U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier issued an order dismissing claims brought under the Racketeer Influence and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) against BP and its partners for their involvement in the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill...The RICO claims were part of a pleading bundle consisting of five complaints that alleged BP defrauded government regulators in connection with the safety of its drilling operations. BP denied the claims in a motion to dismiss..."The Court agrees with BP that Plaintiffs have alleged a causal connection between BP's alleged fraud and Plaintiff's injuries that is too attenuated to state a RICO violation," Barbier wrote in his order.