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Decided December 3, 1968.
Decided December 3, 1968.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Frank M. Kratovil and Norman Dorsen, with whom was Lois P. Sheinfeld on the brief, for infant appellants, Cheryl Cager and others.
John J. Sexton, with whom were David Tillotson, Frank Reeves, Charles Dukes, Jr., Gerald Smith, James O. Freedman, Jack Greenberg, Leroy D. Clark, Philip G. Schrag and W. Haywood Burns on the brief, for appellants Barbara Jean Cager, Doris L. Patterson, and Brenda LaVerne Jackson.
Joseph R. Raymond, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Francis B. Burch, Attorney General, Arthur A. Marshall, Jr., State's Attorney for Prince George's County, and Vincent J. Fermia, Assistant State's Attorney for Prince George's County, on the brief, for appellee.
Amicus Curiae brief filed by Washington Chapter of the Medical Committee for Human Rights. Harold P. Green, Patricia H. Latham and James B. Blinkoff on the brief.
Amicus Curiae brief filed by Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc., Planned Parenthood Association of Maryland, Inc., and Planned Parenthood of Metropolitan Washington, D.C., Inc. Bernard W. Rubenstein and Edelman, Levin, Levy & Rubenstein, and Greenbaum, Wolff & Ernst, Harriet F. Pilpel and Nancy F. Wechsler on the brief.
The cause was argued before HAMMOND, C.J., and BARNES, McWILLIAMS, SINGLEY and SMITH, JJ.
Court of Appeals of Maryland.
HAMMOND, C.J., delivered the opinion of the Court. BARNES, J., dissented and filed a dissenting opinion. (See p. 486 infra.)
The Circuit Court for Prince George's County, proceeding under Code (1966 Repl. Vol.), Art. 26, §§ 51 through 71, "Juvenile Causes," and particularly § 52 (f) "Neglected child,"1 found various young illegitimate infants to be living in an unstable moral...
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