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Friday, August 04, 2006
Ind. Decisions - Supreme Court denies transfer in the Morgan County same-sex adoption case [Corrected]
Exclusive. The Indiana Supreme Court, apparently late yesterday, denied transfer in the Morgan County same-sex adoption case, In the Matter of Infant Girl W.
Here is the April 13th Court of Appeals ruling (3rd case).
This week's transfer list is not yet available, but the dockets show that the votes were 3 to deny transfer, 1 to grant (Dickson), and one abstention (Sullivan). Here is the 49A docket; here is the 55A docket; the cases were consolidated under the latter number.
Justice Dickson wrote a dissent, which is available here. J. Dickson references the Court's Nov. 23, 2005 decision in King v. S.B. For more on that ruling, see this ILB entry from the same date, and this one from Nov. 28, 2005.
For background, here is a list of some relevant ILB entries.
[Correction] Thanks to an unidentified caller who left me a voice-mail message, I am able to correct an error in the above report. In In re W., the 49A case out of Marion County, Justice Sullivan abstained. But in the 55A case out of Morgan County, Justice Sullivan did not abstain, and the vote was 4-1 to deny transfer.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on August 4, 2006 07:08 AM
Posted to Ind. Sup.Ct. Decisions