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11/17/2009 09:05:00 AM

As many of us recall from our civics lessons in school, the United States is a common law country. That means when judges issue opinions in legal cases, they often establish precedents that will guide the rulings of other judges in similar cases and jurisdictions. Over time, these legal opinions build, refine and clarify the laws that govern our land. For average citizens, however, it can be difficult to find or even read these landmark opinions. We think that's a problem: Laws that you don't know about, you can't follow — or make effective arguments to change.

Starting today, we're enabling people everywhere to find and read full text legal opinions from U.S. federal and state district, appellate and supreme courts using Google Scholar. You can find these opinions by searching for cases (like Planned Parenthood v. Casey), or by topics (like desegregation) or other queries that you are interested in. For example, go to Google Scholar, click on the "Legal opinions and journals" radio button, and try the query separate but equal. Your search results will include links to cases familiar to many of us in the U.S. such as Plessy v. Ferguson and Brown v. Board of Education, which explore the acceptablity of "separate but equal" facilities for citizens at two different points in the history of the U.S. But your results will also include opinions from cases that you might be less familiar with, but which have played an important role.

We think this addition to Google Scholar will empower the average citizen by helping everyone learn more about the laws that govern us all. To understand how an opinion has influenced other decisions, you can explore citing and related cases using the Cited by and Related articles links on search result pages. As you read an opinion, you can follow citations to the opinions to which it refers. You can also see how individual cases have been quoted or discussed in other opinions and in articles from law journals. Browse these by clicking on the "How Cited" link next to the case title. See, for example, the frequent citations for Roe v. Wade, for Miranda v. Arizona (the source of the famous Miranda warning) or for Terry v. Ohio (a case which helped to establish acceptable grounds for an investigative stop by a police officer).

As we worked to build this feature, we were struck by how readable and accessible these opinions are. Court opinions don't just describe a decision but also present the reasons that support the decision. In doing so, they explain the intricacies of law in the context of real-life situations. And they often do it in language that is surprisingly straightforward, even for those of us outside the legal profession. In many cases, judges have gone quite a bit out of their way to make complex legal issues easy to follow. For example, in Korematsu v. United States, the Supreme Court justices present a fascinating and easy-to-follow debate on the legality of internment of natural born citizens based on their ancestry. And in United States v. Ramirez-Lopez, Judge Kozinski, in his dissent, illustrates the key issue of the case using an imagined good-news/bad-news dialogue between the defendant and his attorney.

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Subject: FW: ALL STATES DEFENSE PACKET
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Subject: RE: ALL STATES DEFENSE PACKET
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 2010 18:56:26 +0000

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Foster care, family preservation and civil liberties: When you want to trample on the Fourth Amendment, who ya gonna call?

Say you work for a county sheriff's department and you suspect that a couple is growing marijuana in their home. But you don't have enough evidence to get a search warrant. As Karl Malden used to say in those American Express commercials: What will do you – what will you do?

The dilemma arose in Sarasota County, Florida. And Sheriff's deputies there came up with what they thought was the perfect answer: Pretend they were from the one government agency to which that pesky Fourth Amendment never seems to apply. Pretend to be from the agency that can enter any home based on no more than an anonymous telephone tip. Pretend to be from an agency so powerful that, even if technically, people have the right to refuse, they'd be too terrified to invoke it.

Yes, that's right. The deputies pretended to be from child protective services, in this case, the Florida Department of Children and Families, and they pretended to be looking not for pot, but for child abuse.

According to the Sarasota Herald Tribune, the deputies told the couple they were investigating an anonymous tip about a child living in unfit conditions – and, they said, the couple had no right to refuse them entry.

It was all a lie, but once inside they found enough evidence to get a warrant, ultimately they found marijuana plants and drug paraphernalia. A circuit judge has ruled that illegal – and thrown out the tainted evidence. Because, after all, adults have Fourth Amendment rights.

But not children. Laws and court decisions vary from state to state, but as a practical matter, even if, technically, a parent can refuse entry to a child protective services worker, as a practical matter she'll just run to court, claim that the refusal itself puts the child in imminent danger and get the court not only to let her in, but also to take away the children. (Indeed, she may not even need to go to court – she could simply exercise her "emergency" power to declare the child endangered, call the cops to let her in, and then leave with the child.)  FULL STORY

#1  No matter what stage your "case" is in, the Number One (#1) thing YOU MUST DO- Document, Document, Document.  This costs nothing and is the MOST IMPORTANT thing you can do in your defense.  Keep detailed records of who said what, when.  ESPECIALLY document face-to-face and conversations on the phone.  Record or video tape if you have it.   CPS workers "make mistakes", LIE, and TWIST your words. See Washington State Extended Families for a nice essay on how to do Documentation.

