SCOTUS won't intervene in custody dispute between California couple, surrogate

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to intervene in a multistate custody dispute involving a California couple and a surrogate. The conflict began after the surrogate, Alaska nurse McKenna West, refused the couple's request to terminate the pregnancy, resulting in the birth of a son in Texas. Justice Elena Kagan denied an emergency request from West to block a California court order that recognizes the couple's parental rights over the five-week-old child born from the arrangement.