Casey HarperA mother denied access to her adopted child by Alabama’s Supreme Court appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court Monday in a case that could have big implications for same-sex adoption rights. The case centered around a lesbian couple who shared custody of three children but eventually split up. The Alabama Supreme Court heard the case and ruled in September that Alabama did not have to recognize the adoption made in Georgia, effectively stripping the adoptive mother of her rights to the children. “The Alabama Supreme Court had no legal ability to second-guess the Georgia court’s judgment. Now the adoptive mother wants her case to be heard by the Supreme Court, and a ruling there could settle it once and for all.