KANE v. COMMISSIONER OF DHHS

Docket: Cum-08-197.

960 A.2d 1196 (2008)

2008 ME 185

Denise KANE v. COMMISSIONER OF the DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided: December 11, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Katherine R. McGovern, Esq. (orally), Thomas H. Kelley, Esq., Pine Tree Legal Assistance, Inc., Portland, ME, for Denise Kane.

G. Steven Rowe, Attorney General, Renee Guignard, Assistant Attorney General (orally), Portland, ME, for the Department of Health & Human Services.

Panel: SAUFLEY, C.J., and CLIFFORD, ALEXANDER, LEVY, SILVER, MEAD, and GORMAN, JJ.


ALEXANDER, J.

[¶ 1] Denise Kane, a foster parent, appeals from a judgment entered in the Superior Court (Cumberland County, Delahanty, J.) affirming the final action of the Commissioner of the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), pursuant to 22 M.R.S. § 4088 (2007), which substantiated Kane for neglect, threat of neglect, emotional abuse, and threat of emotional abuse of two foster boys in her care, and dismissing Kane's two independent...

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