Jatin Patel v. Kevin Searles and Debra Swanson

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• stating that the right to intimate association receives protection as “a fundamental element of personal liberty” grounded in substantive due process under the Fourteenth Amendment
• holding relationships between spouses “receive the greatest degree of [constitutional] protection because they are among the most intimate of relationships”
• noting that the right to intimate association “is constitutionally protected ‘as a fundamental element of personal liberty’” and is appropriately analyzed as a substantive due process right
• noting that the parent/child relationship warrants constitutional protection

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).