Supreme Court of Oklahoma October 29, 2002, No. 96,352, 96,362 (Widick v. State)

OPALA, J.

¶ 1 Certiorari was granted to resolve a point of federal constitutional law the Court of Civil Appeals (COCA) has overlooked in reviewing this case. The dispositive issue is whether the any-competent-evidence standard applied by the COCA in this parental-rights-termination case meets the level of appellate scrutiny mandated by the U.S. Constitution’s Fourteenth Amendment.