The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday reversed an Alabama Supreme Court’s refusal to recognize a lesbian’s nearly decade-old adoption in Georgia of her former partner’s three children.

“A state may not disregard the judgment of a sister state because it disagrees with the reasoning underlying the judgment or deems it to be wrong on the merits,” the court stated in an unsigned “per curiam” opinion released Monday, without dissents.

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