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Texas Supreme Court upholds court of appeals ruling in favor of parents in polygamy case
Eugene Volokh comments on and links to the opinion in this post on the Volokh Conspiracy. The AP reports: Court: Sect children should be returned to parents. It begins: “In a crushing blow to the state’s massive seizure of children from a polygamist sect’s ranch, the Texas Supreme Court ruled Thursday that child welfare officials overstepped [...

Texas Court Rules Sect Children Were Improperly Seized
The Yearning for Zion Ranch, part of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, got a big dose of good news earlier today when a Texas state court of appeals ruled that the state of Texas had no right to seize more than 400 children from its compound in April...

Texas Not Done Fighting, Takes Custody Case to State Supreme Court
While Texas Legal Aid and libertarian groups hailed yesterday’s ruling from a state appeals court that the state of Texas had no right to seize more than 400 children from the Yearning for Zion Ranch, no one expected the fight to end there...

Children's Seizure at Texas Polygamist Ranch Improper: Appeals Court
Source: Crime and Justice News, May 23, 2008. "A Texas appeals court ruled yesterday that the state had no right to seize hundreds of children from a polygamist religious sect because it failed to prove they were in immediate danger of abuse, reports the Houston Chronicle and San Antonio Express-News...

Reflecting on the raid
The Third Court of Appeals' decision yesterday ruling that the State of Texas had illegally seized over 450 children from their homes at a polygamist West Texas ranch threw a large monkey wrench into the largest custody case in...

Texas Supremes Say YZR Children Should be Returned to Parents
This just in: The Texas Supreme Court ruled has ruled that the children taken from a polygamist sect’s ranch should be returned to their parents, saying child welfare officials overstepped their authority...

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