Originally Posted by kane

I'm not going to argue this, but this isn't really correct. It means that they chose not to hear it. It doesn't mean that the agree with it fully nor does it mean that they have ruled on it.

There was an obscenity case a few years back where the defendant won during the initial case then lost on appeal. They asked the Supreme Court to hear the case and were turned down. Why? Because the court felt that there were still other processes that could be handled at a lower court, not because they agreed with the ruling.