The State Department in August appealed U.S. District Judge Theodore D. Chuang's ruling in favor of Roee Kiviti and Adiel Kiviti of Chevy Chase, Maryland, who legally married in California in 2013.
Their daughter, Kessem Kiviti, was born in Canada via surrogate in 2019.Derek Mize and Jonathan Gregg, a gay couple from Atlanta, sued the State Department after it refused to recognize the U.S.
citizenship of their daughter, Simone Mize-Gregg, who was born in England via surrogate.U.S. District Judge Michael L. Brown in August ruled in favor of Mize and Gregg.Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund and Immigration Equality in a news release issued Tuesday, October 27, said the State Department will not appeal Brown's ruling.