CARE & PROTECTION OF ROBERT


408 Mass. 52 (1990)

556 N.E.2d 993

CARE AND PROTECTION OF ROBERT & others.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

July 16, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael F. Kilkelly for the father.

Countess C. Williams, Assistant Attorney General, for Department of Social Services.

Steven G. Doyle (Catherine Booth Correia with him) for two minors.

Rita E. Wahl for five minors.

Barbara M. Egan, for a minor, joined in a brief.

Arnold R. Rosenfeld, Jinanne S.J. Elder, Jacquelynne J. Bowman & Julie Mandell, for Committee for Public Counsel Services, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Marjorie Heins, for Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

J. Walter Freiberg, III, for Massachusetts Child Welfare League of America & others, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: LIACOS, C.J., WILKINS, ABRAMS, LYNCH, & GREANEY, JJ.


LIACOS, C.J.

In this case, the father of eight children named in a care and protection petition filed by the Department of Social Services (department) appeals from the judgment of a single justice of this court which dismissed the father's action for relief under G.L.c. 211, § 3 (1988 ed.), and for relief in the nature of certiorari. G.L.c. 249, § 4 (1988 ed.). The father had requested that the single justice invoke the general superintendence powers of...

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