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We'll hear argument first this morning in case 12, 399 adoptive couple versus baby girl.

Hey everyone, this is Leon from Fiasco and Prologg Projects.

In this week's episode of 5.4, Peter, Rianne, and Michael are talking about a case called

adoptive couple V. Baby Girl.

On its face, it's a custody dispute between a biological father and the couple who adopted

his child.

But because the father was a member of the Cherokee Nation, the case had broader implications

for the legal protections granted to Native Americans.

The relevant statute at play was the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978, Iqua for short,

which was designed to address bias against Native Americans in the child welfare system.

The petitioners in the case were a pair of adoptive parents who argued that the biological

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