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MATTER OF WELFARE OF E. G.

No. 48707.

268 N.W.2d 420 (1978)

In the Matter of the WELFARE OF E. G. and K. B.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

June 23, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gary Flakne, County Atty., Deonne Parker, Asst. County Atty., Minneapolis, for Hennepin County Welfare Department.

Jacqueline Huber, Law Offices of Legal Aid Society, Minneapolis, for natural mother.

Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, Bernard P. Becker, St. Paul, for amicus curiae seeking reversal.

Robert Oliphant, Minneapolis, for intervenors, foster parents.

Michael Freeman, Minneapolis, for E. G.

Barbara Kehrberg, Asst. Public Defender, Minneapolis, for K. B.

Heard before SHERAN, C. J., YETKA and GODFREY, JJ., and considered and decided by the court en banc.

OTIS H. GODFREY, Jr., Justice.*

This case is before the court on a petition for a writ of prohibition. It involves the welfare of two minor children who were adjudicated neglected and placed in the legal custody of the Hennepin County Welfare Department in 1968. One of the children, E. G., at age 45 days, was placed with respondents as foster parents, and they have cared for him continuously for almost 10 years. The natural mother now...

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