State Supreme Court rules against Henri Brooks in adoption scandal suit
Shelby County Commissioner Henri E. Brooks (left) sought to sue the state for its role in the Tennessee Children’s Home Society black market adoption scandal. Brooks learned three years ago, when she was 72, that she was adopted through the organization after being taken from her teenage mother. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian file)
The Tennessee Supreme Court will not hear Shelby County Commissioner Henri Brooks’ civil lawsuit over her adoption as an infant through the Tennessee Children’s Home Society.
The court ruled without comment last month that it will not hear an appeal. A lower court dismissed the case in January.
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.
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