Lawyers for the provincial government are expected to argue on Wednesday that the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal should hear the province's appeal of a lower court's ruling that two reports are admissible in a class action lawsuit over the use of birth alerts.

The proposed class action, Cheekinew v. Government of Saskatchewan, was filed on behalf of all persons who were the subject of birth alerts issued by the Ministry of Social Services.

The practice involved social workers or health-care workers placing alerts on the files of pregnant women who were considered to be at high risk, before they went into labour.

In Saskatchewan, the women were most often Indigenous, according to government data. The babies were often later seized by the government and put into provincial care.

The repres

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