In a move condemned yesterday by several legal experts as indicative of corporate arrogance but defended by others as accepted tactical manoeuvring, the British energy group has filed papers requesting that all pre-trial matters in litigation relating to the Deepwater Horizon disaster be assigned to US District Judge Lynn Hughes.
Judge Hughes, 69, who was nominated in 1985 by the Republican President, Ronald Reagan, is also a lecturer for the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, whose 31,000 members work mainly in the oil and gas industry and which works with oil companies including BP.
He has also earned thousands of dollars in royalties from leasing energy exploration companies the mineral rights on land that he owns — though not to BP — owned stock in Big Oil and has granted significant rulings in the industry’s favour.'
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This Judge Lynn Hughes seems really corrupt, many other people have suffered because of this Judge making unfair or corrupt judgments. See also these links about the same judge Lynn Hughes, it looks like the big companies such as BP, Houston Casualty Company and Maxxam amongst others want to use that Judge when in trouble as he is clearly incompetent, bad, biased or corrupt or all of those: Just search Google and Yahoo.
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The Judge has links to the Oil giant and gets royalties
http://www.caymannetnews.com/letters.php?news_id=21223&start=0&category_id=9
Houston Casualty refuse to pay some insurance proceeds and insist on using Judge Lynn Hughes!
http://www.therobingroom.com/Judge.aspx?ID=996
It goes on to state that Judge Lynn Hughes should be impeached!
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/3324029.html
It really seems that the this is the Judge the big corporations prefer when up against environmental matters as well.
http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/05/26/1650101/bp-wants-houston-judge-with-oil.html
Judge Hughes has collected Royalties from several oil companies
So how come this is all possible?
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=email_en&sid=adwKVOLr8D4w
Amazing article from Bloomberg just highlighting the problems
I would not be surprised if Judge Lynn Hughes is bribed to make certain rulings for these corporations, there must be something going on behind the scenes since these corporations are all asking for him to.