IN RE MARQUETTE S.

No. 2006AP66-NM.

734 N.W.2d 81 (2007)

2007 WI 77

In re the termination of parental rights to MARQUETTE S., a person under the age of 18. State of Wisconsin, Petitioner-Respondent, v. Bobby G., Respondent-Appellant-Petitioner.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

Decided June 22, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the respondent-appellant-petitioner there were briefs by James R. Troupis, Paul D. Barbato, and Michael Best & Friedrich L.L.P., Madison, and oral argument by James R. Troupis.

For the petitioner-respondent there was a brief and oral argument by Adam Levin, assistant district attorney, with whom on the brief was E. Michael McCann, district attorney.

A guardian ad litem brief was filed by Cynthia A. Lepkowski, Peter M. Koneazny and the Legal Aid Society of Milwaukee, Inc.

An amicus curiae brief was filed by Karyn L. Rotker and Laurence J. Dupuis, Milwaukee, on behalf of the American Civil Liberties Union of Wisconsin Foundation.

An amicus curiae brief was filed by Elizabeth A. Neary, Stephen W. Hayes, and The Schroeder Group, S.C., Waukesha, and Carol Gapen, Lynn Bodi, Judith Sperling-Newton, and The Law Center for Children and Families, Madison, on behalf of the American Academy of Adoption Attorneys.

An amicus curiae brief was filed by Henry J. Plum, Wauwatosa, on behalf of the Children's Service Society of Wisconsin.


¶ 1 SHIRLEY S. ABRAHAMSON, Chief Justice.

This is a review of an unpublished court of appeals decision1 summarily affirming the dispositional order of the Milwaukee County Circuit Court, Judge Thomas R. Cooper, terminating Bobby G.'s parental rights to his biological son Marquette. Based on Bobby G.'s admissions and answers to interrogatories, the circuit court granted the State partial summary judgment at the first step of the termination...

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