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IN RE POLOVCHAK

Nos. 56552, 56572.

97 Ill.2d 212 (1983)

454 N.E.2d 258

In re WALTER POLOVCHAK, Appellee and Appellant (The People of the State of Illinois, Appellant and Appellee).

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Rehearing denied September 30, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tyrone C. Fahner, Attorney General, of Springfield, and Richard M. Daley, State's Attorney, of Chicago (Michael E. Shabat, Joan S. Cherry, and Kevin Sweeney, Assistant State's Attorneys, of Chicago, of counsel), for the People.

Julian E. Kulas, of Chicago, and Henry Mark Holzer, of Brooklyn, New York, for appellee and appellant Walter Polovchak.

Roger Baldwin Foundation of ACLU, Inc., of Chicago (Diane Geraghty, Harvey Grossman, Steven Lubet, and Richard L. Mandel, of counsel), for appellees Michael and Anna Polovchak.

Dan K. Webb, United States Attorney, of Chicago (Nancy K. Needles and Frederick H. Branding, Assistant United States Attorneys, of counsel), for the United States of America.

Affirmed and remanded.

JUSTICE UNDERWOOD delivered the opinion of the court:

On July 19, 1980, pursuant to a petition for adjudication of wardship, the circuit court of Cook County appointed a guardian ad litem for 12-year-old Walter Polovchak, and, over the objection of Walter's parents, Michael and Anna Polovchak (the Polovchaks) placed the boy in the temporary custody of the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS). Walter was subsequently...

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