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FILM

Mar. 1, 2014

Reel Law

Legal Moments at the Movie House

"Living in a world where he never sees anyone like himself might be kind of troubling, don't you think?"

Attorney Kadar Lewis (Samuel L. Jackson), representing a former addict who is black (Halle Berry), successfully argues in Losing Isaiah (1995) for removing her biological child from loving adoptive parents because they are white.


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