Mealey's (March 16, 2018, 2:52 PM EDT) -- NEW ORLEANS — A Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on March 14 held that a federal judge in Mississippi did not err when refusing to hold separate trials for claims brought against two consultants who created fake claimants for benefits under the Deepwater Horizon Economic and Property Damages settlement, finding that the defendants were not prejudiced by their co-defendants’ defenses (United States of America v. Gregory P. Warren, et al., No. 16-60843, 5th Cir., 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 6352)....