From Court House News
''The United States and Alabama say a trial to establish the liability of BP and other companies in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill should not be delayed for nearly a year, until after a hearing on the proposed $7.8 billion settlement of private claims.
Uncle Sam and Alabama on Tuesday filed separate statements, opposing BP's request to postpone the trial.
BP has asked U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier, who is overseeing the complex oil spill litigation, to postpone phase I of the trial until mid-January 2013.''
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