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Williams v. State

Citations

  • 18 N.Y.2d 481
  • 223 N.E.2d 343
  • 276 N.Y.S.2d 885
  • 1966 N.Y. LEXIS 919

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • “Being born under one set of circumstance[s] rather than another or to one pair of parents rather than another is not a suable wrong”
  • \Being born under one set of circumstance[s] rather than another or to one pair of parents rather than another is not a suable wrong\
  • action against the state which had custody of the mother
  • action against the state which had custody of the mother

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Bebgak, Bubkb, Desmond, Fuld, Keating, Scileppi, Vooíihis

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