Legal Opinion
Shaffer v. Jeffery
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Decided March 26, 1996No. 81275, 83219PublishedCited by 65 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SUMMERS, Justice.
The plaintiffs are six couples, each of which was hopeful of adopting a child. The defendants are Adam J. Jeffery and his former law firm. It is alleged that Jeffery developed a pattern of collecting fees from couples wanting to adopt, in return for his assurances that a child would soon be available for adoption, replete with fictitious promises from non-existent birth mothers and status reports on imaginary pregnancies. When time passed and it become clear there were no babies to adopt the would-be parents filed suit in state court.1
Their petitions seek rescission of the…
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3Cited by65 opinions
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