A Nevada County Superior Court judge has reversed his earlier ruling granting legal standing to Sammie’s Friends animal shelter in an animal cruelty case. The shelter’s attorney, Jill Telfer, had filed a motion in the case in order to block the return of any animals to the Big Oak Valley property owner after he was convicted on two misdemeanor counts. Also at issue is the amount of restitution due Sammie’s Friends for the care of the seized animals. Nevada County Animal Control had removed more than a dozen animals from Louis Silva’s Patino Road property, west of Penn Valley, in …