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	Texas Defends Seizure of Children By Jeffrey Ball Wall Street Journal May 24, 2008 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121158337620018753.html?mod=googlenews_wsj Texas officials sought Friday to retain custody of more than 460 children seized from a polygamist ranch after an appeals court ruled the children should be returned to their parents, but they also agreed to reunite 12 children with their parents while the case moves on. The state turned to the Texas Supreme Court for its own appeal a day after an appeals court in Austin rebuked child-welfare authorities for acting too hastily and too broadly in seizing the children from the religious sect's West Texas community. The state asked the court to allow the children to continue to be kept in state custody until the appeal is decided, arguing that returning the children would put them in harm's way. Lawyers for the mothers in the dispute urged the state supreme court to let the children be returned, arguing in a motion Friday that the children are experiencing "continuing, irreparable harm" by being kept away from their parents. The agreement narrowly specifies 12 children, some of whose parents had filed a motion with a state district court in San Antonio for their release from state foster care.
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