Authority: United States District Court for the District of South Carolina Columbia Division

Date: 02/15/2017

Subject: The decision of the United States District Court for the District of South Carolina Columbia Division, according to which the exclusion from the birth certificate of the name of the same-sex spouse violated the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, having regard to the different treatment granted to opposite-sex married couples

Parties: Casy Carson and Jacqueline Carson, on their own behalf and as next friends of S.B.C. and S.D.C. vs. Catherine E. Heigel, in her official capacity as Director of the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control and State Registrar of Vital Statistics

Original language: English

Classification: Freedoms - Art. 9 Right to found a family - Equality - Art. 21 Non discrimination

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