State, ex rel. Department of Health & Rehabilitative Services v. Salfi

FRANK D. UPCHURCH, Jr., Judge.

The Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services (department) seeks a writ of prohibition directed to an order promulgated by the trial court on its own motion in preparation for dispositional hearings in juvenile matters.

The department1 contends that the trial judge exceeded his jurisdiction in that the order calls for actions or responsibilities on the part of other governmental entities not provided for by statute, that it attempts to exercise jurisdiction over persons not appropriately before the court, and that it attempts to establish local rules…