5th Circuit Upholds Classification Of Properties Affected By Oil Spill

(February 4, 2019, 11:45 AM EST) -- NEW ORLEANS — A Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on Feb. 1 upheld a federal judge in Louisiana’s decision to deny discretionary review of a Court Supervised Settlement Program (CSSP) administrator’s ruling that four claimants’ properties were not entitled to compensation as oiled properties under the Deepwater Horizon Economic and Property Damages Settlement Agreement, finding that the database for parcels of land, not the compensation category map, controls how a property is classified (Claimant ID 100297067 v. BP Exploration & Production Inc., No. 18-30748, 5th Cir., 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 3089)....

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