EASTER HOUSE, INC. v. DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN & YOUTH SERVICES

(13798)

214 Conn. 560 (1990)

EASTER HOUSE, INC. v. DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND YOUTH SERVICES ET AL.

Supreme Court of Connecticut.

Decision released April 17, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Katherine C. Callahan, with whom were Robert M. DeCrescenzo and, on the brief, Thomas J. Shortell, for the appellants (plaintiffs).

Susan T. Pearlman, assistant attorney general, with whom, on the brief, was Clarine Nardi Riddle, attorney general, for the appellees (defendants).

PETERS, C. J., SHEA, GLASS, COVELLO and HULL, JS.


SHEA, J.

The plaintiff, Easter House, Inc., a private not-for-profit Illinois corporation licensed as an adoption agency in that state, brought this administrative appeal after the defendant, Amy B. Wheaton, the commissioner of the department of children and youth services (DCYS), acting through the attorney general, had issued a letter, on February 7, 1989, ordering it to cease its activities in the placement and adoption of Connecticut children. The defendants moved...

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