(AP) – Attorneys are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review
an Arkansas ruling preventing married same-sex couples from getting the names of
both spouses on their children’s birth certificates without a court order.
Attorneys for the National Center for Lesbian Rights and two same-sex couples
are asking justices to weigh in on a December state Supreme Court ruling. The
state court reversed a judge’s decision to strike down part of Arkansas’ birth
certificate law.
The court filing argues that the ruling undermines the 2015 U.S. Supreme Court
decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide. The attorneys say it could
invite other states to deny rights to same-sex married couples.
Republican Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge’s office says she’s
reviewing the filing but remains confident in the state high court’s decision.
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