Legal Opinion
Marcus W. Rankin v. Wayne Howard and Jane Doe Howard, His Wife Joseph Alexander, Sr. And Esther Alexander, His Wife
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided December 5, 1980No. 78-3216PublishedCited by 80 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EUGENE A. WRIGHT, Circuit Judge:
The parents of 22 year old Marcus Rankin, a member of the Unification Church, sought to have him “deprogrammed.” 1 They retained Howard, an Arizona lawyer, to institute a guardianship proceeding.
Howard filed a petition for guardianship with Judge Zeller, a nonlawyer probate judge in Pottawatomie County, Kansas. The petition falsely recited that Rankin was a resident of Pottawatomie County. Actually, he lived in Missouri.
On Christmas 1976, while Rankin was at home in Missouri, guardianship papers were issued ex parte by the Kansas judge. Young Rankin was then…
2Cases cited18 opinions
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- Bradley v. FisherSupreme Court of the United States · 1872
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