Donna Prato-Morrison and Robert Morrison engaged the services of a fertility clinic, to no avail, and ultimately abandoned their efforts to conceive, believing their unused genetic materials would be destroyed. When the clinic later became the target of an investigation into its widespread misuse of genetic materials, the Morrisons (along with many others) sued the clinic and ultimately settl

Appellant, Robert LeSage (Putative Father) appeals the judgment of the trial court granting Respondent's, Dirt Cheap Cigarettes and Beer, Inc. (Dirt Cheap) motion to dismiss based on Putative Father's lack of standing to bring a wrongful death action. We transfer to the Missouri Supreme Court.

Brandi Roussin (Mother) and her unborn child were killed during the course of a robbery while she was

John E. Young, Jr., the father of decedent, Brejonna Moniq Young, appeals from an order of the circuit court of Lake County that awarded him $8,000 as his share of a settlement obtained in a wrongful death action brought by Brandy Johnson, the mother of decedent and the special administrator of her estate. We reverse and remand with directions.

FACTS

On April 9, 1999, Brejonna died a

Appellant Victor Johnson of Arizona, putative father of a child born out of wedlock and subsequently adopted by a married couple, filed a complaint in the district court against the biological mother, the adoptive parents and The Adoption Center of Choice. He contended that the Utah Adoption Statue, as applied to him, violated the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Utah Code Ann. §§ 7

In this appeal, we consider whether a contract for legal services entered into on behalf of a minor is voidable upon a plea of infancy or subject to enforcement as an implied contract for necessaries and, if enforceable, the basis for determining value of services rendered.

I. Facts and Proceedings Below

Jonathan Ray Adams ("Jonathan") was born on April 5, 1980, the natural chil

The state sovereign immunity provision of the Eleventh Amendment, ratified in 1795 to overrule Chisholm v. Georgia, 2 U.S. (2 Dall.) 419 (1793), prohibits Congress from directing the federal courts to hear suits by citizens against a state or its executive, legislative or judicial departments.(1) On the other hand, the Fourteenth Amendment in Section 5, ratified 73 years later, partially abrogates

1 Michael M., father of Corianna M., born April 5, 2001, appeals from the juvenile court’s order of September 20, 2001, denying his request for visitation with Corianna at the Pima County Jail where he was then incarcerated. We agree with Michael that the juvenile court abused its discretion and therefore reverse.

2 The essential facts are undisputed. Corianna was adjudicated dependent

Appellant Sonia Rivero, Commissioner of the Virginia Department of Social Services, appeals from a district court's order awarding attorney's fees to Appellees Victoria Smyth, Patricia Montgomery, and their children, Angela Smyth and Casey Montgomery (collec- tively, Smyth and Montgomery) under 42 U.S.C.A. S 1988(b) (West Supp. 2001), which authorizes an award of such fees to the prevailing

The Petitioner and the Respondent entered into a Preconception Agreement in 1987. The Petitioner’s stated purpose for the agreement was that she wanted the Respondent to be the biological father of her child, whom she wanted to conceive by the “usual and customary manner.� She did not want to become pregnant through artificial insemination or adopt a child.

The agreement stated that i

This case originated on September 22, 1998, when Jones filed a petition to establish his paternity and obtain joint and residential custody of Walker's 4-day-old child. Numerous motions followed, the bulk of which are not directly at issue here, both before and after the parties reached an agreement on custody, support, and visitation. Walker had temporary residential custody of the couple's son.

After Father and Mother lived together for a period of time without being married, Mother gave birth to C.A.W. on May 20, 1997. They remained unwed, began to have problems with their relationship, and quit living together in December 1997. Upon separating, Father "packed up and left" taking C.A.W. with him. Apparently, Mother then sought and obtained custody of C.A.W. via a habeas corpus proceedin

Three law enforcement officers, acting on directions from two assistant state's attorneys, took Stacey Morrell's child from her home in Illinois and gave the child to his putative father pursuant to an ex parte order issued by a New Mexico court. In this appeal we must decide if Morrell has stated a claim for deprivation, without due process, of a constitutionally protected liberty inte

Section 6452 of the Probate Code (all statutory references are to this code unless otherwise indicated) bars a “natural parent” or a relative of that parent from inheriting through a child born out of wedlock on the basis of the parent and child relationship unless the parent or relative “acknowledged the child” and “contributed to the support or the care of the chil

This case requires us to decide whether the Commerce Clause empowers Congress to criminalize the failure to obey a state court order when the State itself has declined to do so. We hold that the Commerce Clause does not invest Congress with such a power.

I. Background

Timothy Gordon Faasse and Sandra Bowman met in a Michigan video store in 1989. The couple began dating, and in 199

Defendant Richard Murphy appeals a parentage order finding him to be the biological father of Eric Jones, the youngest son of plaintiff Julie Jones. Defendant asserts that the Orange Family Court was without jurisdiction to consider plaintiff's parentage complaint against him because: 1) a final divorce judgment between plaintiff and her ex-husband Jeffrey Jones had determined

The only issue presented in this case is whether, as a matter of law, plaintiff is precluded from bringing claims for intentional infliction of emotional distress and negligent infliction of emotional distress when also alleging a claim for alienation of affections. The district court found that plaintiff's claims for emotional distress were precluded and granted defendant's motion to dismiss thos

The appellee in this paternity/child-custody case, Bobby Woodall, is the putative father of two minor children. The appellant is the maternal grandmother of the two children. The mother died on October 5, 1999, during the birth of the younger child. The mother and the appellee were not married but were residing together prior to the mother's death. Appellee moved to Gentry, Arkansas, in December 1

Appellant’s action against respondent for breach of contract was dismissed after the trial court sustained a demurrer without leave to amend. We conclude that an agreement between the parties to grant appellant paternity rights to a child conceived by artificial insemination is binding, and may be enforced to the extent of an action for unjust enrichment. We therefore reverse the judgmen

Paternity - Connie gave birth to her daughter, A.M., on January 10, 1996. Connied married Mark Minton on December 15, 1995, and remained married to him as of the date of A.M's birth. Both Connie and Mark Minton testified that they did not have sexual intercourse at the time during 1995. One the other hand, both Connie and Marc Weaver testied that they had sexual intercouse approximately six or