Adoption lawyer faces suit from unhappy couple, and more

Adoption lawyer faces lawsuit from unhappy couple

A New York couple are suing the lawyers they hired to help them adopt a baby boy, on the grounds that the child is defective. Lynell and Victor Jeffrey say that if they’d known baby Ellington had serious neurological problems, they would not have adopted him, and now they want $5 million for medical costs and emotional distress. “Ellington is a wonderful little boy,” said Mrs. Jeffrey, “but this has been hard.”

Catholic Bishops nix the word "booty"

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The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has changed the word “booty” to “spoils” in a new translation of the Bible. “Booty,” to younger generations, connotes a portion of the body often shaken in time to music, rather than the spoils of war. “We needed a new translation because English is a living language,” said Bishop Richard Sklba.