Legal Opinion
Cruz v. Jackson County Department of Human Services
Mississippi Supreme Court
Decided May 23, 2013No. 2010-CA-01119-SCTPublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WALLER, Chief Justice, for the Court:
¶ 1. After being separated from her newborn infant for more than a year, Cirila Baltazar Cruz received an award of full legal and physical custody of her child from the Youth Court of Jackson County. The youth court further ordered that its proceedings and records remain confidential and that those present at the final hearing refrain from speaking to the media about the case. We find that the youth court did not abuse its discretion in ordering that the youth-court records remain confidential; however, the youth court failed to apply the proper legal…
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