Common Disaster
Oil Spill by the Oil Rig "Deepwater Horizon" in the Gulf of Mexico, on April 20, 2010
Pending actions
1
Historical total
6,158
Resolved / remanded
6,157
Share of caseload still pending0%
Winding Down. Few actions remain relative to the docket’s history. Of 6,158 lawsuits ever part of this litigation, 1 remain active.
About this litigation
Oil Spill by the Oil Rig "Deepwater Horizon" in the Gulf of Mexico, on April 20, 2010 is a federal multidistrict litigation classified by the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation as a Common Disaster docket. It was centralized on August 10, 2010 before Carl J. Barbier, U.S. District Judge, in the E.D. Louisiana.
As of the August 3, 2026 JPML report, 1 individual lawsuits are pending in this MDL. Cases coordinated in an MDL keep their separate identity — they are managed together only for pretrial proceedings. Learn how MDLs work.