The authors give many thanks to Stag Liuzza and Krupnick, Campbell, Malone, Buser, Slama, Hancock, Liberman and Mckee, Attorneys-at-Law and MaryLee Orr, Louisiana Environmental Action Network (Baton Rouge, LA) and Marco Kaltofen, of Boston Chemical Data Corp. (Natick, MA, USA), for the assistance in ...
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In The News
Fifth Circuit Civil News; Coleman v. OFS, Inc.
In a victory for Stag Liuzza clients, the Supreme Court of Louisiana recently advised the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals on Louisiana law. Defendants had argued that La.Civ.Code. art. 2315.1 is preemptive. If true, this would mean the one-year limitations period for bringing suit on behalf of ...
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BP’s Politico puff piece wasn’t just shady journalism ethics, it was mostly a lie
BP, with a huge assist from the popular Beltway-insider website Politico, stirred up the muddy waters of the Deepwater Horizon spill aftermath this week when it published a corporate-love-letter-disguised-as-news entitled, “No, BP Didn’t Ruin the Gulf.” ...
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The State of the Gulf’s Beaches: BP Oil Spill Weekly Pollution Summary
Tar balls and dolphins with missing teeth — the never-ending legacy of BP’s crime. ...
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Respected general declares war on the abuses of Big Oil
Oil has been king for 100 years in Louisiana, and it seems that some people have finally had enough of the old ways. ...
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ExxonMobil is scrutinized in Baton Rouge after past leaks
Stag Liuzza LLC in New Orleans, filed a class action suit last month of behalf of ten African American, Standard Heights residents and seven minor children, sickened by the June 14, 2012 leak. Early that morning, a bleeder plug, which slowly drains off gas and liquids at the complex’s Aromatics ...
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Baton Rouge’s Corroded, Overpolluting Neighbor: Exxon Mobil
NPR coverage Exxon’s major June 2012 benzene spill. ...
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Halliburton In Settlement Talks To Control Its Macondo Cement Liabilities
Last week, attorney Stuart Smith with Stag Liuzza, L.L.C. in New Orleans, said “Halliburton is most likely talking with the Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee,” a group of attorneys appointed by Judge Barbier to represent businesses and residents with claims. “It’s not unusual in a case like this, where ...
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BP Oil Assaulting Beaches More Toxic Than Ever
We wanted to know more, and so recently the team of environmental experts who’s worked closely with my law firm, Stag Liuzza LLC, ever since the beginning of the BP crisis in 2010 obtained some samples for more rigorous lab testing. ...
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High-powered law firm hired to fight concrete-crushing work
John Fontenot, spokesman for Stag Liuzza, said the problems come not only from the noise and vibrations, but especially from the dust that creates what is known as “silica” particles that float through the air.
“This kind of operation creates a lot of dust and what is known as particulate. There ...
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