The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously sided with the maker of dietary supplements that promised greater “sexual energy” and against a lawsuit on behalf of customers in a ruling  over the timeliness of petitions to appeal of class certification orders.

Nutraceutical Corp. had asked the Supreme Court to reverse the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit’s 2017 decision allowing the plaintiff in a consumer class action to file an interlocutory appeal of a decertification order in a case over “Cobra Sexual Energy” pills. The Supreme Court on Tuesday found that the plaintiff had missed the 14-day deadline to petition for appeal under Rule 23(f) of the Federal Rule of Civil Procedure, which, despite the Ninth Circuit’s contrary view, was not subject to equitable tolling.

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