Davis was one of three judges on a panel that will hear the appeal to '' Hornbeck Offshore Services LLC v. Salazar '' , a case challenging the U.S. Department of the Interior six-month moratorium on exploratory drilling in deep water that was adopted in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon explosion and the subsequent oil spill . The Fifth Circuit panel denied the government 's emergency request to stay the lower court 's decision pending appeal
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W. Eugene Davis