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CARE & PROTECTION OF GEORGETTE

439 Mass. 28 (2003)

CARE AND PROTECTION OF GEORGETTE (and three companion cases).

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Bristol.

March 21, 2003.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Matthew H. Beaulieu for Georgette & another.

Virginia A. Peel, Special Assistant Attorney General (Richard A. Salcedo with her) for Department of Social Services.

Deborah D. Wolf for Beth & another.

Susan F. Drogin, for the father, was present but did not argue.

The following submitted briefs for amici curiae:

Leigh-Ann Patterson, Stephen W. Rider, Amy R. George, Katherine Donnelly, Denise R. Oliveira, & Stephen M. LaRose for Massachusetts Citizens for Children.

Andrew Hoffiman, Committee for Public Counsel Services, for Committee for Public Counsel Services.

Jacqueline Y. Parker, pro se.

Jinanne S.J. Elder & Brigid Kennedy-Pfister for The Children's Law Center of Massachusetts, Inc., & another.

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

GREANEY, J.

These cases, tried in the Bristol Division of the Juvenile Court Department, concern (a) decrees and judgments that terminated the father's parental rights as to two daughters (Beth and Judith), and placed two other daughters (Georgette and Lucy) in the permanent custody of the Department of Social Services (department)2; and (b) an order denying Georgette and Lucy's motion for a new trial brought pursuant to Mass. R. Civ....

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