IN RE CARE AND PROTECTION OF A MINOR

SJC-13385.

491 Mass. 1033 (2023)

CARE AND PROTECTION OF A MINOR.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts.

April 14, 2023.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

The case was submitted on the papers filed, accompanied by a memorandum of law.

Cara M. Cheyette for the petitioner.

James Petersen for the Department of Children and Families.


The petitioner, the father of a child who was the subject of a care and protection petition in the Juvenile Court, appeals from a judgment of a single justice of this court dismissing as moot his petition pursuant to G. L. c. 211, § 3. We affirm.

The Department of Children and Families filed a care and protection petition pursuant to G. L. c. 119, § 24, in September 2022, after the child tested positive at birth for several drugs. Temporary custody was granted...

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