#2  If there is a lawyer in your area who HATES CPS and knows how to put up a DEFENSE, hire him now and help him defend you.  If you have to sell the car, mortgage the house, clean out your retirement fund, borrow from relatives- pay his retainer.     NOTE- If you ARE a LAWYER who wants to learn HOW, see- Legal Information  If you get a court-appointed attorney, you may or may not receive a "vigorous defense".  About the standard pay they receive is $500 total, so the pay is no motivation to them.  You might get a young, idealistic one fresh from law school, and he may be pretty aggressive.  Some older ones who are not calloused may also really go to bat for you and the children and provide Competent Counsel.  In all cases, Help him defend you Also see Make Your Court-Appointed Attorney Work For YOU at fightcps.com NEW! August 8, 2008 How I Found Attorney Who "Hates" CPS If there is NO such lawyer (there's not very many), or you are penniless,  ~you are going to have to learn how to DO IT YOURSELF in pro per or pro se ~ Be aware that some "courts" may be so "unencumbered by the Constitution" that a lawyer "may" risk his Bar License by providing a "vigorous defense".  (See What Happens in the FOG) There are also stories about CPS KIDNAPPING THE LAWYER'S CHILDREN AND ASSASSINATING HIS CHARACTER TOO.  We have heard of CPS doing the same thing to JUDGES, Doctors, Police officers, other CPS people (Whistle-Blowers), and even State Representatives who challenge CPS' lies and fascist activities. That's why just filing your papers with the court clerk may be the only way to GET THE TRUTH ON THE RECORD.  That is why the "Sui Juris" method was developed.

 

If you don't get anything ON THE RECORD, you will likely have NO appealable issues in the future.  See this and ESPECIALLY THIS

What Happens in the FOG- Beginning with an anonymous hotline "tip" of suspected abuse, a parent enters a gray area of American jurisprudence.  And it is not "murky" to his benefit.   Child Abuse, when alleged, is not a criminal matter.  It is blithely characterized as a "Civil" matter, much the same as a lawsuit to collect on a breach of contract.  Thus, the Constitutional protections afforded in a criminal case are not necessarily extended to those accused of Child Abuse. Full Article

~ INNOCENCE IS NO DEFENSE ~ Don't kid yourself.   This is not the Happy, Fair Courts

To fully understand what Family Courts REALLY ARE- see Volksgerichtshof
Never forget to ask the "judge" if you are in a CONSTITUTIONAL COURT OF DUE PROCESS
They cannot answer you honestly, because YOU ARE NOT

~By the way~ When the Nazi's picked up the Jews  and sent them to Concentration Camps, they called it Schutzhaft, literally translated "Protective Custody"

#3  Write your own version of history in a Sworn Affidavit  and FILE IT with the Court, the CPS, the DA, and whoever else that has ANYTHING to do with your case. You are SWEARING to the truthfulness of your statements.  The CPS witches aren't swearing to ANYTHING (what is SACRED to them that they COULD swear on? The Humanist Manifesto II?) You had better be telling the truth with no "embellishments" and citing FACTS you can back up with evidence or witnesses' sworn statements.  Say NOTHING self-incriminating.  If you have something to hide, you aren't going to lie your way out of it. Grammar Quick Help Class 101 How your papers LOOK matters! The importance of your Sworn Affidavit cannot be over- emphasized!  THE ONLY WAY you have appealable "issues" in the future is to get your facts ON THE RECORD in court.

