, Gender & Class 30 (2024) (arguing that it is time for Lassiter to be revisited and overruled).

Brooke D. Coleman, Lassiter v. Department of Social Services: Why Is It Such a Lousy Case?, 12 Nev. L.J. 591 (2012).

Rosalie Young, The Right to Appointed Counsel in Termination of Parental Rights Proceedings: The States’ Response to Lassiter, 14 Touro L. Rev. 247 (1997).

Kevin Shaughnessy, Lassiter v. Department of Social Services: A New Interesting Balancing Test for Indigent Civil Litigants, 32 Cath. U. L. Rev. 261 (1982).

Steven D. Schwinn, Sidestepping Lassiter on the Path to Civil Gideon: Civil Douglas, 40 Clearinghouse Rev. J. of Poverty L. and Pol’y 217 (2006).

Lowell Schlechter, The Pitfalls of Timidity: The Ramifications of Lassiter v. Department of Social Services, 8 N.Ky.L.Rev. 435 (1981).

Clare Pastore, Life After Lassiter: An Overview of State-Court Right-to-Counsel Decisions, 40 Clearinghouse Rev. J. of Poverty L. and Pol’y 186 (2006).

Jane Jackson, Lassiter v. Department of Social Services: The Due Process Right to Appointed Counsel Left Hanging Uneasily in the Mathews v. Eldridge Balance, 8 N. Ky. L. Rev. 513 (1981).

Robert Hornstein, The Right to Counsel in Civil Cases Revisited: The Proper Influence of Poverty and the Case for Reversing Lassiter v. Department of Social Services, 59 Cath. U. L. Rev. 1057 (2010).

Colene Flynn, In Search on Greater Procedural Justice: Rethinking Lassiter v. Department of Social Services, 11 Wis. Women’s L.J. 327 (1996).

Bruce Boyer, Justice, Access to the Court, and the Right to Free Counsel for Indigent Parents: The Continuing Scourge of Lassiter v. Department of Social Services of Durham, 36 Loy. U. Chi. L.J. 363 (2005).

Clare Pastore, Life After Lassiter: An Overview of State-Court Right-to-Counsel Decisions, 40 Clearinghouse Rev. J. of Poverty L. and Pol’y 186 (2006).

John Pollock, Lassiter Notwithstanding: The Right to Counsel in Foreclosure Actions, 43 Clearinghouse Rev. J. of Poverty L. and Pol’y 448 (Jan.-Feb. 2010).

Julie P. Shelton, Indigents Have No Right To Appointed Counsel In Proceedings To Terminate Parental Rights – Lassiter v. Department of Social Services, 31 DePaul L.J. 152 (Fall 1981).

Douglas J. Besharov, Terminating Parental Rights: The Indigent Parent’s Right to Counsel after Lassiter v. North Carolina, 15 Fam. L.Q. 205 (1981-1982).

Lassiter v. Dep’t of Social Servs., 452 U.S. 18 (1981).

  • Brief for the American Bar Association as Amicus Curiae Supporting Petitioner, Lassiter v. Dept. of Social Servs., 1980 WL 340036 (U.S. 1981).

Lassiter v. Dep’t of Soc. Servs., 452 U.S. 18 (1981).

Lassiter v. Dep’t of Soc. Servs., 452 U.S. 18 (1981) (adopting case-by-case approach to 14th Amendment due process right to counsel in termination of parental rights cases, and holding there is presumption against appointed counsel except where physical liberty is at stake).

Breanna Madison, NOTE: Whose child are you? Protecting black children and families predisposed to the harms of the family regulation system, 67 How. L.J. 155 (2023-2024) (proposing “solutions to correct the errors of Lassiter and overall issues with the United States’ handling of child neglect cases in two ways: (1) asserting that there is an implied fundamental right to be parented to heighten the level of scrutiny in parental rights cases and (2) recognizing children as a suspect classification to address the invidious discrimination that occurs in child neglect procedures.”).