U.S. District Court For The Northern District Of Texas Decision In Brakeen v. Zinke

This ruling was issued on October 4, 2018, by the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas. The plaintiffs in Brackeen v. Zinke are foster parents seeking to adopt a Native American foster child; the State of Texas is also a plaintiff. The defendant is the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Department of the Interior. The complaint was filed on October 25, 2017. At the time the complaint was filed the child was two years old, and had been with the foster parents since the age of 10 months. The child’s biological parents and . . .