The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday said it would decide whether states may impose copyright protection on annotated codes of law and other state and local legal materials.

In Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org, the state urges the high court to reverse a decision last year by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. The appeals court, applying the so-called government edicts doctrine, invalidated the state’s copyright in the Official Code of Georgia Annotated. Georgia had sued the nonprofit Public.Resource.Org for alleged infringement after it posted volumes of the annotated code online.