Iowa: Same-sex “parents” win birth certificate caseUSATODAY.com: Ovrom’s 12-page ruling stops short of declaring a constitutional right for same-sex parents to be named automatically on newborns’ birth certificates. But it faults state officials for failing to correctly interpret older Iowa laws in light of the April 2009 Iowa Supreme Court decision that legalized same-sex marriages. | Lambda Legal press release | Gartner v. Iowa Dept. of Public Health, No. CE 6780 (Iowa Dist. Ct. Polk Co., Jan. 4, 2011) |