Practice Area: Appeals
Date: Apr 05, 2007
Outcome: The Court denied the father's Art. 78 Application
Description: Father appealed through an Article 78 proceeding, the decision of the ALJ denying his application... more
Practice Area: Child Abuse
Date: May 03, 2001
Outcome: The Court overturned the decision to return child.
Description: The Court ruled that the Department had established that the burns sustained by the one year old... more
Practice Area: Adoption
Date: Feb 24, 2000
Outcome: The Court sustained the lower Court's ruling
Description: The lower Court dispensed with the biological father's consent to adoption. The father had been... more
Practice Area: Adoption
Date: May 13, 1999
Outcome: The Court sustained the lower Court's finding.
Description: Child was born in 1993, shortly thereafter he was placed in the custody of the foster parents. In... more
Practice Area: Child Abuse
Date: Nov 13, 1997
Outcome: The Court sustained the lower court ruling.
Description: The Court ruled that the evidence supported the lower Court ruling that the Department had made... more
Practice Area: Child Abuse
Date: Oct 09, 1997
Outcome: Appeal dismissed
Description: The Court ruled that the mother's default could not be appealed that her remedy was a motion to... more
Practice Area: Child Abuse
Date: Jan 25, 1996
Outcome: The Court sustained the lower court ruling.
Description: The Court found that the evidence of the Respondent's mental illness and her failure to follow the... more
Practice Area: Child Abuse
Date: Jan 26, 1995
Outcome: Court sustained most of the lower Court's ruling
Description: The Court found that the determination that the father had abused 3 of his daughter's was... more
Practice Area: Child Abuse
Date: Nov 23, 1994
Outcome: Court sustained lower court's ruling of neglect
Description: The appellate court found that the Respondent's act of engaging in violent behavior with his wife... more
Practice Area: Child Abuse
Date: Oct 13, 1994
Outcome: Court sustained lower court decision.
Description: The proceeding was a abandonement proceeding against the mother of the children. The mother's... more