· 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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