(April 20, 2017, 11:34 AM EDT) -- NEW ORLEANS — The federal judge in Louisiana who is overseeing litigation stemming from damages caused by the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that followed the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in April 2010 ruled March 17 that individuals whose claims arise from federal moratoria on drilling operations in the Gulf of Mexico can opt out of the Deepwater Horizon Economic Loss and Property Damage Settlement Program if they are not resolved by March 25 (In re: Oil Spill by the Oil Rig “Deepwater Horizon” in the Gulf of Mexico, on April 20, 2010, MDL 2179, Case No. 12-970, E.D. La.)....