#4  SHUT UP--- SHUT UP--- SHUT UP!   Quit talking with the CPS monsters.  You are waiving your FIFTH AMENDMENT CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT and Miranda Rights every time you answer a question. "The claim and exercise of a Constitutional right cannot be converted into a crime." -- Miller v. U.S. Source: 230 F 2d 486, 489 Personal and phone conversations are where "mistakes" (inventions and fabrications) happen when THEY write their report about the conversations. Words you say float up into the rafters and come back twisted against you.  If you feel you have to talk with them, record it or videotape it.  And don't forget to DOCUMENT it. CPS is NOT your friend!  Women especially fall into this trap.  Especially in cases where a child is ALLEGEDLY abused or molested by a family member.   DO NOT pour your heart out to a CPS worker or CPS contractor Mental Illness clinician. Do that, and you will join the ranks of "co-perpetrator" lamenting "I was so, so foolish.  I was an IDIOT. I thought they were there to HELP  me.  I thought the CPS worker CARED.  I thought I had PROFESSIONAL CONFIDENTIALITY with the psych shithead."    CPS will use every word you say to make your child a Legal Orphan, because THAT'S what they are being PAID for. Ignore or forget this at your and your children's EXTREME PERIL. August 21, 2008 NEW CASELAW Case Name: U.S. v. Craighead, District: 9 Cir , Case #: 07-1-135 Opinion Date: 8/21/2008 , DAR #: 13245 Case Holding: Interrogations occurring inside the home are custodial, requiring Miranda advisements under the Fifth Amendment, if the circumstances turn it into one of a “police-dominated” atmosphere. Speaking personally, if there was no cop there, I would darn sure turn it into a "police dominated atmosphere", by calling 911 and report that my home was being trespassed under the Color of Law with no Warrant.   If they DO have a warrant, SHUT UP, SHUT UP, SHUT UP.

#5  BE POLITE!  The highest crime you can commit is "Contempt of Social Worker". We have reports of POLICEMEN telling people that the Constitutional Rights and Miranda Rights are only for TV, and what they are doing is "The Real World". See The Oath of Office EVERY OATH of OFFICE in the USA includes "support the Constitution" Since many of them seem like childish morons, SOCIOPATHIC, and plainly nasty with no discernable social "skills", this can be a difficult task.  "I would love to answer your question, but I cannot do that without violating my Fifth Amendment Rights and my Miranda Rights" "I would love to let you in my house to look around without a Search Warrant.  But I cannot do that without violating my Fourth Amendment Rights" "There is a secret pride in every human heart that revolts at tyranny. You may order and drive an individual, but you cannot make him respect you." --William Hazlitt We believe the court-ordered psych exam is a violation of your 5th Amendment rights.  Don't entertain the folly that psychiatrists are your friend.  No, you do not enjoy professional "confidentiality" with them.  They are the foremost tool of character assassination.

#6  Insist on LETTERS to and from the agencies.  They can't alter their words printed on paper that have been mailed to you.   Nor can they alter your words either.  KEEP COPIES of your letters to them.

#7	Get your records- FOIA/Privacy Act/ Open Records.  Anything they FORCE you to sign, sign it "Under Duress".  You can also Rescind your previous signatures.   San Diego Courts Examiner Gregory Smart Freedom of Information Act & Public Records Requests November 14, 7:58 PM

#8  Clean up your house and your life. Obviously, if your house is a mess or your life is a mess, your CPS worker is going to use every bit of it against you.  There is (so far as we know) absolutely NO LAW about "dirty house", but they make a big deal out of it. Shacking up with a boyfriend is the path to hell.  Boyfriends have NO "natural affection" for your children, and they are the #1 baby rapists and child abusers and killers, at the TOP of any statistical data. So this is something YOU CAN DO SOMETHING ABOUT.  Clean up.  Quit smoking.  Whatever you are doing that you KNOW is wrong, the choice is between your laziness, habits, lifestyle choices, CATS, and YOUR KIDS. You choose.   If you can't, then don't complain about what happens. Also see AFRA Dress Codes.  How you dress and conduct yourself in interviews, at court, or with the Mental Illness Clinicians- matters.

 

: WHERE IS THE LAW about a "messy house"? What are the STANDARDS? What's the criteria for determining a "messy house" or "dirty house"?  How many (if any) pets can a family have? What's the standard about cat litter boxes? How often is a toilet supposed to be scrubbed? How many Cheerios are allowed on the floor under the kitchen table? How many dust bunnies are allowed under the heat radiator?  Under the refrigerator?   SEE THE FULL STORY HERE

 

Sunday, December 13, 2009

From foster care to family preservation: One lawyer’s journey

 

"THERE IS NO MEANINGFUL CHILD ADVOCACY WITHOUT PARENT ADVOCACY"

    The current issue of the Michigan Child Welfare Law Journal from the State Bar of Michigan Children's Law Section is an extraordinary resource; not just for lawyers and not just for people concerned with Michigan. The theme of the issue is aptly summed up by the quote above.

