Oil Spill Lawsuits: BP Wants Houston Judge With Ties To Oil

McClatchy:

MIAMI -- Facing more than 100 lawsuits after its Gulf of Mexico oil spill killed 11 workers and threatened four coastal states, oil giant BP is asking the courts to place every pre-trial issue in the hands of a single federal judge in Houston.

That judge, U.S. District Judge Lynn Hughes, has traveled the world giving lectures on ethics for the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, a professional association and research group that works with BP and other oil companies.

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Comments

[truth67]

12:06 PM on 06/01/2010

i bet there are some pretty good real estate deals starting up in the gulf region.

[babyboomerorig]

12:12 PM on 05/31/2010

Every time I read this headline, I get angrier.

What right do these people have requesting anything other than not to spend the rest of their lives in jail?

[farmilyman]

12:37 AM on 05/31/2010

Since when do criminals get to hand pick their own judges?

[had-enough]

10:57 AM on 05/30/2010

JUDGE ROY BEAN for Tony Hayward!

[plzchuteme]

04:49 PM on 05/30/2010

Or Judge Isaac Parker...the hangin' judge!

[ramblingjohnny]

02:12 PM on 05/29/2010

Disgusting but not a total surprise BP already subverted the administrative and the legislative branch now they are going after the third!

[Retrofuturistic]

12:54 PM on 05/29/2010

The Supreme Court has made the hand-picking of judges possible, with their decision about how corporations have the same rights as people and can therefore contribute as much as they want to buy the elections of the "judges" they want.

What I don't understand is why I see cars at BP gas stations. Stop it, people. Buy your gas somewhere else.

[plzchuteme]

06:06 AM on 05/29/2010

Is Judge Isaac Parker available?

[Spectrums]

02:28 AM on 05/29/2010

Now seriously, is there any reason for anyone to spend one dime on any BP products ever again? Why would anyone fill their car up at BP? There are plenty of other alternatives. We could bring them down just by everyone agreeing not to buy their gas anymore. Simple. They should cease to to be supported by everyone who considers themselves to be Americans. Period. How hard can it be?

[ZSV]

12:45 AM on 05/29/2010

Boycott BP !!! Boycott BP !!!
Pass it on!

[babyboomerorig]

01:46 PM on 05/28/2010

You want what?

Well, I want a cabin on a lake with a boat.

Neither of us have a chance of getting what we want.

[TerriGulfCoast]

12:17 PM on 05/28/2010

NO CHANGE OF VENUE NO HAND PICK JUDGES. THESE LYING CHEATING MURDERERS HAVE BOUGHT THEIR WAY LONG ENOUGH. THEY SHOULD BE CRIMINALLY PROSECUTED AS WELL AND ON THE GULF COAST WHERE THEIR CRIMES ARE BEING COMMITTED.

[Cryostatic]

10:13 AM on 05/28/2010

If BP's "request" is granted, I want to know the names of who did it.

[Manhattanite]

02:57 AM on 05/28/2010

Oil-board BP execs...

[Manhattanite]

02:56 AM on 05/28/2010

"BP wants..." Who made BP top execs Gods? Since when are they running the USA? (Expletive) BP!

[wm1066]

12:42 PM on 05/28/2010

Ahh, that happened in Cheney's secret Energy meetings. Obama hasn't had the time to undo all the crap the last Administration has done, plus you got Republicans trying to kneecap anything Obama does. Its so depressing. I want to see their heads on a pike!

[holyghostie]

11:37 PM on 05/27/2010

Why aren't we dunking this British twit and his executive team in the GULF by their feet for an hour a day?