5th Circuit: District Court Did Not Err When Denying Review Request

(July 12, 2016, 1:23 PM EDT) -- NEW ORLEANS — The federal judge in Louisiana overseeing litigation stemming from the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico following the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in April 2010 did not err when refusing to consider a car dealership’s request to review whether the claims administrator presiding over the Court Supervised Settlement Program (CSSP) abused his discretion when finding that it was not a start-up business, a Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled July 11 (Holmes Motors Inc. v. BP Exploration & Production Inc., et al., No. 15-30860, 5th Cir.)....