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...little boy is caught up in a high-profile tug-of-war between two families and two cultures. A parent wants him back, but politically influential adults say they can offer him a better life. This might sound like Elian Gonzalez, but instead it's the case all of Chicago was talking about last week: Baby T, the toddler taken from a drug-abusing black mother and given to a powerful white Democratic politician and his wife, a state court judge...
...hard to be against grandparent visits; that's one reason all 50 states have passed laws allowing suits like the Troxels'. But it's also easy to understand Tommie Granville's argument that as the parent, she should be the one to decide how her children are reared. Granville, whose new husband adopted the girls, says she always wanted the Troxels to be involved with her children, but she disagreed with the extent and timing of their visitation demands. Says her lawyer, Catherine Smith: "The grandparents were not denied access. She went to them and said, 'How about one week...
...other cases, homosexuals want the government's help. In visitation cases, they often argue that they have had a parental relationship and should remain part of the child's life. Penny Kazmierazak went to court last year seeking custody of Zoey, a five-year-old girl born to her partner before the couple's breakup. Kazmierazak and Pam Query had been together five years when Query underwent artificial insemination. Despite Kazmierazak's role in Zoey's birth (she paid for the insemination) and years of parenting, a Florida court turned her down because she wasn't a birth parent...
Smith chairs Harcourt General Inc., a Fortune 500 company with interests in publishing and educational materials. He has also served as chair and CEO of The Neiman Marcus Group and GC Companies, Inc., the parent company of General Cinemas...
...leave aside for a moment the five lawsuits (and counting) that have been filed in the Delaware Court of Chancery protesting the purchase of Time Warner (TIME Digital's parent company) by AOL. One company that's famously litigious in the protection of its assets is Apple, and with the impending debut of its all-new operating system, code-named Aqua, Apple is cracking down on anyone who might infringe on its "look and feel." Its latest target is skinz.org, a site that offers software designed to make Microsoft's Windows operating system look and feel just like Aqua...