· 11/21/1945
Protests 111582-K of C. J. Tower & Sons
Citations
- 15 Cust. Ct. 326
How courts have described this case
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- reversing a jurisdictional judgment based on the mother’s substance abuse due to lack of evidence that the mother “used drugs while caring for [the child] or that her drug use had any effect on her parenting”
- reversing a jurisdictional judgment based on the mother’s substance abuse due to lack of evidence that the mother “used drugs while caring for [the child] or that her drug use had any effect on her parenting”
- reversing jurisdictional judgment based on the mother’s use of methamphetamine and marijuana due to lack of evidence that the mother “used drugs while car- ing for [the child] or that her drug use had any effect on her parenting”
- jurisdiction was not appropriate where DHS failed to present sufficient evidence to prove a nexus between mother’s substance abuse or father’s domestic violence and a current risk of harm to the child
- to establish dependency jurisdiction, DHS must present evidence sufficient to support a conclusion that a child’s condition or circumstances expose the child to a cur- rent threat of serious loss or injury that is likely to be real- ized
- for the court to take jurisdiction, DHS must present evidence “sufficient to support a con- clusion that the child’s condition or circumstances expose the child to a current threat of serious loss or injury that is likely to be realized”
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