Pending Utah Appeal on the Americans with Disabilities Act

At the Annual Conference one of the sessions was on the applicability of the Americans with Disabilities Act in Child Welfare Proceedings.  Many of you expressed interest in reading Neil Skousen's briefs in the appeal he has pending on the issue.

Neil has shared with us the Trial Brief in Support of Application of the Americans with Disabilities Act to Utah Child Welfare Cases and this Proceeding and the Brief of Appellant filed with the Utah Court of Appeals.  He would like you to know:

PDA members/attorneys may find this ADA research and pleadings helpful in their own child welfare cases throughout Utah Juvenile Courts. Although we raised the ADA or disability issues at permanency and termination proceedings, the ADA should be raised by parental defense counsel as early as possible in the case such at disposition, at the beginning of the reunification services portion of the case, or if services are being modified then somewhere in the middle of the reunification services portion of the case.

Thanks, Neil!