SAN FRANCISCO — Consumers can join Samsung Electronics Co. in pursuing price-fixing allegations against three other manufacturers of flash memory cards.

The Ninth Circuit ruled Wednesday that U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White of the Northern District of California had erred when he ruled that purchasers of SD memory cards waited too long to bring antitrust claims against Panasonic Corp., Toshiba Corp. and SanDisk Corp. and their joint licensing ventures, SD Group and SD-3C.