ADOPTION OF MICHAEL H.

Docket No. S039871.

10 Cal.4th 1043 (1995)

898 P.2d 891

43 Cal. Rptr.2d 445

Adoption of MICHAEL H., a Minor. JOHN S. et al., Plaintiffs and Appellants, v. MARK K., Defendant and Respondent.

Supreme Court of California.

July 31, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Janis K. Stocks, Douglas R. Donnelly, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, William F. Abrams and Carl W. Chamberlin for Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Elizabeth E. Bader, Melisa Bauman Ward, Mary Patricia Hough, Michael Willemsen, Van Deusen, Youmans, Walmsley, Robert R. Walmsley, Ted R. Youmans and Tisha Harman as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiffs and Appellants.

Paula C. Mendell and Carmela F. Simoncini, under appointments by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Respondent.

Steven A. Schutte, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Minor.

Robert C. Fellmeth and Kathleen Murphy Mallinger as Amici Curiae on behalf of Minor.

Lloyd M. Harmon, Jr., County Counsel (San Diego), Susan Strom, Chief Deputy County Counsel, and Kathryn E. Krug, Deputy County Counsel, as Amici Curiae.


OPINION

MOSK, J.

In this appeal we further clarify the circumstances (see Adoption of Kelsey S. (1992) 1 Cal.4th 816 [4 Cal.Rptr.2d 615, 823 P.2d 1216] (hereafter Kelsey S.)) in which an unwed biological father has a right under the due process and equal protection clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment...

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