Breaking: US Supreme Court Sides With Lesbian Mom Over Alabama Supreme Court – For Now

The U.S. Supreme Court has just granted temporary relief to a woman suing for parental rights that the Alabama Supreme Court denied.

The U.S. Supreme Court has just granted temporary relief to a woman suing to retain her parental rights after the Alabama Supreme Court claimed a Georgia court had no right to grant them in the first place.

The woman, identified only as “V.L.,” is not the birth mother but had obtained adoptive parent rights in Georgia. The couple later split, and her same-sex partner, identified only as “E.L.,” won the Alabama Supreme Court case denying her parental rights as the adoptive mother.

E.L.’s attorneys “argued that ‘the Georgia court had no authority under Georgia law to award such an adoption, which is therefore void and not entitled to full faith and credit,'” USA Today reports.

The Supreme Court Monday morning temporarily restored V.L.’s parental rights as it takes time to decide if it will hear arguments in the case. It also place a temporary hold on the Alabama Supreme Court’s decision, which, as Chris Geidner at Buzzfeed reports, will terminate only if the U.S. Supreme Court refuses to grant certiorari – refuses to hear the case – or when the Supreme Court hears the case and renders its decision.

 

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