Zachary Tew v. Sparboe Farms, Inc. and Nationwide Agribusiness Insurance Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that a parent’s use of narcotics and its effect on the ability to parent may qualify as an endangering course of conduct
• stating that when an environment is dangerous and the parent disregards the danger, the child is endangered
• noting factfinder can give “great weight” to “significant factor” of drug-related conduct
• noting factfinder can give “great weight” to “significant factor” of drug-related conduct
• the factfinder may infer from a missed drug screening that the parent was avoiding testing because she was using illegal drugs
• “Mother’s history of drug abuse bespeaks a course of conduct that the fact finder reasonably could conclude endangers [the child’s] well- being.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).