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West Virginian foster care

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — A federal court in West Virginia certified a class of 12 current and former foster care children and appoints class counsel in their civil rights suit challenging “systemic deficiencies” in the state of West Virginia’s child welfare system. An Americans with Disability Act subclass is also approved, but a kinship subclass is denied.

Read the ruling here.

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