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MORALES v. TURMAN

Civ. A. No. 1948.

383 F.Supp. 53 (1974)

Alicia MORALES, et al., v. James A. TURMAN, Individually and in his official capacity as Executive Director of the Texas Youth Council, et al. v. UNITED STATES of America, Amicus Curiae, American Orthopsychiatric Association et al., Amici Curiae.

United States District Court, E. D. Texas, Sherman Division.

August 30, 1974.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter B. Sandmann, San Francisco, Cal., Steven L. Bercu, Richardson, Tex., William P. Hoffman, Jr., Washington, D. C., for plaintiffs.

John L. Hill, Atty. Gen. of Texas, Tex., Larry York, Joe B. Dibrell, Jr., Max P. Flusche, Jr., and Thomas W. Choate, Asst. Attys. Gen., Austin, Tex., Robert F. Salter, Staff Atty., Gatesville, for defendants.

Louis M. Thrasher, Michael Lottman, William Malcolm Logan, Jr., Daniel E. Maeso and Michelle White, Attys., Civil Rights Div., Dept. of Justice, for amicus curiae, United States of America, Larry A. Schwartz, Patricia M. Wald, for amici curiae, American Orthropsychiatric Association, et al.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

JUSTICE, District Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

If any parents shall wilfullie and unreasonably deny any childe timely or convenient marriage, or shall exercise any unnatural severitie towards them, Such children shall have free libertie to Complain to Authoritie for redresse. Massachusetts Body of Liberties, 1641, No. 83: "Liberties of Children." (Italics added.)

While there can be no doubt of the original...

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