Brazell v. Fairfax Cty., No. 1347–06–4, 2008 WL 3287211 (Va. Ct. App. Aug. 12, 2008).

G.C. v. W.J., 917 So.2d 998 (Fla. App. 2005).

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).

Valencia v. Texas Dep’t of Family and Protective Servs, 2009 WL 5064769 (Tex. App. 2009) (unpublished).

In re Adoption of Meaghan, 461 Mass. 1006, 961 N.E.2d 110 (2012).

In re Adoption of K.L.P., 763 N.E.2d 741 (Ill. 2002).

In re J.W., 57 P.3d 363, 365 (Cal. 2002) (applying principles of statutory construction to find that Fam. Code section 7895 establishes a right to appellate counsel “for any indigent parent appealing from a judgment freeing a child from parental custody and control.”) (overruling In re Curtis S., 30 Cal. Rptr.2d 739 [Cal. Ct. App. 1994], in which court found that appellate court had no authority to appoint appellate counsel for parent challenging termination in the adoption context; reasoning that the statute provides right to appellate counsel only in situations where the child freed from parental custody was a dependent child of juvenile court; finding no equal protection violation because parents not similarly situated.).

In the Matter of the Adoption of A.W.S. and K.R.S., 339 P.3d 414 (Mont. 2014).

In the Interest of S.A.J.B v. K.C., 679 N.W.2d 645 (Iowa 2004).

In re J.B.B., No. 09CA3335 (Ohio. App. 2011) (case dismissed as unripe). The briefs for this case are on file with the National Coalition for a Civil Right to Counsel.