Arkansas' birth-certificate system -- deemed illegally flawed by the U.S. Supreme Court -- will have to be shut down unless the lawyers involved in litigation over the process come up with a way ...

Arkansas’ governor ordered health officials on Friday to treat married lesbian and heterosexual couples the same when listing the parents on a birth certificate, in an effort to comply with a ...

As a result, same-sex parents in Arkansas lack the same right as opposite-sex parents to be listed on a child’s birth certificate, a document often used for important transactions like making ...

The state’s highest court overturned a lower judge’s ruling that struck down part of the state’s birth certificate law that defines parents by gender. Republican Arkansas Attorney General ...

The issue was before the nation's highest court after Arkansas justices found the state's birth-certificate program to be legal. Three same-sex couples sued the Arkansas Department of Health over ...

In June, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected Arkansas’ requirement that married lesbian couples had to obtain a court order to have both spouses listed on a birth certificate. Justices said the ...

Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Tuesday signed a bill into law that bars transgender people from using school restrooms that do not align with the sex listed on their birth certificate ...

Arkansas's highest court ruled that gays and lesbians who are married but not biologically related to their kids don't have a constitutional right to be included in the children's birth ...

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has ruled for same-sex couples who complained an Arkansas birth certificate law discriminated against them. The justices on Monday issued an unsigned opinion ...

NEXT-DAY SERVICE: That’s what Heath Carpenter got when he requested a birth certificate for one of his children in Florida. He could be waiting months for records on his Arkansas-born children.

The state's highest court overturned a lower judge's ruling that struck down part of the state's birth certificate law that defines parents by gender. Republican Arkansas Attorney General Leslie ...