I. B. v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA DEPT. OF HUM. RES., S. S. ADM.

No. 6017.

287 A.2d 827 (1972)

In the Matter of I. B., et al., Appellants, v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES, SOCIAL SERVICES ADMINISTRATION, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided February 23, 1972.

Rehearing Denied April 6, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter J. Hoagland, Washington, D. C., with whom Lawrence H. Schwartz, Public Defender Service, Washington, D. C., was on brief, for appellants.

Leo N. Gorman, Asst. Corp. Counsel, with whom C. Francis Murphy, Corp. Counsel, and Richard W. Barton, Asst. Corp. Counsel, were on brief, for appellee.

Before NEBEKER, PAIR and YEAGLEY, Associate Judges.


NEBEKER, Associate Judge:

These juvenile appellants seek reversal of an order dismissing their petition for writ of habeas corpus filed in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. Each was originally determined to be a "dependent" child under provisions of a now superseded law.1 In their petition for the writ they challenged the sufficiency of a recent nontestimonial hearing which apparently looked anew into their present status...

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