US stepchild adoption valid in Italy

(ANSA) - Bologna, September 26 - A Bologna appeals court on Wednesday declared effective in Italy a sentence with which a US court authorised the adoption of a girl by an Italo-American woman married in the States to the girl's biological mother.
    ANSA sources said the judges therefore upheld an appeal by the woman, against Bologna city council and the Italian interior ministry.
    The ruling appears to have settled a case that began in 2014 and which Italy's Constitutional Court also got involved in, sources told ANSA.
    There has been a series of similar rulings around Italy.