ADOPTION OF GREGORY


434 Mass. 117 (2001)

ADOPTION OF GREGORY.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

May 15, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Christopher E. Lee for Department of Social Services.

Harriet Schechter for the child.

The following submitted briefs.

R. Scott Miller, Jr., for the father.

Susan F. Drogin for the mother.

Colby C. Brunt, Frank J. Laski, Miriam H. Ruttenberg & Leigh W. Mello for the Mental Health Legal Advisors Committee & another, amici curiae.

Present: MARSHALL, C.J., GREANEY, IRELAND, SPINA, COWIN, SOSMAN, & CORDY, JJ.


IRELAND, J.

This case raises the first impression question whether the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), 42 U.S.C. § 12132 (2000), applies to the termination of parental rights proceedings. The parents appeal from a judgment of the juvenile session of the District Court dispensing with their consent to adoption of their son pursuant to G. L. c. 210, § 3. We transferred the case to this court on our own motion. The father claims that the judge erred...

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