Last year the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Alabama must consider the arguments in a lawsuit about failures of the state’s unemployment system during the pandemic. This week an Alabama judge threw out the lawsuit.

“The Court finds that Plaintiffs have either been paid in full or received administratively final determinations on their claims for unemployment benefits,” said Judge James H. Anderson of Montgomery County Circuit Court on Thursday.

The lawsuit, brought by Legal Services Alabama, began in 2022 over errors and long delays in the state’s handling of unemployment benefits during COVID-19.

“Plaintiffs have experienced extreme delays at every step of the unemployment process,” the citizens stated in their 2022 complaint against the department.

In 2022 Alabama had a 127-day delay in

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