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· 12/22/1998

Department of Health & Human Services v. Chater

Citations

  • 163 F.3d 1129
  • 98 Daily Journal DAR 12934
  • 98 Cal. Daily Op. Serv. 9258
  • 1998 U.S. App. LEXIS 31681
  • 1998 WL 887055

How courts have described this case

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  • finding parents’ due process rights were violated in a termination proceeding where DCS made multiple procedural errors, such as failing to provide parents with copies of case plans and filing CHINS and termination petitions that did not meet statutory requirements
  • \procedural irregularities in a CHINS proceedings [sic] may be of such import that they deprive a parent of procedural due process with respect to the termination of his or her parental rights.\
  • “[W]hen, as here, a record is replete with procedural irregularities throughout CHINS and termination proceedings that are plain, numerous, and substantial, we are compelled to reverse a termination judgment on procedural due process grounds.”

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Judges: Stagg, Tashima, Thompson

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