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Supreme Court won't hear Arizona case on custody fight over tribal kids

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has refused to hear an Arizona case that pitted a non-Indian mother and Indian father against one another in a fight for custody of their children.

The decision Oct. 30 lets stand lower court rulings that invoked the Indian Child Welfare Act, a 1978 federal law that aimed to keep the government from breaking up Native American families except under specific circumstances.

https://www.nhonews.com/news/2017/nov/21/supreme-court-wont-hear-arizona-case-custody-fight/

 

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