SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A federal appeals court has refused to reconsider a decision that shutters a popular Northern California oyster farm in the Point Reyes National Seashore.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday said it wouldn’t appoint a special 11-judge panel to reconsider the ruling of a three-judge panel.
The three-judge panel ruled in September that the federal government had legal authority to deny Drakes Bay Oyster Co. a new lease so the waters of the Drakes Estero could be returned to wilderness.
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The small oyster farm’s last remaining legal option is to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. A lawyer for Drakes Bay didn’t immediately return a phone call.
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