WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court has refused to consider whether the mother of a Texas A&M student injured in a deadly bonfire collapse nearly a decade ago can sue because of the damage to her relationship to her son.

The high court Monday refused to hear an appeal from Nancy Braus, who sued Texas A&M University officials and others after her son Dominic was injured in the Nov. 18, 1999, log-pile collapse that killed 12 people and injured 27.

Lower courts have thrown out Braus' lawsuit, saying Texas law does not allow parents to sue for the loss of a normal relationship with their child because of a severe injury.

The 90-year-old bonfire tradition was suspended after the 1999 collapse of the 59-foot-high wedding-cake-like stack of more than 5,000 logs. An A&M commission blamed the collapse on flawed construction techniques and the lack of adequate supervision of students assembling the stack.