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COMENOUT v. BURDMAN

No. 42976.

84 Wn.2d 192 (1974)

525 P.2d 217

DOLLIETTA COMENOUT et al., Petitioners, v. MILTON BURDMAN, as Secretary of the Department of Social and Health Services, et al., Respondents.

The Supreme Court of Washington, En Banc.

August 8, 1974.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Allen H. Sanders of Legal Services Center (Seattle) and Michael Taylor, for petitioners.

Slade Gorton, Attorney General, and William H. Clarke and Luzerne E. Hufford, Jr., Assistants, for respondent Burdman.

L. Edward Brown, Prosecuting Attorney, and Greg Staeheli, Deputy, for respondent Poyhonen.

HUNTER, J.

This appeal arises from a writ of prohibition brought by the petitioners (appellants), Dollietta and Kenneth Comenout, against the respondents, Milton Burdman, as Secretary of the Department of Social and Health Services, and Judge Warner Poyhonen, Judge Pro Tem of the Superior Court for Grays Harbor County. The case deals with the issue of whether the State of Washington has jurisdiction to deprive the petitioners of their parental rights over their children...

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