Ediscovery,
Environmental & Energy
Dec. 7, 2022
12-hour hearing on dismissal of shipping firm from oil spill suit
There was a hearing Monday in Santa Ana on intervenor defendant Cosco Shipping Lines Co. Ltd.’s motion to dismiss the amended complaint and other discovery motions. It is seeking to be relieved of liability for last year’s Huntington Beach oil spill.
Attorneys involved in a class action against Amplify Energy Corp. and several ship companies worked with a federal judge for over 12 hours to iron out litigation issues, said one of the lawyers representing the class of plaintiffs in a phone call Tuesday.
“We finally finished up around 8 o’clock at night. He is a hardworking judge,” Wylie A. Aitken, a founding partner at Aitken Aitken Cohn, said of U.S. District Judge David O. Carter. The...
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