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· 7/6/1976

Adoption of Patricia Jeanine Walker

Citations

  • 360 A.2d 603
  • 468 Pa. 165
  • 1976 Pa. LEXIS 668

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that the Adoption Act's failure to require parental consent of unwed father as well as unwed mother violates Equal Rights Amendment
  • holding that the Adoption Act’s failure to require parental consent of unwed father as well as unwed mother violates Equal Rights Amendment
  • holding that Adoption Act violates Equal Rights Amendment by requiring parental consent only from unwed mother
  • Adoption Act's failure to require parental consent of unwed father as well as unwed mother violates Equal Rights Amendment.
  • Adoption Act’s failure to require parental consent of unwed father as well as unwed mother violates Equal Rights Amendment.
  • analysis of Article I, Section 28— equality of rights not to be denied or abridged because of sex of individual; statute held to be unconstitutional

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Judges: Eagen, O'Brien, Roberts, Pomeroy, Nix, Manderino, Jones

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