He has not once communicated with me.
That is how I know he sucks.
He has not once, ever, ever, ever, spoken upon that forebodden term called fraud, or anything connected to the industry of trafficking tiny humans or the children's trusts.
Hey, Vivek!
Are you related to any Awans?
How much did you trick yourself out for?
Do kiss and tell.
You know how they like to roll in Detroit.
To Have Impact, Laws Must Be Enforced. Appellate Lawyers Help Do Just That.
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| You would think he could at least give a recent photo. Vivek Sankaran is director of the Child Advocacy Law Clinic and the Child Welfare Appellate Clinic at the University Michigan Law School |
Dude. Seriously. Tell us how many Termination of Parental Rights cases you have won in relation to the number of cases giving to you. The only reason I want to know is to find out how much in false claims were generated during the time in privatized custody.
Instead, at the end of July, we call up local courts and ask them to send us TPR cases in need of an appellate lawyer. We accept the first six we get. Then our students scrutinize the record, draft briefs and deliver oral arguments at the Michigan Court of Appeals.
Oh, Precious, do you just like not know about the Title IV-A Poverty Means Test criteria for eligibility of foster care funding which means that the parents cannot afford an attorney?
No money; No justice.
Despite the randomness of our case assignments, every semester we discover laws being unenforced, which we bring to the attention of our appellate courts. Because of this, since 2015, our clinic has won roughly a third of our cases. We’ve gotten appellate courts to strike down a TPR statute for being unconstitutional, find that the Americans with Disabilities Act requires agencies to design service plans to accommodate the disabilities of parents in child welfare cases, and hold that incarcerated parents can plan for their children by arranging for relatives to care for them. Again, our students have done this even though our cases are randomly assigned to us.
Did you ever file a False Claims Act case on Medicaid Fraud in Child Welfare for the cases you were successful in reinstating parental rights? Oh, wait, there has never been a reinstatement of parental rights. Ever talk to Dan Beaton? I have.
Our experience is not unique. In 2018, attorneys working with the Colorado Office of Respondent Counsel, a governmental agency that has overseen parent representation in the state since 2016, has gotten appellate courts in the state to find procedural violations in nearly one of out three cases. Advocates in other states with high quality appellate representation have achieved similar results.
Colorado? Oooooo..... Vivek......did you ever hear of Joseph Korbel or Claude d'Estre'e or Monica Petersen in Haiti when it comes to trafficking tiny humans? Obviously not, which makes me think you are a generic personae as you have now lowered yourself to the have the Chronicles of Social Change, the notorious Clinton Propaganda machine for Silicon Valley in the financial fraud scheme called Predictive Modeling Crap.
These results deliver a straightforward conclusion – that child welfare systems need strong appellate advocates to enforce the law. In the past decade, both the federal government and states have passed an increasing number of laws to promote the interests of children involved with the foster care system. The federal government alone has passed four major pieces of legislation – the Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act, the Child and Family Services Improvement and Innovation Act, the Preventing Sex Trafficking and Strengthening Families Act and the Family First Prevention Services Act.
Vivek!!! What are you doing? You are promulgating the peculiar institution. You are advocating corporate layering of foreign private, children's trusts. Oh, wait. I got it. You are a fake ass lil bitch who would sell your soul for a bit of credibility, if you are even real.
These laws, along with those enacted by states, have created a child welfare system governed by complicated procedures.
The procedures are not complicated. The procedures are christian law of chattels. You would know about Ecclesiastical Law if you were a licensed attorney,
Yet talk to advocates on the ground, and they will describe laws that routinely go unenforced. Child welfare agencies fail to make reasonable efforts to prevent kids from entering foster care or to place siblings together. Courts don’t ask children about what sort of relationship they want with their birth parents before terminating those parents’ rights. And far too often, relatives aren’t informed about ongoing child welfare cases until it is far too late for them to get placement of their kin.
The list goes on and on. But without strong appellate advocacy, these laws – key to promoting good outcomes for children in foster care – will continue to get unenforced.
So how do we move forward? The recent federal policy change to permit states to use Title IV-E money to support the representation of parents and children in child welfare proceedings allows states to immediately increase the amount of funds to support quality appellate advocacy. States should move to create specialized appellate practices, like those that exist in New Jersey, Maryland and North Carolina, among other jurisdictions.
Money alone, however, won’t solve the problem. Appellate advocacy is a nuanced skill – involving meticulous research, writing and editing skills – and states must ensure that advocates have the necessary training to do this. Just last year, the National Legal Aid and Defender’s Association – for the first time – created a family defense track for its annual training for appellate attorneys, which provided participants with intensive feedback on their writing skills.
Based on the success of that training, this week, the Michigan Court Improvement Project is piloting a similar one for appellate attorneys. Each state’s Court Improvement Project must prioritize appellate advocacy as an essential component of the infrastructure needed in any functioning child welfare system.
In about two months, my appellate clinic will start getting new case assignments. I suspect that we’ll continue to find laws that aren’t being enforced. Each time we win a reversal or a remand from the Court of Appeals, we will continue to strengthen the legal infrastructure that is so crucial in ensuring the well-being of children. And even when we lose, we increase the legitimacy of our child welfare system by ensuring the public that it is acting in a matter consistent with statutes and the Constitution.
Vivek Sankaran is the director of the Child Advocacy Law Clinic and the Child Welfare Appellate Clinic at the University Michigan Law School. Follow him on Twitter at @vivekssankaran.
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