Lucado Law Firm Announces: BP Files Motion to Move All Lawsuits Regarding Oil Spill to Houston, Texas

BIRMINGHAM, Ala., May 11 /PRNewswire/ -- BP is seeking to have all lawsuits involving the Gulf oil spill moved to Houston before federal District Judge Lynn Hughes, including a class-action lawsuit filed by Birmingham attorney, M. Shane Lucado, on April 29, 2010. On Friday, May 7, 2010, BP filed a motion seeking transfer of the class-action filed in federal court in Birmingham, Alabama. BP also filed similar motions in more than 70 lawsuits against BP related to the Gulf oil spill. Judge Lynn Hughes was appointed as an Article III federal judge for the Southern District of Texas in 1985 after being nominated by President Ronald Reagan.

According to Lucado, a Birmingham attorney who filed several additional cases against BP and Transocean, "BP is seeking a forum in Houston because it has offices located there, and it may perceive Houston to be a more advantageous forum for oil companies."

Lucado added, "Transocean, which is named in the lawsuits with BP, is rumored to be in the process of filing an action in Houston federal court under the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (OPA), seeking to limit the recovery of those damaged by the oil spill to a total of $75,000,000 (seventy five million dollars).Under OPA, any damages BP and Transocean may have caused by the oil spill are limited to a total of $75,000,000 unless Congress acts to increase the limit."

"I am opposing the transfer of these cases to Houston," Lucado stated, "and will instead ask the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (federal judge panel responsible for consolidating these cases) to transfer the cases to a more neutral location. Obviously, $75,000,000 will not cover the damages caused by the oil spill."

NOTE: For more information or to arrange for a phone interview, please contact M. Shane Lucado, Lucado Law Firm, (205)278-0025 or email: [email protected]

SOURCE Lucado Law Firm

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