The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed Mississippi to enforce a state law that requires the nation’s largest social media companies to verify the age of their users and obtain parental consent for minors,

The Supreme Court declined an emergency request on Thursday to halt enforcement of a Mississippi law requiring age-verification for social media websites, allowing the statute to be enforced as litigation continues in a lower court.

The court refused to intervene in a decision that affirmed a Mississippi law requiring social media users to verify their ages