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Judge Tosses BP Shareholders’ Claims Arising From Oil Spill

By Securities Docket on September 21, 2011, 8:09 pm

A consolidated shareholder suit against BP PLC’s current and former directors and officers alleging that lapses in security procedures contributed to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill has been dismissed, with a federal judge in Houston concluding that the case belongs in England. The suit was a derivative complaint alleging that 17 current and former officers and directors and BP, as a nominal defendant, breached their fiduciary duties when they “engaged in a pattern of disregard for the safety of BP’s energy exploration operations” that culminated in the drilling rig explosion and oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico on April 10, 2010.

Read more: Judge Tosses BP Shareholders’ Claims Arising From Oil Spill — The National Law Journal

Posted in Class Actions, Industry, Top | Tagged Derivative Actions, Dismissals

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