The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear the defamation appeal of a former Kentucky Catholic high school student who sued multiple media outlets for their coverage of his standoff with a Native American protester in Washington, D.C., in 2019.

In an order list, the Supreme Court let stand a lower court's ruling to dismiss the $1.25 billion libel lawsuit that former Covington Catholic High School student Nicholas Sandmann filed against The New York Times, ABC News, CBS News, and Gannett.