Federal Judge Rejects Racketeering Claim Against BP in Gulf Oil Spill Litigation

摘要

A federal judge in Louisiana July 15 rejected racketeering claims against BP Exploration Pic. over the April 2010 blowout and oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico (In re: Oil Spill by the Oil Rig "Deepwater Horizon" in the Gulf of Mexico, on April 20, 2010, E.D. La., MDLNo. 2179, 7/15/11). Judge Carl J. Barbier of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana ruled that Gulf Coast business owners failed to demonstrate a direct connection between BP's alleged fraud against the government and their economic injuries.