The Supreme Court declined on Monday to take up an appeal from Carter Page, a former Trump campaign operative, who had sued former FBI officials after they surveilled him during the 2016 election cycle, CNN reported.

Page, who served as an adviser to now-President Donald Trump in 2016, asserted in a 2020 lawsuit that he was the victim of "unlawful spying" by the FBI while it was investigating whether Trump's 2016 campaign had conspired with Russia to affect the outcome of the election.

The lawsuit alleged a series of omissions and errors made by FBI and DOJ officials in applications they submitted in 2016 and 2017 to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to eavesdrop on Page on suspicion that he was an agent of Russia.

An inspector general report released by the Department of Justice in 2019 accused a former FBI lawyer of altering a document related to the surveillance of Page.

Page had sued the FBI and Department of Justice, but the lawsuit was settled by the Trump administration in April.

The lawsuit had previously been rejected by lower courts, and a federal appeals court in Washington ruled that a three-year statute of limitations barred the suit, CNN reported.

Page had appealed to the Supreme Court in December, arguing that the clock on the statute of limitations should have begun when the inspector general's report was released in 2019. The court rejected the appeal without comment, CNN reported.

Page denied any claim of improper ties to Russia and was never charged with any wrongdoing.

The court filing to the Supreme Court did not reveal how much Page settled with the Justice Department for, but a person familiar with the matter who requested anonymity to discuss nonpublic information said the amount of the deal was $1.25 million.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.