    In one article, originally published in Rise, the outstanding magazine written by parents who've been caught up in child welfare systems, a mother talks about how her children's lives were nearly destroyed by CPS, all because the mother was, herself, beaten by the children's father. CPS decided she was a bad mother because she "allowed" the children to see her being beaten. (Thanks to a class-action lawsuit settlement (for which NCCPR's Vice President was co-counsel for plaintiffs) this is illegal in New York City, but entirely permissible in Michigan and elsewhere, even though the harm of removal for children actually is greater when they are taken from battered mothers. Although the group that so arrogantly calls itself Children's Rights settled a lawsuit in Michigan, this issue, of course, is not covered.)

One reason the mother suspects for her family's ill-treatment: "There had recently been a few deaths related to domestic violence. I think the [CPS] worker feared that my husband would hurt me and didn't want her name on the 5 o'clock news.

    The story also illustrates how, without safeguards, Team Decisionmaking (and similar practices with similar names, such as Family Group Decision Making and Family Group Conferencing) can be abused, and become just another way to bully families.

    In another article, a juvenile court judge describes how he learned that running his court like an old boys club, in which everything is done informally, "off the record," is no way to achieve justice.

    But perhaps the most remarkable article is from Tracy Green, Managing Attorney for the Detroit Center for Family Advocacy. Green describes her personal journey from social worker overseeing foster care cases, to lawyer guardian ad litem (L-GAL) a lawyer who advocates for what she thinks is best for a child regardless of whether it's what the child wants (in effect, a CASA with a law degree) to a lawyer representing parents. Below, some excerpts from Ms. Green's story. (In all cases, emphasis is in the original.)

A CHILD ADVOCATE'S JOURNEY

It was during my time working in foster care that my commitment to family preservation began; when I observed first-hand the ravages of poverty and social inequality that often characterize large urban communities. I was an eye-witness to the destruction of so many families involved in an unfair child welfare system, and this was a lesson for me in gratitude. If I had nothing else, I knew that I had my family -- my child. I could not imagine what it was like for parents to be without their children, and for those children to be without their parents. "What could be more devastating," I thought, "than losing your family?"

As a foster care case manager, it was my job, among other things, to monitor the well-being of the children on my caseload during their stay in foster care. The evidence of psychological, emotional and social damage suffered by the majority of these children as a consequence of being away from their families was pronounced (even from a lay person's perspective), and it was irrefutable. …

Unlike the children … who had many professionals and interested parties (parents, jurists, L-GALs, case managers, court appointed special advocates, foster parents, and the like) whose job it

was to advocate for them, the parents had only their attorney to speak for them. And unlike the children, the parents were judged so harshly and treated like criminals. They were publically derided and dismissed, often by their own attorneys.

Still, the vast majority of these parents, being poor and undereducated, were not bad people at all. They were merely confronted with seemingly insurmountable challenges, the likes of which most of the privileged professionals – those who were making crucial decisions about these parents' families – had never imagined. The parents were people whose reality of everyday life was in stark contrast to that experienced by everyone else in the system who stood in judgment of them – the jurists, lawyers and caseworkers, courtroom staff members – everyone. They lived their lives with constant instability, fear, anxiety and hopelessness, with little or no resources or coping mechanisms. Nevertheless, what they had in common with everyone else was their love for their children. And their children loved, needed, and wanted desperately to be with them, almost without exception. …

THE L-GALs WERE RARELY OBJECTIVE

At first, I represented both parents and children as L-GAL. I soon discovered, though, that most of the zealous advocacy in child welfare proceedings was done by the L-GALs, ostensibly on behalf of the children. Nonetheless, the fundamental problem was that this "advocacy" was almost invariably adversarial to the parents.

The L-GALs, although usually well-intending, were rarely objective. They hardly ever advocated for the speedy return of their child clients to their families. In fact, oftentimes, more than the assistant attorney general or prosecuting attorney representing the state petitioners and caseworkers or their agents, these L-GALs served to thwart reunification at every turn of the case. They fought fervently on behalf of maintaining the children in foster care or, worse, for termination of parental rights – even where the parents had addressed the issues that originally brought their children to the attention of the court, and even where no realistic prospect of adoption for the children existed.

The jurists, more often than not, would defer to the L-GAL's arguments and recommendations. All the while, the parents' attorneys sat seemingly impotently or indifferently, not even putting forth an effort to fight for the return of the children to their parents. …

Finally, I arrived at the inescapable conclusion that there is no meaningful child advocacy without parent advocacy. In fact, child advocacy that is in opposition to parents is a myth …if one truly desired to help these foster care children, she needed to represent their parents.

