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IN RE ADOPTION/GUARDIANSHIP NO. 2633

No. 1638, September Term, 1993.

101 Md. App. 274 (1994)

646 A.2d 1036

IN RE ADOPTION/GUARDIANSHIP NO. 2633 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT FOR WASHINGTON COUNTY.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

September 2, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Earl W. Bartgis, Jr. (Conrad W. Varner and Miles & Stockbridge, on the brief), Frederick, for appellants.

Shelly E. Mintz, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., Kathy F. Crosby, Staff Atty. on the brief for appellee, WCDSS, Baltimore, MD, James W. Stone, Miller, Oliver, Beachley & Stone on the brief for appellees, John S. and Frances S., Hagerstown, and Alex Bognar on the brief for Tiffany R., Hagerstown), for appellees.

Argued before WENNER, HARRELL and MURPHY, JJ.

HARRELL, Judge.

This consolidated adoption and civil rights appeal arose following the denial of a petition for adoption of an African-American toddler, Tiffany R., filed by a Caucasian couple, Michael and Sylvia Mauk, appellants and Tiffany R.'s former foster parents, in the Circuit Court for Washington County (Moylan, J.). The circuit court followed the recommendations of the Washington County Department of Social Services (WCDSS or the Department), appellee and...

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