In a split decision Thursday, the Texas Supreme Court upheld an Austin appeals court’s mandamus decision ordering the children who were removed from a polygamist compound to be returned to their parents. A lawyer in the case says the justices’ ruling will apply to all of the more than 450 children who are in state custody and will allow them to be reunited with their parents. A lower court had granted the state temporary custody of some of the children.
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