Lake Eugene Land Dev. v. BP, No. 14-30823 (5th Cir. 2015)
Annotate this CaseBP and related entities reached a settlement with a class of individuals after the Deepwater Horizon incident where the settlement agreement established a fund and an elaborate multi-tiered claims process. A provision in the agreement governs the scope and timing of the parties’ access to information about these claims as they advance through that process. In this appeal, BP challenged the district court's determination that the provision did not entitle the parties to claim specific information until an initial decision about a claim’s eligibility had been made by the settlement program. In this case, the district court's orders did not terminate all proceedings. The court concluded that it lacked jurisdiction under either the collateral order doctrine or 28 U.S.C. 1292(a)(1). Accordingly, the court dismissed the appeal.
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