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12 Colum. J. Race & L. [1] (2022)

handle is hein.journals/cjoral12 and id is 1 raw text is: COLUMBIA JOURNAL OF RACE AND LAW VOL. 12 JUNE 2022 NO. 1 A QUIET REVOLUTION: HOW JUDICIAL DISCIPLINE ESSENTIALLY ELIMINATED FOSTER CARE AND NEARLY WENT UNNOTICED Melissa Carter, Cristopher Church, & Vivek Sankaran Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. -C. S. Lewis1 I. In trod u ction ...................................................................................... . . 2 II. The Juvenile Court Judge: Gatekeeper or Collaborator.......................4 III. Judge Gray's Impact on the Orleans Parish Foster Care System........8 A. An Overview of Louisiana's Statutory Preadjudication Scheme .............................................................................................8 B. The Disciplined Legal Process Judge Gray Instituted ................10 C. The Outcomes that Followed Judge Gray's Reorganization of the Orleans Parish Juvenile Court Process for Civil Child Abuse and Neglect Proceedings ....................................................15 IV. Lessons for the Field.............................................................................18 V . C on clu sion ....................................................................................... . . 2 0 1 C.S. LEWIS, GOD IN THE DOCK: ESSAYS ON THEOLOGY AND ETHICS 292 (1970).