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IN RE PETITION OF DOE

No. 76063.

638 N.E.2d 181 (1994)

159 Ill.2d 347

202 Ill.Dec. 535

In re Petition of John DOE and Jane Doe, Husband and Wife, to Adopt Baby Boy Janikova (John Doe et al., Appellees; Otakar Kirchner, Appellant).

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Rehearing Denied July 12, 1994.

Supplemental Opinions on Denial of Rehearing July 12, 1994.

Certiorari Denied November 7, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Loren L. Heinemann, Orland Park, for appellant.

Richard A. Lifshitz, Carolyn E. Winter and R. Peter Carey, Mandel, Lipton & Stevenson Ltd., Chicago, for appellees.

Edward J. O'Connell, guardian ad litem, and Patrick T. Murphy, Kass A. Plain, Lee Ann Lowder and Mary Kenney, Office of the Cook County Public Guardian, Chicago, for Baby Boy Janikova.

Bruce A. Boyer, Annette Ruth Appell and Zelda B. Harris, Chicago, for amicus curiae, Children & Family Justice Center of Northwestern University Legal Clinic.

Diane L. Redleaf, and Amy Zimmerman, Chicago, for amicus curiae, Legal Assistance Foundation of Chicago.

William E. Rattner and Kathleen Burch, Hopkins & Sutter, Chicago, for amicus curiae, Juvenile Protection.

Suellyn Scarnecchia, Ann Arbor, MI (Anne C. Auten, Kristen A. Donaghue, Keri Goldstein, Lara A.V. Hutner, Kacy Kleinhans, David A. Schwartz and Gregory J. Stanton, law students), for amicus curiae, Child Advocacy Law Clinic.

Joshua Mark Zucker, Chicago, for amicus curiae, Yale University Child Study.

Wyvonia Ford Bridgeforth, Oak Park, for amicus curiae, Legal Action Project.

See 115 S.Ct. 499.

Justice HEIPLE delivered the opinion of the court:

John and Jane Doe filed a petition to adopt a newborn baby boy. The baby's biological mother, Daniella Janikova, executed a consent to have the baby adopted four days after his birth without informing his biological father, Otakar Kirchner, to whom she was not yet married.

The mother told the father that the baby had died, and he did not find out otherwise

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