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Supreme Court Declines to Hear Appeal in Disputed Afghan Adoption Case
The justices left in place a Virginia ruling that upheld the adoption after lower courts sided with the Afghan relatives on a six-month filing deadline.
- The Supreme Court declined Monday to hear an appeal in a disputed adoption case involving an Afghan child orphaned during a 2019 U.S. Army raid, leaving a lower court ruling in place.
- Military lawyer Joshua Mast and his wife adopted the girl after she was hospitalized at Bagram Air Base, despite State Department efforts during President Donald Trump's first administration to reunite her with Afghan relatives.
- The Afghan couple raised the child for 18 months, during which the Masts obtained a Virginia adoption order without notifying the relatives; the state's highest court later upheld this, citing a six-month deadline.
- A 2022 Associated Press report previously raised alarms about the case, though the Masts maintain they acted honorably, a position supported by veterans' groups and a former U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan.
- Now 7 years old, the child has lived with the family for years; the Masts dispute the Afghan family's kinship claims and argue that reopening the adoption would cause significant disruption.
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Supreme Court declines to hear appeal in disputed Afghan adoption case – WTOP News
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court declined Monday to hear an appeal in a disputed adoption case involving an Afghan child orphaned in a U.S. Army raid. The child’s relatives appealed to the high court after a U.S. Marine who helped evacuate them from Afghanistan took custody of the girl despite State Department efforts to...
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Supreme Court declines to hear appeal in disputed Afghan adoption case
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court declined Monday to hear an appeal in a disputed adoption case involving an Afghan child orphaned in a U.S. Army raid.
·Toronto, Canada
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