IN RE DEEPWATER HORIZON

No. 19-30440.

988 F.3d 192 (2021)

IN RE: DEEPWATER HORIZON. Sergio Alvarado, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. BP Exploration & Production, Incorporated; BP America Production Company; BP, P.L.C, Defendants-Appellees, Sandra A. Iames, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. BP Exploration & Production, Incorporated; BP America Production Company; BP, P.L.C.; Transocean Holdings, L.L.C.; Transocean Deepwater, Incorporated; Transocean Offshore Deepwater Drilling, Incorporated; Transocean, Limited; Ttiton Asset Leasing GMBH; Anadarko Petroleum Corporation Company; Anadarko E&P Company, L.P.; Halliburton Energy Services, Incorporated, Defendants-Appellees, Sheri Allen Dorgan, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. BP, P.L.C.; BP Exploration & Production, Incorporated; BP America Production Company, Defendants-Appellees, Brian Gortney, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. BP Products North America, Incorporated; BP America Incorporated; BP, P.L.C, Defendants-Appellees, Sergio Valdivieso, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. BP, P.L.C.; BP Products North America, Incorporated; BP America, Incorporated, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

FILED February 9, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Douglas M. Schmidt , New Orleans, LA, for Plaintiff-Appellant Sergio Alvarado.

James Alistair McKenzie , Attorney, McKenzie Law Firm, P.A., Pensacola, FL, for Plaintiff-Appellant Sandra A. Iames.

Kevin Philip Parker , Harvey Grannis Brown, Jr. , Miriam Michelle Carreras , Lanier Law Firm, Houston, TX, for Plaintiffs-Appellants Sheri Allen Dorgan, Brian Gortney, Sergio Valdivieso.

George W. Hicks, Jr. , Aaron Lloyd Nielson , Kirkland & Ellis, L.L.P., Washington, DC, James Andrew Langan, Esq. , Kirkland & Ellis, L.L.P., Chicago, IL, Devin Chase Reid, Esq. , Liskow & Lewis, P.L.C., New Orleans, LA, for Defendants-Appellees BP Exploration & Production, Incorporated, BP America Production Company, BP, P.L.C., BP Products North America, Incorporated, BP America, Incorporated.

David Bruce Salmons, Esq. , Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, L.L.P., Washington, DC, for Defendants-Appellees Anadarko E&P Company, L.P., Anadarko Petroleum Corporation Company.

Robert Alan York , Reed Smith, L.L.P., Houston, TX, for Defendant-Appellee Halliburton Energy Services, Incorporated.

Before Higginbotham, Elrod, and Haynes, Circuit Judges.


This case presents another in the line of cases related to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Four appellants—Sandra Iames, Sheri Allen Dorgan, Brian Gortney, and Sergio Valdivieso—seek reversal of dismissals with prejudice for failure to comply with orders of the multidistrict litigation...

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