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As a disclaimer every court in the nation can operate differently although they're all kinda similar.

Adoption records in the USA were sealed last century. Seems to be a temporary fad that's going away. Maybe it was a Spanish Flu thing.

Anyway if you try to pull my long deceased great-great-uncle's records for genealogy, they simply give you a negative result to the query, although "everyone knows" he was adopted.