Gurnsey v. Lovell

How courts have described this case

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• holding that parent engages in “substance abuse” only if (1) medical professional has diagnosed parent as having current substance abuse problem or (2) parent’s substance abuse meets DSM definition of substance-abuse problem
• observing that, in case involving toddler who required regular care and attention due to tender age, child protective services agency needed only to produce sufficient evident that father was substance abuser to justify finding that child should enter state custody

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).