Hatmaker v. Michigan Children's Aid Society

{dissenting). With due if difficult deference, I dissent.

*540My Brethren in majority, carrying themselves back like the Connecticut Yankee to the darker ages of English law and customs, make to the personal prejudice of an innocent youngster an infamous idol of the discredited rule that parental “rights”' reign over the best interests of the child.1 Doing so, and deigning no explanation, such Brethren turn their backs upon 1 of the most exalted and best settled doctrines of American law. Then, not fully sated, such majority — supposedly members of a constitutionally commissioned court of errors —…