Duff v. California

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that absent finding of unfitness, court “may not remove a child from the parent’s custody at the dispositional stage of a juvenile proceeding”
• noting that absent finding of unfitness, court “may not remove a child from a parent’s custody at the dispositional stage of a juvenile proceeding”
• “[T]he failure to use the word ‘unfit’ does not necessarily preclude a finding of unfitness in fact.”
• sparse findings did not support conclusion that children at risk of future abuse
• sparse findings did not support conclusion that children at risk of future abuse

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).