9th Circuit Reverses ‘Child In Care’ Interpretation In Foster Children Class Row

( August 19, 2025, 8:38 AM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — The Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals reversed and remanded a lower court ruling that interpreted the term “child in care” as used in a class action settlement to exclude two groups of children for whom the Oregon Department of Human Services (ODHS) had legal but not physical custody, finding that the children in the groups have a due process right “to be free from serious abuses even when placed with their biological parents.”...