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Gays have always been among those least likely to be served by the courts. In the case of Bowers v. Hardwick in 1986, a 5-to-4 Supreme Court majority upheld a Georgia statute under which two men were charged with sodomy for practicing consensual sex in the home of one of them. Consistent with what one lower-court judge called this "criminalization" of homosexual acts, the Justices denied gays any but the lowest standing as a potentially disadvantaged group under the 14th Amendment. Since then, activists have achieved limited success with maverick lower courts by citing similar protections...
...made no effort to help raise? Robby wrote letter after letter to children's-rights advocates around the country. She talked to reporters. In January the Iowa Supreme Court agreed to hear the case, but the appeals process dragged on for months. Dan and Cara got married -- and waited to bring their daughter back home. That seemed all but assured when the Iowa Supreme Court upheld the lower-court ruling and said that while Dan's fitness as a parent was questionable and the court was tempted, for Jessica's sake, to leave her with the DeBoers, Dan's rights...
...Concerned United Birth Parents, they fought the DeBoers all the way to the Iowa Supreme Court, which ruled 8 to 1 last September in favor of the Schmidts' right to custody. The DeBoers then turned to Michigan courts and won a round last February when a lower court ruled that Jessica's best interests would be served if the child remained in Ann Arbor. That ruling was unanimously overturned last week by the appeals court, which sidestepped the merits of the case by denying the lower-court jurisdiction. Said Roberta DeBoer: "This is like death. Our daughter is dying...
...year-old mother using a false name abandoned her child in a New Haven hospital just hours after giving birth. More than five months later, she resurfaced and sued to regain custody of the child, who had since been adopted. Last December the state supreme court upheld a lower-court ruling granting her custody even though she was living in a shelter for the homeless at the time...
...MOST WOMEN'S RIGHTS ADVOCATES, THE DEBATE over abortion is about a woman's right to control her reproduction. But who decides in the case of an embryo conceived outside her body? In a groundbreaking decision, the Supreme Court affirmed a lower-court ruling that gives a man the right not to become a father against his wishes. Like thousands of young couples unable to conceive a child naturally, Junior and Mary Sue Davis had turned to test-tube fertilization. But when the couple divorced and couldn't agree who should control seven fertilized embryos they had frozen and stored...