O'Hearn v. Spence-Chapin Services to Families & Children, Inc.

OPINION AND ORDER

KOELTL, District Judge:

The plaintiff Deborah O’Heam is an adopted child. She alleges that she contacted the defendant Spence-Chapin Services to Families and Children, Inc. (“Spence-Chapin”), an adoption agency, in 1988 when she was 20 years old to attempt to learn the identity of her natural mother. Spence-Chapin provided only non-identifying information. In 1992, the plaintiff hired a private investigation agency which was able to locate her mother, Ann Larkin Esposito. Before the plaintiff could meet Esposito, however, Esposito died.

The plaintiff alleges that in 1968…