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IN RE DEEPWATER HORIZON

No. 13-31070.

784 F.3d 1019 (2015)

In re DEEPWATER HORIZON. State of Veracruz, Republic of Mexico, Plaintiff-Appellant v. BP, P.L.C.; BP America, Incorporated; BP Corporation North America, Incorporated; BP Company North America, Incorporated; BP Products North America, Incorporated; BP Exploration; Production, Incorporated; Transocean Offshore Deepwater Drilling, Incorporated; Halliburton Energy Services, Incorporated; Transocean Deepwater, Incorporated, Defendants-Appellees Transocean Holdings, L.L.C.; Triton Asset Leasing GmbH, Appellees State of Tamaulipas, Republic of Mexico, Plaintiff-Appellant v. BP, P.L.C.; BP America, Incorporated; BP Corporation North America, Incorporated; BP Company North America, Incorporated; BP Products North America, Incorporated; BP Exploration; Production, Incorporated; Transocean Deepwater, Incorporated; Transocean Offshore Deepwater Drilling, Incorporated; Halliburton Energy Services, Incorporated, Defendants-Appellees Transocean Holdings, L.L.C.; Triton Asset Leasing GmbH, Appellees State of Quintana Roo, Republic of Mexico, Plaintiff-Appellant v. BP, P.L.C.; BP America, Incorporated; BP Corporation North America, Incorporated; BP Company North America, Incorporated; BP Products North America, Incorporated; BP Exploration; Production, Incorporated; Transocean Offshore Deepwater Drilling, Incorporated; Halliburton Energy Services, Incorporated; Transocean Deepwater, Incorporated, Defendants-Appellees Transocean Holdings, L.L.C.; Triton Asset Leasing GmbH, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

May 1, 2015.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Enrique G. Serna (argued), Serna & Associates, P.L.L.C., San Antonio, TX, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Richard Cartier Godfrey, Esq.,   James Andrew Langan, Esq. (argued), Elizabeth A. Larsen, Kirkland & Ellis, L.L.P., Chicago, IL, Jeffrey Bossert Clark, Sr., Esq., Kirkland & Ellis, L.L.P., Washington, DC, Don Keller Haycraft, Liskow & Lewis, P.L.C., New Orleans, LA, Robert Alan York (argued), Godwin Lewis, P.C., Houston, TX, Donald Everett Godwin, Esq., Managing Senior Counsel, Alison Louise Battiste,   Bruce Wayne Bowman, Jr., Esq.,   Jenny LaNell Martinez, Esq., Godwin Lewis, P.C., Dallas, TX, for Defendants-Appellees BP, P.L.C., BP America, Incorporated, BP Corporation North America, Incorporated, BP Company North America, Incorporated, BP Products North America, Incorporated, BP Exploration & Production, Incorporated.

Sean Daniel Jordan (argued), Sutherland Asbill & Brennan, L.L.P., Austin, TX, Steven Lynn Roberts, Sutherland Asbill & Brennan, L.L.P., Houston, TX, for Transocean Offshore Deepwater Drilling, Incorporated and Transocean Deepwater, Incorporated.

Donald Everett Godwin, Esq., Managing Senior Counsel, Alison Louise Battiste,   Bruce Wayne Bowman, Jr., Esq.,   Jenny LaNell Martinez, Esq., Godwin Lewis, P.C., Dallas, TX, Robert Alan York, Godwin Lewis, P.C., Houston, TX, for Defendant-Appellee Halliburton Energy Services Incorporated.

Sean Daniel Jordan, Sutherland Asbill & Brennan, L.L.P., Austin, TX, Steven Lynn Roberts, Sutherland Asbill & Brennan, L.L.P., Houston, TX, Brad D. Brian, Esq.,   Daniel Benjamin Levin, Munger, Tolles & Olson, L.L.P., Los Angeles, CA, for Appellees Transocean Holdings, L.L.C. and Triton Asset Leasing GmbH.

Before STEWART, Chief Judge, and JONES and HIGGINSON, Circuit Judges.

In April 2010, a blowout, explosion, and fire occurred aboard the mobile offshore drilling unit Deepwater Horizon as it was preparing to temporarily abandon a well 50 miles off the Louisiana coast. Millions of gallons of oil discharged into the Gulf of Mexico before the well...

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