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In a crushing blow to the state s massive seizure of children from a polygamist sect s ranch, the Texas Supreme Court ruled Thursday that child welfare officials overstepped their authority and the children should go back to their parents.The high cou
stanley polska rt affirmed a decision by an appellate court last week, saying Child Protective Services failed to show an immediate danger to the more than 400 children swept up from the Yearning For Zion Ranch nearly two months ago. On the record before us, removal of the children was not warranted, the justices said in their ruling issued in Austin.The high court let stand the appellate court s order that Texas District Judge Barbara Walther return the children from foster care to their parents. It s not clear how soon that may happen, but the appellate court ordered her to do it within a reasonable time period.Read the majority opinion here. Read the dissenting opinion here.The ruling shatters one of the largest child-custody cases in U.S. history. State officials said the removals were necessary to end a cycle of sexual abuse at the ranch in which teenage girls were forced to marry and have sex with older men, but parents denied any abuse and said they were being persecuted fo
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stanley water bottle s, Xbox Radio, and Spotify on in-dash screens as well as physical car settings like defrost. Microsoft in the Car is currently powered by Mirrorlink, which already has the support of a number of cars from makers including Volkswagen, Honda, and Toyota as well as Nokia Symbian phones and Sony Xperia Z . Because the system is effectively an extension of Windows Phone, developers will be able to build car-specific apps, all of which carry heavy tones of Windows 9. Currently, there no actual date set for when we can expect to see this vision become a reality, but judging by the accidental crash in the middle of the presentation, we ;re still quite a ways off. With CarPlay set for release later this year, though, you can bet Microsoft won ;t leave us waiting long. [TechRadar, The Verge]
