California Court of Appeal

Under Welfare & Institutions Code 300, collateral estoppel will not preclude a second dependency petition where the child provides new disclosures of child abuse that are substantively different from previous disclosures.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/15/2001
• Published 11/15/2001

Judges

• SILLS, P.J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
•  Susan Bookout, Alpine, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Appellants the Minors.


• For Appellees:
  
•  Janette Freeman Cochran, Pasadena, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant Remberto C., Laurence M. Watson, County Counsel, and Ward Brady, Deputy County Counsel, for Plaintiff and Respondent.