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A longThus ended in victory a five-running year legal case in the United States, finally resolved in 2009, when courts in the state of Oregon ruled that a parent could not compel battle to save a child over which he had custody to get circumcised against the boy's will[[foreskin]]. The case is of interest in its potential to limit the power of parents to impose circumcision and similar physical alterations on children boy's legal, constitutional and in its implicit recognition that children have their own human rights – prevailed over the father's claimed religious right to physical integrity and freedom of conscience and religion – independently of their parentsexcise a functional body part from his son' beliefs body.
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[[Doctors Opposing Circumcision (D.O.C.)]] filed two ''amicus curiae'' briefs in this case and was successful in protecting the boy's [[foreskin]] from [[circumcision]].