Opinion
CIVIL ACTION 20-745-SDD-RLB
01-26-2021
RULING
The Court has carefully considered the Motion , the record, the law applicable to this action, and the Report and Recommendations of United States Magistrate Judge Richard L. Bourgeois, Jr., dated December 28, 2020, to which no objection was filed.
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The Court hereby approves the Report and Recommendations of the Magistrate Judge and adopts it as the Court's herein.
ACCORDINGLY, the Motion to Transfer Venue is hereby GRANTED, and this action shall be TRANSFERRED to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, Judge Carl Barbier, presiding in In Re: Oil Rig Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico, on April 20, 2010, MDL No. 2179.
Signed in Baton Rouge, Louisiana on January 26, 2021.
/s/ _________
CHIEF JUDGE SHELLY D. DICK
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
MIDDLE DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA