In a contested interstate adoption case that raised complicated questions about the intersection of federal and state law, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that the Indian Child Welfare Act does not automatically bar the adoption of an Indian child over the objection of her non-custodial biological father.

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A divided Supreme Court said Tuesday that federal law doesn't require that a Native American child be taken away from her adoptive parents and given to her biological father.

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A divided U.S. Supreme Court has overturned the South Carolina courts in the legal tug-of-war over a Cherokee girl named Veronica.

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“It’s like waiting on a jury. I feel like today the jury sent out a note and I’m frantically trying to respond to it,” said John S. Nichols of Bluestein, Nichols, Thompson & Delgado in Columbia, who represents the biological ...

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