LEON HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR: A decision won't come until June, but the U.S. Supreme Court takes up the controversial issue of grandparents' visitation rights. Six of the nine justices are grandparents themselves. Senior Washington correspondent Charles Bierbauer joins us now from the Supreme Court, and he's got the latest. Charles, good morning.</s>CHARLES BIERBAUER, CNN SENIOR WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Leon. It's the kind of dispute you think should be settled around the kitchen table. We went up to north of Seattle last week to talk to the people involved, Jennifer and Gary Troxel are the grandparents. For them, it's a matter of grandparents' rights being able to visit with two of their grandchildren, Isabelle and Natalie, now 10 and 8 years old. From the parent's perspective, Tommy and Kelly Wynn, say: It's a matter of parents' rights that they should be able to decide when and how their children meet with the grandparents. This is a family that has complications that set in when the Troxel's son Brad committed suicide about seven years ago. And since then, the family wings have grown apart. It would seem two reasonably sensible positions, but you have to understand the family division. Now, out in Washington state there was a law which allowed individuals to petition for visitation rights -- excuse me -- sorry -- and in -- according to the Washington state law, anyone could petition at any time. But the Washington state supreme court struck down that law as being too broad and too vague. Every state in the union has some kind of visitation-rights law, and most of them deal with questions of whether the children are at harm or at risk; that's not the matter here. So while this seems like something, as I suggest, you might be able to solve in a little family counsel, it now comes before the Supreme Court, where, as you mentioned, Leon, six of the nine members are themselves grandparents. Charles Bierbauer, CNN, live from the Supreme Court.</s>HARRIS: All right, thank you, Charles.
U.S. Supreme Court Takes Up Controversial Issue of Grandparents' Visitation Rights