(Supreme) Court Refuses Lesbian Lovers Case (child visitation)

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Court Refuses Lesbian Lovers Case

April 30, 2007, 11:46 AM EDT

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court on Monday declined to get
involved in a dispute between two former lesbian lovers over
visitation rights involving a 4-year-old child.

The child's biological mother, Lisa Miller, had asked the justices
to take the case because Vermont courts have ordered Miller
to allow her former lover, Janet Jenkins, to see the child,
Isabella, one week a month.

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Relying heavily on the rulings by Vermont courts, the Virginia
Court of Appeals said Miller is required to comply with
visitation orders of the Vermont courts under the federal
Parental Kidnapping Prevention Act.

Miller says the act conflicts with a more recent federal law,
the Defense of Marriage Act, on same-sex marriage. That act
says no state shall be required to abide by a law of any
other state with respect to a same-sex marriage.

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Read more: http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-scotus-lesbians,0,7533718.story

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Alternate AP headline: Court Refuses Child Visitation Dispute

[mainegreen]

1. What does DOMA have to do with parental rights?

You don't have to be married to be a parent or to have parental/guardian rights.
:crazy:
Good for Vermont, Virgina and the supreme court for understanding that!

[Kikosexy2]

2. I wonder if...

the Supreme Court would decline Mary Cheney if this was happening to her?...

[MrPrax]

3. You mean that if

Mary Cheney had spent millions not on the child she claims to love, but on a vicious custody case to control access to said child from the 'other' parent?

I certainly hope that SCOTUS would refuse and say quite bluntly -- if the VERY people involved in this dispute can't solve their problems, then what exactly should the Court decide.

OTHER THAN Make a whole host of 'same size fits all' precedences to fuck shit up for people that do come to their senses and solve their own disputes in such matters.