In a decision relying heavily on the 2015 U.S. Supreme Court ruling limiting liability for statements deemed opinions in securities suits, a Manhattan federal judge has dismissed investor claims against gold mining company Pretium Resources Inc.

Investors alleged that Pretium inflated its stock price as a result of material, uncorrected misstatements about the prospects at a mine acquired in British Columbia in October 2010. The company brought on consultants to the Bluejack gold mine project in 2012 to estimate its potential gold haul.

Public reports to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and elsewhere stated that Pretium estimated there to be millions of ounces of gold at Bluejack. But a consultant, Strathcona, resigned in October 2013 after telling Pretium that the sampling found “no valid gold mineral resources” and that public statements about probable reserves were “erroneous and misleading.” Strathcona had helped conduct a sample of a key area called the Valley of the Kings Zone.