Box v. Henderson
Complaint filed 2/13/2015; Circuit court ruling issued 11/6/2020; SCOTUS denied cert 12/14/20
After the landmark Obergefell v. Hodges ruling in 2015, the Indiana Department of Vital Records refused to place same-sex spouses on their children’s birth certificates as they do for different-sex spouses. NCLR helped represent eight female same-sex couples seeking to be recognized on their children’s birth certificates. In 2016, the Court ordered the state to begin placing the spouses of people who give birth on their children’s birth certificate regardless of the gender of the spouse, which the state appealed. The state lost their appeal, then petitioned the US Supreme Court to hear the case. On 12/14/20 the Supreme Court denied the petition, upholding the Circuit Court’s opinion that Indiana must list same-sex spouses on their children’s birth certificates in the same manner that it does for different-sex spouses.
