The litigation was handed to federal judge Carl Barbier of the Eastern District of Louisiana.

此案由路易斯安那州东区的卡尔巴比埃法官审理。

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There is also Judge Carl J. Barbier in New Orleans, who has about five-dozen oil suits before him.

还有新奥尔良的卡尔·巴比亚法官，他手里有60宗和石油有关的案子。

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After plaintiffs' attorneys rested their case Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier ruled there was no evidence that BP's drilling fluids contractor M-I LLC made any decision that led to the blowout of BP's Macondo well.

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Among the company's motivations to settle before a trial would be to avoid the higher end of that range, which U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier could impose if he ruled the company acted with gross negligence before the well blowout on April 10, 2010, that triggered an explosion, killing 11 workers and spawning the nation's worst offshore oil spill.

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