Many of these seven defendants have filed other state appeals.

His father was a state appeals court judge and his mother was a psychologist.

A three-judge state appeals court panel decided last month it was fed up.

The Justice Department opposed the state appeal and asked the justices to affirm the lower court's decision.

Earlier this month, a state appeals court panel granted the union a temporary injunction to stop the city from going ahead with its plan.

The briefs in the first state appeal were written by four young radical lawyers, of whom I was one.

This has prompted state appeals for help from the federal government.

Special procedural rules apply to either type of state appeal.

The decision could be stayed if the state appeals before Sept. 9.

Rossum had exhausted her state appeals and turn to federal court.