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RHOADES v. PENFOLD

No. 82-1209.

694 F.2d 1043 (1983)

Margaret RHOADES, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellees Cross-Appellants, v. The Honorable Craig PENFOLD, individually and in his official capacity as Judge, 304th Judicial District Court, Dallas County, Texas, et al., Defendants-Appellants Cross-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

January 6, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles J. Baldree, Asst. Dist. Atty., Dallas, Tex., for defendant-appellant, cross-appellee Penfold.

Margaret S. McGloin, Asst. Atty. Gen., Austin, Tex., for defendants-appellants, cross-appellees Johnston and McKenzie.

John H. Wright, Jr., Brenda J. Garrett, Lawrence L. Mealer, Dallas, Tex., for plaintiffs-appellees, cross-appellants.

Before RUBIN and JOHNSON, Circuit Judges, and VERON, District Judge.

JOHNSON, Circuit Judge:

Margaret Rhoades initiated this § 1983 class action in federal district court seeking relief from a Texas district court's judgment that permanently terminated her parental rights with respect to her daughter, Summer Snow. Rhoades requested injunctive and declaratory relief maintaining that the state termination proceeding deprived her, and other indigent parents similarly situated, of due process of law and equal protection in that she...

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