Legal Opinion
Adar v. Smith
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided April 12, 2011No. 09-30036PublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EDITH H. JONES, Chief Judge:
Mickey Smith and Oren Adar, two unmarried individuals, legally adopted Louisiana-born Infant J in New York in 2006. They sought to have Infant J’s birth certificate reissued in Louisiana supplanting the names of his biological parents with their own. According to La.Rev.Stat. Ann. § 40:76(A), the Registrar “may create a new record of birth” when presented with a properly certified out-of-state adoption decree. Subsection C states that the Registrar “shall make a new record ... showing,” inter alia, “the names of the adoptive parents.” LaRev.Stat. Ann. § 40:76(C).…
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