La. Asks for Feb. 2 Hearing on Separate Government Track in Deepwater MDL

NEW ORLEANS - Louisiana Attorney General Buddy Caldwell has asked a federal court to schedule a hearing for Feb. 2 on motions by a growing number of Gulf states for a separate government track in the Deepwater Horizon multi-district litigation. In re: Oil Spill by the Oil Rig "Deepwater Horizon" in the Gulf of Mexico, on April 20, 2010, MDL No. 2179 (E.D. La.).

Attorney General Caldwell's "Renewed Ex Parte Motion for Hearing" was submitted on Jan. 13 to Judge Carl J. Barbier in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, who presides over hundreds of cases …