Former NFL player Michael Oher, whose story is told in the 2009 film “The Blind Side,” is claiming the couple who took him in as a teenager misled and had him believe he was being adopted rather than being placed in a conservatorship. Civil rights attorney Kristen Gibbons Feden explains why such a claim is unusual and the difference between adoption and being placed in a conservatorship.
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