Separately, the first phase of a civil trial in New Orleans to determine the liabilities of BP and other companies finished in April and is scheduled to resume on Sept. 30.
At a hearing Friday, Federal District Judge Louis F. Oberdorfer, who presided at the 1981 trial, said he would "move very swiftly" to determine the liabilities as well as who should pay the plaintiffs' legal fees, which may exceed $350,000.
Louisiana and Alabama sued BP earlier and are participating in a federal trial in New Orleans to determine the liability of BP and its contractors.
When Mr. Stanton and Mr. Hardy then began debating the relevance of that argument to this phase of the trial, which is supposed to determine the liability of the defendants, not the damages that might be due Mr. Pagones, Justice Hickman stopped testimony early to consider the matter.
such corporation shall maintain (at the location, in the manner, and to the extent prescribed in regulations) such records as may be appropriate to determine the liability of such corporation for tax under this title as the Secretary shall by regulations prescribe (or shall cause another person to so maintain such records).
Sued for its role in underwriting billions of dollars in WorldCom bonds and stock, the world's largest financial firm has cut itself out of a January 2005 trial to determine the liability of WorldCom's executives, auditor and financial backers in the company's 2002 bankruptcy.
For the moment, biologists have some of the funding they need through the government's Natural Resource Damage Assessment, a process established under the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 to determine the liability of oil companies after major spills.
Nearly two years after the worst environmental disaster in our nation's history, a trial to determine the liability of BP and other responsible parties is slated to begin this month.
This suggests that the same genetic factors that impair intelligence, increase schizotypy, impede social development, and decrease BV in childhood also determine the liability to Sz (39,50).
The ultimate goal is to determine the liability of early adolescent use of cannabis on brain white matter, in a vulnerable brain.
In this study, transcript levels of muscle at slaughter were correlated with drip loss at post mortem meat stage in order to reveal insight into the biological processes that are initiated during life and thus are under genetic control and finally determine the liability to develop elevated drip loss.
