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11 Aug 2010, 5:39 am
[JURIST] The US Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation [official website] on Tuesday selected [order, PDF] US district judge Carl Barbier to hear more than 300 lawsuits filed against British Petroleum (BP) [corporate website] in connection with the Deepwater Horizon oil spill [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news archive] in the Gulf of Mexico. [read post]
26 May 2011, 11:34 am
[JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of Alabama [official website] ruled [opinion, PDF] Monday that environmental groups' lawsuit, challenging the government approval of oil drilling leases granted to the British Petroleum (BP) Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico, may continue. [read post]
23 May 2014, 6:25 am
[JURIST] British Petroleum (BP) [corporate website] announced [press release] Wednesday that it will appeal a recent US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit decision to the US Supreme Court [official websites]. [read post]
18 Apr 2012, 10:53 am
[JURIST] British Petroleum (BP) [corporate website] and a group of plaintiffs' attorneys sought preliminary approval [BP press release] from a federal judge on Wednesday on a settlement agreement between the oil company and individuals and businesses adversely affected by the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news archive]. [read post]
27 Jan 2012, 1:21 pm
[JURIST] Judge Carl Barber of the US District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana [official website] Thursday issued an order [text, PDF] that British Petroleum (BP) [corporate website] will be held liable for a portion of the damages owed by Transocean [corporate website] stemming from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news archive]. [read post]
24 May 2010, 8:30 am
Millions of gallons of oil have spewed into the Gulf since an oil rig, operated by British-Petroleum (BP), exploded and later sank off the Louisiana coast on April 20, 2010. [read post]
3 Mar 2012, 12:00 pm
[JURIST] British Petroleum (BP) [corporate website] on Friday announced an estimated $7.8 billion class action settlement [press release] to resolve the majority of claims [materials] filed by individual and business plaintiffs after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news archive]. [read post]
3 May 2012, 1:01 pm
[JURIST] A federal judge on Wednesday gave preliminary approval to a proposed settlement with British Petroleum (BP) [corporate website] over the Gulf oil spill [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news archive] in 2010. [read post]
11 Jul 2012, 3:50 pm
The most recent issue of LawNow Magazine takes a look at corporate social responsibility.Feature articles examine corruption, the complexity in determining what is and what is not corporate social responsibility, as well as three (3) cases: the British Petroleum Deepwater Horizon disaster, Calgary-based Niko Resources (bribery case in Bangladesh) and Chevron's legal battles over environmental destruction in the Ecuadorian Amazon region.Here is the full table of contents. [read post]
21 Jun 2010, 7:30 am
In a recent poll conducted by CBS News, 70% of respondents disapproved of how British Petroleum is handling the Gulf oil spill. [read post]
15 Dec 2010, 11:48 am
[JURIST] The US Department of Justice (DOJ) [official website] filed suit [complaint text; press release] Wednesday against units of British Petroleum (BP) [corporate website] and several other companies over the April Deepwater Horizon oil spill [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news archive], which resulted in an estimated 4.9 million barrels of oil flowing into the Gulf of Mexico. [read post]
4 Mar 2014, 8:29 am
[JURIST] The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit [official website] ruled [opinion, PDF] 2-1 Monday that British Petroleum (BP) [corporate website] must adhere to the terms of its Deepwater Horizon [BBC backgrounder] oil spill settlement agreement with Gulf businesses and pay for damages regardless of whether causation can be proved. [read post]
25 Oct 2007, 4:08 pm
[JURIST] British Petroleum (BP) [corporate website] will pay approximately $373 million in fines and restitution to settle three separate claims [press release] against the corporation, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) said Thursday. [read post]
11 Jan 2011, 2:48 pm
The report highlights mistakes made by British Petroleum (BP), as well as its partners Haliburton and Transocean [corporate websites], as the starting point that allowed the spill to take place, and finishes with recommendations based on those oversights. [read post]
29 May 2010, 12:25 am
If I were, I'd be asking Congress to freeze all of the assets of British Petroleum in the United States. [read post]
28 Dec 2011, 6:28 am
[JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the District of Alaska [official website] on Tuesday dismissed the petition of federal prosecutors, finding that British Petroleum (BP) [corporate website; JURIST news archive] was not negligent in a 2009 oil spill. [read post]
5 Aug 2010, 5:54 am
[JURIST] Oil company British Petroleum (BP) [corporate website] was sued Tuesday in a $10 billion class action lawsuit [complaint, PDF] over a toxic chemical leak that lasted for 40 days at its refinery in Texas City, TX. [read post]
5 Apr 2013, 7:00 am
Remaining defendants in the case include British Petroleum PLC, rig owner Transocean Ltd., and cement contractor Halliburton. [read post]
17 Jul 2011, 9:12 am
[JURIST] A judge for the US District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana on Friday dismissed [order, PDF] consolidated racketeering claims against British Petroleum (BP) [corporate website] in connection with the Deepwater Horizon oil spill [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news archive]. [read post]
4 Jun 2012, 10:46 am
[JURIST] The Federal Arbitration Court in Tyumen on Monday ordered a new hearing in a lower court in a lawsuit against British Petroleum (BP) [corporate website]. [read post]
