Legal Commentary

Parents Who Named Child ?Adolf Hitler? Lose Custody of Children, Though Based on Non-Hitler-Related Matters

By Eugene Volokh

NBC Philadelphia has the story; the New Jersey appellate decision itself is here. This family first made the news in Fall 2008, when a bakery refused to write the child?s name on his birthday cake. The appellate court held that the parents shouldn?t regain custody of the children, because of various abuse; the Nazi sympathies get no mention. The court also holds that ?evidence of prior domestic violence committed by defendant-father against his ex-wife and the two children of a prior marriage was admissible in this case to prove the risk of harm to these children.?

Thanks to Prof. Jared Williams for the pointer.

Full post as published by The Volokh Conspiracy on August 05, 2010 (boomark / email).