IN RE Z.M.

No. 20-FS-770.

272 A.3d 1183 (2022)

IN RE Z.M.; District of Columbia, Appellant.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided April 14, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Pamela Soncini , Assistant Attorney General, with whom Karl Racine , Attorney General, Loren L. AliKhan , Solicitor General (at the time of argument), Caroline S. Van Zile , Principal Deputy Solicitor General (at the time of argument), and Stacy L. Anderson , Senior Assistant Attorney General, were on the brief, for appellant.

Madhavan K. Nair for appellee.

Katherine Piggott-Tooke , Guardian ad Litem, with whom Melissa Colangelo , Guardian ad Litem, was on the brief.

Dissenting opinion by Associate Judge Deahl at page 1194-1201.


The District appeals an order of the Superior Court reversing a magistrate judge's adjudication of Z.M. as a neglected child. The District filed its neglect petition after Z.M.'s mother, C.M., twice left the eighteen-month-old child at day care and failed to pick him up at the...

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