Avant Petroleum, Inc. v. Banque Paribas, BP North America

OPINION

EDWARD WEINFELD, District Judge.

At issue are four motions in two consolidated interpleader actions: (1) Plaintiffs, Avant Petroleum, Inc. and Mitsui & Co., Inc. (“Avant”), move for an order requiring defendants to interplead in these consolidated actions, discharging plaintiffs from further liability with respect to the monies deposited, making permanent the injunctive order of the Court, and awarding plaintiffs their reasonable costs and attorneys’ fees; (2) plaintiffs also move for an order pursuant to Rule 12(c) or, alternatively Rule 56, of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, for…