The Appellate Ruling
SCC appealed the district court's ruling to the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. As is usual for federal appeals in the United States, three judges—Gilbert S. Merritt, Jeffrey S. Sutton, and John Feikens (a district court judge temporarily assisting the appeals court)—considered the case. On October 26, 2004, the judges issued their ruling. Somewhat unusually, all three judges wrote opinions.
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