Who decides child's best interests? In grandparent visitation disputes, parents do, unless unfit, one court says

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The Tennessee Supreme Court has ruled in Hawk v. Hawk that giving grandparents visitation rights infringes on parents' privacy rights, and that privacy in this instance means parents can raise their children without outside interference as long as they are not child abusers. This decision struck down a Tennessee law giving grandparents visitation rights. Before the decision, courts were inclined to enhance grandparents' visitation rights. More than 10 other stated also have statutes giving grandparents visitation.

Cases, Visitation rights (Domestic relations), Grandparents, Parent and child (Law)

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Suicide or lynching? Human rights commission holds hearings on jail hangings

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The death of a black youth, Bobby Doctor, in custody in rural Mississippi in 1992 has led to a Department of Justice investigation of possible wrongdoing by jail officials. Jail officials and a local pathologist claim the death was a suicide, while Doctor's parents, civil rights leaders and an independent pathologist claim Doctor was murdered.

Investigations, Crime, Malpractice, Prisons, Lynching, Correctional personnel

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