July 20, 2011
A Louisiana federal judge in the BP PLC oil spill multidistrict litigation on Wednesday denied the oil giant's bid to compel the office of President Barack Obama to surrender emails from four aides that discussed the government's response to the Deepwater Horizon disaster.
July 15, 2011
A federal judge on Friday threw out racketeering claims from multidistrict litigation in Louisiana over BP PLC's Deepwater Horizon oil spill, ruling that the plaintiffs couldn't show that BP's alleged defrauding of safety regulators directly caused them economic harm.
July 07, 2011
BP PLC and Anadarko Petroleum Corp. disagreed in Louisiana federal court on Wednesday over whether claims between them in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill multidistrict litigation should proceed, with BP arguing that their joint operating agreement for the Macondo Well forces them into arbitration.
June 28, 2011
A federal judge overseeing Louisiana-based multidistrict litigation over the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on Monday declined to allow the Sierra Club to intervene in the U.S. government's suit against BP PLC and other companies tied to the well.
June 24, 2011
BP PLC and Transocean Ltd. traded arguments in Louisiana on Thursday in their fight over who should hold onto the Deepwater Horizon blowout preventer until a liability trial over the massive oil spill begins in February.
June 24, 2011
Lawyers for a Halliburton Co. employee injured in the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion on Friday defended their client's decision to invoke the Fifth Amendment during deposition without giving advance notice to BP PLC or other parties in the Louisiana-based spill litigation.
June 22, 2011
A Louisiana federal judge in the multidistrict litigation over the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on Wednesday threatened to sanction a Halliburton Co. rig worker's lawyers for failing to notify BP PLC that the worker would invoke the Fifth Amendment during a deposition.
June 17, 2011
The Louisiana federal judge overseeing the multidistrict litigation over the BP PLC oil spill on Thursday threw out all environmental law claims filed by citizens' organizations, saying they lacked standing to seek injunctive relief because the spill had been stemmed and the cleanup was underway.
May 18, 2011
Three Mexican states bordering the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday failed to add claims alleging the Deepwater Horizon spill harmed their industries, including tourism and fishing, to a Louisiana multidistrict litigation against BP PLC and others.
April 27, 2011
Carnival Corp. sued Transocean Ltd., BP PLC and their drilling partners last week to recover business losses after being denied interim claims, barely meeting the deadline for suits against the rig owner in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill multidistrict litigation in Louisiana.