A Manhattan-based federal appeals court on Thursday rejected an appeal from a group of Connecticut state troopers who petitioned for attorney fees after securing a refund of collective bargaining dues in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark Janus decision, finding that it lacked jurisdiction to determine if they were “prevailing parties” to the litigation.

The ruling, from a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, left in place, for now, a district court’s ruling that the case was moot because the Connecticut State Police Union had refunded the current and former officers the full amount they had paid into collective bargaining, plus interest.