RE: Need copy of class action consent decrees/court decisions inseveral cases

[Ike Burson <hib4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Your work sounds very interesting.  In addition to the legislative analysis,
it would be productive and enlightening, I think, if someone undertook a
qualitative study, looking at the experiences of line workers in states that
were the subjects of class-action suits.  I was a new M.S.W. working in
child welfare when Alabama settled its suit. The experience was interesting,
to say the least.

Good luck with your research. Also, I still have alot of the documents from
the era in question, so let me know if you need anything.


Ike Burson
Assistant Professor
Social Work Program
Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work
Mississippi State University

P.O. Box C
Mississippi State, MS 39762

662-325-7891 (Voice)
662-325-4564 (Fax)

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-CHILD-MALTREATMENT-RESEARCH-L@cornell.edu
[mailto:owner-CHILD-MALTREATMENT-RESEARCH-L@cornell.edu]On Behalf Of
Rachel Molly Joseph
Sent: Friday, July 22, 2005 12:52 PM
To: Child Maltreatment Researchers
Subject: Need copy of class action consent decrees/court decisions in
several cases


Sorry for any cross-postings:

Hope some of you can help on this.
We are working collaboratively with the Child Welfare League of
America to obtain and collectively analyze all "child welfare class
action" decrees/settlements/decisions over the past 30 years or so.
Obviously, we've been helped in this effort by such leading groups as
Children's Rights, Inc. and the National Center for Youth Law.

We've already obtained most of what we know about, but in our effort
to be complete, please see below cases where we do NOT yet have that
material.

We'd appreciate getting faxed, e-mailed, or mailed any
decrees/settlements/decisions in:

CA: Wheeler v. Sanders and Booream v. Orange County
MA: MacFarland v. Dukakis (also known as Lynch v. King)
NY: Jesse E. v. NYCDSS and Wilder v. Berstein
NC: Willie M. v. Hunt
PA: Baby Neal v. Ridge, Anderson v. Houston, and T.M. v. City of
Philadelphia
FL: M.E. v. Bush and Ward v. Kearney
GA: J.J. v. Ledbetter
NJ: Baby Sparrow v. Waldman
WV: Sanders v. Weston

I hope our final work product will be available in late summer or
early fall, and I expect it will be available from both CWLA and our
Center.

Thanks.

-- Howard Davidson
Director, ABA Center on Children and the Law
American Bar Association, 740 15th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20005
202/662-1740     Fax: 202/662-1755     davidsonha@staff.abanet.org
Center's Web Address:  http://www.abanet.org/child



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