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Alabama and Louisiana can go after BP and its partners for punitive damages relating to the 2010 Gulf oil spill, ruled U.S. District Judge Carl Barbieri.
Barbieri wrote that both states satisfied the Oil Pollution Act requirements for punitive damages for cleanup costs and spill damage in the plaintiffs’ master complaint filed at the beginning of the multi-district litigation.
Anadarko and MOEX Offshore are the partners named with BP.
Barbieri subsequently dismissed state claims filed by Alabama and Louisiana because they are preempted by federal laws.
The ruling was issued Nov. 14 in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana.
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