Culliton v. Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

We transferred this case here on our own motion to decide whether a judge in the Probate and Family Court had authority to act on the plaintiffs’ complaint that sought declaratory and injunctive relief by way of a judgment ordering the defendant Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (hospital) “to enter MARLA CULLITON as the mother, and STEVEN CUL-LITON as the father[,] on the birth certificates of unborn Baby A and unborn Baby B.” The children, twins, were bom while the case was pending appeal. They are the genetic children of the plaintiffs, who had embryos3 that had been created from the…