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- From: garrod@dynamo.ecn.purdue.edu (David Garrod)
- Subject: Some Rulings
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.142432.6831@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 14:24:32 GMT
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- In response to an e-mail request I am posting some rulings I
- know off with regard to ncp rights.
- (I haven`t looked up in this are in 4 years or so, so they are a bit
- dated.)
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- Franz v. United States 707 F. 2d. 582 (D.C. Cir. 1983)
- Court held that ncp visitation rights were constitutionally
- protected.
-
- Ruffalo v. United States 590 F. Supp. 706, 709 (W.D. Mo. 1984)
- Court help tht an ncp could bring a specific cause of action for
- tortious interference with visitation. In order to sustain such a
- claim he had to establish the defendent`s interference was intentional
- and that he suffered compensable damages.
-
- Johannes v. Sloan (Cir. Ct. Kankakee City Ill, No. 79L0169, 1981)
- An ncp was awarded $150,000 in damages for emotional distress he
- suffered as a result of being denied visitation with his daughter.
-
- Quillon v. Walcott 434 U.S. 251, 255 (1976)
- U.S. Supreme Court held that the law should not differentiate
- between cp and ncp rights when deciding which rights are constitutionally
- protected.
-
- David Garrod
-