"The BP Gulf oil spill economic loss class action settlement was approved by District Judge Carl Barbier on December 21, 2012.  Barbier - who manages the litigation arising from the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill - presents (over 125 pages) the history of the litigation and settlement ..."

Blogpost and link to the court's order, http://tortstoday.blogspot.ie/2012/12/judge-barbier-approves-bp-gulf.html