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 has refused for now to block enforcement of a Mississippi law aimed at regulating the use of social media by children.

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.