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U.S. Supreme Court won’t intervene in Alaska surrogate’s custody battle over Texas-born child (opens the original)
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to intervene in the custody battle between an Alaska surrogate and a California couple over a baby born in Texas with a heart defect. Without issuing an opinion, Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan denied Alaska surrogate McKenna West's emergency application for the court to pause a California court's order declaring husband and wife Omar Ahmed and Nausheen Gilkar the legal parents of a newborn boy to whom West gave birth last month. Kagan is the justice
Allen Premium Outlets argues it had no legal duty to protect victims in 2023 shooting (opens the original)
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Lawyers for Allen Premium Outlets told the Texas Supreme Court Wednesday the mall had no legal duty to protect those on their property during a 2023 mass shooting at the shopping center. High court justices heard arguments Wednesday in the 2024 lawsuit filed by families of several victims killed and some of those injured in the May 6, 2023 shooting in which 33-year-old gunman Mauricio Garcia killed eight people and injured seven before he was killed by police. Their suit alleges mall owner Simon
Alaska surrogate asks U.S. Supreme Court to intervene after Texas judge dismisses custody claims | Houston Public Media (opens the original)
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An Alaska surrogate who gave birth to a child with a rare heart defect in Texas asked the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene in the multistate legal battle over who has parentage and custody rights over the boy. Anchorage nurse McKenna West asked the high court to pause a California court order from last month ruling the child’s genetic parents — Los Angeles couple Nausheen Gilkar and Omar Ahmed — have legal parental authority, and West does not, according to a petition filed with the U.S. Supreme
What we learned at Tuesday’s tense, tearful Dallas hearing over Alaska-California surrogacy battle | Houston Public Media (opens the original)
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A Dallas judge will decide which of the parties in a high-profile, multistate parentage case can make medical decisions for a newborn baby boy with a serious heart defect: his genetic parents, or the surrogate that gave birth to him. Dallas County District Judge Ashley Wysocki heard arguments from attorneys on each side Tuesday, as well as testimony from the child’s genetic mother, Nausheen Gilkar of Los Angeles, and surrogate McKenna West of Anchorage, Alaska. Wysocki then extended for 14 days
Alaska surrogate, California parents head to Texas court in custody battle. Here’s what to know | Houston Public Media (opens the original)
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Attorneys for a California couple and the Alaska woman they hired as their surrogate are asking a Dallas court Tuesday to decide who can make decisions for a newborn baby boy with a heart defect. A judge will decide after Tuesday’s hearing whether to enforce a temporary restraining order preventing Alaska nurse McKenna West from seeing, holding, transporting or making decisions for the baby she birthed Aug. 12 in Dallas. His genetic parents, Nausheen Gilkar and Omar Ahmed, say they named the boy
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