The Georgia Court of Appeals on Wednesday once again turned back Ford Motor Co.’s appeal of sanctions levied against the automaker for violating pretrial orders in a highly contentious roof crush case that ended in a mistrial last April.

The two-page, unsigned order came in response to Ford’s motion for reconsideration of an earlier dismissal of the appeal. The order sends the case back to Gwinnett County State Court Judge Shawn Bratton without disturbing his ruling that Ford be punished by preclusion of its defense to charges that the company knowingly made an unsafe roof.