1. Why did the authors of the Constitution create the Full Faith and Credit Clause?

2. Why did Oklahoma refuse to recognize the California judgment?

Ebel, Circuit Judge

Defendant-Appellant Dr. Mike Crutcher sued in his official capacity as the Commissioner of Health (hereinafter referred to as “Oklahoma State Department of Health (‘OSDH’)”) appeals a district court judgment that a state law barring recognition of adoptions by same-sex couples already finalized in another state is unconstitutional. OSDH also appeals the district court’s order requiring it to issue a revised birth certificate for E.D., a Plaintiff-Appellee who was born in Oklahoma but adopted in California by a same-sex couple..