IN RE DEEPWATER HORIZON

No. 13-30095.

739 F.3d 790 (2014)

In re DEEPWATER HORIZON—Appeals of the Economic and Property Damage Class Action Settlement.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

January 10, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen Jay Herman, Esq. , Soren E. Gisleson, Esq. , Herman & Katz, L.L.C., New Orleans, LA, Elizabeth Joan Cabraser , Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein, San Francisco, CA, Samuel Issacharoff , New York University School of Law, New York, NY, James Parkerson Roy , Domengeaux, Wright, Roy & Edwards, Lafayette, LA, for Bon Secour Fisheries, Incorporated.

John Jacob Pentz, III, Esq. , Law Offices of John J. Pentz, Sudbury, M.A, Stuart Cooper Yoes , Yoes Law Firm L.L.P., Beaumont, TX, for Cobb Real Estate, Incorporated, G & A Cobb Family Limited Partnership, L & M Investments, Limited, Mad, Limited, Mex-Co, Limited, Robert C. Mistrot, Missroe, L.L.C.

Brent Wayne Coon, Esq. , Brent Coon & Associates, Beaumont, TX, for Earl Aaron, Janie Aaron, Zuhair Abbasi, Michael Abbey, Mohammad Abdelfattah.

N. Albert Bacharach, Jr. , N. Albert Bacharach, Jr. P.A., Gainesville, FL, Kevin Walter Grillo , Pena & Grillo, P.L.L.C., Corpus Christi, TX, for Ancelet's Marina, L.L.C., J.G. Cobb Construction, Limited, Ships Wheel, Allpar Custom Homes, Incorporated, Sea Tex Marine Service, Incorporated.

Richard Cartier Godfrey, Esq. , Timothy A. Duffy , James Andrew Langan, Esq. , Kirkland & Ellis, L.L.P., Chicago, IL, Theodore B. Olson , Thomas George Hungar , Miguel Angel Estrada , Scott Payne Martin , Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, L.L.P., Jeffrey Bossert Clark, Sr., Esq. , Steven Andrew Myers , Kirkland & Ellis, L.L.P., Robert C. Mike Brock , Covington & Burling, L.L.P., Washington, DC, Don Keller Haycraft , Liskow & Lewis, P.L.C., New Orleans, LA, George Howard Brown, Esq. , Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, L.L.P., Palo Alto, CA, for BP Exploration & Production, BP America Production Company.

Before DAVIS, GARZA, and DENNIS, Circuit Judges.


W. EUGENE DAVIS, Circuit Judge:

This is an interlocutory appeal from the district court's order certifying a class action and approving a settlement under Rule 23 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.1 The ongoing litigation before the district court encompasses claims against British Petroleum Exploration & Production, Inc. ("BP") and numerous other entities. All these claims are related to the 2010 explosion aboard the Deepwater...

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