Clark County District Attorney v. Eighth Judicial District Court

OPINION

By the Court, Saitta, J.:

In the proceedings underlying this petition, a child was placed in adoptive foster care during the same month that the child’s relatives came forward and requested that the child be placed with them. Almost one year later, and after the foster parents expressed an interest in adopting the child, the child’s relatives filed a motion *339for the child’s immediate placement with them. Subsequently, the district court ordered the child placed with the relatives.

In this original proceeding, we consider whether the district court misapplied our recent holding in Matter…