Caruso v. Superior Court in and for County of Pima

BERNSTEIN, Vice Chief Justice.

Pursuant to 17 A.R.S. Rule 47(b), Rules of the Supreme Court and A.R.S. § 12-120.24, we granted a petition to review the decision of the Court of Appeals reported in 2 Ariz.App. 134, 406 P.2d 852, which quashed an alternative writ and denied a permanent writ of prohibition.

Petitioner sought a writ of prohibition to restrain the Juvenile Court of Pima .County from taking any further action in a proceeding pending before it. The uncontested facts are as follows: An infant was born out of wedlock during May, 1965. The mother relinquished the child for adoption to…