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IN RE ADOPTION OF BABY T.

734 A.2d 304 (1999)

160 N.J. 332

In the Matter of the ADOPTION OF BABY T.

Supreme Court of New Jersey.

Decided August 4, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David M. Fried, Chatham, for appellants P. and J.H. (Blume, Goldfaden, Berkowitz, Donnelly, Fried & Forte, attorneys).

Louis John Dughi, Jr., Cranford, for respondent Nishat Zedie, M.D. (Dughi and Hewit, attorneys; Marie Judith McCormack and Gary L. Riveles, on the brief).

The opinion of the Court was delivered by COLEMAN, J.

The issue in this wrongful death-medical malpractice case is whether a doctor being sued for causing the death of an adopted infant has standing to challenge the posthumous finalization of the infant's adoption. The Chancery Division, Family Part, concluded that there is no standing. A divided panel of the Appellate Division held that under the factual matrix of this case there is standing.

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