The Supreme Court threw out on Nov. 22 Facebook’s attempt to shut down a shareholder lawsuit over a major data privacy breach.
The ruling leaves in place a decision last year by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit that requires the company to face the lawsuit.
The new decision came in the form of a one-sentence unsigned order in Facebook Inc. v. Amalgamated Bank stating that the “writ of certiorari is dismissed as improvidently granted.”
A writ of certiorari is a court order that allows the justices to move forward with an appeal.
A court dismisses a case as “improvidently granted” when it later decides it should not have agreed in the first place to hear the case at all….