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IN RE ADOPTION OF PATTY

No. SJC-13220.

489 Mass. 630 (2022)

ADOPTION OF PATTY.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Essex.

May 9, 2022.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alison R. Bancroft for the mother.

Sherrie Krasner for the child.

Lynne M. Murphy for Department of Children and Families.

The following submitted briefs for amici curiae:

Masha Zilberman , Katherine Nemens , & Phillip Kassel for Mental Health Legal Advisors Committee.

Ann Balmelli O'Connor , Samuel A. Aylesworth , Sarah LoPresti , & Karen Owen Talley , Committee for Public Counsel Services, & Maria Durant , Jerome McManus , J. Leon Smith, Jr. , Tatum A. Pritchard , Jessica Berry , Deborah Silva , Chauncey B. Wood , Martin W. Healey , & Jamie Ann Sabino for Committee for Public Counsel Services & others.

Present: BUDD, C.J., GAZIANO, LOWY, CYPHER, KAFKER, WENDLANDT, & GEORGES, JJ.

Given the special circumstances presented by the COVID-19 pandemic and its related restrictions on the ability of the Juvenile Court to conduct in-person proceedings, and in light of the unique and often time-sensitive interests involved in proceedings concerning the care and protection of children, we conclude that the use of an Internet...

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