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TURNER v. ROGERS

No. 10-10.

131 S.Ct. 2507 (2011)

564 U.S. 431

180 L.Ed.2d 452

Michael D. TURNER, Petitioner, v. Rebecca L. ROGERS et al.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided June 20, 2011.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Seth P. Waxman , Washington, DC, for petitioner.

Leondra R. Kruger , for United States as amicus curiae, by special leave of the Court supporting reversal.

Stephanos Bibas , Philadelphia, PA, for respondents.

Derek J. Enderlin , Ross & Enderlin, P.A., Greenville, SC, Kathrine Haggard Hudgins , South Carolina Commission on Indigent Defense, Columbia, SC, Seth P. Waxman , Counsel of Record, Paul R.Q. Wolfson , Catherine M.A. Carroll , Sonya L. Lebsack , Shivaprasad Nagaraj , Wilmer Cutler Pickering , Hale and Dorr LLP, Washington, DC, for Petitioner.

Stephanos Bibas , Counsel of Record, James A. Feldman , Nancy Bregstein Gordon , Amy Wax , University of Pennsylvania Law School, Supreme Court Clinic, Philadelphia, PA, Stephen B. Kinnaird , Panteha Abdollahi , D. Scott Carlton , Eric A. Long , Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP, Washington, DC, for Respondents.

Leondra R. Kruger , Acting Deputy Solicitor General, Washington, D.C., for United States as Amicus Curiae Supporting Reversal.

Justice BREYER delivered the opinion of the Court.

South Carolina's Family Court enforces its child support orders by threatening with incarceration for civil contempt those who are (1) subject to a child support order, (2) able to comply with that order, but (3) fail to do so. We must decide whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause requires the State to provide counsel (at a civil contempt hearing) to an indigent person potentially faced with...

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