Legal Opinion
In Re Joseph
Supreme Court of Rhode Island
Decided October 3, 1980No. 79-356-M.P., 80-124-AppealPublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
DORIS, Justice.
This is a petition for a writ of certiorari and an appeal filed by the Diocesan Bureau of Social Services, a/k/a Catholic Social Services (the bureau) seeking judicial review of two separate decrees of the Family Court wherein the bureau had sought to terminate the placement of an infant, Thomas Joseph, with the respondents, Richard and Judith Pelletier.
In the fall of 1977, the Pelletiers applied to the bureau, a duly licensed child-placement agency, to adopt an infant. After undergoing a screening process, they were approved as prospective adoptive parents.
On October…
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3Cited by19 opinions
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