Legal maneuvering may situate Gulf of Mexico oil spill litigation in Houston
“I think there was a considered thought process on behalf of BP and Transocean to hometown the litigation and do anything that they could do to get the litigation in Houston and out of Louisiana,” said Scott Bickford, who filed the first lawsuit the day after the explosion in federal court in New Orleans on behalf of the family of a worker who was killed. “Why is this thing in Texas other than the fact that the wrong-doers are there? This is a terrible situation.”