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BLUM v. PROBATE COURT OF CHITTENDEN COUNTY

Nos. 497, 498, Dockets 77-7215, 77-7267.

575 F.2d 50 (1978)

Jay BLUM, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. PROBATE COURT OF CHITTENDEN COUNTY, VERMONT, L. John Cain, Judge of Chittenden Probate Court, Joseph Handy, Commissioner, Department of Social Rehabilitative Services, Vermont, Dale and Jeanne Goldhaber of Burlington, Vermont, Robert Polworth, Clerk, Superior Court, Chittenden County, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided April 12, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jay Blum, pro se.

Thomas F. Heilmann, Valsangiacomo, Heilmann & Detora, Barre, Vt., on the brief, for plaintiff-appellant.

David H. Greenberg, Asst. Atty. Gen., Montpelier, Vt. (M. Jerome Diamond, Atty. Gen., Montpelier, Vt., on the brief), for defendant-appellee Joseph Handy.

Michael R. Gadue, Asst. Atty. Gen., Chief, Civ. Litigation Div., State of Vt., Burlington, Vt. (M. Jerome Diamond, Atty. Gen., State of Vt., Montpelier, Vt., on the brief), for defendants-appellees Probate Court of Chittenden County, Vt., and L. John Cain, Judge.

Richard C. Blum, Burlington, Vt. (Blum Associates, Inc., Burlington, Vt., on the brief), for defendants-appellees Goldhabers.

Before LUMBARD, MOORE and MULLIGAN, Circuit Judges.

LUMBARD, Circuit Judge:

This consolidated appeal from orders of the United States District Court for the District of Vermont, Coffrin, J., dismissing appellant's complaint and denying his motion to amend the judgment, involves a constitutional challenge to the termination of appellant's parental rights in Massachusetts judicial proceedings and subsequent adoption of appellant's son in Vermont pursuant to a Vermont judicial decree. Alleging that the Massachusetts termination...

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