Somebody in Texas CPS has put the whole state up for grabs via the suit bonanza route. Where were the adults of this agency? Flocks of trial lawyer vultures have been gathering and now they descend. This is what happens when "feelings" overcome fact and logic. Agnostic personally so have no use for either fundamentalists or nanny states. On the plus side, the FLDS probably has no use for Austin.
Hey FLDS, I got a spot for you in CA. State has no money for services but always pays suits. google for details Thanks AOL News

Court Says Sect Kids Unlawfully Taken

By MICHELLE ROBERTS,

AP

Posted: 2008-05-22 17:10:26

Filed Under: Nation News

SAN ANGELO, Texas (May 22) - A Texas appeals court said Thursday that the state had no right to take more than 400 children from a polygamist sect's ranch, a ruling that could unravel one of the biggest child-custody cases in U.S. history.

The Third Court of Appeals in Austin ruled that the state offered "legally and factually insufficient" grounds for the "extreme" measure of removing all children from the ranch, from babies to teenagers.

The state never provided evidence that the children were in any immediate danger, the only grounds in Texas law for taking children from their parents without court approval, the appeals court said.

It also failed to show evidence that more than five of the teenage girls were being sexually abused, and never alleged any sexual or physical abuse against the other children, the court said.