In Re Phillip B.

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that parental autonomy is a fundamental constitutional right
• dismissing state's petition that a child with Down’s Syndrome be declared a dependent of the court for purpose of allowing surgery for congenital heart defect because evidence in support of the petition was “inconclusive”
• dismissing state's petition that a child with Down's Syndrome be declared a dependent of the court for purpose of allowing surgery for congenital heart defect because evidence in support of the petition was \inconclusive\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).