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Nearly two years after the oil rig explosion that killed 11 people and spilled millions of barrels of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico, the myriad plaintiffs suing BP and other companies over the disaster are about to get their day in court.
Or not…
The civil trial, which opens in a federal court in New Orleans on Monday, is expected to be epic by any definition, unmatched in scale or legal complexity…
Settlement Talks Pick Up Ahead of BP Oil Spill Trial, Read Full Article, The New York Time
Deepwater Horizon victims ready for epic court battle with BP; Read Full Article, Guardian UK
After thousands of hours of legal deliberations, the accumulation of 72m pages of documents and the recorded testimony of 303 witnesses, it will fall to an engineering expert who blamed the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster on a “multi-decade history of organisational malfunction and short-sightedness” to frame the case against BP.
The civil trial, which opens before Judge Carl Barbier in a federal court in New Orleans on Monday, is expected to be epic by any definition, unmatched in scale or legal complexity…
