A wildlife expert slated to give testimony at an Oct. 10 hearing has withdrawn from a lawsuit challenging the trapping and euthanasia of foxes on Dauphin Island’s West End nature preserve.

On Friday, following a hearing in which a Mobile County Circuit judge opted to move the lawsuit forward and preserve a temporary restraining order halting the removal of foxes from the West End, Todd Steury, a wildlife expert with Auburn University, withdrew from the case.

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