State of California Department of Social Services v. Thompson

321 F.3d 835 STATE OF CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES, Plaintiff, and Enedina Rosales, Intervenor-Appellant, v. Tommy G. THOMPSON, Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, * Defendant-Appellee. No. 00-17266. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted February 12, 2002. Filed March 3, 2003. COPYRIGHT MATERIAL OMITTED COPYRIGHT MATERIAL OMITTED Marjorie Shelvy, Barbara Jones (argued), Yolanda C. Arias, Silvia Argueta, Erin Shaffer, Kimberly Lewis, Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, for the intervenor-appellant. Jeffrey Clair, Department of Justice, Civil Division, Washington, DC, for the defendant-appellee. Rochelle Bobroff, AARP Foundation Litigation, Washington, DC, for the amicus curiae. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California; Frank C. Damrell, District Judge, Presiding. D.C. No. CV-99-00355-FCD. Before: THOMPSON, W. FLETCHER and BERZON, Circuit Judges. BERZON, Circuit Judge. 1 "The practice of relatives or kin parenting children when their parents cannot is a time-honored tradition in most cultures." Kinship Care: A Natural Bridge: A Report of the Child Welfare…