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IN RE OIL SPILL BY OIL RIG "DEEPWATER HORIZON"

No. MDL 2179.

792 F.Supp.2d 926 (2011)

In re: OIL SPILL BY the OIL RIG "DEEPWATER HORIZON" IN the GULF OF MEXICO, ON APRIL 20, 2010. Applies to: D1 Bundle, Master Complaint.

United States District Court, E.D. Louisiana.

June 16, 2011.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alan Mark Weigel , Blank Rome LLP, New York, NY, for Marine Spill Response Corporation Dispersant Defendant.

Francis Xavier Neuner, Jr. , Ben Louis Mayeaux , Jed M. Mestayer , Laborde & Neuner, Lafayette, LA, for Airborne Support Inc. Dispersant Defendant.

Leo Raymond McAloon, III , Michael D. Cangelosi , Gieger, Laborde & Laperouse, LLC, New Orleans, LA, for Dynamic Aviation Group Inc. Dispersant Defendant.

Kevin Richard Tully , Gregory Scott Lacour , Howard Carter Marshall , Christovich & Kearney, LLP, New Orleans, LA, for International Air Response Inc. Dispersant Defendant.

George Edmond Crow , Law Office of George E. Crow, Katy, TX, for Lane Aviation Dispersant Defendant.

Michael J. Lyle , Eric C. Lyttle , Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, Washington, DC, Jeremy T. Grabill , Sylvia E. Simson , Theodore E. Tsekerides , Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, New York, NY, Patrick Edward O'Keefe , Philip S. Brooks, Jr. , Montgomery Barnett , New Orleans, LA, for National Response Corporation Dispersant Defendant.

Harold J. Flanagan , Andy Joseph Dupre , Sean Patrick Brady , Stephen M. Pesce , Flanagan Partners, LLP, New Orleans, LA, for DRC Emergency Services, LLC Dispersant Defendant.

Paul R. Taylor , Jofrey M. McWilliam , Byrnes Keller Cromwell, LLP, SEATTLE, WA, Gregory Scott Lacour , Howard Carter Marshall , Kevin Richard Tully , Christovich & Kearney, LLP, New Orleans, LA, for Lynden Inc. Dispersant Defendant.

John Emerson Galloway , Cherrell R. Simms , Galloway, Johnson, Tompkins, Burr & Smith, New Orleans, LA, for Tiger Rentals Ltd. Doc.

ORDER AND REASONS [As to D1 Master Complaint]

CARL BARBIER, District Judge.

This multi-district litigation consists of hundreds of cases, with over 100,000 individual claimants, presently pending before this Court. Each of the cases arise from the April 20, 2010 explosion, fire and capsizing of the Deepwater Horizon, a mobile offshore drilling unit owned by Defendant Transocean and under contract to Defendant BP. As a result of the casualty, millions of...

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