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IN RE ADOPTION OF B.G.S.

Nos. 89-CA-2522, 89-CD-2797.

556 So.2d 545 (1990)

In re ADOPTION OF B.G.S.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

February 5, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tracy R. Bishop, Guy W. Smith, Simon, Peragine, Smith & Redfearn, Mark McTernan, McTernan, Parr & Ramage, New Orleans, for appellant.

Evangeline G. Abriel, New Orleans, Catherine L. LaFleur, Loyola Law School Clinic, Robin Shulman, Attorney at Law, for appellee.

Guy W. Smith, Tracy Bishop, Simon, Peragine, Smith & Redfearn, New Orleans, for applicants.

Evangeline G. Abriel, Catherine L. LaFleur, Loyola Law School Clinic, Mark McTernan, McTernan, Parr & Ramage, New Orleans, Robin Shulman, for respondents.

DENNIS, Justice.

The question in this case is whether the State may, consistent with the constitutional guarantees of due process, empower the mother of an illegitimate child to terminate the parental rights of the unwed father of the child without notice and an opportunity to be heard.

I. Facts

R.S., an unwed sixteen-year-old girl, discovered that she was pregnant in June of 1989. She decided not to tell her parents, Mr. and Mrs. S., because of...

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