Radiolab reports on Adoptive
Couple v. Baby Girl, an Indian Child
Welfare Act case that was heard by the U.S. Supreme Court last
month:
This is the story of a three-year-old girl and the highest court in the land. The Supreme Court case Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl is a legal battle that has entangled a biological father, a heart-broken couple, and the tragic history of Native American children taken from their families.
When producer Tim Howard first read about this case, it struck him as a sad but seemingly straightforward custody dispute. But, as he started talking to lawyers and historians and the families involved in the case, it became clear that it was much more than that. Because Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl challenges parts of the 1978 Indian Child Welfare Act, this case puts one little girl at the center of a storm of legal intricacies, Native American tribal culture, and heart-wrenching personal stakes.
Get the Story:
Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl
(Radiolab 5/30)
Oral Argument Transcript:
Adoptive
Couple v. Cherokee Nation (April 16, 2013)
South Carolina Supreme Court Decision:
Adoptive
Couple v. Cherokee Nation (July 26, 2012)
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Letter: Indian Child Welfare
Act designed to protect families (04/29)
Letter: Adoption lawyers circumvent Indian Child
Welfare Act (4/22)
Supreme Court
decision in ICWA case expected by end of June (4/17)
Jackie Pata: Baby Veronica and Native American
family values (4/17)
NARF/NCAI/NICWA:
Case shows ugly side of adoption industry (4/16)
Jacqueline Davis: An Indian family torn apart in
South Carolina (4/16)
Turtle Talk: More
interruptions for tribal interests in ICWA case (4/16)
SCOTUSBlog: No easy answers in Indian Child Welfare
Act case (4/16)
Supreme Court takes up
dispute over Indian Child Welfare Act (4/16)
Editorial: Supreme Court should take Cherokee girl
from father (4/16)
Editorial: Congress
may need to limit Indian Child Welfare Act (4/16)
Tribes gear up for big battle with Supreme Court's
ICWA case (4/15)
Column: Supreme Court
set to hear racially-tinged ICWA case (4/15)
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