Duarte De Guinac v. Immigration & Naturalization Service

How courts have described this case

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• holding that parents do not have a constitutional right to be physically present at a termination hearing
• recognizing that “a two-week continuance would be an inconvenience”
• identifying and applying eleven factors, typically used in consideration of a motion to transport an incarcerated parent, to review the exercise of discretion in denying a motion to continue a termination hearing
• finding a decreased need for a speedy decision on the termination petition because the child was “less than two years old and already placed outside the home”
• noting “the more relevant timeframe” is the pendency of the termination proceedings
• Rowlett v. Vanderburgh Cnty. Off. of Fam. & Child., 841 N.E.2d 615, 619 (Ind. Ct. App. 2006), trans. denied

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).