Texas Appeals Court Rules Revokes Texas Custody In Raid on Polygamy Compound

I already noted that the original complaint call leading to the raid was a hoax, and now the appeals court has ruled unanimously that, "the the state did not establish proper grounds to remove the children from their families."

The ruling — an unusual mandamus opinion granting relief in a case not yet decided — came on the application of 38 women who challenged state custody and another 54 who filed a second action. But lawyers said the burden was on the state to show why it should not apply to the rest of the children as well.

It sounds to me like someone was cowboying way too much on this.

Someone screwed up, big time.