HOUSTON—Attorneys representing a group of oil spill victims Jan. 24 filed a consolidated class action complaint in federal court alleging that BP broke civil racketeering law by engaging in unlawful conduct that caused the Macondo well blowout in the Gulf of Mexico and resulted in one of the largest environmental and economic catastrophes in U.S. history (In re Oil Spill by the Oil Rig “Deepwater Horizon” in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20, 2010).
The 93-page complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, named BP Exploration & Production, BP America Production ...
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