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From the New Orleans Times-Picayune:
Nguyen posted enlarged copies of International Safety Management Code audits that he said the board wasn’t able to get from Transocean and instead needed to get from the rig’s flag state, the Republic of Marshall Islands. He said that Transocean twice refused to comply with subpoenas for those documents, contending they were “overly broad, unduly burdensome, irrelevant and not reasonably calculated to lead to admissable evidence.”
The story goes on the point out how Transocean’s lawyers protested that the Coast Guard (I’m paraphrasing here) was not deferring to their right to tie things up in preliminary motions, injunctions, and other out-of-the-public-eye manuevering until hell freezes over.