The first child welfare case to reach the U.S. Supreme Court in more than two decades has prompted fevered debate among child advocates, but at oral argument last week, the high court’s justices questioned whether there is any live dispute between the parties.
“[A] case or controversy requires somebody on the other side who cares a fig about the outcome. And here … the young woman affected in the case … doesn’t care what the result of this thing is. … [S]he’ll never confront this situation again.”
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