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- Justice Elena Kagan rejected the surrogate’s request to intervene, letting the California parents keep custody.
- Surrogate McKenna West sought conservatorship to control the child’s medical treatment, requesting Kagan block the lower-court ruling.
- Doctors diagnosed the fetus with hypoplastic left heart syndrome, a life-threatening heart defect.
- Rumi was born in Dallas on Aug. 12 and received recommended treatment at Children’s Hospital.