Legal Opinion
Cooney v. Rossiter
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided September 30, 2009No. 08-3675PublishedCited by 244 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
Deborah Cooney lost custody of her two sons after an Illinois state court found that she suffered from “Munchausen syndrome by proxy,” in which “an individual produces or feigns physical or emotional symptoms in another person under his or her care. Usually the victim is a young child, and the person producing the symptoms may be the child’s parent or caretaker, most often the mother.” American Medical Association, Complete Medical Encyclopedia 870 (Jerrold B. Leikin & Martin S. Lipsky eds.2003); see also Thomas Lathrop Stedman, Stedman’s Medical Dictionary 1906 (28th…
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