Legal Opinion
Center for Biological Diversity, Inc. v. BP America Production Co.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided January 9, 2013No. 12-30136PublishedCited by 88 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KING, Circuit Judge:
This appeal arises from the multi-dis-trict litigation spawned from the disaster on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig and the resulting massive oil spill that occurred at the Macondo well site in the Gulf of Mexico. Plaintiff Center for Biological Diversity appeals from the district court’s dismissal of its action brought under the citizen-suit provisions of the Clean Water Act (“CWA”), 33 U.S.C. § 1365(a)(1), the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (“CERC-LA”), 42 U.S.C. § 9659(a), and the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-*418Know…
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