[Vision2020] BP Litigation to be Held in . . . . . . . . Boise

Janesta janesta at gmail.com
Fri Jul 23 13:44:01 PDT 2010


It would be great for the economy of Idaho.

Janesta

On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 1:31 PM, Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com> wrote:

>  Courtesy of the Wall Street Journal at:
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> http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2010/07/23/bp-litigation-from-the-bayou-to-boise/
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> BP Litigation: From the Bayou to . . . Boise?
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> Everyone who’s anyone in the world of personal injury and product liability
> lawyering is making their way to Boise next week for the Multidistrict
> Litigation Panel’s hearing on the colossal litigation against BP.
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> Why Boise, you may be asking? The mountain town more than 2,000 miles away
> from the oily Gulf shores just happened to be next up on the roving panel’s
> calendar of randomly selected venues for its regular hearings. What the town
> lacks in accommodations (”It doesn’t even have a five-star hotel,” one Gulf
> attorney complained) it makes up for in seafood; its oysters come from
> oil-free Washington State.
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> We outline in a story today how the attorneys descending on Boise will be
> arguing for venues such as New Orleans, wanted by the plaintiffs, and
> Houston, wanted by defendants. Others have offered up Lafayette, La., as a
> mid-way point between the two cities, and some have suggested importing a
> judge such as New York federal judge Shira Scheindlin or Texas judge W.
> Royal Furgeson Jr., a member of the MDL panel.
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> Among other possible candidates is Houston’s Judge Lynn N. Hughes, who has
> heard arguments on Transocean’s request to limit its liability. “I am
> perfectly willing to do whatever is assigned to me,” Judge Hughes said.
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> There is also Judge Carl J. Barbier in New Orleans, who has about
> five-dozen oil suits before him. Judge Barbier sold off Transocean and
> Halliburton bonds about a month after the suits came before him. On
> Thursday, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals denied a request from BP and
> Cameron International Corp., the maker of a blowout preventer that failed on
> the well, to seek to have him recused, but left open channels for that
> possibility. Judge Barbier declined to comment.
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> Richard Arsenault, a Louisiana attorney who has filed economic claims, said
> the panel will need to pick a judge with a wide-open calendar. But with a
> case that if consolidated could include claims as diverse as RICO suits and
> wrongful death cases, the panel will likely opt for a veteran of mass torts.
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> “I suspect that the experience of the jurist will be the critical
> consideration and the other factors will be a distant second,” Arsenault
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> Seeya round town, Moscow.
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> Tom Hansen
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> Moscow, Idaho
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> "Corporations are an oppressed minority forced to move headquarters from
> state to state in search of friendlier tax codes--sometimes being forced to
> live just off our shores in tiny mailboxes."
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> - John Oliver, The Daily Show
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