Subject: PA family wins lawsuit v. DHS, CYS, CPS no due process
From: fern5827@...  (Fern5827)
Date: 5/16/2004 10:09 AM Eastern Daylight Time
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Subject: PA family wins lawsuit against CYS, CYF, DHS
From: fern5827@...  (Fern5827)
Date: 5/10/2004 11:18 AM Eastern Daylight Time
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5/9/04:    http://post-gazette.com/pg/04130/312267.stm
   Butler County settles suit out of court
    Pa.:    Butler County commissioners signed off on a $20,000 out-of-court
settlement Wednesday with a Butler woman who claimed the county's children and
youth services agency had wrongly removed her children from her home.
    Solicitor Julie Graham said settling the claim is less expensive than
defending the county against it, and it includes no admission of wrongdoing.  Arrgh!  This is how they control having no case law supporting parental rights!!!!
She estimated that legal fees and the cost of investigation would amount to
$60,000 to $70,000, with Insurance paying all of that amount except $25,000,
which would come directly from county coffers.
    The money goes to Regina Bush, the mother of four children who were removed
from her home for a period of several months, Graham said. Bush filed the suit
in U.S. Federal Court in Pittsburgh in February 2003.
    The suit was filed one month after the county settled a similar claim with
a county woman who contended custody of her child was taken away from her
unduly.
    The county paid Sherrie Klingensmith $5,000. She said children and youth
services had taken her child "without due process of law" in the summer of
2002.
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