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> Date: Thu, 25 Jul 1996 21:45:18 EDT
> From: AACR76A@prodigy.com ( L ANNE   BABB)
> To: jkelly@wimsey.com
> Subject: AAC TENNESSEE UPDATE #2
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July 25, 1996
As Kate Burke, AAC's TENOR coordinator has announced, today Judge Nixon 
turned down the motions to intervene in the pending class action lawsuit 
filed by the American Center for Law & Justice on behalf of birth mother 
Promise Doe and others seeking to disable the adoption records access portion 
of TN's 1995 adoption law.
The judge allowed the AAC and TN Coalition for Adoption Reform (TNCAR) to 
have Amicus Curiae (Friend of the Court) status.
At today's hearing, as Kate wrote, Judge Nixon stated that he would issue a 
written decision in a timely manner. Following that decision,Judge Nixon then 
partially lifted the restraining order he had issued the last week of June, 
which barred the TN DHS from disseminating information about the new law and 
releasing adoption records to those individuals entitled to have them. Today, 
Judge Nixon said that TN DHS could once again disseminate information about 
the new law, its implementation, and who it affects. Though DHS cannot 
release the records in question to applicants, Judge Nixon has said DHS can 
now once again accept applications for the information and release facts 
about the new law.
The Brief Amicus Curiae filed by TN attorney Robert Tuke in defense of the TN 
law, and other documents related to the case, can now be read at the AAC's 
"Tennessee Complaint" pages at:
              http://pages.prodigy.com/adoptreform/tncomp.htm.
L. Anne Babb, Ph.D.
President, American Adoption Congress
aacr76a@prodigy.com
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