Summary
overruling trial court's granting of foster parents' motion to intervene in neglect proceedings, noting that foster parents' presence would "interject the false issue of the fitness of the foster parents to have custody of the children" and observing that children cannot be removed from their parents on grounds that they would be "better off" in another home
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No. 80-2205.
Argued April 21, 1982 Decided May 17, 1982
Certiorari dismissed. Reported below: 634 F.2d 365.
Scott A. Mayer argued the cause for petitioner. With him on the briefs was Joan S. Cherry.
John S. Elson, by appointment of the Court, 454 U.S. 1096, argued the cause and filed a brief for respondent.
Sybille Fritzsche filed a brief for the Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law as amicus curiae urging affirmance.
The writ of certiorari is dismissed as improvidently granted.