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IN RE BRIDGET R.

Docket Nos. B093520, B093694.

41 Cal.App.4th 1483 (1996)

49 Cal. Rptr.2d 507

In re BRIDGET R. et al., Minors. JAMES R. et al., Petitioners and Appellants, v. CINDY R. et al., Objectors and Respondents; DRY CREEK RANCHERIA et al., Interveners and Respondents. VISTA DEL MAR FAMILY AND SOCIAL SERVICES, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. CINDY R. et al., Defendants and Respondents; JAMES R. et al., Defendants and Appellants. JAMES R. et al., Petitioners, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY, Respondent; CINDY R. et al., Real Parties in Interest.

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

January 18, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

John L. Dodd and Jane A. Gorman for Petitioners and Appellants, for Defendants and Appellants, and for Petitioners.

Michael F. Kanne for Plaintiff and Appellant.

James E. Cohen for Interveners and Respondents.

Janette Freeman Cochran and Robert S. Gerstein for Objectors and Respondents, for Defendants and Respondents, and for Real Parties in Interest.

No appearance for Respondent Superior Court.

Mitchell L. Beckloff for Minors.

Farella, Braun & Martel, Norma G. Formanek, Jennifer Schwartz, Joan Heifetz Hollinger, Mark C. Tilden, Alexander & Karshmer, Barbara Karshmer, Sant'Angelo & Trope, Jack F. Trope, Robert J. Miller, Patricia D. Hinrichs, Dunaway & Cross, Michael P. Bentzen, Cary W. Mergele, Wylie, McBride, Jesinger, Sure & Platten, Christopher E. Platten, Marc Gradstein, Mark D. Fiddler, Todd D. Steenson and Randall B. Hicks as Amici Curiae.

OPINION

CROSKEY, J.

California recognizes the principle that children are not merely chattels belonging to their parents, but rather have fundamental interests of their own. (In re Jasmon O. (1994) 8 Cal.4th 398, 419 [33 Cal.Rptr.2d 85, 878 P.2d 1297].) Such fundamental interests are of constitutional dimension...

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