Adoptive Family v Baby Girl - The Kind of Case Name

Biological father is a member of the cherokee nation, and there is a law from the late 19 seventies that makes it more difficult to take children away from native families. A south carolina court granted custody to the biological father, and the girl was taken from the adoptive family she had been with at the time for two years. Justice sam alido wrote for the majority that the child should be returned to the adoptive couple. This is an ugly case with a child caught between two sides. But the im rt of this case is bigger than one custody battle. This is a story of a herrific injustice imposed upon native american communities,. And how the court inverted the