CASE STATEMENT

 

No. 09-1036

 

Woodbury County No. JVJV018492

 

 

 

IN THE INTEREST OF

 

P.L.,

      Minor Child,

 

O.L.-V., Father,

      Appellant-Resister.

         

STATE OF IOWA,

Appellee-Applicant.

 

Court of Appeals opinion writer: Potterfield, J.

 

Trial Judge: Mary Jane Sokolovske

 

 

Appellate Counsel:

          Matthew R. Metzgar of Rhinehart Law, P.C., Sioux City, for appellant-father.

 

          Thomas J. Miller, Attorney General, Janet L. Hoffman, Kathrine S. Miller-Todd and Bruce Kempkes, Assistant Attorneys General, Patrick Jennings, County Attorney, and David Dawson, Assistant County Attorney, for appellee-State.

 

          Jessica Knoll, Sioux City, for mother.

 

          Marchelle Denker of Sioux City Juvenile Office, Sioux City, for minor child.

 

          Gerald Denney, Niobrara, Nebraska, for Santee Sioux Nation.

 

         

Ready date: 8-10-09

 

General case description: A father appealed the termination of his parental rights in an Iowa Code chapter 232 action and contended the State failed to prove that termination was in the child's best interests. The court of appeals reversed and the State was granted further review.