In Re Department of Family & Protective Services

Supreme Court of Texas · Decided 2009-01-09

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Justice BRISTER, joined by Justice HECHT, Justice O’NEILL and Justice MEDINA, dissenting. Surely no one — not even a mother fighting to keep her kids — can ask for a new trial and then demand dismissal because she got it. There was a final order before the statutory one-year deadline in this case, but the mother asked the trial court to set it aside and give her a new trial and later a resetting after t…

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