Court won’t take Gulf spill moratorium case

Published December 16, 2013 2:51pm ET



WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court won’t decide if the Obama administration violated a judge’s order that struck down its temporary moratorium on deep water drilling after BP’s 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

The high court on Monday refused to hear an appeal from offshore service companies that challenged the moratorium.

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