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  • Judge: 2 adoptive dads belong on birth certificate

    12/27/2008 6:03:05 PM PST · by SmithL · 71 replies · 1,858+ views
    AP via SacBee ^ | 12/27/8 | JANET McCONNAUGHEY - Associated Press Writer
    NEW ORLEANS -- A same-sex couple in California has won a federal court ruling that their adopted son's Louisiana birth certificate must bear the names of both adoptive fathers. The facts are so clear that no trial is needed, U.S. District Judge Jay Zainey wrote. "What a great Christmas present for these guys!" said Kenneth D. Upton Jr. who represented Oren Adar and Mickey Ray Smith of San Diego. In his ruling Monday, Zainey said Louisiana's Office of Vital Records must give full faith and credit to the New York State court in which Adar and Smith adopted the boy,...