article_snippet.sent: two decades of litigation and a transformation in public .
article_snippet.sent: most notably in October 2014 when Top US court denied appeals in seven .
article_snippet.sent: cases on a single day.
article_snippet.sent: arguments an appeal of the sole decision from a regional U.S. appeals court that went the opposite way.
article_snippet.sent: Cincinnati-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit .
article_snippet.sent: children, have appealed the 6th Circuit's decision.