Judge in BP Spill Case Sends Distress Signal to Supreme Court
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Judge Edith Brown Clement is waving her arms, jumping up and down—heck, doing everything but setting her office furniture on fire—to draw the attention of the U.S. Supreme Court to the zany goings on in New Orleans concerning BP and its oil spill liability.
Clement, who sits on the federal court of appeals for the Fifth Circuit, wants the justices to intervene in a portion of the never-ending litigation over how much the British-based energy giant has to pay to make amends for the enormous April 2010 offshore well disaster that killed 11 rig workers and sullied the Gulf of Mexico. She probably won’t succeed, but her exertions are both colorful and edifying.