Lake Eugenie Land & Development, Inc. v. BP Exploration & Production, Inc.

In mid-2012, defendants BP Exploration & Production Inc., BP America Production Co., and BP, P.L.C. (collectively, “BP”) entered into a court-supervised settlement agreement with a class of parties harmed by the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The settlement agreement is described at greater length in our previous decision in In re Deepwater Horizon, 739 F.3d 790 (5th Cir.2014). Pertinent to the present case, the agreement provides for compensation to landowners within the “Wetlands Real Property Claim Zone” (Claim Zone), which encompasses coastal Louisiana.

A class member seeking…