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In re W.B.

Civil Procedure, Family Law, Indian Law, Juvenile Law
Juvenile court's order removing a minor from his mother's custody and ordering him placed in a foster home, group home, relative home, county or...

Murray v. Lene

Civil Procedure, Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law & Procedure, Family Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action alleging, inter alia, an unlawful seizure, dismissal of the complaint is affirmed in part where: 1) the district...

In re Christopher C.

Administrative Law, Civil Procedure, Family Law, Government Law
Juvenile court's decision declaring six of seven children to be placed in the care of DCFS, and an order for various physical and mental treatment for...

In re Marriage of Sonne

Civil Procedure, Family Law, Government Law, Labor & Employment Law
In a marital dissolution action involving the proper apportionment of the service credit from the parties' marriage, a member of the California Public...

Adar v. Smith

Family Law
In an action brought by same-sex, unmarried, adoptive parents in New York seeking injunction action against defendant, the Louisiana State Registrar,...

V.S. v. Muhammad

Civil Rights, Constitutional Law, Family Law, Government Law, Injury & Tort Law
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action based on the termination of plaintiff's parental rights due to an allegedly false diagnosis of shaken baby...

Petition to Vacate an Adoption Decree, in the Adoption of John Doe

Family Law, International Law
In a petition to vacate an adoption decree, the order granting the petition is affirmed where: 1) one of the adoptive parents became the child's...

In re Noreen G.

Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Family Law, Government Law, Indian Law
Trial court's judgment granting guardians' petition to declare two minors free from the care, custody, and control of their biological parents and...

Bardales v. Duarte

Civil Procedure, Family Law, Government Law, International Law
In a mother's petition seeking return of her children under the Hague Convention alleging that the father wrongfully retained the two older children...

In re Rebecca S.

Civil Procedure, Family Law, Government Law, Juvenile Law
Juvenile court's visitation order is reversed where it was an abuse of discretion to delegate to the children's legal guardian the determination of...