IN RE: DEEPWATER HORIZON (2019)

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

IN RE: DEEPWATER HORIZON AJ’S Specialty Incorporated; Michelle Ayotte; Gulf Framers, Incorporated; H&H Enterprises of PC BCH L.L.C.; Jerome Hall; Ronald Helmer; Alex Hollingsworth; John Hylan; Paul Jensen; Richard LeBlanc; Robert Lee; Mindwaves Hypnosis, L.L.C.; Performance Muffler and Brake; Maxima Royster; Stephen L. Shivers, Jr.; Kyle Spell; Sunshine State Partners, L.L.C.; Javier Villareal; Leigh Wright Interior, Plaintiffs-Appellants v. Transocean Offshore Deepwater Drilling, Incorporated; Transocean Holdings, L.L.C.; Halliburton Energy Services, Incorporated; BP Exploration & Production, Incorporated; BP America Production Company; BP P.L.C., Defendants-Appellees

No. 17-30042

Decided: February 11, 2019

Before JOLLY, JONES, and DENNIS, Circuit Judges.

Marsha L. Lyons, Lyons & Farrar, P.A., Tallahassee, FL, for Plaintiffs-Appellants Kerry J. Miller, Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, P.C., New Orleans, LA, for Defendants-Appellees Transocean Offshore Deepwater Drilling, Incorporated, Transocean Holdings, L.L.C. Robert Alan York, Reed Smith, L.L.P., Houston, TX, for Defendant-Appellee Halliburton Energy Services, Incorporated Matthew Regan, Esq., Kirkland & Ellis, L.L.P., Chicago, IL, William H. Burgess, George W. Hicks, Jr., Aaron Lloyd Nielson, Kirkland & Ellis, L.L.P., Washington, DC, Don Keller Haycraft, Liskow & Lewis, P.L.C., New Orleans, LA, for Defendants-Appellees BP Exploration & Production, Incorporated, BP America Production Company, BP, P.L.C.