https://concurringopinions.com/archives/2014/06/fan-19-first-amendment-news-law-prof-contests-ban-on-note-taking-in-courtroom.html

FAN 19 (First Amendment News) Law Prof. Contests Ban on Note-Taking in Courtroom

BY RONALD K.L. COLLINS · JUNE 11, 2014

https://www.abc10.com/mobile/article/news/local/abc10-originals/the-problem-with-family-court/103-550687204

Procedural right to Due Process–parents rights under state kidnap

The right to procedural due process is implicated where a constitutionally protected liberty or property interest is concerned. Board of Regents of St. Colleges v. Roth, 408 US 564 (1972). The crux of procedural due process is the right to notice and an opportunity to be heard at a meaningful time and in a meaningful manner. Fuentes v. Shevin, 407 US 67 (1972).

The US Supreme Court has repeatedly held that parents have a fundamental right to make decisions as to the companionship, care, custody and management of their children, which right is a protected liberty interest under the Fourteenth Amendment. Troxel v. Granville, 530 US 57, 65-66 (2000). As a result, there can be no doubt that the Fourteenth amendment is implicated whenever the government seeks to separate a parent from his or her child, and due process principles generally…

https://amp.usatoday.com/amp/13259199

https://us-u.openx.net/w/1.0/pd?plm=6&ph=bbb82fae-1d27-4d90-bb10-e24164ecd7bc

Immunity lets bad judges off hook for bad behavior
Wayne County Circuit Judge Wade McCree testifies in Washtenaw Circuit Court in Ann Arbor, Mich, on Tuesday, May 21, 2013. During his misconduct hearing, McCree talked about his affair with Geniene La’Shay Mott who appeared as a witness in a child-support case in his court.
Wayne County Circuit Judge Wade McCree testifies in Washtenaw Circuit Court in Ann Arbor, Mich, on Tuesday, May 21, 2013. During his misconduct hearing, McCree talked about his affair with Geniene La’Shay Mott who appeared as a witness in a child-support case in his court.
AP
TRESA BALDAS | DETROIT FREE PRESS | 7:25 am EDT July 28, 2014
DETROIT — Wade McCree Jr. lost his job, but he won’t lose his shirt.

The disgraced judge — who once texted a shirtless photo of himself to a female court bailiff — had an affair…

Supervised Visitation
Supervised visitation is only appropriate where a parent poses a severe threat or
harm to a child.
A Sampling of Cases on Restriction of Visitation:
T.M., In re, 706 N.E.2d 931, 302 Ill.App.3d 33, 236 Ill.Dec. 57 (Ill. App. 1 Dist., 1998)
(Sexual assault/fondling and alcoholism by step father)
In re Marriage of Chehaiber, 334 Ill. Dec. 408 (2nd Dist. 2009):
“A court shall not restrict a parent’s visitation rights unless it finds that the visitation would endanger seriously the child’s physical, mental, moral, or emotional health.” 750 ILCS 5/607(c) (West 2008)
A parent, by statute, is entitled to a hearing before visitation is restricted in any manner.
In re Marriage of Anderson, 130 Ill. App. 3d 684 (2nd Dist. 1985)
With respect to the restriction of visitation, the endangerment standard is an
onerous one (In re Marriage of Hanson (1983), 112 Ill.App.3d 564 , 568, 68 Ill.Dec…

http://www.walb.com/story/38134389/i-dont-know-what-to-do-im-in-georgia-canadian-womans-snap-goes-viral-after-arrest

what is it about the name “Cook County” that just implies gross incompetence?

COOK CO., GA (WALB) –

“OK, I’m in the back of a police car, I’m in cuffs.,” said Emily Nield as she sat in the back of a Cook County deputy’s vehicle.

Emily, a Canadian woman, posted a Snapchat video from the back of a Cook County Sheriff’s vehicle last month after she was arrested for not having a valid driver’s license.

Emily told deputies she had a valid Canadian driver’s license but said they put her in handcuffs anyway.

Interstate 75 brings approximately one million travelers through Cook County each month. With those travelers, law enforcement regularly encounters individuals who are engaged in crimes such as identity theft and will have on their person a license that is not their(‘s) or of those stolen or illegally reproduced. That is why we follow Georgia DDS guidelines and…

feel free to download and use on your case.

Don’t forget if the police or DCFS show up to grab your kid, they have to have a warrant unless there is imminent danger of serious injury or death. That means someone is hold a gun to their head, not that the child is thin or malnourishment is alleged, they re dirty or unkempt, etc.

This is too horrible for words.  How can such neglect and abuse happen?

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/6174393/rebecca-zeni-carers-warned-scabies-eating-her-to-death/

STAFF at a care home were told not to touch an elderly former model’s scabies-infested hand in case it fell off, her family have claimed.

Disturbing pictures show how Rebecca Zeni, 93, was “eaten alive” by a horrifying outbreak of scabies which led to her dying from septicemia in June, 2015.

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Scabies is an agonising and maddeningly itchy skin condition…

http://www.kget.com/news/homicide-news/murdered-girl-was-a-foster-care-runaway-who-no-one-reported-missing/695773519

BAKERSFIELD, CALIF – For many, adding to the tragedy of 15-year-old Stacy Duke’s murder is knowing she was here in Bakersfield seemingly alone. The teen’s older brother says she was loved, but she had a difficult life. He says Stacy did what she had to do in order to survive.

Adam Pittman says his sister’s short life was filled with struggle as she was born into the foster care system. “Foster care, it’s not what you want to know in life, not what you want to learn…how to run the government or how the government can run you”, says Pittman.

He says he and Stacy’s mother had four children, but they never all lived together at once, they were always in and out of the system. He says the family is originally from San Bernardino.  He says his mother loved them, but she struggled with addiction.

He says Stacy’s…