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BP Fails To Reach Settlement Before Civil Trial

AP | Posted 04.21.2013 | Green

LONDON (AP) — BP says it has failed to reach a settlement in advance of next week's civil trial on the Deepwater Horizon accident and is ready to de...

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Asian American Fishermen Sue BP for Racial Discrimination

Susan Buchanan | Posted 07.03.2012 | Green

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Of an estimated 40,000 Vietnamese living in these three Gulf states -- including 30,000 in Louisiana -- one in three works in the seafood industry. Why didn't BP want to hire Asian Americans?

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First Criminal Charges From BP Oil Spill

HuffingtonPost.com | John Rudolf | Posted 04.24.2012 | Green

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Federal officials arrested a former BP engineer on charges of obstruction of justice on Tuesday, in the first criminal charges filed in connection wit...

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BP Settlement Lawyers Feuding Over Fees

Reuters | Posted 05.09.2012 | Green

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* Lawyers position themselves for fight over settlement fees * Awards could reach into the hundreds of millions * Feud d...

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BP Emails Reveal Company Veiling Spill Rate

AP | By CAIN BURDEAU | Posted 01.28.2012 | Green

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NEW ORLEANS -- On the day the Deepwater Horizon sank, BP officials warned in an internal memo that if the well was not protected by the blow-out preve...

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BP Cited For 5 More Alleged Violations Related To Blown-Out Well

AP | HOLBROOK MOHR | Posted 02.06.2012 | Green

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BP Asks Judge To Toss Montana Lawsuit Over Cleanup

AP | By MATT VOLZ | Posted 12.19.2011 | Green

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HELENA, Mont. -- BP lawyers are asking a judge to dismiss a Montana lawsuit that alleges the oil giant took millions of dollars in insurance money and...

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Department Of Justice Investigates BP For Faulty Oil Spill Estimates

HuffingtonPost.com | John Rudolf | Posted 10.21.2011 | Green

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On April 25, 2010, BP assured the Gulf Coast that a disaster wasn't unfolding. Five days earlier, the Deepwater Horizon, a BP-leased rig in the Gul...

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U.S. Probing BP For Gas Market Manipulation

Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

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: BP said U.S. regulators were considering filing charges against it related to alleged manipulation of the gas market. "The U.S. Federal Energy Re...

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Oil Spill Lawsuits: BP Spending Big To Acquire An Army Of Expert Witnesses

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media

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In the latest salvo of BP's War On Everything, the company is deploying its deep pockets in an attempt to buy up every single scientist it can get its...

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BP Gets Preferential Treatment Compared To Lindsay Lohan, Says Lawyer Suing Oil Giant

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

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David Perry, the lawyer suing BP over the safety of its Atlantis deepwater oil drilling platform, says that there is a double standard in the legal sy...

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Settlement Reached In Lawsuit Against BP For Burning Sea Turtles Alive

AP | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

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NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- A federal judge says a settlement has been reached in a lawsuit that accused BP of killing turtles as it burns oil from its blown-...

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BP's Atlantis: Oil Giant To Be Sued Over Safety Of Another Deepwater Rig

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

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Watchdog group Food & Water Watch formally gave notice Thursday of its intent to sue BP along with the federal government for violating a slew of safe...

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Animal Rights Groups Sue BP For Burning Endangered Sea Turtles Alive

The Daily Telegraph | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

ANIMAL welfare groups are suing BP for burning endangered sea turtles and are asking a US court to stop the oil giant's "controlled burns" on the Gulf...

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New York Takes On BP

AP | MICHAEL VIRTANEN | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York

ALBANY, N.Y. — New York Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli has hired outside lawyers in an effort to become the lead plaintiff in a federal class-action la...

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BP Halts Watchdog Lawsuit On Legal Technicality

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

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A lawsuit filed by watchdog group Food & Water Watch against the U.S. Minerals Management Service alleging that BP's Atlantis oil rig is unsafe has be...

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Six Judges Quit Oil Spill Lawsuits Due To Conflicts Of Interest

bloomberg.com | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green

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Six of 12 active judges in the federal judicial district based in New Orleans have removed themselves from spill-damage cases filed by fishermen, prop...

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Kirkland & Ellis, Chicago Law Firm, To Represent BP In Oil Spill Case

Chicago Tribune | Posted 05.25.2011 | Chicago

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Facing billions of dollars in potential compensation to victims, BP PLC, owner of the ruptured well spewing oil in the Gulf, has turned to Chicago's K...

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BP Subcontractor Warned of Safety Violations At Other BP Off-Shore Oil Rigs

Edward F. Blizzard | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business

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As environmentalists grow increasingly alarmed by the possibility that the massive oil spill in the Gulf could be moved by currents as far south at th...

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