Lehr v. Robertson

Supreme Court of the United States · Decided 1983-06-27

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Justice Stevens delivered the opinion of the Court. The question presented is whether New York has sufficiently protected an unmarried father’s inchoate relationship with a child whom he has never supported and rarely seen in *250 the two years since her birth. The appellant, Jonathan Lehr, claims that the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the…

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