Grishman v. Smith

It Steven Mark Grishman, Sol Howard Grishman and Marylynn Daniels Wesson filed a petition .for writ of mandamus seeking to have their respective birth parents’ names restored to their birth certificates. The writ was directed to Darlene W. Smith, in her capacity as State Registrar of Vital Records and Director of the.Center of State Registrar & Vital Records (“the State registrar”). Plaintiffs, alleged that their original birth certificates were improperly and/or fraudulently altered after the state registrar was presented with notarial acts of adoption, to which plaintiffs claim they did not…