http://bastards.org/bytes-constitutional-issues-and-open-records-for-adult-adoptees/ The Adoptee Rights Organization Sun, 15 Oct 2023 02:22:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://bastards.org/bytes-constitutional-issues-and-open-records-for-adult-adoptees/#comment-1208 Sun, 15 Oct 2023 02:22:01 +0000 http://besselworks.com/sample7/?page_id=2431#comment-1208 […] Their arguments were: 1) the interest of an adoptee in learning the identity of his or her origins is a fundamental right protected by the Due Process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment; 2) adult adoptees are a suspect or “quasi-suspect” class protected by the Equal Protection clause from discrimination; 3) sealed records violate the Thirteenth Amendment’s prohibition against slavery because, in abolishing parental relations, they impose on adult adoptees a “badge of slavery”; (4) sealed records deny adoptees the right to privacy accorded certain aspects of family life and procreation; and (5) sealed records deny adoptees the right to acquire useful information, which is a corollary to the right of free speech protected under the First Amendment. ALMA also lost at all judicial levels. ALMA Society Inc. v. Mellon, 459 F.Supp 912 (S.D.N.Y.1978), aff’d, 601 F.2nd 1225 (1979), cert. den. 444 U.S. 995, 100 S.Ct. 531, 62 L.Ed.2d 426. […]

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