Three Mexican states will not be allowed to recover damages against defendants allegedly responsible for the 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion because they don’t have a proprietary interest in the damaged property, according to a recent decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
The background to the latest decision involving the civil litigation surrounding the blowout, which spilled millions of gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, is as follows, according to In Re Deepwater Horizon.
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