Ross v. Louise Wise Services, Inc.

Plaintiffs are suing defendant Louise Wise Services, Inc. (LWS), an adoption agency, for its failure to disclose to them certain information about mental illness and instability in the biological family background of the child plaintiffs adopted in 1962. In the 4V2 decades since 1962—spanning nine presidential administrations—the world has seen many dramatic changes, from the first moon landing, to the fall of the Berlin Wall, to the transformation of our understanding of the connection between a person’s genetic endowment and his or her mental and emotional development. The main question on…