The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday refused to take up the Justice Department’s challenge to a federal appeals court decision that lambasted government lawyers for their conduct in a case involving a former Stanford University graduate student wrongly placed on the “no-fly” list.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in January ordered a federal judge to take a fresh look at whether government lawyers acted in “bad faith” as they responded to Rahinah Ibrahim’s claims that she never should have been included on the list. The appeals ruling said the government for years had played “discovery games, made false representations to the court, misused the court’s time, and interfered with the public’s right of access to trial.”