McDonnell v. Juvenile Court

In this original proceeding the petitioners seek relief in the nature of prohibition and assert that we should invoke our general superintending power. 1 The petitioners also seek to prevent the respondent judge from using the contempt power to force compliance with his orders. We issued a rule to show cause and now make the rule absolute.

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The juvenile court, in three separate cases, committed C.W., J.M., and E.H. to the Department of Institutions (DOI). 2 In each case, the court ordered the DOI not to send the juvenile to the Glen Mills School in Concordville, Pennsylvania. In the orders…