Montana CPS may soon see their day in court. At least, if Representative Rodney Garcia (MT HD52), has anything to say about it. Their agents, and their organization, as a whole, may soon face a judge, with their actions being under legal scrutiny. Representative Garcia aims to assure such a day, as he announced during an interview on Friday’s edition of Northwest Liberty News’ show. The lawmaker wants to move to file a Class Action lawsuit against Montana state CPS.
“They think they’re above the law…and I’m going to show them that they’re not.”
Read more ... Add new commentFederal judge dismisses lawsuit against DHHS by mother seeking contact
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- Created: Saturday, 13 July 2019 03:50
- Written by Judy Harrison - BDN News
A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed an Eddington woman’s lawsuit that sought to force the Maine Department of Health and Human Services to allow her contact with her 7-year-old daughter, who in May was living with her father’s girlfriend in Ellsworth under an agency safety plan.
U.S. District Court Judge Lance Walker said the case belonged in state court because “federal courts do not have jurisdiction to issue child custody decrees.”
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Couple awarded $50k to sue NSW DOCS
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- Created: Monday, 20 April 2009 21:29
- Written by Caroline Overington - The Australian
SELF-DESCRIBED hippies from northern NSW are suing the state's Department of Community Services for removing their two healthy children from their care without a good reason.
The couple - who cannot be named despite wanting to tell their story and not being guilty of any offence - were last week awarded legal costs, believed to exceed $50,000, for the fight to have their children returned.
They could not afford a lawyer so represented themselves in court. The mother told The Australian that the money would be used to pursue DOCS further. A judge has found their children were taken for no good reason, in an apparent abuse of power by welfare workers.
NSW Parents sue for $18m after babies taken
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- Created: Sunday, 07 March 2010 21:37
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There are concerns some babies are taken too hastily.
Figures released by the New South Wales Government show the number of babies taken from mothers by the Department of Community Services (DoCS) is on the rise.
In NSW, there has been a staggering 70 per cent rise in baby removals from maternity wards.
In 2007, 215 babies were taken by DoCS. In 2009, 363 babies were taken.
Sometimes it is justified, but there are concerns some babies are taken too hastily.
Parents may sue over alleged child removal fraud, the Queensland Child Protection Inquiry has heard
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- Created: Wednesday, 05 September 2012 21:44
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Parents may sue over alleged child removal fraud, the Child Protection Inquiry has heard.
Children sue Victoria Department of Human Services for failing to stop brutal beatings by stepdad
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- Created: Saturday, 29 June 2013 21:53
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TWO children who suffered abuse at the hands of their stepfather are suing the Department of Human Services for failing to protect them.
The pair was subjected to almost daily beatings over 16 months.
Teachers kept a log of the children's injuries and made numerous reports to DHS.
But despite six trips to hospital, the children were not rescued until 2008 when X-rays showed multiple fractures in both.
A young mom took a leap and sued DHS. It may have been doomed to fail.
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- Created: Saturday, 04 March 2017 20:58
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A federal court dismissed a lawsuit Friday that accused the Mississippi Department of Human Services and two of its employees of falsifying records to “steal” a woman’s two children.
The U.S. District Court in Gulfport dismissed all claims against DHS and the employees, Tequila Hall and Patricia Piazza, finding the agency “enjoys sovereign immunity” and the employees enjoy “qualified immunity” under statutes that shield state departments and their workers from lawsuits.
The lead plaintiff, Marie Gill, filed the lawsuit after her encounter with DHS’ child welfare division, now known as Child Protection Services. The suit repeated claims Gill made in a report to the Hancock County Sheriff’s Office in February 2015.
SA Government backflip lets failed kids sue
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- Created: Thursday, 09 March 2017 10:59
- Written by Lauren Novak - The Advertiser SA

Law Society of SA: New child protection Bill is fatally flawed
Chloe Valentine’s grandmother explains why urgent changes needed. Lawyers slam new child protection Bill.
THE State Government has been forced injto another embarrassing backflip after being caught out attempting to stop young victims, who have been failed by the child protection system, from suing for compensation.
LANDMARK RULING: Foster children can now sue local authorities for abuse
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- Created: Friday, 14 June 2019 20:07
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A Supreme Court ruling which has overturned previous precedent and made history, will now allow children abused whilst in foster care to sue the local authorities that placed them.
Those who have been abused, as well as child rights campaigners all over the country who have fought tirelessly to establish this duty of care which should have been acknowledged a long time ago, will be delighted by the ruling.
The case which came before the Supreme Court saw Natasha Armes, now 40, from Nottingham, win against Nottinghamshire County Council after Supreme Court justices ruled by a majority of four-to-one that it was liable for abuse she suffered as a child 30 years ago.
Marcia Lowry, with new secret funding source, resumes lawsuit against New York City foster care
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- Created: Saturday, 31 August 2019 06:29
- Written by Michael Fitzgerald - Chronicle of Social Change

A Better Childhood (ABC), along with its white-shoe litigation partner Cravath, Swaine & Moore, has delivered a nearly 300-page filing to a federal courthouse in lower Manhattan, with new evidence and allegations of money grabbing by nonprofit foster care agencies, frequent protocol violations, and too-frequent abuse of children, many of whom are staying too long in foster care in violation of federal law.
Cravath and ABC, led by the high-profile child welfare litigator Marcia Lowry, are seeking class certification in the lawsuit Elisa W. v The City of New York, so that remedies they seek for the 19 children named in the case would apply to the more than 8,000 children in the city’s foster care system.
Norwegian Nightmare: 'Barnevernet' Preys On Children and Parents
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- Created: Wednesday, 17 July 2019 00:38
- Written by Dale Hurd - CBN.com
One of the first things you notice about Norway when you visit is how beautiful it is. But there is a very dark side of Norway that most of the world knows nothing about. It's called Barnevernet, and it can be as cold and brutal as the Norwegian winter.