Michael J. v. Arizona Department of Economic Security

How courts have described this case

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• noting Arizona had not previously severed parental rights based on a sentence as short as 3.5 years and in no case before 1995 based on a 5.25–year sentence
• “A severance based on this short duration is tantamount to denying felons their parental rights as a matter of law.”
• \A severance based on this short duration is tantamount to denying felons their parental rights as a matter of law.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).