Nale v. Robertson

How courts have described this case

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• ruling that a Tennessee statute, which allowed adoption to occur before an unwed father's parental rights had been determined, was unconstitutional
• finding invalid a statute which allowed a court to enter a decree of adoption based on the best interest of the child without first determining if the biological parent’s parental rights should be terminated
• father timely filed notice with putative father registry but adoption agency did not learn of notice; adoptive parents told of father’s identity 3 months after child’s birth
• constitutional right of privacy includes parental rights

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).