From: "Deranged Mutant" <WlkngOwl@unix.asb.com>
Date: Sun, 2 Jun 1996 18:00:15 +0800
To: Duncan Frissell <frissell@panix.com>
Subject: Re: [Off-Topic]  "Curfews"
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On  1 Jun 96 at 21:59, Duncan Frissell wrote:

> I'm afraid that some courts have explicitly held that "the child does not
> have a right to liberty but only a right to custody."  That is old law,
> however.  Kids have lost many rights recently too including gun rights, etc.

....which dates back to laws that said women and children were mens' 
possessions.  Very archaic.

A case from several years ago comes to mind.  Apparently a federal(?) 
court ruled that a 16-yr-old girl's parents were in the legal right 
to burn her krshna books and ban her from practicing it. [There was a 
protest in downtown SF sometime in 1989 or '90 about this.]

 
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