Judge Alito will be so pleased

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Originally Posted by Happy Monkey

It might make other custody battles more tenuous, but I would think that "decided by the Supreme Court" is as un-tenuous as parental custody can be.

Unfortunately, they didn't clearly rule. South Carolina said, the father gets the girl. The Supreme Court said, the law does not require taking the child away from the adoptive couple in this case--but having issued this ruling on the spirit of the law, they did not actually make a ruling on custody, they just kicked it back to the South Carolina court with their opinion added. Now, the South Carolina court may choose to re-examine the case in light of the Supreme Court's clarification and reverse their previous ruling, or they may decide to stick with their original ruling in favor of the father anyway.

It should be noted that I am strongly on the adoptive couple's side here. Aside from everything else fucked up about the situation,

Veronica is 3/256ths Cherokee.