The U.S. District Court of Maryland has ordered the Tri-State Zoological Park of Western Maryland and its owner, Robert Candy to pay over $56,000 in fees and costs to PETA within 180 days. The award is connected to a motion in which-according to PETA-“tried unsuccessfully to silence PETA’s critical fact witnesses days before the group’s Endangered Species Act lawsuit against Tri-State went to trial.” PETA won that lawsuit; Tri-State’s appeal remains pending.