Legal Opinion
Brackeen v. Zinke
District Court, N.D. Texas
Decided October 4, 2018No. Civil Action No. 4:17-cv-00868-OPublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Reed O'Connor, UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE
*519This case arises because three children, in need of foster and adoptive placement, fortunately found loving adoptive parents who seek to provide for them. Because of certain provisions of a federal law, however, these three children have been threatened with removal from, in some cases, the only family they know, to be placed in another state with strangers. Indeed, their removals are opposed by the children's guardians or biological parent(s), and in one instance a child was removed and placed in the custody of a relative who had previously been…
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