Judge Amends Ruling In Oil Spill Suit To Address Spoliation Defense

Mealey's (August 18, 2020, 12:42 PM EDT) -- NEW ORLEANS — A federal judge in Louisiana on Aug. 14 granted in part a motion to amend a previous ruling on the admission of evidence defendants in an oil spill cleanup dispute obtained from the U.S. Coast Guard pursuant to requests under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), finding that the earlier ruling should have addressed the defendants' argument that the Coast Guard destroyed evidence (United States v. E.R.R. LLC, et al., No. 19-2340, E.D. La., 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 146616)....