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Lawyers for polygamist Moms top Texas Lawyer's "Impact Players"

Texas Lawyer magazine has a href="http://www.law.com/jsp/tx/PubArticleTX.jsp?id=1202426903361"given its annual "Impact Player of the Year" moniker/a to attorneys they've dubbed "The Mom Squad" who represented the fundamentalist Mormon parents in the Great Eldorado Polygamist Roundup this spring, particularly highlighting the work of Julie Balovich and Amanda Chisholm from Texas Rio Grande Legal Aid. These are well-deserved kudos, properly also shared with the many other attorneys who traveled to San Angelo from all over the state to represent FLDS parents in emergency removal hearings.br /br /I find it fascinating that opinion leaders' views have now shifted so mightily about whether the state was correct to take the kids. Reports TL:br /blockquoteJack Sampson, a University of Texas School of Law professor who founded the law school's Children's Rights Clinic, says the Supreme Court's opinion drove home a point paramount in all parents' rights cases that will be remembered for a long time in Texas family courts: The state needs evidence of a threat to remove children from their homes on an emergency basis...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on December 22, 2008 (boomark / email).