Supreme Court declines to hear Google appeal

The Supreme Court on Monday dealt Google a loss when it declined to hear the company’s argument against a class-action case related to its advertising business.

A group of advertisers brought the class action against the company for allegedly misleading them about how their advertisements would be placed on the web. They say they weren’t told that some ads would appear on error pages or other undesirable locations.

{mosads}A court agreed with Google in 2012 that it the lawsuit shouldn’t be treated as a class action. But last year, an appeals court said the case could proceed, and the high court’s decision on Monday lets that 2015 ruling stand.

A 2011 ruling requires class-action defendants to be making similar claims, according to Reuters. The 2012 ruling, in Google’s favor, said the case could not be a class-action because the different plaintiffs would not have been paying the same rates of the ads, the outlet reported.

A Google spokesperson said the company did not comment on pending litigation.

The company has branched out into other businesses and is now a subsidiary of holding company Alphabet, but it still makes a huge amount of revenue from advertising. Alphabet brought in $18 billion through advertising in the first quarter of 2016.

Updated at 1:42 p.m.