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Oil Industry's Gulf Drill Ban Appeal to Get June Hearing in New Orleans

By Laurel Brubaker Calkins and Allen Johnson Jr. - Apr 8, 2011 11:01 AM ET

 

A three-judge federal appeals court panel said it will hear arguments in early June on the oil industry’s challenge to the Obama administration’s deep-water drilling policy.
“The hearing is scheduled for the week of June 6th,’’ Geralyn Maher, calendar supervisor for the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans, said after the ruling was posted on the court’s website.
The oil industry, led by Ensco Plc (ESV), sued Interior Secretary Kenneth Salazar last year after he imposed a ban on drilling in waters deeper than 500 feet. Regulators called for the ban in the wake of the BP Plc (BP/) oil spill, the worst offshore spill in U.S. history, to give the industry time to improve drilling safety and spill-cleanup capabilities.

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