The Ultimate Lawsuit
BP, the oil company responsible for the recent oil spills in Louisiana, is filing a complaint against the US government for estimating the size of the spill as being 20-50 percent too big. Because of this apparently, the multi-billion dollar company would have to "fines...under the Clean Water Act." Breaking it down, there are two parties involved here, the corporation and the government. Both are just things (remember the Supreme Court case, Citizens United vs Federal Elections Commison?), however one represents us, the People, and the other a corporation that has costed Louisiana and its fishers hundreds of thousands of dollars, if not more. This court case will not go far...after all, BP does not hold the right to "life, liberty and property" as per the due process clause and the ruling from CU vs FEC, which means they do not have the right to go in front of the court in such instances because they are not considered to be a part of the citizenry. Case closed.
BP lawyers have said that government estimates of the size of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill are too big, perhaps by as much as 20 to 50 percent, signaling a dispute that will determine how many billions of dollars of fines BP will have to pay under the Clean Water Act.
The BP attorneys made their comments in an Oct. 21 meeting with staff members of the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling, Priya Aiyar, one of the commission lawyers, revealed at a hearing Friday.
The oil giant, in a paper submitted to the presidential oil spill commission, also took issue with one of its draft reports. BP said that the assertion that "a consensus is emerging that roughly 5 million barrels of oil were released by the Macondo well is both premature and inaccurate." More>
BP, the oil company responsible for the recent oil spills in Louisiana, is filing a complaint against the US government for estimating the size of the spill as being 20-50 percent too big. Because of this apparently, the multi-billion dollar company would have to "fines...under the Clean Water Act." Breaking it down, there are two parties involved here, the corporation and the government. Both are just things (remember the Supreme Court case, Citizens United vs Federal Elections Commison?), however one represents us, the People, and the other a corporation that has costed Louisiana and its fishers hundreds of thousands of dollars, if not more. This court case will not go far...after all, BP does not hold the right to "life, liberty and property" as per the due process clause and the ruling from CU vs FEC, which means they do not have the right to go in front of the court in such instances because they are not considered to be a part of the citizenry. Case closed. 
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