Judge OKs deal on Hurricane Katrina oil spill
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A federal judge in New Orleans on Tuesday approved a $330 million class action settlement between Murphy Oil Corp. and residents of a New Orleans suburb flooded by crude oil during Hurricane Katrina.
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By Vivian Austin, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Sep. 11--GAUTIER -- City personnel are seeking grant money to fund an environmental court that would help enforce Gautier's laws on property care and cleanup.
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A Paris court convicted French oil giant Total SA on Wednesday over the 1999 sinking of an aging and rusting tanker in rough seas, which caused France's worst-ever oil spill.
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Halliburton Co. (HAL.N: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Monday a bankruptcy judge approved the final insurance settlement agreements between Halliburton subsidiaries and insurance carriers.
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Google&#39;s motion to dismiss legal proceedings brought against it by insurance company Geico was granted on Wednesday by a US District Court judge.
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A federal judge Friday ruled against a proposed $6 million settlement between Dallas-based Halliburton and shareholders, CBSMarketWatch.
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A federal judge dismissed a class-action lawsuit against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers over levee breaches after Hurricane Katrina
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An oil spill has closed the U.S. Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, six miles west of Lake Charles, Louisiana, said the U.S. Coast Guard on Monday.
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The Supreme Court agreed to decide whether Exxon Mobil should pay $2.5 billion in punitive damages in connection with the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill.
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A U.S. District Court judge in Galveston ruled on Friday that plaintiffs' lawyers can depose BP Plc.  Chief Executive John Browne as part of their case against the company for the explosion at its Texas City refinery in 2005, a plaintiffs lawyer said.
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A federal judge has thrown out a class action lawsuit against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers over the failure of levees in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina.
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A Louisiana federal judge has ruled many New Orleans homeowners whose houses sustained water damage after Hurricane Katrina are not excluded from coverage under their insurance policies, a judgment that represents a loss for the insurance industry.
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A federal judge ruled today that the city is fully liable for damages in the 2003 crash of the State Island ferry.
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An order signed Monday by a federal bankruptcy judge in Pennsylvania clears the way for Halliburton&#39;s KBR unit to emerge from bankruptcy by year&#39;s end, according to the Houston company.
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A U.S. judge on Wednesday approved a  &#36;6.6 billion civil settlement by three banks accused by Enron  Corp.  shareholders of helping the company hide  financial misdeeds that led to its collapse.
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Global energy giant BP PLC agreed Thursday to pay $373 million to settle criminal and civil charges that it overcharged U.S. propane consumers by millions of dollars and ignored environmental warnings that resulted in an Alaska oil spill and a deadly explosion in Texas.
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A federal judge in Texas yesterday threw out a lawsuit against Halliburton Co. that had been brought by survivors and the families of those killed when a fuel convoy was assaulted by insurgents outside Baghdad in April 2004.