LOS ANGELES – A federal appeals court has ruled against the U.S. State Department in its quest to deny the citizenship of one of two twins born abroad to a gay married couple.The 9th U.S.
Circuit Court of Appeals said Friday that a Los Angeles trial judge correctly concluded that 4-year-old Ethan Dvash-Banks was an American citizen despite being conceived with sperm of an Israeli father and born in Canada using a surrogate mother.The boy's other father is a U.S.
citizen, and the law does not require a child to show a biological relationship if their parents were married at the time of their birth, a U.S.
District Court judge ruled last year. The boy was granted a passport after the ruling, but the State Department appealed.A three-judge.