James Dunn v. Missouri Department of Corrections

How courts have described this case

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

• “A condition which is reasonably likely to continue for a prolonged indeterminate period, such as ... drug addiction[,] ... is not a temporary condition.”
• \sobriety and efforts at rehabilitation at the time of trial do not require a finding of current fitness\
• \A judge properly may consider a pattern of parental neglect or misconduct in determining future fitness and the likelihood of harm to the child\
• \Subsidiary findings must be established by a fair preponderance of the evidence and will not be disturbed unless clearly erroneous\ [citation omitted]
• judge found mother's recent progress at rehabilitation questionable based on lengthy past involvement with drugs and effect on her ability to parent
• mother unfit to parent children in part because she \left them in the care of [drug users]\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).