Carl Barbier
| Carl Barbier | |
| Current Court Information: | |
| United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana | |
| Title: | Judge |
| Position: | Seat #1 |
| Station: | New Orleans, LA |
| Service: | |
| Appointed by: | Bill Clinton |
| Active: | 10/01/1998 - Present |
| Preceded by: | Okla Jones |
| Personal History | |
| Born: | 1944 |
| Home State: | New Orleans, LA |
| Undergraduate: | Southeastern Louisiana U., B.A., 1966 |
| Law School: | Loyola Law, J.D., 1970 |
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Carl Barbier is an Article III federal judge for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. He joined the court in 1998 after being nominated by President Bill Clinton.
Early life and education
Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, Barbier graduated from Southeastern Louisiana University with his Bachelor's Degree in 1966 and later from Loyola University New Orleans School of Law with his Juris Doctor Degree in 1970.[1]
Professional career
Barbier began his legal career as a Law clerk for former Louisiana State Appeals Judge William Redman in the Fourth Circuit Louisiana Court of Appeals from 1969 to 1970, and then clerked for former federal judge Fred Cassibry in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana from 1970 to 1971. From 1971 to 1998, Barbier was a private practice attorney in the State of Louisiana from 1971 to 1998.[1]
Judicial career
Eastern District of Louisiana
On the recommendation of Senators Mary Landrieu and John Breaux, Barbier was nominated to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana by President Bill Clinton on on May 19, 1998, to a seat vacated by Okla Jones. Barbier was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on September 28, 1998, and received commission on October 1, 1998.[2]
Notable cases
Deepwater Horizon oil spill cases
| United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana *In re: OIL SPILL BY the OIL RIG "DEEPWATER HORIZON" IN the GULF OF MEXICO, ON APRIL 20, 2010 792 F. Supp. 2d 926/No. MDL 2179 |
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| Judge Barbier presided over the consolidated cases resulting from the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, commonly referred to as the "Deepwater Horizon" spill. Barbier was chosen by the U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation on August 10, 2010. [3]
In December 2012, Judge Barbier approved an unlimited $7.8 billion settlement from BP which covered private claims for loss of property and damage due to the spill. Money was also pledged to monitor the health of plaintiffs in the future, and though the company estimates that as part of the $7.8 billion, the amount is technically unlimited. [4] Though BP settled lawsuits with private citizens, a number of claims were not satisfied by this ruling. [4] In response to the press generated by this case, the Eastern District of Louisiana created a separate page for rulings in the case. To learn more about those rulings or read the official documents, visit: United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, MDL-2179 Oil Spill by the Oil Rig "Deepwater Horizon". |
See also
- United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana
- News: Judge, Attorney General face-off in Louisiana over lawyers in oil spill case, January 16, 2012
External links
References
| Federal judicial offices | ||
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| Preceded by: Okla Jones |
Eastern District of Louisiana 1998–Current Seat #1 |
Succeeded by: NA |
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| 1993 |
