Eng Wee Lem ex rel. Eng Set Kon v. Dulles

How courts have described this case

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• holding that relatives have no “right to intervene in a private adoption where there is no question of the fitness of the adopting parents or the correctness of the mother’s consent, but only the question of whether the grandparents have a preference”
• \In the absence of a statute giving the grandparents a preference ... where are we to stop in allowing relatives to block a proposed adoption? ... How can we draw the line at grandparents?\
• “In the absence of a statute giving the grandparents a preference ... where are we to stop in allowing relatives to block a proposed adoption? ... How can we draw the line at grandparents?”
• “[I]n the absence of any allegations of unfitness on the part of the adopting parents or any question relative to the mother’s consent or the termination of the putative father’s rights, there was no legal basis for the [grandparents’] petition to intervene.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).