The Mississippi Supreme Court handed down just one opinion today. It is a youth court custody case involving adjudication of neglect and reunification efforts.
R.W. v. Mississippi Department of Child Protection Services, 2023-CP-00543-SCT (Civil – Custody)
Affirming the youth court’s adjudication that twins were neglected and ruling that CPS was allowed to bypass reasonable reunification efforts, holding that the youth court had subject matter jurisdiction and personal jurisdiction, that venue was proper, that adjudication of neglect was supported by sufficient evidence where the twins and the mother tested positive for amphetamines shortly at birth, and that the decision to bypass reasonable efforts to reunify was supported by sufficient evidence where the parents’ parental rights had been involuntarily terminated for at least one other sibling and the father had been convicted of attempted sexual assault of a child and had failed to register.
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Other Orders
- Carroll v. State, 2021-CT-00959-SCT (dismissing cert petition as untimely)
- In Re: Judicial Election Oversight Committee, 2021-M-01306-SCT (reappointing LaToya T. Jeter and James L. Weir, Jr. and appointing Thomas L. Carpenter as members of the Judicial Election Oversight Committee for new four-year terms)
- Smith v. State, 2023-CT-00185-SCT (denying cert)
- Rambo v. Kelly Natural Gas Pipelines, LLC, 2023-CT-00402-SCT (denying cert)
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