The U.S. Justice Department, a defendant in the lawsuit filed by eight anthropologists seeking to study the skeleton, did not ask the appeals court for a rehearing. The agency still has about six weeks to decide whether to appeal the case to the U.S. Supreme Court."No determination has been made as to whether such an appeal will be filed," said Blain Rethmeier, a Justice Department spokesman.
More detail here, and commentary here, wherein please note:
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