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L.A. CTY. DEPT. OF CHILDREN ETC. v. SUPERIOR CT.

Docket No. B103333.

51 Cal.App.4th 1257 (1996)

LOS ANGELES COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES, Petitioner, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY, Respondent; SHAWN B., Real Party in Interest.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Seven.

December 23, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

De Witt W. Clinton, County Counsel, Larry Cory, Assistant County Counsel, Lois Timnick, Howard Haffner and Victor Greenberg, Deputy County Counsel, Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue, Elwood Lui, Laura A. Matz and Karen Thorland for Petitioner.

William C. Katzenstein, County Counsel (Riverside), Robert M. Pepper, Principal Deputy County Counsel, and Kathleen L. Burgess, County Counsel (Del Norte), as Amici Curiae on behalf of Petitioner.

Richard Amerian and Michelle L. Stern for Respondent.

Randall Pacheco and Sonia Villanueva for Real Party in Interest.

Jo Kaplan, Richard G. Novak, Robert Stevenson and Steven Shenfeld as Amici Curiae on behalf of Real Party in Interest.

OPINION

JOHNSON, J.

In this writ proceeding we are asked to order the Los Angeles Dependency Court to appoint lawyers from the Los Angeles County Counsel's office to represent all children involved in dependency proceedings except in instances of "actual conflict of interest" between the county and the child. We conclude under existing statutory law the decision whether to appoint the county counsel to provide "dual representation...

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