all - Opinion Summaries

IN RE S.G.

Family Law, Juvenile Law
Order denying a mother reunification with her abused child is affirmed where 1) plaintiff failed to object at the dispositional hearing and waiving...

DUNN v. CITY OF ELGIN

Civil Rights, Family Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a case alleging that the seizure of a child pursuant to a custody order violated 42 U.S.C. section 1983, defendant officers are entitled to...

IN RE ALYSSA F.

Family Law, International Law
The superior court's judgment terminating parental rights is reversed where, although the court had emergency jurisdiction over the child under Family...

IN RE: WISE

Bankruptcy Law, Family Law
In a Chapter 7 bankruptcy dispute, the district court's finding that post-petition maintenance payments were not property of the bankruptcy estate...

J.H. v. JOHNSON

Administrative Law, Family Law
In a case alleging the violation of a constitutional right to be free from placement in a foster home where the state knew or suspected that abuse was...

TERRY v. RICHARDSON

Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, Family Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action brought against a Dept. of Children and Family Serv. investigator, the district court's denial of defendant's...

MARONI v. PEMI-BAKER REG'L SCH DIST

Civil Rights, Education Law, Family Law, Juvenile Law
The district court erred by dismissing claims brought under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) because parents brought the case...

MARTIN v. SAINT MARY'S DEP'T OF SOC. SERVS.

Constitutional Law, Family Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action, the district court's grant of qualified immunity to defendants is affirmed where defendants' conduct in removing...

HERNANDEZ v. ASHCROFT

Family Law, Immigration Law
In appeal from an application for suspension of deportation under the Violence Against Women Act of 1994, an abuser's behavior during the "contrite"...

IN RE: KYLE F.

Constitutional Law, Family Law
The footnote in Adoption of Kelsey S. (1992) 1 Cal.4th 816, does not disqualify an unwed father -- who could have been, but was not, charged with...