New York Times: The New Orleans federal judge who had ruled the Obama administration’s moratorium on deepwater drilling to be illegal has tossed out the lawsuit challenging the ban, saying that the administration’s lifting of the moratorium last month rendered the matter irrelevant. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar ordered a halt to all deepwater drilling shortly after the BP Deepwater Horizon accident in April, which killed 11 rig workers and caused the biggest offshore oil spill in American history. He lifted…