Ross'father, Dan, has filed a motion in Superior Court in Rockville asking to intervene in the case as a " next friend " and claiming that Ross is not competent to make the decision to be executed.
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:: When someone takes legal action on behalf of a child, it's sometimes referred to as " A ( by their tutor ) v B " or " A ( by their next friend ) v B ".
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In the case of mental incapacity, a conservator, guardian, or committee represents the person in court, but if they have no such representative, or if the committee has some interest adverse to the claimant, they may sue by a next friend.
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The parents ( Alena Jech and Adolf Befurt ) and the child ( Adrian Jebef, through his next friend, his mother ) sued the two Hawaii officials to force them to have the surname they chose to appear on the birth certificate.
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In April 2006, Donald Sullivan of Wilmington, North Carolina, who had taken a personal interest in the Bixby case, filed a " next friend " motion in the Abbeville County court on Steven's behalf, seeking to have the charges against him dismissed.
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In the Hamdi case, the three-judge panel warned that allowing a federal public defender to have access to Hamdi, without Hamdi formally requesting legal representation, " would be opening the floodgates of federal litigation to the very ` intruders or uninvited meddlers, styling themselves next friends . "'
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Sir Robert Loftus and his wife lived in the Chancellor's house, and mainly at his expense, until the beginning of 1637, when the lady's half-brother, Sir John Gifford, petitioned the King, as her next friend, for specific performance of her father-in-law's alleged promise to make her a post-nuptial settlement.
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On April 2, Evans's mother Betty, acting as " next friend ", petitioned the U . S . District Court for the Southern District of Alabama for a writ of certiorari, reversing the judgment of the Court of Appeals and returning to them the decision on the constitutionality of Evans's sentence.
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Wednesday's ruling, following arguments on June 4, has a potentially far-reaching effect on lawyers in the 4th Circuit because the court had not defined before who had standing as " next friend " in cases in which a prisoner, like Hamdi, who is confined and has no access to a lawyer, could not name his own lawyer.
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Dunham said the father's request for a court-ordered defense lawyer ought to meet the appeals court test set forth Wednesday that requires the petitioner to have the " sufficient personal stake in the outcome of a dispute " to qualify for the " next friend " status required to intervene on behalf of a silent, isolated defendant.