Magistrate’s Denial Of Fishermen’s Oil Spill Claims Affirmed By 5th Circuit

Mealey's (August 14, 2019, 1:37 PM EDT) -- NEW ORLEANS — A federal magistrate judge in Louisiana’s ruling affirming the denial of claims for compensation filed by a group of menhaden fishermen was upheld by a Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on Aug. 13, after it found that a pretrial order that required the fishermen to file individual lawsuits before submitting claims under the Halliburton Energy Services Inc. (HESI) and Transocean LLC settlements (collectively, the HESI settlements) did not violate their rights to due process (In re: Deepwater Horizon, Nos. 18-30243, 18-30413, 18-30533, 5th Cir., 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 24095)....