Fifth Circuit Denies Request to Rehear Whooping Crane Case

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has denied a request to reconsider its previous reversal of a South Texas judge who found that the State of Texas was liable for killing 23 endangered whooping cranes.

The 11-4 opinion comes after the Fifth Circuit found in June that U.S. District Judge Janis Graham Jack failed to adequately determine in her 2013 ruling whether the state could have foreseen that its actions would have led to the whooping crane deaths.