Jech v. Burch

How courts have described this case

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• holding that parents’ right to name their child fell within the liberty interest protected by the Fourteenth Amendment
• “[P]arents have a common law right to give their child any name they wish, and [] the Fourteenth Amendment protects this right from arbitrary state action.”
• “[P]arents have a common law right to give their child any name they wish, and [] the Fourteenth Amendment protects this right from arbitrary state action.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).