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In Re: Oil Spill by the Oil Rig "Deepwater Horizon" in the Gulf of Mexico, on April 20, 2010

  1. August 06, 2021

    BP Escapes $80M Suit From Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

    BP can't be held liable for more than $80 million in damages a contractor alleged it endured due to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, after a Louisiana federal court has said there's little if any evidence to support the slew of claims.

  2. August 03, 2021

    Judge Slams Atty For 'Shameful' Waste In Deepwater MDL

    A Louisiana federal judge has sanctioned a plaintiff attorney involved in a sprawling multidistrict litigation over the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill, calling his multiple lawsuits, duplicative motions and other actions "a colossal waste of time" intended to harass others and get around the court's previous orders.

  3. November 08, 2019

    Judge Refuses Recusal, Scolds Atty In Deepwater MDL

    A Louisiana federal judge on Friday rejected a call to recuse himself from multidistrict litigation surrounding the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill and recommended a disciplinary proceeding against the attorney who wanted him off the case, saying the attorney may have violated the state rules of conduct.

  4. September 11, 2019

    Atty Slams Bid To Remove Judge From BP Oil Spill MDL

    A Louisiana federal court should deny a Florida attorney's motion for a judge to recuse himself from sprawling multidistrict litigation over the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill as the alleged conflicts are minimal at best, irrelevant to present matters and have since been mitigated, a Louisiana lawyer has argued.

  5. August 08, 2019

    Atty Urges Judge To Drop Out Of BP Oil Spill MDL

    A Florida attorney is pushing for U.S. District Judge Carl J. Barbier to drop out of the sprawling multidistrict litigation surrounding BP and the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, saying the judge cannot be impartial because of his past ownership of Halliburton and Transocean assets.

  6. September 27, 2018

    Construction Co. In BP Suit Pushes Legal Malpractice Claims

    Two Louisiana attorneys must still face legal malpractice claims because an August order disposing of those allegations did not in fact eliminate all of them, an Arkansas construction company said Wednesday in litigation linked to the BP Deepwater Horizon oil rig disaster.

  7. August 29, 2018

    Attys Dodge Construction Co.'s Malpractice Suit In BP MDL

    A Louisiana federal judge found that a law firm embroiled in its own legal troubles wasn't responsible for a construction company missing a deadline to sue BP PLC in sprawling multidistrict litigation over the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, tossing a legal malpractice suit against the firm and its attorneys.

  8. August 02, 2018

    CNA Needn't Defend Atty DQ'd From Deepwater Deal

    A CNA Financial Corp. unit doesn't have to cover costs Andry Law Group LLC and its principal incurred defending proceedings that led to the firm being barred from participating in the court-supervised settlement program for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, a Louisiana federal judge ruled Thursday, saying the firm faced no claims for potentially covered damages.

  9. March 07, 2018

    BP Dodges Yucatan's Fla. Law Claims Over Deepwater Horizon

    A Louisiana federal judge Tuesday tossed the Mexican state of Yucatan's lawsuit against BP, Transocean and Halliburton over the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill, finding the state's claims under Florida's Oil Pollution Act of 1990 were preempted by federal law.

  10. May 25, 2017

    Judge Won't Allow Deepwater Claims Due To Missing Form

    A Louisiana federal judge Wednesday declined to force a claims administrator for the Deepwater Horizon BP oil spill disaster to consider applications from a group of nine individuals and businesses who submitted documentation to the settlement program without a claim form, deciding the filings were untimely.

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