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MATTER OF DEPENDENCY OF A.C.

No. 100966-6.

525 P.3d 177 (2023)

In the MATTER OF the DEPENDENCY OF A.C., a minor child.

Supreme Court of Washington, En Banc.

Filed: March 9, 2023.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jared Berkeley Steed , Nielsen Koch & Grannis, PLLC, 2200 6th Ave., Ste. 1250, Seattle, WA, 98121-1820, Lise Ellner , Attorney at Law, P.O. Box 2711, Vashon, WA, 98070-2711, for Petitioner.

Jessica M. Dyson , Emily Harper Yates , WA Attorney General's Office, 1116 W. Riverside Ave., Ste. 100, Spokane, WA, 99201-1113, Lauren Danskine , WA Attorney General's Office, 3501 Colby Ave., Ste. 200, Everett, WA, 98201-4795, for Respondent.

¶1 The State has the sobering emergency power to take a child away from their parents for the child's own protection. Our statutes and constitutions constrain that power. Among those constraints is the State's obligation to promptly prove to a judge, at a shelter care hearing conducted under the rules of evidence, that its...

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