Divided 5th Circuit Vacates Shrimping Company’s $2.5M Oil Spill Award

(December 19, 2018, 12:34 PM EST) -- NEW ORLEANS — A 2-1 panel of the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals said in a Nov. 9 ruling released Dec. 9 that an appeals panel of the Court Supervised Settlement Program (CSSP) for the Deepwater Horizon Economic and Property Damages Class Action Settlement Agreement erred when awarding a shrimping company $2.5 million for its claim because it erred when classifying shipping materials, labels and carbon dioxide as fixed costs (BP Exploration & Production Inc., et al. v. Claimant ID 100094497, No. 17-30949, 5th Cir., 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 34672)....

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