DECISIONS & VERDICTS
Every day, every week, U.S. courts resolve individual human conflicts the stuff of the law that governs everyone else. Current examples:
¶ One spinster can adopt another at least in Maryland. For reasons of "in heritance and maternal feeling," un married WAC Sergeant Dorothy Libertini, 56, sought to adopt unmarried WAC Captain Frances Hagler, 35. A Baltimore court denied the petition, reasoning that Captain Hagler would, in effect, become a spinster's "illegitimate" daughter. Not so, ruled the Maryland Court of Appeals. Unmarried adults can adopt persons of any...