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IN THE MATTER OF A CARE AND PROTECTION SUMMONS

437 Mass. 224 (2002)

IN THE MATTER OF A CARE AND PROTECTION SUMMONS (and a companion case).

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Bristol.

June 26, 2002.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J.W. Carney, Jr. (Andrew M. D'Angelo & Kathleen O'Connell with him) for the parents.

Virginia A. Peel, Special Assistant Attorney General, for Department of Social Services.

David A.F. Lewis for the child.

Present: MARSHALL, C.J., GREANEY, SPINA, SOSMAN, & CORDY, JJ.

MARSHALL, C.J.

At issue in this appeal are two judgments of civil contempt entered by a judge in the Juvenile Court Department attendant in a care and protection proceeding. The Department of Social Services (department) sought temporary custody of a newborn infant of the mother and father, the appellants in this case. See G. L. c. 119, § 24. The parents refused to comply with summonses to bring their infant to court claiming, in circumstances we shall describe...

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