Three objectors to the $9.6 billion Deepwater Horizon oil spill settlement have voluntarily withdrawn their appeal—weeks after plaintiffs lawyers moved to dismiss the challenge on the ground that the objectors weren’t actually class members.
The objectors filed court papers Nov. 22 to withdraw their appeal in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. In the motion, the three objectors said they fired their prior lawyers due to their “unauthorized and unapproved actions and conduct taken during the course of their former representation.”
