This week in Henderson v. Box, the U.S. Supreme Court reaffirmed that marriage equality is the law of the land and that states must provide the same rights to same-sex and different-sex spouses.
After the Supreme Court ruled in Obergefell v. Hodges in 2015 that same-sex couples had a right to marry, Indiana refused to list same-sex married parents on their children’s birth certificates.
Eight same-sex married couples in Indiana sued the state and won before the trial court, and then again in the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals.
The state of Indiana asked the Supreme Court to review the case in June 2020. The National Center for Lesbian Rights joined an excellent team of attorneys to represent the parents before the Supreme Court.