In Re Interest of Wolkow

This is an appeal by the State Department of Public Welfare from a finding of the Separate Juvenile Court of Douglas County, Nebraska, (per J. Patrick Mullen, Associate Juvenile Court Judge) that the Department of Welfare was in contempt of court for failing to place a minor status offender as ordered by the juvenile court. For reasons set out herein, we must find that no final order was entered by the juvenile court and, therefore, we are without jurisdiction to hear the appeal. Accordingly, we must dismiss the appeal.

This appeal raises a number of important and interesting questions,…