Rel: September 13, 2024

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SUPREME COURT OF ALABAMA SPECIAL TERM, 2024 _________________________ SC-2024-0089 _________________________ Ex parte E.C.

PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE COURT OF CIVIL APPEALS (In re: C.C.

v. L.B. and S.B.)

(Madison Juvenile Court: JU-21-73.01 and JU-21-73.02; Court of Civil Appeals: CL-2023-0189) STEWART, Justice.

WRIT DENIED. NO OPINION.

Shaw, Wise, Bryan, Sellers, Mendheim, Mitchell, and Cook, JJ., concur.

Parker, C.J., dissents, with opinion.

SC-2024-0089 PARKER, Chief Justice (dissenting).

I respectfully dissent. See Ex parte J.R., [Ms. SC-2024-0095, Sept.

13, 2024] ___ So. 3d ___, ____ (Ala. 2024) (Parker, C.J., concurring specially) (arguing that the best-interest-of-the-child standard is no substitute for the constitutional protections of parental rights).