Riverbend Utilities, Inc. v. Mississippi Environmental Quality Permit Board

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that because of the fundamental nature of parental rights, courts must take a very strict view of procedural omissions that could put a parent at a disadvantage in preparing for trial
• holding that because of the fundamental nature of parental rights, courts must take a very strict view of procedural omissions that could put a parent at a disadvantage in preparing for trial
• holding that because of the fundamental nature of parental rights, courts must take a very strict view of procedural omissions that could put a parent at a disadvantage in preparing for trial
• stating that “[a] termination of parental rights proceeding is not simply a continuation of a dependent- neglect proceeding”
• noting that the substantiality of a parent’s noncompliance may be dependent on “the importance of the particular requirement”
• noting that a “parent’s noncompliance is substantial in light of the degree of noncompliance and the importance of the particular requirement that has not been met.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).