Arkansas Department of Human Services v. Collier

How courts have described this case

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• holding that circuit court exceeded its authority by placing an unborn fetus in DHS custody and requiring DHS to pay for mother's prenatal care
• treating a writ of prohibition incorrectly filed against a particular judge as one correctly filed against the circuit court
• treating a writ of prohibition incorrectly filed against a particular judge as one correctly filed against the circuit court
• issuing a writ of certiorari when an appeal could not be had due to time constraints
• court does not have authority to order pregnant woman into custody and declare her unborn fetus dependent-neglected
• circuit court has exclusive jurisdiction over proceedings in which a juvenile is alleged to be dependent/neglected and in which custody of a juvenile is transferred to DHS

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).