From Jill Tompkins:

Today the American Indian Law Clinic won its appeal in the  Colorado Supreme Court in a case concerning a contested guardianship of an American Indian child, In the Matter of J.C.T..  The Court reversed the decision of the Court of Appeals and upheld the rulings of the Denver Probate  Court finding that it was an appropriate exercise of the Probate Court’s authority to consider the potential of a prospective guardian to be an adoptive parent.  This decision will allow the boy to finally be adopted after being under various guardianships for 10 years. Ann Rhodes, ’07, did an outstanding job of briefing the case on the boy’s tribe’s behalf  (I argued it).   Maggie Wetmore, ’05 was the student attorney who handled the complex trial-level work.

Here’s a link to the opinion.

Congrats to Jill and her students!