Dauphin County Social Services for Children & Youth v. Department of Public Welfare

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that courts should make a decision \on non-constitutional grounds if possible and avoid the constitutional question\
• finding that Kennedy did not apply to a sexual abuse perpetrator’s motion to compel discovery of CPS/ CYS records in an expunction hearing since expunction proceedings are civil in nature and no danger of deprivation of liberty exists
• discovery order compelling disclosure of agency records was a collateral order
• “[F]or Sixth Amendment rights to apply, the proceedings must be criminal.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).