No Bucs: US football team lose damages case against BP for Deepwater Horizon spill
An American football team which tried to claim damages over the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill has been rejected in a US court.
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers had sued BP for $19.5m (£15.5m) over lost revenues it claimed resulted from the 2010 spill.
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However, the US Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the decision of a lower court which dismissed the Bucs’ case, the Associated Press reported.
It found that the revenue had not dipped significantly when in May and June compared to the same period the following year.
BP has faced a line of damage claims, totalling around $65bn since the spill in 2010.
Nearly 400,000 cases were brought against it after the disaster.
The largest environmental disaster in US history, which also killed 11 rig workers, began on April 20th when a well blew out, starting a fire on the oil rig.
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It is not the first sport-related case that BP has faced over the spill. Earlier this year a court dismissed a claim from former NBA All Star David West who had initially been paid $1.5m having claimed that the spill had diminished his earnings.
He had originally qualified for the payout under rules which considered him an employee of a tourism business.