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Supreme Court allows same-sex parents to be listed on Indiana birth certificates
High court rejects Indiana AG Curtis Hill s challenge to appeals court decision in favor of lesbian couple
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The U.S. Supreme Court has effectively upheld a lower court decision that allows both partners in a same-sex couples to be listed as their children’s parents on Indiana birth certificates.
The high court refused to hear a lawsuit over the issue, in which a legally married lesbian couple, Ashlee and Ruby Henderson, sued after being blocked from being listed on their son’s birth certificate.
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Indiana officials were seeking to undermine marriage equality, but the justices refused to hear the case.
Pictured: Jackie and Lisa Phillips-Stackman, one of the couples in the Indiana case, with their daughter
The U.S. Supreme Court won’t hear a case from Indiana that could have undermined marriage equality, as it sought to reverse a lower court’s ruling that both same-sex parents have to be listed on a child’s birth certificate.
The court Monday included the case,
Box v. Henderson, on a list of those it had turned down. It did so without comment, as is usually the practice. The justices’ vote was unanimous, despite the presence of three Trump appointees that gave the court a 6-3 conservative majority, the