Legal Opinion
Hearn v. Pleasure
Court of Appeals of Tennessee
Decided July 29, 1981PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
CANTRELL, Judge.
This action presents the question of the right to pretrial discovery of evidence in the files of the Department of Human Services where the Department has filed a petition in Juvenile Court to terminate parental rights or to remove a child from the custody of its natural parents.
On June 19, 1979, the Department of Human Services filed a petition against Carolyn Hearn in Wilson County Juvenile Court alleging that her child was a dependent and neglected child and should be removed from her custody. The child was taken and placed in the custody of the *558Department of Human…
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