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G.P. v. STATE

No. 4D02-3410.

842 So.2d 1059 (2003)

G.P., C.M., C.H., and L.H., Appellants, v. STATE of Florida, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

April 23, 2003.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lynn G. Waxman of Lynn G. Waxman, P.A., West Palm Beach, and Charlotte Danciu of Charlotte Danciu, P.A., Boca Raton, for appellants.

No appearance for appellee.

Siobhan Helene Shea, Palm Beach, for amicus curiae-FAWL & NOW.

Susan L. Stockholm of Susan L. Stockham, P.A., Sarasota, and Alice H. Murray of Robinson R. Harrell & Associates, P.A., Shalimar, for amicus curiae-Florida Adoption Council, American Academy of Adoption Attorneys, and Dave Thomas Adoption Law Center.

Randall C. Marshall of American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Florida, Miami, Emily J. Martin of ACLU Foundation Women's Rights Project, Mariann Meier Wang and Diana Kasdan of ACLU Foundation Reproductive Freedom Project, and Philip L. Graham, Jr., James Andrew Kent, Michael A. Cheah, and Kathrine M. Mortensen, New York, New York, for amicus curiae-American Civil Liberties Union & ACLU of Florida.

STONE, J.

We reverse a declaratory judgment in which the trial court found that sections 63.087-088(5), Florida Statutes, relating to private adoptions under the Florida Adoption Act, were not unconstitutional. The Attorney General of Florida has intentionally failed to file a contesting brief and neither the attorney general nor the Palm Beach County State Attorney appeared at the hearing below.

Appellants are four women who have each executed a formal consent...

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