ALTERNATIVE OPTIONS & SERV. v. CHAPMAN

No. 20030186-CA.

106 P.3d 744 (2004)

2004 UT App 488

ALTERNATIVE OPTIONS AND SERVICES FOR CHILDREN, a Utah non-profit corporation dba Act of Love; Adoption Center of Choice, Inc., a Utah corporation; and A TLC Adoption, a Utah corporation, Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. Michael CHAPMAN, in his official capacity as Deputy Compact Administrator of the Interstate Compact on Placement of Children and in his official capacity as President of the Association of Administrators of the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children; Robin Arnold-Williams, in her official capacity as Executive Director of the Utah Department of Human Services; Janice P. Knaphus, in her official capacity as Licensing Specialist in the Office of Licensing of the Utah Department of Human Services; the Utah Department of Human Services, a governmental department of the State of Utah; Dennis Eshman, in his official capacity as Manager of the Secretariat Staff of the Association of Administrators of the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children; the Association of Administrators of the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children; and the American Public Human Services Association, in its capacity as Secretariat of the Association of Administrators of the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children, Defendants and Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Utah.

December 30, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Larry S. Jenkins and Richard J. Armstrong, Wood & Crapo LLC, Salt Lake City, for Appellants.

Mark L. Shurtleff, Attorney General, Joel A. Ferre, Craig L. Barlow, Assistant Attorneys General, Paul C. Farr, and Michael W. Homer, Suitter Axland, Salt Lake City, for Appellees.

Before Judges JACKSON, ORME, and THORNE.


OPINION

ORME, Judge:

¶ 1 Plaintiffs sought a declaratory judgment regarding the Interstate Compact on Placement of Children and its application to expectant mothers who travel to Utah to deliver their children and place them for adoption. The trial court, concluding Plaintiffs failed to request relief for an alleged violation of their own rights, granted Defendants' motions to dismiss for lack of standing. We affirm in part, but reverse and remand in...

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