Adams • Ambrose • Barnes • Brinkema • Bucklew • Chasanow • Coffman • Daughtrey • Ferguson • Ginsburg • Hagen • Jackson • Lancaster • Leval • Lindsay • Messitte • Michael • Piersol • Saris • Schwartz • Seybert • Shanahan • Shaw • Stearns • Trager • Vazquez • Wilken • Wilson | ||
| 1994 |
Baer • Barkett • Batts • Beaty • Benavides • Bennett • Berrigan • Biery • Block • Borman • Breyer • Briones • Bryson • Bucklo • Burgess • Burrage • Cabranes • Calabresi • Carr • Casellas • Castillo • Chatigny • Chin • Cindrich • Coar • Collins • Cooper • Cote • Currie • Davis • Dominguez • Downes • Duval • Friedman • Furgeson • Garcia • Gertner • Gettleman • Gillmor • Gilmore • Gleeson • Haggerty • Hamilton • Hannah • Hawkins • Henry • Holmes • Hood • Hull • Hurley • Jack • Jones • Jones • Kaplan • Katz • Kern • Kessler • Koeltl • Lisi • Manning • McKee • McLaughlin • Melancon • Miles-LaGrange • Moore • Motz • Murphy • O'Malley • O'Meara • Oliver • Paez • B. Parker • F. Parker • R. Parker • Perry • Ponsor • Pooler • Porteous • Rendell • Riley • Robertson • Rogers • Ross • Russell • Sands • Sarokin • Scheindlin • Silver • Squatrito • Stewart • Sullivan • Tatel • Thompson • Timlin • Urbina • Vanaskie • Vance • Walls • Wells • Williams | ||
| 1995 |
Arterton • Atlas • Black • Blake • Briscoe • Tena Campbell • Todd Campbell • Chesney • Cole • Collier • Daniel • Davis • Dennis • Dlott • Donald • Duffy • Economus • Evans • Fallon • Folsom • Gaughan • Goodwin • Heartfield • Hunt • Illston • Jones • King • Kornmann • Lawson • Lenard • Lucero • Lynch • McKinley • Moody • Moore • Moskowitz • Murphy • Murtha • Nugent • O'Toole • Orlofsky • Pogue • Sessions • C. Smith • O. Smith • Stein • Thornburg • Tunheim • Wallach • Wardlaw • Webber • Whaley • Winmill • Wood | ||
| 1996 |
Broadwater • Clevert • Fenner • Gershon • Gottschall • Greenaway • Hinkle • Jones • Kahn • Laughrey • Lemmon • Marten • Miller • Molloy • Montgomery • Pregerson • Rakoff • Sargus • Tashima • Thomas • Zapata | ||
| 1997 |
Adelman • Bataillon • Breyer • Caputo • Casey • Chambers • Clay • Damrell • Droney • Friedman • Gajarsa • Garland • Gilman • Gold • Gwin • Hall • Hayden • Hull • Ishii • Jenkins • Kauffman • Kennedy • Kimball • Kollar-Kotelly • Lazzara • Marbley • Marcus • Middlebrooks • Miller • Moon • Pratt • Rendell • Sippel • Siragusa • Snyder • Thrash | ||
| 1998 |
Aiken • Barbier • Barzilay • Berman • Buttram • Carter • Collins • Dawson • Dimitrouleas • Fletcher • Fogel • Frank • Graber • Hellerstein • Herndon • James • Johnson • Kane • Kelly • G. King • R. King • Lasnik • Lee • Lemelle • Lindsay • Lipez • Manella • Matz • McCuskey • McKeown • McMahon • Mickle • Mollway • Mordue • Moreno • Morrow • Munley • Murphy • Pallmeyer • Pauley • Polster • Pooler • Rawlinson • Ridgway • R. Roberts • V. Roberts • Sack • Scott • Seitz • Seymour • Shea • Silverman • Sleet • Sotomayor • Steeh • Story • Straub • Tagle • Tarnow • Trauger • Traxler • Tyson • Wardlaw • Whelan • Young | ||
| 1999 |
Alsup • Barry • Brown • Buchwald • Cooper • Eaton • Ellison • Feess • Fisher • Gould • Guzman • Haynes • Hibbler • Hochberg • Hurd • Huvelle • Jordan • Katzmann • Kennelly • Linn • Lorenz • Lynn • Marrero • Murguia • Pannell • Pechman • Pepper • Phillips • Schreier • Stewart • Underhill • Ward • Williams • Wilson | ||
| 2000 |
Ambro • Antoon • Battani • Berzon • Bolton • Brady • Bye • Cavanaugh • Daniels • Darrah • Dawson • Dyk • Fuentes • Garaufis • Garcia-Gregory • Gregory • Hamilton • Huck • Hunt • Lawson • Lefkow • Lynch • Martin • McLaughlin • Moody • Murguia • Paez • Pisano • Presnell • Rawlinson • Reagan • Schiller • Singal • Steele • Surrick • Swain • Tallman • Teilborg • Tucker • Whittemore | ||
