United States Fifth Circuit

In an action brought by same-sex, unmarried, adoptive parents in New York seeking injunction action against defendant, the Louisiana State Registrar, to compel her to issue a new original birth certificate for an infant born in Louisiana, summary judgment for plaintiffs is affirmed where: 1) Louisiana owed full faith and credit to a prior New York adoption decree; and 2) full faith and credit required Louisiana, under the plain language of its own statute and under the constitutional requirement of "evenhanded" enforcement of that judgment, to issue a certificate for the infant that listed both adoptive parents as his parents.

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/18/2010
• Published 02/18/2010

Judges

• WIENER, Circuit Judge:, Before REAVLEY, JOLLY, and WIENER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

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