The Georgia Supreme Court has thrown out a lawsuit against telephone companies filed by county governments alleging they’ve been shortchanged by more than $100 million in 911 call charges.

The case is an appeal from BellSouth, AT&T and EarthLink seeking to overturn Gwinnett County Superior Court Judge Randy Rich’s denial of the companies’ motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought by the governments of two suburban counties, Cobb and Gwinnett. The counties sued the phone companies over the right to audit records in search of $50 million in alleged unpaid fees. Cobb and Gwinnett also sought to combine their lawsuit with others around the state, raising the stakes to about $100 million for three years of allegedly uncollected and unpaid fees.