Friday, May 23, 2008

Texas FPS files appeal to Texas Supreme Court

To briefly follow up on a couple of posts ago, there are already documents up on the Texas Supreme Court website.

Texas Family Protective Services' emergency motion can be read here. Their mandamus petition is here.

Just skimming the emergency motion, I find this irony: the State of Texas claims it cannot return the children subject to the appellate order because they don't know who those children are. It wants to shift the burden of establishing a basic jurisdictional element to the parents from whom the kids were taken.

This is serious business, but I can't help but note that "Duke Hooten" is a cool name for an appellate attorney.

Everyone have a great Memorial Day weekend. I'll be remembering a fallen friend. We'll keep you updated on this.

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