Legal Opinion
Keen v. Miller Environmental Group, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided December 10, 2012No. 12-60220PublishedCited by 84 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CARL E. STEWART, Chief Judge:
Plaintiff-Appellant, Deborah Keen appeals the district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of Defendants-Appellees, Miller Environmental Group (“Miller”) and Aerotek on her negligent hiring claim under Mississippi law. For the reasons provided below, we AFFIRM.
I. FACTS AND PROCEEDINGS
On April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico (“Gulf’). The explosion caused, among other things, a 152-day leak of at least 93.5 million gallons of crude oil from the Macondo well into the Gulf.
As a result of the explosion, numerous sites…
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