BP, oil spill victims fight over venue for court casesSimon Shifrin
A district court and an appeals court ruled that, under the settlement BP agreed to, businesses do not have to prove they were directly harmed by the spill to collect money - only that they made less money in the three to eight months after the spill than in a comparable pre-spill perio...
BP grant money left over from the 2010 Gulf oil spill is being used to repair and renovate a beachfront governor's mansion Dec 21, 2015 Scoundrels who ripped off the needy When tragedies strike, many people rush to the rescue; others seize the opportunity to take advantage of the needy ...
In other words, Anadarko will try to use a clause within the joint operating agreement to erase its share -- that would be 25 percent -- of the clean up costs and damages from the oil spill. In short, Anadarko will take this to court. Hackett clarified in the statement th...
Day 65 Obama’s BP Oil Spill Debacle, Sea Turtles Burned Alive Thursday, June 24th, 2010 Day 65 and counting of Obama’s BP Oil Spill Debacle nothing that Big Government has done has been effective, speechifying isn’t cutting it with the America. As the news goes from can it get ...
One of those judges said the issue is “very ripe for the Supreme Court to resolve.” Article content “It has a broader reach than the BP oil spill,” said Jason Clark, a Downs attorney. “If the burden is one that’s too high for any plaintiff to meet, then a lot of ...
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Habans, however, said court records related to civil litigation over the spill indicates Vidrine did discuss the test results with an onshore engineer less than an hour before the blast. A Justice Department attorney questioned a BP expert about the phone conversation between Vidrine and the eng...
US District Judge Carl Barbier on Monday declared the end of the two-year-long trial at a federal court in New Orleans. Barbier is expected to come up with a ruling on how much BP and its partner Anadarko Petroleum Corp. should pay in pollution fines, for the oil spill in coming months...
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