The Florida Supreme Court could decide the fate of a rustic homestead where the late U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno lived for decades amid the sprawl of Miami-Dade County.

One of Reno's nieces, Janet M. Reno, has appealed to the Supreme Court in a case that centers on whether the property, described by a lower court as Reno's "historically significant homestead," should be donated to Miami Dade College or sold, according to documents posted Friday on the Supreme Court website.

Janet M. Reno has argued the property should be sold under the terms of a trust. But the Third District Court of Appeal in August sided with other Reno family members who have backed the donation to the college, whose Kendall campus is less than a mile from the homestead.