BREAKING The ruling puts the potential fine at several billion dollars less.... Ultimately, Judge Barbier wrote, “There is no way to know with precision how much oil discharged into the Gulf of Mexico.” However, “after weighing all of the evidence and considering all of the arguments,” he arrived at four million barrels. Edward F. Sherman, a professor at Tulane University Law School who has closely observed the case, said he found Judge Barbier’s decision to be an intelligent approach to a conflict of experts. “At times we claim precision,” he said, but “there’s no way to precisely find the numbers, so why not pick a number as he did, reasonably between the two numbers provided by the parties?” nytimes/2015/01/16/business/energy-environment/judge-sets-top-penalty-for-bp-in-deepwater-horizon-spill-at-nearly-14-billion.html?_r=0
Posted on: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 02:16:52 +0000
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