Miami Twp. continues to face responsibility for paying a $45 million verdict to a man wrongfully convicted for more than two decades after the U.S. Supreme Court denied a request to review the case.

The township’s attorneys at that time said the amount was too high and that the ruling could leave Miami Twp. “financially ruined for generations.”

The township also cannot rely on insurance because its insurer went bankrupt in 2003 for incidents from the early 1990s, the township’s statement reads.