Mealey's (February 15, 2018, 1:39 PM EST) -- NEW ORLEANS — A Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on Feb. 14 overruled arguments by the federal government and CITGO Petroleum Corp. to a federal judge in Louisiana’s ruling that the company should pay an $81 million civil penalty for violating the Clean Water Act following a 2006 oil spill at its Lake Charles facility, finding that they lacked merit (United States of America v. CITGO Petroleum Corp., No. 16-30515, 5th Cir., 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 3392)....