A U.S. judge has dismissed the lawsuit of a college student who was deported to Honduras after she declined to board a government-arranged flight back to the United States, acknowledging that her decision left the court without jurisdiction.

The student, 20-year-old Any Lucia Lopez Belloza, a freshman at Babson College, had been ordered to return to the United States after being deported in February. However, she refused to board the flight arranged by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on February 27, saying officials had indicated she could be deported again if she returned.

Lopez Belloza, who moved to the United States from Honduras at the age of eight, argues she was unaware of a final removal order issued when she was 11.

Her legal team had asked Boston-based U.S. District Judge Richard Stearns to allow the lawsuit to continue. The case was filed after immigration authorities detained her at Boston’s Logan International Airport in November while she was traveling to Texas for Thanksgiving.

Judge Stearns reaffirmed his earlier ruling that the court lacked jurisdiction over the detention case because Lopez Belloza had already been transferred to Texas by the time the lawsuit was filed. The only remaining legal basis for the case would have been to enforce an order issued by another judge that temporarily barred her deportation from Massachusetts. Despite that order, immigration officials later flew her to Honduras.

A U.S. government attorney later acknowledged an error, saying an ICE officer failed to properly notify colleagues about the judicial order.

On February 13, Judge Stearns ordered the administration to correct the mistake by facilitating Lopez Belloza’s return to the United States. The government proposed transporting her on an ICE flight from Honduras to Texas, but officials also stated that they intended to detain and process her for possible deportation once she arrived.

Fearing renewed deportation, Lopez Belloza declined to board the flight and remained in Honduras.

“The sad truth is that when Any declined the flight, she also waived this court’s only remaining basis for jurisdiction,” Judge Stearns wrote in his ruling.

He added that if she had boarded the flight, the order preventing immediate deportation would have remained in effect, giving her time to file a new legal challenge in Texas.

Lopez Belloza’s attorney, Todd Pomerleau, said he plans to appeal the decision.