Antonio P. v. Arizona Department of Economic Security

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting that we will not “enlarge, stretch, expand, or extend” statutes, nor will we “read meaning into a statute that is not within the legislature’s ‘manifest intention . . . as gathered from the statute itself’” (citation omitted)
• holding court must consider statutory placement preferences when placement is at issue
• “Juvenile courts have substantial discretion when placing dependent children because the court’s primary consideration in dependency cases is the best interest of the child.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).