WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A federal appeals court will not reconsider its decision that an abortion opponent must stand trial over a letter she sent to a Wichita doctor saying someone might place an explosive under her car.

The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected on Tuesday a move seeking either a rehearing by the three-judge panel or by the full court.

A three-judge appeals panel ruled in July that the decision about whether anti-abortion activist Angel Dillard’s letter constituted a “true threat” should be left to a jury.

The Justice Department sued Dillard in 2011 for sending the letter to Dr. Mila Means, who had been training to offer abortions. At the time, no doctor was performing abortions in Wichita in the wake of Dr. George Tiller’s murder by an anti-abortion zealo