Respondents: Review Not Needed For Use Of ICWA In Private Parental Rights Cases

(September 26, 2017, 2:20 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court need not decide whether applying the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) to private termination of parental rights disputes violates families’ due process and equal protection rights because the issues presented by two children fail to meet any criteria for high court review, an Indian tribe and mother say in their Sept. 18 brief in opposition to the children’s petition for writ of certiorari (S.S., et al. v. The Colorado River Indian Tribes, et al., No. 17-95, U.S. Sup., 2017 U.S. S. Ct. Briefs LEXIS 3600)....