An amended lawsuit brings on new accusations in the 2017 death of a baby girl in the care of a state-licensed foster parent. CYFD, social ...

A nonprofit law firm representing a group of New York City foster youth has resumed long-running litigation against the city’s Administratio...

Gov. Kate Brown and Oregon’s child welfare agency are asking a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit over the state’s foster care system, after...

Three siblings who had been removed from their mother amid abuse allegations have filed a lawsuit against the state’s Children, Youth and Fa...

An Iowa lawyer isn’t liable for emotional distress damages for a failed adoption that left a baby in the temporary care of a birth father wh...

The parents of a child who died while in foster care have filed a lawsuit claiming officials with the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare...

A group of children filed a class action lawsuit Tuesday morning against Governor Eric Holcomb, the Indiana Department of Child Services and...

A young man and a teenage boy filed a lawsuit last week accusing the staff at a Texas ranch for at-risk youth of not protecting them from se...

A federal judge in Cleveland dismissed a lawsuit filed over the death of 5-year-old Ta’Naejah McCloud that accused Cuyahoga County Division ...

She first met him at a corner store 30 years ago, when she was 13 and wandering the streets of Tacoma’s then-notorious Hilltop. The 37-yea...

The Arizona Department of Child Safety will have to defend how it handles the more than 14,000 children in foster care now and all those who...

A new class-action lawsuit filed Tuesday accuses the state of inadequately protecting Oregon’s foster children. Ten foster children, repre...

On Wednesday, HSLDA filed an amicus curiae brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a case that could halt warrantless strip searches dur...

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, families and former employees are moving forward with a class action lawsuit...

Major improvements to a foster care system that a federal judge has said fails Texas kids aren't likely to happen anytime soon, accord...

Twin girls, age 12, have sued the State of Washington, Department of Children, Youth, and Families (DCYF) on Monday. Tamaki Law says that ...

A lawsuit filed Thursday accuses the Oregon Department of Human Services and at least three child welfare workers of negligence for placing ...

A $3.05 billion class action lawsuit has been filed against the federal government for discriminating against First Nations children by ...

Eight immigrant families demanded millions of dollars in damages Monday from the Trump administration for separating them, including a Guate...

A Helena-area man who said his former foster mother repeatedly raped him as a teen is suing the state of Montana for placing him in her home...