United States v. Nippon Co.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that jurisdiction was not warranted where the parents had delegated primary caregiving responsibilities of their child to a relative who did not present a risk of serious loss or injury to the child
• concluding that, “[b]ecause parents have entrusted the primary care of the children to the paternal grandparents, who do not pose a current threat of harm, the court did not have a basis for asserting jurisdiction over the children”
• explaining that even though DHS “identified the paternal grandfather’s 10-year- old founded disposition of physical abuse,” there was “insuf- ficient evidence to demonstrate a nexus between the pater- nal grandfather’s prior physical abuse and a current risk of harm to the children”
• place- ment with grandparents, as safe alternative caregivers, meant there was insufficient evidence to support jurisdic- tion
• place- ment with grandparents, as safe alternative caregivers, meant there was insufficient evidence to support jurisdic- tion
• children were not exposed to a risk of harm as a result of their parents’ risk-causing conduct because they had been parented by their grandparents since infancy

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).