LITTLE ROCK, Ark., May 10, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Emerson Poynter LLP (www.emersonpoynter.com), a national law firm with offices in Little Rock, Arkansas and Houston, Texas, announces that Alabama bait and tackle shop owners have filed suit for others similarly situated and who have lost revenues due to the Deepwater Horizon explosion and resulting oil spill. The class action case was filed on Friday, May 7, 2010, in the Southern District of Alabama and names BP, PLC, BP America, Inc., BP Products North America, Inc., Transocean, LTD., Transocean Offshore Deepwater Drilling, Inc., Transocean Deepwater, Inc., Halliburton Energy Services, Inc., and Cameron International Corporation as defendants.
Currently, BP's oil slick covers about 60 square miles of the Gulf of Mexico as a dirty, oily sheen or slick, with orange, pink and purple blotches in lines heading to shore on the tide. Today, it is floating onto the shores of Alabama's Dauphin Island, and the Louisiana and Mississippi Gulf Coast. You may view of video showing the massive nature of this environmental problem at http://blog.locustfork.net/2010/05/09/video-bps-deepwater-horizon-rig-still-spewing-oil-into-the-gulf/.
Emerson Poynter LLP has teamed with Ragsdale LLC of Birmingham, Alabama (www.gulfareaoilspill.com) to represent fisherman, shrimpers, oystermen, charter boat owners, marinas, condominium management companies, condominium owners, and local governments that have suffered and continue to suffer damages due to the BP oil spill disaster. Our attorneys and professional team members are dedicated to helping our clients to file claims under the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, or as necessary in federal courts.
Emerson Poynter LLP is a plaintiff's law firm which handles complex commercial litigation with a concentration in those cases that involve consumer protection, violations of federal and state laws. It has substantial experience in litigating large complex class-action cases and serves in a leadership position in numerous cases.