Fraud claims in state court
Rued v. Rued
In brief
- Where it stands
- Dismissed
Petition denied.
- What it’s about
- Joseph Rued’s petition challenges Minnesota courts’ refusal to change custody and parenting-time orders involving Catrina Rued.
- Who it affects
- The Minnesota appellate ruling remains in place in Joseph and Catrina Rued’s dispute, but the Supreme Court did not endorse its reasoning or decide Rued’s claims.
Summary: written with AI from the case record.
What it's about
He alleges that Hennepin County child-protection officials committed fraud and perjury, and that earlier proceedings prevented him from proving it; the district court rejected his requests under rules barring repeat lawsuits (res judicata), and the Minnesota Court of Appeals upheld that decision.
Rued alleges Hennepin County child-protection officials committed fraud and perjury, and that earlier proceedings prevented him from proving it.
The district court rejected Rued’s requests under rules barring repeat lawsuits, and the Minnesota Court of Appeals upheld that decision.
Question presented
Does the Fourteenth Amendment inhibit state courts from sustaining deprivations of protected rights essentially based upon demonstrable and admitted fraud and perjury by the government through demonstrably misrepresenting relief requested to assert what plainly is requested is not requested, invidiously applying state preclusion law to inhibit fraud and Constitutional claims on the basis of proceedings that also inhibited the litigation of the same fraud on the demonstrably fraudulent basis that it had been litigated in proceedings that explicitly inhibited the litigation of such claims, assertions that the Fourteenth Amendment is not a provision of law the state court even has to consider, and awarding attorneys’ fees based upon the same?
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