The Momentous Supreme Court Ruling You Totally Missed
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June 28 (Bloomberg) -- In the biggest U.S. Supreme Courtweek in years, with banner headlines on race and marriage, thecourt decided a small case no one much noticed. But in its ownway, it reflected societal changes as profound as those capturedin the court’s rulings on the Voting Rights Act and Proposition8.
At stake was nothing less than the question of whether abiological father who doesn’t support his child is really afather at all -- and the court, led by its younger conservativejustices, said he wasn’t.