<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/63e5e680-376e-446b-89dc-1537c5d81672/86D6C783-DC60-4819-B843-7CFFB7D8BD40/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080523/ap_on_re_us/polygamist_retreat" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080523/ap_on_re_us/polygamist_retreat" style="font-size: 11px;">news.yahoo.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080523/ap_on_re_us/polygamist_retreat"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/news.yahoo.com/img/A307B592-831C-4BE5-BB91-D72F6A2CF065" alt="Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints mothers Marie Steed, left, and Sarah Barlow smile as the leave the Tom Green county courthouse after a ruling in their favor in San Angelo, Texas, Thursday, May 22, 2008. An Austin, Texas appeals court ruled that the state had no cause to take their children. (AP Photo/LM Otero)" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080523/ap_on_re_us/polygamist_retreat"><P>The <SPAN id="lw_1211552667_2" class="yshortcuts">Third Court of Appeals</SPAN> in Austin said Thursday that the state failed to show the youngsters were in any immediate danger, the only grounds under Texas law for taking children from their parents without court action.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080523/ap_on_re_us/polygamist_retreat"><P>Texas District Judge Barbara Walther now has 10 days to release the youngsters from custody, but the state could appeal to the <SPAN id="lw_1211552667_3" class="yshortcuts">Texas</SPAN> <SPAN id="lw_1211552667_4" class="yshortcuts">Supreme Court</SPAN> and keep the children from immediately going back to their parents.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080523/ap_on_re_us/polygamist_retreat"><P>The decision in one of the biggest child-custody cases in U.S. history was a humiliating defeat for the <SPAN id="lw_1211552667_5" class="yshortcuts">state Child Protective Services agency</SPAN>. It was hailed as vindication by members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, who claim they are being persecuted for their religious beliefs.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080523/ap_on_re_us/polygamist_retreat"><P>The court also said the state was wrong to consider the entire ranch as a single household and to seize all the children because some parents in the home might be abusers.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/86D6C783-DC60-4819-B843-7CFFB7D8BD40/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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