Utah won’t appeal ruling in same-sex parents case

Associated Press | KSL Utah | July 21, 2015

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah will not appeal a judge’s orderrequiring the state list the names of a lesbian couple on a birth certificate as the mothers of their new baby.

Utah Attorney General’s Office spokeswoman Missy Larsen said Monday that the state wouldn’t contest the ruling in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling legalizing same-sex marriage.

U.S. District Judge Dee Benson said last week the case wasn’t hard to decide. Lawyers with the American Civil Liberties Union said the decision was the first of its kind since gay marriage was legalized.

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