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A federal judge denied oil giant BP’s request for an injunction today after the company complained it was being forced to pay cash awards for “fictitious” damage claims in the wake of its 2012 settlement over the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. BP requested the injunction to stop certain payments authorized by Louisiana attorney Patrick Juneau, who plaintiffs and BP mutually approved as the independent administrator of settlement claims for residents and business owners affected by the spill. BP also filed …

Oil giant BP could have stopped the massive 2010 oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico just two days after the blowout aboard the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, an expert witness testified today in the civil trial over the spill. Glen Stevick, a mechanical engineering expert called to the stand by BP’s cement contractor, Halliburton Co., testified that BP blew its only chance to salvage the blowout preventer — the last line of defense for an out-of-control offshore oil well …

Since passage of the original Violence Against Women Act in 1994, reported incidents of violence against women in the United States have decreased by an impressive two-thirds. Still, violence against women remains a serious problem. One of five women will be the victim of rape at some time in their lives. One of five adult women will be the victim of domestic violence. Each day, three women are killed by their husbands or boyfriends.   Violence Against Women Act Reauthorization …

What’s your legal responsibility if you find a ring in the sewer? City workers in Modesto, California are in the process of finding out, facing a police investigation for selling sewer jewelry they found on the job. The workers may have sold as much as $2,500 in old jewelry, tarnished and eroded by sewer waste, as scrap to a dealer. Now the police are trying to figure out if they can be charged with any crime. The workers may well …

An engineer for Halliburton testified today that he wouldn’t change a thing about the cement blend he recommended for oil giant BP’s Macondo well, site of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion. Jesse Gagliano, who served as a full-time cement advisor to BP well planners in Houston when the deadly blowout occurred, decided to testify in the civil trial after invoking his Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination when he was deposed in 2011. Plaintiffs’ attorney Paul Sterbcow confronted Gagliano …