Legal Opinion

In re Deepwater Horizon Incident Litigation

Texas Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation

Decided May 27, 2011No. 10-0376PublishedCited by 6 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

On Review by the Multidistrict Litigation Panel

Presiding Judge PEEPLES

delivered the opinion of the MDL Panel.

British Petroleum Exploration & Production, Inc. (BP)1 asks us to appoint a *128pretrial judge for eight cases that stem from the April 20, 2010 oil-spill incident at the Deepwater Horizon platform in the Gulf of Mexico.- Five cases are pending in Harris County, with three others in Galveston County. Several other cases have been removed to federal court, where they are pending in a federal MDL proceeding. All plaintiffs oppose BP’s MDL request. For the reasons stated below, we deny the…

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