Samuel H. Sloan v. Maria Childress, et al.

Where the questions of the custody of a child have been decided by the Supreme Court of New York State, when may a family court of a county in Virginia take jurisdiction over a case and award custody of the child to unrelated third parties?

Where the Virginia Supreme Court has disqual­ ified a judge from hearing the case and the judge hears and purports to decide the case anyway what is the legal effect of the judges orders?

Where a child has been kidnapped from a foreign country and brought into the jurisdiction, and a Virginia judge was directly involved in the kidnap­ ping of the child, is the judge immune from suit and may the judge award the child to unrelated third partied.

Where as here the Amherst County Common­ wealth Attorney has decided that the courts of Virginia have no jurisdiction over the matter of the custody of a child, and has dismissed the proceedings brought in that county, may a Lynchburg judge take juris­ diction over the child and award it to unrelated third parties?

Where both of the parents of a child are devoted followers of the religion of Islam may a Virginia court order that the child be enrolled in a Christian church and school for the purpose of changing the religious beliefs of the child?

Where the parents of the child object to enrol­ ling the child in a Christian religious school and rather insist that the child attend general public school and the wishes of the parents are ignored what is the legal effect of the education of the child?

Where as here the child has only attended schools affiliated with Jerry Falwell and those schools are not recognized by the Virginia Department of ' Education, is a diploma issued by those schools legally valid and may the child attend higher education?