Change of Venue
A juvenile court judge in Ohio has refused to hear a child custody case. “The Franklin County Juvenile Court wishes to dump this 4 1/2-year-old case on another court in another jurisdiction simply because it does not wish to deal with the complex issues which are before it,” ruled Judge Robert Hoover. The complex case involves two lesbians who had a child by artificial insemination, and are now fighting over the little boy. Hoover said the “ostensible but misplaced reason” for moving the trial was “that it would be more efficient for the hearings to be conducted in Licking County.” (Newark Advocate) ...More likely, they just thought it would be funnier for a lesbian case to be heard there.
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