Deepwater Horizon Trial Rescheduled Due to Super Bowl, Mardi Gras | Fox Business
A federal judge in New Orleans has postponed the Deepwater Horizon trial until February, citing the Super Bowl and Mardi Gras as potential scheduling conflicts, a spokesman for BP PLC (BP, BP.LN) said.
The trial had been slated to begin Jan. 14, but instead Judge Carl Barbier ordered that it begin Feb. 25, after the Feb. 3 football game and the Mardi Gras festivities have ended.
The bench trial is to concern liability for the 2010 Deepwater Horizon rig explosion.
Judge Barbier will consider a proposed settlement agreement between BP and thousands of plaintiffs at a “fairness hearing” scheduled for Nov. 8.
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Interesting to me, oil industry works 24/7/365. Government and legal system seems to be in perpetual delay mode.
So it’s been
From and including: Tuesday, April 20, 2010
To, but not including : Friday, October 26, 2012
So, It’s been 920 days from the start date to the end date, but not including the end date
Or 2 years, 6 months, 6 days excluding the end date
Or
79,488,000 seconds
1,324,800 minutes
22,080 hours
131 weeks (rounded down)
Legally, Hardly anything referenced to this incident has Been resolved with any finality. DOJ has determined that Kurt Mix deleted a few text messages and has been criminally charged for that onerous faux pas.
Drilling rules have been revised by basically adopting existing API guidelines and clarifying as in the sentence below:
“The revised rules released Wednesday restored the industry’s distinction between “should” and “must”.”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/15/us-offshore-drilling-rules_n_1785379.html
WHAT A JOKE!!!