Notice to Parents: You cannot Excuse Your Voluntary Actions - In In Re Interest of Dustin H., the Supreme Court of Nebraska Finds No Excuse for Abandonment in a No-Visitation Order

Abstract

INTRODUCTION|Nearly eighty years ago, in 1923, the United States Supreme Court decided Meyer v. Nebraska, a landmark case from the State of Nebraska. In Meyer, Justice James McReynolds of the Supreme Court gave liberty a broad meaning and included the rights to marry and raise children as some of the essential privileges owed to a free man. Since that day, courts have continued to support the notion that parental rights constitute a fundamental liberty interest, which is protected by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment...