News Special… U. S. Supreme Court Reverses Alabama Supreme Court

I do not see this as a victory for LGBT rights but rather sates rights.

Supreme Court reverses Alabama court that denied lesbian woman's adoption
USA Today
By Richard Wolf
March 7, 2016

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday unanimously reversed an Alabama court's refusal to recognize a same-sex adoption.

The justices upheld a challenge brought by an Alabama woman after her state's highest court refused to recognize the adoption she and her former lesbian partner were granted in Georgia.

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Now that they have split, E.L. agreed with the Alabama Supreme Court, which ruled in September that Georgia mistakenly granted V.L. joint custody. E.L.'s lawyers 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."

Not so, the Supreme Court ruled. "A state may not disregard the judgment of a sister state because it disagrees with the reasoning underlying the judgment or deems it to be wrong on the merits," its reversal said. Rather, Alabama must give "full faith and credit" to the Georgia court's decision.

So even through this involved a lesbian couple the case revolved around the Article IV, Section 1 of the United States Constitution.