5th Circuit Upholds Nonprofit’s $14.5M Oil Spill Settlement Award

(March 21, 2019, 9:15 AM EDT) -- NEW ORLEANS — A Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on March 18 affirmed a federal judge in Louisiana’s decision to decline discretionary review of a Court Supervised Settlement Program (CSSP) appeals panel’s decision to uphold a $14.5 million award to a nonprofit that sought compensation under the Deepwater Horizon Economic and Property Damages Settlement Agreement, holding that panel’s ruling did not misapply the settlement agreement and did not vary from other rulings (BP Exploration & Production Inc., et al. v. Claimant ID100217946, No. 18-30147, 5th Cir., 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 7918)....

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