Facebook Inc. lost its bid to appeal a judge’s ruling in a class action over the Cambridge Analytica scandal, but the social media site is moving forward on bringing a separate privacy case before the U.S. Supreme Court.

On Thursday, U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria of the Northern District of California refused to grant Facebook’s request to file an interlocutory appeal before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Facebook is challenging the judge’s Sept. 9 ruling refusing to dismiss the consolidated complaint in the multidistrict litigation.

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