Spill Here, Spill Now, Corporate Chutzpah Dept. 0
This could only have been an attempt to muddy the waters (or oily the waters), then escape before the mud cleared.
“The U.S. has sovereign immunity here,” U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier said today at a hearing in New Orleans in dismissing a claim brought by Transocean in a lawsuit. The company can still present evidence of such allegations at trial in an effort to limit any damages against it, Barbier said.
It’s like Willy Sutton suing the banks.
