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(CC 16DR18690; 16DR19349) (SC S068780).

539 P.3d 722 (2023)

371 Or. 573

In the MATTER OF the Parentage of S.D.S., a Minor Child. Cory Noel Sause, Petitioner on Review, and Jordan Director Schnitzer, Respondent on Review. In the Matter of the Parentage of S.D.S., a Minor Child. Jordan Director Schnitzer, Respondent on Review, and Cassondra Lynn Gibeaut and Charles Burett Gibeaut, Petitioners below, and Cory Noel Sause, Petitioner on Review, and Dale C. Sause and Heidi N. Sause Respondents below.

Supreme Court of Oregon.

November 28, 2023.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. Robert Steringer , Harrang Long Gary Rudnick P.C., Portland, argued the cause and filed the briefs for petitioner on review. Also on the briefs were James E. Mountain and Erica R. Tatoian , Harrang Long Gary Rudnick, and Thomas McDermott and Jay Beattie , Lindsay Hart, LLP, Portland.

James N. Westwood , Stoel Rives LLP, Portland, argued the cause and filed the brief for respondent on review. Also on the brief was Crystal S. Chase , Stoel Rives LLP.

Robin E. Pope , Portland, filed the brief for amici curiae Academy of Adoption and Assisted Reproduction Attorneys, RESOLVE: The National Infertility Association, and The American Society for Reproductive Medicine.

Before Flynn, Chief Justice, and Duncan, Garrett, Bushong, and James, Justices, and Linder and Balmer, Senior Judges, Justices pro tempore.

This case concerns the parentage of a child conceived through assisted reproductive technology (ART). Schnitzer, one party in this case, wanted to have a son. Because he was single, he planned to use his own sperm, an egg donor, and a gestational carrier. Sause, the other party, contributed her eggs to Schnitzer's effort. Through the...

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