A negligence case against the company that leased the ill-fated Deepwater Horizon oil rig to British Petroleum is on its way back to Delaware Superior Court on remand, after an appeal by the defendants was quickly rejected by the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
On March 15, Judge Leonard P. Stark of the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware denied the defendants’ motion to stay and granted the plaintiff’s motion to remandSt. Joe Company v. Transocean Offshore Deepwater Drilling Inc. to Superior Court. The defendants filed a notice of appeal with the 3rd Circuit one day later.
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