Supreme Court of Florida

In an appeal arising from parental rights termination proceedings in which the district court certified questions of great public importance regarding ineffective assistance claims in such proceedings, the Supreme Court of Florida exercises its discretion and dismisses the review proceeding as the case is moot because the children at issue were adopted.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/26/2007
• Published 04/26/2007

Judges

• PER CURIAM.

Court

• Supreme Court of Florida

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Valentin Rodriguez, Jr. of Valentin Rodriguez, P.A., West Palm Beach, FL, for Petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Julie H. Littky-Rubin of Lytal, Reiter, Clark, Fountain and Williams, LLP and Amy J. Genet of Foster Children's Project of Legal Aid, West Palm Beach, FL, on behalf of Foster Children's Project;  John J. Copelan, Jr., General Counsel, Gregory D. Venz, Assistant General Counsel and Jeffrey Dana Gillen, Senior Attorney, West Palm Beach, FL, on behalf of Florida Department of Children and Family Services;  and Dennis W. Moore, General Counsel and Thomas Wade Young, Appellate Counsel, Orlando, FL, on behalf of Statewide Guardian ad Litem Program, for Respondents.