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IN RE OIL SPILL BY THE OIL RIG DEEPWATER HORIZON

MDL No. 2179.

808 F.Supp.2d 943 (2011)

In re OIL SPILL BY THE OIL RIG "DEEPWATER HORIZON" IN THE GULF OF MEXICO, on April 20, 2010. Applies to: B1 Master Complaint.

United States District Court, E.D. Louisiana.

August 26, 2011.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alan Mark Weigel , Blank Rome LLP, Jeremy T. Grabill , Sylvia E. Simson , Theodore E. Tsekerides , Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, New York, NY, Francis Xavier Neuner, Jr. , Ben Louis Mayeaux , Jed M. Mestayer , Laborde & Neuner, Lafayette, LA, Leo Raymond McAloon, III , Michael D. Cangelosi , Gieger, Laborde & Laperouse, LLC, Kevin Richard Tully , Gregory Scott Lacour , Howard Carter Marshall , Christovich & Kearney, LLP, Patrick Edward O'Keefe , Philip S. Brooks, Jr. , Montgomery Barnett , Harold J. Flanagan , Andy Joseph Dupre , Sean Patrick Brady , Stephen M. Pesce , Flanagan Partners, LLP, Gregory Scott Lacour , Howard Carter Marshall , Kevin Richard Tully , Christovich & Kearney, LLP, John Emerson Galloway , Cherrell R. Simms , Galloway, Johnson, Tompkins, Burr & Smith, New Orleans, LA, George Edmond Crow, Law Office of George E. Crow , Katy, TX, Michael J. Lyle , Eric C. Lyttle , Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, Washington, DC, Paul R. Taylor , Jofrey M. McWilliam , Byrnes Keller Cromwell, LLP, Seattle, WA, for Defendants.

ORDER AND REASONS

[As to Motions to Dismiss the B1 Master Complaint]

BARBIER, District Judge.

This multi-district litigation ("MDL") consists of hundreds of consolidated cases, with thousands of claimants, pending before this Court. These cases arise from the April 20, 2010 explosion, fire, and sinking of the DEEPWATER HORIZON mobile offshore drilling unit ("MODU"), which resulted in the release of millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico...

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