http://www.tokenconservative.com/2008/06/21/writ-of-habeas-bratus-free-the-children/ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:56:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 http://www.tokenconservative.com/2008/06/21/writ-of-habeas-bratus-free-the-children/#comment-42 Canada: court overturns parent’s grounding of 12-year-old Sat, 21 Jun 2008 12:41:56 +0000 http://www.tokenconservative.com/?p=262#comment-42 [...] The father wouldn’t let her go on a school trip because he said she’d been acting up, including using a friend’s account to post inappropriate pictures on a dating site. “But [Quebec Superior Court] Justice Suzanne Tessier, who was presiding over the case, found the punishment too severe.” The mother, who is divorced from the father, was supporting the girl; the school’s policy was that both parents’ permission was required for such trips. According to a lawyer involved in the case, the father has legal custody but the girl has been living with her mother for the past month. (AFP/FoxNews.com, Globe and Mail, Eugene Volokh). Plus: Token Conservative suggests a new writ of “habeas bratus”. [...] […] The father wouldn’t let her go on a school trip because he said she’d been acting up, including using a friend’s account to post inappropriate pictures on a dating site. “But [Quebec Superior Court] Justice Suzanne Tessier, who was presiding over the case, found the punishment too severe.” The mother, who is divorced from the father, was supporting the girl; the school’s policy was that both parents’ permission was required for such trips. According to a lawyer involved in the case, the father has legal custody but the girl has been living with her mother for the past month. (AFP/FoxNews.com, Globe and Mail, Eugene Volokh). Plus: Token Conservative suggests a new writ of “habeas bratus”. […]

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