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CTR. FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY v. BP AMERICA PROD.

No. 12-30136.

704 F.3d 413 (2013)

CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY, INCORPORATED, Plaintiff-Appellant v. BP AMERICA PRODUCTION CO.; BP Exploration & Production, Incorporated; BP, P.L.C.; Transocean Offshore Deepwater Drilling, Incorporated; Transocean Holdings, L.L.C.; Transocean Deepwater, Incorporated, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

January 9, 2013.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles M. Tebbutt (argued), Daniel C. Snyder , Eugene, OR, Marc David Fink , Duluth, MN, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Richard Cartier Godfrey , James Andrew Langan , Elizabeth A. Larsen , Kirkland & Ellis, L.L.P., Chicago, IL, Jeffrey Bossert Clark, Sr. (argued), Granta Y. Nakayama , Kirkland & Ellis, L.L.P., Washington, DC, Don Keller Haycraft , Liskow & Lewis, P.L.C., Kerry J. Miller , Joseph Nicholas Mole , Frilot, L.L.C., New Orleans, LA, Steven Lynn Roberts , Rachel Giesber Clingman , Sutherland Asbill & Brennan, L.L.P., John Michael Elsley , Royston, Rayzor, Vickery & Williams, L.L.P., Daniel O. Goforth , Goforth Geren Easterling, L.L.P., Houston, TX, Brad D. Brian , Allen Mark Katz , Daniel Benjamin Levin (argued), Munger, Tolles & Olson, L.L.P., Los Angeles, CA, Edwin G. Preis, Jr. , Preis & Roy, A.P.L.C., Lafayette, LA, Kent C. Sullivan , Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan, L.L.P., Austin, TX, for Defendants-Appellees.

Adam Babich , Tulane Univ., Tulane Environmental Law Clinic, New Orleans, LA, for Law Professors, Amicus Curiae.

Devorah Ancel , Sierra Club, San Francisco, CA, for Sierra Club, Amicus Curiae.

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

KING, Circuit Judge:

This appeal arises from the multi-district litigation spawned from the disaster on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig and the resulting massive oil spill that occurred at the Macondo well site in the Gulf of Mexico. Plaintiff Center for Biological Diversity appeals from the district court's dismissal of its action brought under the citizen-suit provisions of the Clean Water Act ("CWA"), 33 U.S.C. § 1365(a)(1), the Comprehensive Environmental...

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