IN RE DEEPWATER HORIZON

No. 14-30823.

793 F.3d 479 (2015)

In re: DEEPWATER HORIZON. Lake Eugenie Land Development, Incorporated; Bon Secour Fisheries, Incorporated; Fort Morgan Realty, Incorporated; LFBP 1, L.L.C., doing business as GW Fins; Panama City Beach Dolphin Tours & More, L.L.C.; Zekes Charter Fleet, L.L.C.; William Sellers; Kathleen Irwin; Ronald Lundy; Corliss Gallo; John Tesvich; Michael Guidry, on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated; Henry Hutto; Brad Friloux; Jerry J. Kee, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. BP Exploration & Production, Incorporated; BP America Production Company; BP, P.L.C., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

July 16, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen Jay Herman, Esq. , Soren E. Gisleson, Esq. , Herman Herman & Katz, L.L.C., New Orleans, LA, James Parkerson Roy , Domengeaux, Wright, Roy & Edwards, Lafayette, LA, Elizabeth Joan Cabraser , Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein, L.L.P., San Francisco, CA, Samuel Issacharoff (argued), New York University School of Law, New York, N.Y., for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Theodore B. Olson , Miguel Angel Estrada , Thomas George Hungar (argued), Scott Payne Martin , Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, L.L.P., Kevin Michael Downey , Williams & Connolly, L.L.P., Washington, DC, George Howard Brown, Esq. , Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, L.L.P., Palo Alto, CA, Don Keller Haycraft , Liskow & Lewis, P.L.C., New Orleans, LA, for Defendants-Appellants.

Before STEWART, Chief Judge, and KING and ELROD, Circuit Judges.


In May 2012, BP Exploration & Production Inc. ("BP") and related entities reached a settlement with a class of individuals who suffered economic and property damage after the Deepwater Horizon incident. That settlement agreement established a fund and an elaborate multi-tiered claims process. A provision in the...

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