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Continuing Confusion in Texas

John Hollenhorst / KSL TV-5 MSNBC:
There was continuing confusion Tuesday in the legal proceedings surrounding 450 or so FLDS children in state custody in Texas. The state's Supreme Court judges could either order the children back to their parents or uphold the state seizure action, but they have not yet taken any action. Attorneys for one group of 12 children filed a new motion today. In effect, it asks for all the children to be released. But the court has remained silent while studying a lower court ruling that the state exceeded its authority.

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Flurry of Filings in Polygamist Custody Case
ELISE HU / KVUE Texas Cable News:
Attorneys on both sides of the temporary custody battle over hundreds of children seized by the state kept busy over Memorial Day weekend. Both sides rushed to get in the final word to the Texas Supreme Court, which is expected to rule on whether the children must return to their parents as the investigation of abuse at their ranch continues. They are members of the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints, a polygamist sect residing in West Texas.

FLDS Court Victory But No Closer to Home
KXAN/CNN
SAN ANTONIO, Texas -- Joseph and Lori Jessop are grateful to be one of three couples out of the West Texas polygamist compound who could be reunited with their young children last week. When the news first broke last week it was unclear why a dozen of the 440 children had been singled out to be returned to their families. Now it appears these children were the ones specified in the motion that was filed in state district court in San Antonio, the same motion that the Third Court of Appeals used to rule that the seizure of the children was unjustified.

Posted by Editor at May 28, 2008 04:48 AM