Mealey's (October 4, 2019, 12:09 PM EDT) -- NEW ORLEANS — A federal judge in Louisiana on Oct. 2 granted the federal government’s motion to strike a request for a jury trial filed by defendants who refused to reimburse it for the cleanup of an oil spill in the Mississippi River, finding that the defendants do not have a constitutional right to a trial by jury under the Seventh Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and that it is unclear in the Fifth Circuit if the government’s request for cost recovery under the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (OPA) constitutes equitable or legal relief (United States v. E.R.R. LLC, No. 19-2340, E.D. La., 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 171003)....