Tag Archives: adoption

On Nov. 18, the United States celebrated National Adoption Day, which is held annually on the Saturday before Thanksgiving. Many local courts across Maryland and around the country celebrate National Adoption Day by having adoption hearings and special events. This ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Appellate judges have revived a couple’s lawsuit that alleges a state-sponsored Christian adoption agency wouldn’t help them because they are Jewish and argues that a Tennessee law protecting such denials is unconstitutional. Last week a three-judge panel ...

Where the state of Ohio terminated the parental rights of then four-year-old plaintiff’s biological parents, the state took on an affirmative constitutional duty not to make a foster placement that was deliberately indifferent to plaintiff’s right to personal safety and ...

GREAT FALLS, Montana — A pair of Darth Vaders strode up the aisle of the Cascade County District Courthouse in Great Falls last month to the opening drumbeats of the Imperial March. Where the prosecuting attorneys normally sit, twin lightsabers ...

Stranded in Nigeria for months, a Colorado couple had a rare chance to catch an evacuation flight to the U.S. recently during the coronavirus outbreak. But they refused because they would have had to leave behind their adopted daughter, who ...

A Georgia couple who traveled to India to adopt a child have had to delay bringing their new daughter back to the United States after Indian authorities locked down the country because of the coronavirus. India’s Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, ...

PHOENIX — The discovery of thousands of files related to an Arizona elected official’s adoption business on a government laptop cemented a panel’s decision last month to uphold his suspension and push for his removal. Members of the Maricopa County ...

LANSING, Michigan — Religious-based adoption agencies that contract with the state of Michigan will be allowed to refuse to place children in LGBT homes under a preliminary injunction issued by a federal judge. District Judge Robert Jonker in Grand Rapids ...

NEW ORLEANS — A 1978 law giving preference to Native American families in foster care and adoption proceedings involving American Indian children is constitutional, a federal appeals court ruled Aug. 9, reversing a lower court judge in a case fraught ...

RICHMOND, Virginia — A grandmother who violated child protective orders by allowing the parents to vacation with the children, and who, in the opinion of an evaluator, overestimated her ability to meet the demands of the growing children, was not ...