(Bloomberg) -- The US Supreme Court refused to consider giving a key procedural boost to Exxon Mobil Corp. and other defendants in a Minnesota lawsuit that blames the oil industry for climate change.

Exxon, Koch Industries Inc. and the American Petroleum Institute were seeking to shift the suit from Minnesota state court to federal court, where corporate defendants often fare better. The justices turned down the group’s appeal without explanation. Justice Brett Kavanaugh said he would have heard the case.

Exxon and its allies argued in the appeal that the suit is governed entirely by federal law, giving the defendants the right to move the case out of state court.

The high court rebuff follows similar rejections in April in about two dozen other lawsuits against the oil industry.

The case is American Petroleum Institute v. State of Minnesota, 23-168.

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