A CASE IN POINT

Later in the article, Green writes about one of her cases:

    About seven months ago, after working tirelessly with the mother for the return of her children, the referee recommended (and it was subsequently ordered), over the adamant objection of the L-GAL, that three of the children be returned. Naturally, the mother was overjoyed, and so was I. I knew that it was only a matter of time before all of the children would be returned.

At the next dispositional review hearing, I came to court anticipating a recommendation for more of the children to be returned because the children who were already there were doing very well. And return of more children was, in fact, the recommendation of the caseworkers on the case. When the L-GAL announced that he needed a sidebar before the hearing, however, my heart sunk. "What in the world would be his objection, now?" I thought.

All of the parties' attorneys assembled in the inner hallway, where such sidebar discussions usually occur. I held my breath as the L-GAL, in a clearly self-satisfied manner, identified the following issues in the mother's home as a reason, NOT for the delay of return of additional children, but for the REMOVAL of the ones who had recently been returned home to the mother:

● A vacant lot across the street with piles of debris

● Chips of mortar missing from the porch of the rental property of the house (to which the mother had recently moved to improve her housing situation)

● Reports from neighbors, whom he had interviewed, that gunshots had been heard on the mother's block two days before.

WHAT???!!! I could not believe my ears. I was absolutely disgusted – and angry! I chastised the L-GAL for (among other things) his clear ignorance of the conditions in which poor families, not by choice, live in inner-cities. And, after going on the record, he didn't even dare to raise those same objections (though he predictably managed to find others to raise).

The children were not removed. And I am delighted to report that last month, two more were returned. Now, I actually see hope in the mother's eyes and pride on her frequently smiling face. I am certain that her children see it, too. Reportedly, they are thriving and happy to be home with their mother. …

Now, almost 15 years after my decision to focus on parent advocacy, I am proud that I have played an important role in the restoration of countless families, all through zealous parent representation. The vast majority of my previous clients were reunited with their children, and their children have remained in their care.

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Ms. Green says her work is "indescribably rewarding" even though it also can leave her "frustrated and angry (a lot)."

That's as it should be. The people to worry about are those who see what the child welfare system does to children every day and are not angry; those who have become too cynical or too sanguine or too smug to care - if they ever cared at all. Anyone who works in child welfare and doesn't get angry should do the children a favor and get out -- so the job can be done by someone who still gives a damn.

 

Posted by NATIONAL COALITION FOR CHILD PROTECTION REFORM at 7:02 PM

Labels: child abuse, child welfare, Department of Human Services, Detroit Center for Family Advocacy, DHS, family preservation, foster care, Michigan, Michigan Child Welfare Law Journal, Tracy Green

 

 

 

 

 ABUSE FREEDOM COALITION VS CPS

SUIT QUESTIONNAIRE

 

 

We are finally at the stage where we need to collect data from everyone who has been violated by the various children’s protective services. We have generated some interest in several law firms that might be willing to file a class action lawsuit on our behalf. We need to supply complete information so that a proper filing can be made. We need all information. If there is any information that we do not ask for on the following survey, please feel free to include it.

 

FULL NAME ______________________________________________

Street address _______________________________________________

City _______________________________________________________

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Name(s) of child or children include date of birth and SS #

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CPS and Family Court Reform

68 Signatures

Published by robin blithe on Mar 20, 2009

Category: Law Reform

Region: United States of America

Target: everyone

Web site: http://www.abusefreedom.com

Background (Preamble):

Our Families are under attack!

There is no "entity" that holds DCFS/CPS accountable for the grave errors they make at the sacrifice of our children. Be it wrongfully removing children from a home, or refusing to take action when a child is in danger.

It is time we stand up and demand that someone begin to hold the "system" accountable when they fail to act in the best interest of our children.

We call for a full investigation into the corrupt Children’s Protective Services and the Family Court System. We ask that the Family Court System and the Children’s Protective Services be held accountable for their actions. We want CPS and Family Court Reform! We ask for the American Family to be protected.

Injustice against one American is injustice against all Americans. Help us put the Justice back into Child Protective Services and get them focused on finding and saving abused children. It's time we removed them from the profitable business of tearing loving non-offending families apart.

Petition:

Only by the voice of the people will we make a difference. Please help us to save our families by signing your name and giving yourself a voice.

Thank you.
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