Staff Writer
McALLEN, Texas - In Big Time legal circles, lawyers call the practice "judge-shopping," and one lawyer believes lawsuit-strapped British Petroleum (BP) is looking to South Texas for sympathetic courts.
"They want judges who will be familiar with the industry, and those are the judges in South Texas, where oil and mineral cases are common," says Florida Lawyer Mike Papantonio. He made his remarks on the MSNBC show Hardball yesterday, although he has been saying it on his radio show, Ring of Fire, heard across the country via AirAmerica syndication.
Papantonio (shown in photo above) believes BP will do all it can to take trials (of liability, wrongdoing, etc., etc) away from the southeast coast. Attorney generals in Mississippi and Alabama have said they will fight efforts to by BP to move trials elsewhere in the country.
"It could be Houston judges they want, but South Texas would also be good, in their eyes," Papantonio said.
Interesting. We can't recall a case of this magnitude coming to the Rio Grande Valley...
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Hey that lawyer, use to work for air america. Him and Racheal Meadow. I pretty sure.
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