WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. Chamber of Commerce submitted a brief Monday asking a D.C. appels court to deny an appeal made by a large group of U.S. States to revive their antitrust case against Meta Platform (NASDAQ:).

Along with Computer and Communications Industry Association and Business Roundtable the Chamber argued that the judge in the District Court hearing the case had the right to dismiss it because the state hadn’t filed their cases in time.

Last July, Judge James Boasberg of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia dismissed the lawsuit by the states against Facebook. The judge stated that the states delayed in challenging the acquisitions of Instagram in 2012 and WhatsApp in 2014.

Boasberg dismissed another lawsuit brought by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. He allowed the agency refile its complaint for the states, but did not allow the state to do the same.

A group of 46 countries, Guam, and the District of Columbia argued that Boasberg made a mistake in concluding they had waited too much to file the lawsuit. They asked for an appeals court’s reinstatement.

Business organizations claimed further that the state was wrong when it argued Facebook had violated exclusionary behavior laws by executing what states called a “buy-or-bury” strategy. This position was deemed “dubious” and “dangerous” by the business organizations.