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Morning Show   →   BP Deepwater Trial Begins

Feb 25, 2013 09:10
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WASHINGTON -- BP's trial for the Deepwater Horizon explosion begins in New Orleans today.

Voice of Russia's Victoria Mashkova talks with David A. Logan, the Dean of Roger Williams University School of Law: 


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Logan calls the Deepwater trial "one of the most complicated cases that the United States courts have ever seen." There are actions being brought against BP by people whose businesses have been ruined, individual states, and the United States government. However, he doesn't expect that BP will have to pay the maximum penalty, which could be upwards of $90 billion.


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