5th Circuit Panel Upholds Denial Of Review Of Warehouse’s Settlement Award

(January 18, 2019, 8:56 AM EST) -- NEW ORLEANS — A federal judge in Louisiana did not err when refusing to conduct a discretionary review of a company’s appeal of a $3,907.05 settlement award it received through the Deepwater Horizon Economic and Property Damages Class Action Settlement Agreement, a Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled Jan. 16, holding that a Court Supervised Settlement Program (CSSP) appeals panel did not misapply the terms of the settlement (Claimant ID 100303892 v. BP Exploration & Production Inc., et al., No. 18-30792, 5th Cir., 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 1410)....

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