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Civil Rights

Dec. 29, 2010

O.C. to Seek Supreme Court Review

Orange County will ask the U.S. Supreme Court this week to review a jury's $5 million verdict in 2007 against the county and a pair of social workers who wrongfully removed two young girls from their mother.


By Don J. DeBenedictis


Daily Journal Staff Writer


Orange County will ask the U.S. Supreme Court this week to review a jury's $4.9 million verdict in 2007 against the county and a pair of social workers who wrongfully removed two young girls from their mother.


Meanwhile, earlier this month, a trial judge granted the mother's attorneys nearly $1 million in fees for winning a state court appeal in the long-running case, bringing the total...

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