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PARENTS OF TWO MINORS v. BRISTOL DIV. OF JUVENILE CT.

397 Mass. 846 (1986)

494 N.E.2d 1306

PARENTS OF TWO MINORS vs. BRISTOL DIVISION OF THE JUVENILE COURT DEPARTMENT & another.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Bristol.

July 9, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Catherine E.M. Sullivan (Thomas G. Shapiro & Marjorie Heins with her) for the parents.

William L. Pardee, Assistant Attorney General, for Bristol Division of the Juvenile Court Department & another.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., WILKINS, LYNCH, & O'CONNOR, JJ.

O'CONNOR, J.

This case raises the question whether a judge of a Juvenile Court has authority to order parents of minor children to submit to a nonemergency home visit by an employee of the Department of Social Services (DSS), investigating an anonymous report of child abuse. Our answer to that question is "no."

By a petition filed on May 15, 1985, and amended on May 16, the DSS requested the Juvenile Court to order the plaintiff parents of two minor children...

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