Supreme Court of California

A child's appellate counsel may file a motion to dismiss a dependency appeal only after consultation with and authorization from the child or the child's guardian ad litem.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/25/2005
• Published 07/25/2005

Judges

• WERDEGAR, J.

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Marin Williamson, San Francisco, under appointment by the Supreme Court, and Michelle R. Trujillo, Bakersfield, under appointment by the Superior Court, for Appellants., Marvin R. Ventrell, Janet G. Sherwood, Corte Madera, and Donna Wickham Furth, San Francisco, for National Association of Counsel for Children and Northern California Association of Counsel for Children as Amici Curiae on behalf of Appellants., Jonathan B. Steiner, Los Angeles;  Matthew Zwerling;  Elaine Alexander, San Diego;  and Michael Kresser, Santa Clara, for California Appellate Project, First District Appellate Project, Appellate Defenders, Inc., and Sixth District Appellate Program as Amici Curiae on behalf of Appellants., William Wesley Patton for Whittier Law School Legal Policy Clinic as Amicus Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• B.C. Barmann, Sr., County Counsel, and Jennifer L. Thurston, Deputy County Counsel, for Plaintiff and Respondent., Jennifer B. Henning for California State Association of Counties as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent., Cameryn J. Schmidt, David F. Estep and Marissa Coffey for Children's Law Center of Los Angeles as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent., Anahita Savarnejad and Darlen Azevedo Kelly for Sacramento Child Advocates, Inc., as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent.